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  California
  California (pronounced ⁱ/kælɨˈfɔrnjə/) is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.
  California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the third-longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.
  
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  Edmonton
  Edmonton  /ˈɛdməntən/ is the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta, Canada. Edmonton is located on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Capital Region, which is surrounded by the central region of the province.
  The city and its census metropolitan area had populations of 812,201 and 1,159,869 as of the 2011 Census respectively, making it Alberta's second-largest city, Canada's fifth-largest municipality and Canada's sixth-largest metropolitan area by population. Edmonton is the northernmost North American city with a metropolitan population over one million. A resident of Edmonton is known as an Edmontonian.
  The majority of Edmonton's metropolitan population lives within the City of Edmonton rather than in the surrounding suburban municipalities. Historically, Edmonton was surrounded by few other urban municipalities (Strathcona, Beverly and Jasper Place being the largest) but these were absorbed through amalgamation or annexation. Edmonton annexed a significant amount of land up until the early 1980s, and as a result it has sustained much of the region's suburban growth within its own boundaries.
  
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  New York City
  New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. The city is referred to as New York City or The City of New York to distinguish it from the State of New York, of which it is a part. As a global power city, New York exerts a significant impact upon commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and entertainment. The home of the United Nations Headquarters, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural capital of the world.
  Located on one of the world's largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, each of which comprises a state county. The five boroughs—The Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island—were consolidated into a single city in 1898. With a Census-estimated 2011 population of 8,244,910 distributed over a land area of just 305 square miles (790 km²), New York is the most densely populated major city in the United States. As many as 800 languages are spoken in New York, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world. The New York City Metropolitan Area's population is the United States' largest, with 18.9 million people distributed over 6,720 square miles (17,400 km²), and is also part of the most populous combined statistical area in the United States, containing 22.1 million people as of the 2010 Census.
  
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  Oberlin College
  Coordinates: 41°17′35″N 82°13′07″W / 41.292929°N 82.218576°W / 41.292929; -82.218576
  Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college in Oberlin, Ohio, noteworthy for having been the first American institution of higher learning to regularly admit female and black students. Connected to the college is the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, the oldest continuously operating conservatory in the country. The college's motto is "Learning and Labor."
  Oberlin is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the Five Colleges of Ohio consortium.
  Both the college and the town of Oberlin were founded in 1833 by a pair of Presbyterian ministers, John Jay Shipherd and Philo P. Stewart. The ministers named their project after Jean-Frédéric Oberlin, an Alsatian minister whom they both admired. Oberlin attained prominence because of the influence of its second president, the evangelist Charles Finney, after whom one of the College's chapels and performance spaces is named. Asa Mahan (1800–1889) served as Oberlin's first president from 1835–1850.
  
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  San Francisco
  San Francisco (/ˌsæn frənˈsɪskoʊ/), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.6 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland. The only consolidated city-county in California, it encompasses a land area of about 46.9 square miles (121 km²) on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, giving it a density of about 17,179 people per square mile (6,632 people per km²). It is the most densely settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in the state of California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States after New York City. San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 13th most populous city in the United States, with a population of 805,235 as of the 2010 Census. The San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area has a population of 4,335,391.
  In 1776, colonists from Spain established a fort at the Golden Gate and a mission named for Francis of Assisi a few miles away. The California Gold Rush of 1849 propelled the city into a period of rapid growth, increasing the population in one year from 1,000 to 25,000, and thus transforming it into the largest city on the West Coast at the time. After three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. During World War II, San Francisco was the port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. After the war, the confluence of returning servicemen, massive immigration, liberalizing attitudes, and other factors led to the Summer of Love and the gay rights movement, cementing San Francisco as a center of liberal activism in the United States.
  
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  United States
  The United States of America (commonly abbreviated to the United States, the U.S., the USA, America, and the States) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west, across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Pacific and Caribbean.
  At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km²) and with over 312 million people, the United States is the third or fourth largest country by total area, and the third largest by both land area and population. It is one of the world's most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many countries. The U.S. economy is the world's largest national economy, with an estimated 2011 GDP of $15.1 trillion (22% of nominal global GDP and over 19% of global GDP at purchasing-power parity). Per capita income is the world's sixth-highest.
  
