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3. in the 1940's, he was best known for such songs as ''Cherry Red,'' ''Kidney Stew Blues,'' and ''Somebody's Got To Go.''
4. Most jazz musicians then wore straw hats, but he had trouble finding one big enough to fit his head.
5. was born in St Pancras, London, England, and brought up in London. His father was a BBC studio violinist who gave his son violin lessons from an early age.
7. when he was ten could play several instruments including the trumpet, violin, and drums.
9. He was a composer of sophisticated sax melodies, one of the major small group jazz bandleaders of the 1920s and 1930s.
10. I played in the American Youth Symphony from when I was about 16
12. Count Basie, beginning in 1952 and extending through the 1960s and early 1970s

1. he made his first recordings in early 1949 as a sideman with the bebop singer Babs Gonzales
2. he stopped playing soprano in the orchestra because He wanted double pay for playing alto and soprano and Ellington wouldn't give it to him
4. baritone saxophonist, pianist, composer, arranger and bandleader. Miles Davis gave the nickname to him
5. he died September 23, 1926 Hamlet, North Carolina, U.S.
6. who WORKED IN THE SAME RESTAURANT AS MALCOLM X AND REDD FOXX
8. began on tenor saxophone at age 13. He initially modelled his playing on the work of Lester Young, Ben Webster, and Don Byas.
11. he enrolled in Topeka High School
12. later his trumpet exploits could be traced to his beginnings on the drums, which he began playing at age six.