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ant job as a pianist with the Benny Carter's big band (1944), worked with Count Basie (1944) and made f

ng accompanied by Dave Brubeck and George Shearing, and closing her career with brilliant tributes to Thelonious Monk, Carmen Sings Monk (1990), and Sarah Vaughan, Sarah: Dedicated to You (1991). As a result of her early friendship with Billie Holiday, she never performed without singing at least one song as

dist, and composer. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the =irth o

s Bones, and=his 1968 trio release (with Mirosla= Vitous and Roy Haynes) Now He Sings, Now He Sobs is considered a classic. After a short stint w=th Sarah Vaughan, Corea joined Miles Davis as Herbie Hancock's gradual replacement, staying wit= Davis during a very important transitional period (1968-1970). He wa

n New York City and Boston areas. The Mike Block Band presents an exciting and genre-bending combinatio

musical “big leagues” in 1951, where his reputation as an arranger grew. By the mid-5o0’s, he was arranging and recording for such diverse artists as Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Big Maybelle, Dinah Washington, Cannonball Adderly and LeVern Baker. In 1957, Quincy decided to continue