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• Carmen McRae
  Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1920 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer, composer, pianist, and actress. Considered one of the most influential jazz vocalists of the 20th century, it was her behind-the-beat phrasing and her ironic interpretations of song lyrics that made her memorable. McRae drew inspiration from Billie Holiday, but established her own distinctive voice. She went on to record over 60 albums, enjoying a rich musical career, performing and recording in the United States, Europe, and Japan.
  McRae was born in Harlem to Jamaican immigrant parents, Osmond and Evadne McRae. She began studying piano when she was eight, and the music of jazz greats like Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington filled her home. She met singer Billie Holiday when she was just 17 years old. As a teenager McRae came to the attention of Teddy Wilson and his wife, the composer Irene Kitchings Wilson. One of McRae's early songs, "Dream of Life" through their influence, was recorded in 1939 by Wilson’s longtime collaborator Billie Holiday. McRae considered Holiday to be her primary influence.
  
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  Chet Baker
  Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker, Jr. (December 23, 1929 – May 13, 1988) was an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist and singer.
  In the 1950s, Baker earned much attention and critical praise, particularly for albums featuring his vocals, such as Chet Baker Sings. Jazz historian David Gelly descibed the promise of Baker's early career as seemingly representing "James Dean, Sinatra, and Bix, rolled into one." However, his "well-publicized drug habit" also drove his notoriety and fame, as Baker was in-and-out of jail for much of his life before enjoying a career resurgence in the late 1970s and '80s.
  Baker died in 1988 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
  Baker was born and raised in a musical household in Yale, Oklahoma; his father was a professional guitar player. Baker began his musical career singing in a church choir. His father introduced him to brass instruments with a trombone, which was replaced with a trumpet when the trombone proved too large.
  Baker received some musical education at Glendale Junior High School, but left school at age 16 in 1946 to join the United States Army. He was posted to Berlin where he joined the 298th Army band. Leaving the army in 1948, he studied theory and harmony at El Camino College in Los Angeles. He dropped out in his second year, however, re-enlisting in the army in 1950. Baker became a member of the Sixth Army Band at the Presidio in San Francisco, but was soon spending time in San Francisco jazz clubs such as Bop City and the Black Hawk. Baker once again obtained a discharge from the army to pursue a career as a professional musician.
  
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• Chris Brubeck
  Christopher Brubeck (born March 19, 1952 in Los Angeles, California), better known as Chris Brubeck, is a U.S. musician and composer, both in jazz and classical music. As a musician, he mainly plays electric bass, bass trombone, and piano. The son of noted jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, he toured and recorded for ten years with The Dave Brubeck Quartet. He then formed The Brubeck Brothers Quartet with his brothers.
  Chris Brubeck has been for about 30 years touring with guitarist Joel Brown and singer and harmonica virtuoso Peter Madcat Ruth, as (http://www.chrisbrubeckstripleplay.com) Chris Brubeck's Triple Play, which is a jazz band in a swinging Louisiana style.
  Known as a member of New Heavenly Blue, Chris also participated and recorded as a keyboardist/trombonist/guitarist in "Educated Homegrown" in 1970. From 1978 to 1988, Chris Brubeck toured in The Dave Brubeck Quartet as bassist (fretless electric bass, bass trombone), recording a dozen live albums with them.
  In 1999, Chris Brubeck and his brother Daniel Brubeck then joined with other musicians to form The Brubeck Brothers Quartet (which had briefly pre-existed with Andy LaVerne for a 1972 album as "The Brubeck-LaVerne Trio"). While they have performed with various other musicians, as of 2006^[update] the quartet includes Mike DeMicco on guitar, Chuck Lamb on piano, Daniel Brubeck on drums, and Chris Brubeck on electric bass and bass trombone. The quartet performs in jazz venues and with symphony orchestras around the world.
  
