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On the Web
- Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis - Official site of the PBS TV show, featuring video, audio and photographs of performances and interviews with legendary jazz performers of yesterday and today.
- Philadelphia Legends of Jazz Orchestra - Sixteen-piece big band with veteran musicians conducted by Leon Mitchell, playing charts from the 1940s, 50s and 60s, the golden age of Philadelphia jazz. Audio sample.
- Charlie Christian: Legend of the Jazz Guitar - Biography, discography, solos, licks, photo gallery, trivia and bibliography.
- Thredbo Legends of Jazz Festival - Held every year in the Snowy Mountains and features both international and Australian artists.
- The Dave McKenna Web Site - Born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Dave McKenna is simply one of the legends of the jazz piano.
Wikipedia Articles
- Legends of Jazz - Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis is a 12 week, nationwide PBS show.
- Burgess Gardner - Burgess Gardner is a noted jazz musician, educator, and composer. He has played the trumpet with jazz legends such as Count Basie, Horace Silver, and Louie Belleson; as of 2003, the Burgess Gardner Orchestra performed regularly in Chicago.
- Jim Scott - Jim Scott is a finger-style guitarist, singer/songwriter and composer in the genres of jazz, classical and folk music. From Carnegie Hall and the Newport Jazz Festival (with the Paul Winter Consort) to a concert at the end of The Great Peace March with folk legends Pete Seeger and Peter Yarrow, Scott has performed in 49 U.
- Wilton 'Bogey' Gaynair - Wilton 'Bogey' Gaynair (born in Kingston, Jamaica 1927 - died in Germany 1995) was a jazz musician, whose primary instrument was the tenor saxophone. He was raised at Kingston’s famous Alpha Boy’s School - where fellow Jamaican musical legends Joe Harriott, Harold McNair and Don Drummond were also pupils of a similar age.
- Vic Dickenson - Vic (Victor) Dickenson (August 6, 1906 - November 16, 1984) was an African-American jazz trombonist. Dickenson's career started out in the 1920s and led him through musical partnerships with such legends as Count Basie, Sidney Bechet and Earl Hines .