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Gilly's was a 250-seat music venue in Dayton, Ohio, mainly hosting jazz and blues music, which opened in July 1972 and closed on New Years' morning in January 2018. [1]
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is located in Cleveland, Ohio.Ohio musicians inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame include The Isley Brothers (from Cincinnati) in '92, Bootsy Collins (from Cincinnati) in '97, The Moonglows (from Cleveland) in 2000, The O'Jays (from Canton) in '05, Chrissie Hynde (from Akron) of The Pretenders in ...
Salmon P. Chase (Ohio governor, abolitionist, U.S.Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice) (Cincinnati) Gary Cohn (National Economic Council Director) (Shaker Heights) James M. Cox (governor, presidential candidate, media mogul) (Dayton) Ephraim Cutler (a framer of Ohio Constitution, abolitionist, longtime Ohio University Trustee (Ames Twp)
A career highlight for Lee came in the summer of 1962 with an appearance at Wein's Ohio Valley Jazz Festival at the Carthage Fairgrounds outside Cincinnati. The three-day festival featured jazz legends including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Smith and Roy Eldridge. The event was a huge ...
Allison Brooks Janney [1] was born on November 19, 1959, [2] in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio. [3] She is the daughter of Macy Brooks Janney (née Putnam), a former actress, and Jervis Spencer Janney Jr., a real estate developer and jazz musician.
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.
Teeny Tucker was born in Dayton, Ohio, United States. [1] She sang in her local church choir. [4] Her father, a blues performer best known for his 1964 hit song, "Hi-Heel Sneakers," died tragically at the age of 42 in January 1982, on his daughter's 24th birthday. [1] [5] [6] Tucker first performed professionally in November 1996. [7]
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