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• Darius Brubeck
  Darius Brubeck (born June 14, 1947), is a jazz keyboardist and educator. He is the son of jazz legend Dave Brubeck. He spent many years in Durban, South Africa as a professor and head of the Centre for Jazz and Popular Music at the University of Natal.
  Brubeck was born in San Francisco, California. He majored in ethnomusicology and the history of religion at Wesleyan University graduating cum laude. Brubeck holds an MPhil from Nottingham University. "He was awarded a Bellagio Project Residency (Rockefeller Foundation) as Composer in 2005 and received 'Outstanding Service to Jazz Education' awards in 1988, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2005 and 2006." Darius performed (with all 3 of his brothers) at the 2009 Kennedy Center Honors Gala when his father received a medal for his lifetime contribution to American culture. President and Mrs Obama were in the audience. Darius currently teaches and performs in Europe.
  During the 1970s and early ‘80s, pianist Brubeck led his own groups, played with Don McLean, Larry Coryell and toured the world with Two Generations of Brubeck and The New Brubeck Quartet (Dave, Darius, Chris and Dan Brubeck). Several albums were recorded along the way.
  
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  Dave Brubeck
  David Warren "Dave" Brubeck (born December 6, 1920) is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. His music is known for employing unusual time signatures, and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, and tonalities.
  His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, "Take Five", which is in 5/4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on the top-selling jazz album, Time Out. Brubeck experimented with time signatures throughout his career, recording "Pick Up Sticks" in 6/4, "Unsquare Dance" in 7/4, and "Blue Rondo à la Turk" in 9/8. He is also a respected composer of orchestral and sacred music, and wrote soundtracks for television such as Mr. Broadway and the animated mini-series This Is America, Charlie Brown.
  Brubeck was born in Concord, California and grew up in Ione. He is of English (maternal), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic (paternal) ancestry His father, Howard "Pete" Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth (née Ivey), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money. Brubeck originally did not intend to become a musician (his two older brothers, Henry and Howard, were already on that track), but took lessons from his mother. He could not read sheet music during these early lessons, attributing this difficulty to poor eyesight, but "faked" his way through, well enough that this deficiency went mostly unnoticed.
  
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  Ed Bickert
  Edward Isaac "Ed" Bickert, CM (born November 29, 1932) is a Canadian jazz guitarist.
  Second youngest of his family, Bickert was born in Hochfeld, Manitoba; his family (parents and 5 children) moved shortly after he was born to Vernon, British Columbia. Although their primary occupation was in farming and orchards, where the children worked as well, his mother was a pianist, and father was a fiddler. Young Ed learned to play basic guitar chords from his sole older brother. On the weekends during the 1940s, he joined in with his parents playing at country dances. After high school, he worked briefly before driving across Canada to Toronto, Ontario with an aspiring writer friend, in 1952. He managed to establish himself in a few years, after a few non-paying jobs, and taking some formal guitar lessons, as guitar player for the leading jazz groups in Toronto.
  By the sixties, he was a first-call studio musician.
  Notable for his long association with the late Moe Koffman and Phil Nimmons' recordings, Bickert became a charter member of Rob McConnell's Boss Brass. Playing with the rare American musicians who employed Toronto rhythm sections in local gigs, Bickert married, and eschewing the road, stayed at home and raised a family of his own.
  
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• Gerry Mulligan
  Gerald Joseph "Gerry" Mulligan (April 6, 1927 – January 20, 1996) was an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and arranger. Though Mulligan is primarily known as one of the leading baritone saxophonists in jazz history – playing the instrument with a light and airy tone in the era of cool jazz – he was also a notable arranger, working with Claude Thornhill, Miles Davis, Stan Kenton, and others. Mulligan's pianoless quartet of the early 1950s with trumpeter Chet Baker is still regarded as one of the more important cool jazz groups. Mulligan was also a skilled pianist and played several other reed instruments. Mulligan reportedly had a relationship with actress Judy Holliday until she died in 1965, and with actress Sandy Dennis from 1965 through 1976.
  Gerry Mulligan was born in Queens Village, Queens, New York, the son of George and Louise Mulligan. His father was a Wilmington, Delaware native of Irish descent; his mother a Philadelphia native of half Irish and half German descent. Gerry was the last of four sons: George, Phil, Don and Gerry.
  
