Jimmy Blanton
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Born: October 05, 1918 in Chattanooga, TN
Years Active: 30 's, 40 's
Died: July 30, 1942 in Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Jazz
Biography:
There is an unbelievably tragic symmetry between the lives of Jimmy Blanton and Charlie Christian. Both were string players who broke into a major big band in the fall of 1939, completely rewrote the vocabularies of their instruments, never led recor ...More >>
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