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• Hedrick Smith
  Hedrick Smith (born July 9, 1933 in Kilmacolm, Scotland) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning former reporter and editor for The New York Times, an Emmy Award-winning producer/correspondent for the PBS show Frontline, and author of several books.
  He was educated at The Choate School (now Choate Rosemary Hall) in Wallingford, Connecticut and at Williams College, and did graduate work at Oxford University. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1962 to 1988. He won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting in 1974 for stories from Russia and Eastern Europe.
  Smith has been a Nieman Fellow.
  
  
  
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  Jack Fina
  Jack Fina (August 13, 1913 – May 14, 1970) was a bandleader, songwriter, and pianist.
  Known as "The Ten Most Talented Fingers On Radio"^{[citation needed]}, Fina was born in Passaic, New Jersey, and educated at the New York College of Music and was a student of August Fraemcke and Elsa Nicilini. He started out playing piano in Clyde McCoy's band sometime in the 1930s, but it wasn't until he joined Freddie Martin’s band in 1936 that he gained real fame, when he was featured on Martin’s famous recording of "Tonight We Love".
  After leaving Martin in 1946, Fina formed his own 16-piece band and his first appearance was at the Claremont Hotel. The vocals were handled by Harry Prime and Gil Lewis. With good air time and good recordings, Fina became a national figure. Because of this, Fina appeared at some of the top venues in the country, including the Waldorf-Astoria the Aragon Ballroom and the famous illegal gambling casino/night club in Galveston, the Balinese Room. He also appeared in several films, including Melody Time (sequence Bumble Boogie, 1948) and Disc Jockey (1951). A noted songwriter, his credits included Dream Sonata (his theme song), Chango and Piano Portraits.
  
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  Jack Kerouac
  Jean-Louis "Jack" Kerouac ( /ˈkɛruːæk/ or /ˈkɛrɵæk/; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet. He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his spontaneous method of writing, covering topics such as Catholic spirituality, jazz, promiscuity, Buddhism, drugs, poverty, and travel. His writings have inspired other writers, including Ken Kesey, Bob Dylan, Richard Brautigan, Curtis Meanor, Morrissey, Thomas Pynchon,Lester Bangs, Tom Robbins, Will Clarke, Ben Gibbard, Haruki Murakami, Jacquelyn Landgraf.^{[citation needed]} Kerouac became an underground celebrity and, with other beats, a progenitor of the hippie movement, although he remained antagonistic toward some of its politically radical elements. In 1969, at age 47, Kerouac died from internal bleeding due to long-standing abuse of alcohol. Since his death Kerouac's literary prestige has grown and several previously unseen works have been published. All of his books are in print today, among them: On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Bums, Mexico City Blues, The Subterraneans, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody and Big Sur.
  
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  Jimmy Rushing
  James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972), known as Jimmy Rushing, was an American blues shouter and swing jazz singer from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie's Orchestra from 1935 to 1948.
  Rushing was known as "Mr. Five by Five" and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song that was a hit for Harry James and others -- the lyrics describing Rushing's rotund build: "he's five feet tall and he's five feet wide". He joined Walter Page's Blue Devils in 1927, then joined Bennie Moten's band in 1929. He stayed with the successor Count Basie band when Moten died in 1935.
  Rushing was a powerful singer who had a range from baritone to tenor. He could project his voice so that it soared over the horn and reed sections in a big-band setting. Basie claimed that Rushing "never had an equal" as a blues vocalist.George Frazier, author of Harvard Blues, called Rushing's distinctive voice "a magnificent gargle". His best known recordings are probably "Going to Chicago" with Basie, and "Harvard Blues", with a famous saxophone solo by Don Byas.
  
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  Lee Konitz
  Lee Konitz (born October 13, 1927) is an American jazz composer and alto saxophonist born in Chicago, Illinois.
  Generally considered one of the driving forces of Cool Jazz, Konitz has also performed successfully in bebop and avant-garde settings. Konitz was one of the few altoists to retain a distinctive sound in the 40s, when Charlie Parker exercised a tremendous influence on other players.
  Konitz, like other students of pianist and theoretician Lennie Tristano, was noted for improvising long, melodic lines with the rhythmic interest coming from odd accents, or odd note groupings suggestive of the imposition of one time signature over another. Paul Desmond and, especially, Art Pepper were strongly influenced by Konitz.
  Konitz's association with the Cool Jazz movement of the 1940s and 50s, includes participation in Miles Davis' epochal Birth of the Cool sessions, and his work with Lennie Tristano came from the same period. During his long career, Konitz has played with musicians from a wide variety of jazz styles.
  
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  Leonard Bernstein
  Leonard Bernstein ( /ˈbɜrnstaɪn/ US dict: bûrn′·stīn; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim. According to The New York Times, he was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history."
  His fame derived from his long tenure as the music director of the New York Philharmonic, from his conducting of concerts with most of the world's leading orchestras, and from his music for West Side Story, as well as Candide, Wonderful Town, On the Town and his own Mass.
  Bernstein was also the first conductor to give numerous television lectures on classical music, starting in 1954 and continuing until his death. In addition, he was a skilled pianist, often conducting piano concertos from the keyboard.
  As a composer he wrote in many styles encompassing symphonic and orchestral music, ballet, film and theatre music, choral works, opera, chamber music and pieces for the piano. Many of his works are regularly performed around the world, although none has matched the tremendous popular and commercial success of West Side Story.
  
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  Marian McPartland
  Margaret Marian McPartland, OBE (née Turner; born March 20, 1918) is an English-born jazz pianist, composer, writer, and was the host of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on National Public Radio until she stepped down on November 10, 2011.
  Marian Turner was a musical prodigy from the time she could sit at the piano, about the age of three. She studied classical music and the violin, in addition to the piano.
  She pursued classical studies at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Much to the dismay of her family, she developed a love for American jazz and musicians such as Duke Ellington, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson, Mary Lou Williams, and many others. In 1938, despite her family's efforts to keep her at Guildhall, Marian left to join Billy Mayerl's Claviers, a four-piano vaudeville act, performing under the stage name of Marian Page. The group toured throughout Europe during World War II, entertaining Allied troops.
  While touring with USO shows in Belgium, she met and began performing with Chicago cornetist Jimmy McPartland in 1944. The couple soon married, playing at their own military base wedding in Germany.
  
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  Paul Desmond
  Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld; November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was a jazz alto saxophonist and composer born in San Francisco, best known for the work he did in the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for penning that group's greatest hit, "Take Five". He was not only one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast's "cool jazz" scene, but also the possessor of a legendary and idiosyncratic wit.
  In addition to his work with Brubeck he led several of his own groups and did significant collaborations with artists such as Gerry Mulligan, Jim Hall and Chet Baker. After years of chain smoking and general poor health, Desmond succumbed to lung cancer in 1977 following one last tour with Brubeck.
  Paul Desmond was born Paul Emil Breitenfeld in San Francisco, California in 1924. His father was an organist who played in movie theaters during silent films, and his mother was emotionally unstable during his upbringing. During childhood he spent years living with relatives in New York City due to problems at home. Desmond began playing violin at a young age, though his father forbade him to play it.
  
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• Perry Robinson
  Perry Morris Robinson (born September 17, 1938 in New York City) is an American jazz clarinetist and composer. He is the son of the noted composer Earl Robinson.
  Robinson grew up in New York City and attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Massachusetts in the summer of 1959. His first record, Funk Dumpling (with Kenny Barron, Henry Grimes, and Paul Motian) was recorded in 1962. He also appeared with Grimes on The Call in 1965. Robinson served in a U.S. military band in the early 1960s. Since 1973 he has worked with Jeanne Lee and Gunter Hampel's Galaxie Dream Band. He contributed to Dave Brubeck' s Two Generations of Brubeck and played with Burton Greene' s Dutch klezmer band Klezmokum. He has led his own groups in performances and on record, with albums on the Chiaroscuro, WestWind, and Timescraper labels. More recently, he worked with William Parker and Walter Perkins on Bob's Pink Cadillac and several discs on the CIMP label.
  From 1975 until 1977, Robinson was member of a band called Clarinet Contrast, featuring German clarinet players Theo Jörgensmann and Bernd Konrad. He has recorded with Lou Grassi as a member of his PoBand since the late Nineties, and with Lou Grassi, Wayne Lopes and Luke Faust in 'The Jug Jam', an improvisational jug band. He plays in a free jazz and world music trio along with tabla player Badal Roy and bassist Ed Schuller, with whom he recorded the CD Raga Roni. He has played with Dave Brubeck and Muruga Booker in the MBR jazz trio. Robinson also played an integral part in the formation of 'Cosmic Legends' an improvisational music/performance group led by composer/pianist Sylvie Degiez which included musicians Rashied Ali, Wayne Lopes, Hayes Greenfield, and Michael Hashim among others. In 2005 he was featured on his cousin Jeffrey Lewis' album "City and Eastern Songs" on Rough Trade Records, produced by Kramer. His most recent release was OrthoFunkOlogy in 2008 with the band Free Funk, also featuring Muruga Booker, Badal Roy, and Shakti.
  
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  Timothy Leary
  Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer, known for his advocacy of psychedelic drugs. During a time when drugs such as LSD and psilocybin were legal, Leary conducted experiments at Harvard University under the Harvard Psilocybin Project, resulting in the Concord Prison Experiment and the Marsh Chapel Experiment. Both studies produced useful data, but Leary and his associate Richard Alpert were fired from the university.
  Leary believed LSD showed therapeutic potential for use in psychiatry. He popularized catchphrases that promoted his philosophy, such as "turn on, tune in, drop out", "set and setting", and "think for yourself and question authority". He also wrote and spoke frequently about transhumanist concepts involving space migration, intelligence increase and life extension (SMI²LE), and he developed the eight-circuit model of consciousness in his book Exo-Psychology (1977).
  During the 1960s and 1970s, Leary was arrested regularly and was held captive in 29 different prisons throughout the world. President Richard Nixon once described Leary as "the most dangerous man in America".
  
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• All the Things You Are
• Star Dust
• Two of a Mind
• Blight of the Fumble Bee
• The Way You Look Tonight
• Out of Nowhere
• Easy Living
• All the Things You Are (alternate take)
• The Way You Look Tonight (alternate take)
• Untitled Blues Waltz
• Untitled Blues Waltz (breakdown)

• Blues in Time
• Body and Soul
• Stand Still
• Line for Lyons
• Wintersong
• Battle Hymn of the Republican
• Fall Out

• Tangerine
• You Can't Go Home Again
• How Deep Is the Ocean?
• You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To
• I'm Getting Sentimental Over You / You've Changed
• Autumn Leaves
• Concierto de Aranjuez

• Glad to be Unhappy
• Stanger in Town
• Any Other Time
• All Through the Night
• Take Ten
• Alone Together
• Embarcadero
• Theme from "Black Orpheus"
• Samba de Orfeu
• The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
• Easy Living
• I've Grown Accustomed to her Face
• Blues for Fun
• I've got You Under My Skin
• Late Lament

• My Funny Valentine
• Desmond Blue
• Then I'll Be Tired of You
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• Late Lament
• I Should Care
• Like Someone in Love
• Ill Wind (You're Blowin' Me No Good)
• Body and Soul
• Autumn Leaves
• Imagination
• Advise and Consent
• Autumn Leaves (take 1)
• Autumn Leaves (take 3)
• Imagination (take 4)
• Advise and Consent (take 4)

• Over The Rainbow
• You Go To My Head
• Give a Little Whistle / Oh, Lady Be Good
• This Can't Be Love
• Crazy Chris
• A Foggy Day
• Lyons Busy
• Somebody Loves Me
• At A Perfume Counter
• Mam'selle
• Me And My Shadow
• Frenesi
• I May Be Wrong
• Just One Of Those Things
• Lulu's Back In Town
• On A Little Street In Singapore
• All The Things You Are
• Alice In Wonderland

• Imagination
• A Ship Without a Sail
• Desmond Blue
• Glad to be Unhappy
• That Old Feeling
• Out of Nowhere
• Samba Cantina
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Alone Together
• Bewitched
• Autumn Leaves
• My Funny Valentine
• Samba de Orfeu

• Alice in Wonderland
• These Foolish Things
• Blue Dove
• Stardust
• Koto Song
• Balcony Rock
• Summer Song
• You Go to My Head

• My Funny Valentine
• Desmond Blue
• Then I'll Be Tired of You
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• Late Lament
• I Should Care
• Like Someone in Love
• Ill Wind
• Body and Soul
• Advise and Consent
• Autumn Leaves
• Imagination

• My Funny Valentine
• Desmond Blue
• Then I'll Be Tired Of You
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• Late Lament
• I Should Care
• Like Someone In Love
• Ill Wind
• Body And Soul
• Take Ten
• El Prince
• Along Together
• Embarcadero
• Theme From 'Black Orpheus'
• Nancy
• Samba de Orfeu
• The One I Love Belongs To Somebody Else

• My Funny Valentine
• Take Ten
• Nancy
• Body and Soul
• Poor Butterfly
• By the River Sainte Marie
• Bossa Antigua
• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
• When Joanna Loved Me
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face

• Take Ten
• El Prince
• Alone Together
• Embarcadero
• The Theme From Black Orpheus
• Nancy
• Samba de Orpheu
• The One I Love Belongs to Somebody Else
• Out of Nowhere
• Embarcadero (alternate take)
• El Prince (alternate take)

• Samba with Some Barbecue
• Olividar
• Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
• Emily
• Someday My Prince Will Come
• Autumn Leaves
• Where is Love?
• Lady in Cement
• North by Northwest
• Summertime

• Take Ten
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• Theme From "Black Orpheus"
• Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
• Desmond Blue
• Embarcadero
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• All the Things You Are
• El Prince
• Alone Together
• A Taste of Honey
• O Gato

• When Joanna Loved Me
• Alone Together
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Body and Soul
• Samba D'Orpheu
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• Bewitched
• That Old Feeling
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• The One I Love (Belongs to Somebody Else)
• Easy Living
• Embarcadero
• All the Things You Are

• All the Things You Are
• Stardust
• Two of a Mind
• Blight of the Fumble Bee
• The Way You Look Tonight
• Out of Nowhere

• Blues in Time
• Body and Soul
• Stand Still
• Line for Lyons
• Wintersong (take 1)
• Battle Hymn of the Republican
• Fall Out
• Tea for Two
• Wintersong (take 2)
• Lover
• [untitled]

• Jeruvian
• Soon
• Winky (Gigi)
• Baroque (Chorale Prelude)
• But Happy (Fugue IV)
• Will I Know?
• Garden in the Rain
• Misty Window
• Jazzabelle
• A Watchman's Carroll
• Everything Happens to Me
• Let's Get Away From It All
• Look for the Silver Lining
• Sacre Blues
• You Go to My Head
• Line for Lyons

• Just Squeeze Me
• Tangerine
• Meditation
• Nuages
• Like Someone In Love
• Things Ain't What They Used To Be

• Song To A Seagull
• Take Ten
• Romance De Amor
• Was A Sunny Day
• Summer Song/Summertime
• Squeeze Me
• I'm Old Fashioned
• Nuages
• You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To
• Autumn Leaves
• Skylark
• Vocalise

• Mam'selle
• Stardust
• Frenesi
• Me and My Shadow
• At a Perfume Counter
• Crazy Chris
• A Foggy Day
• Somebody Loves Me
• Lyon's Busy
• Look for the Silver Lining
• Stardust
• At a Perfume Counter
• Alice in Wonderland
• All the Things You Are
• Lulu's Back in Town
• My Romance
• Just One of Those Things

• Greensleeves
• You Go to My Head
• Blue Dove
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Here's That Rainy Day
• East of the Sun
• Bags' New Groove

• El condor pasa
• So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright
• The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)
• Mrs. Robinson
• Old Friends
• America
• For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her
• Scarborough Fair / Canticle
• Cecilia
• Bridge Over Troubled Water

• Take Ten
• El Prince (Alt)
• El Prince
• Alone Together
• Embarcadero (Alt)
• Embarcadero
• Theme From "Black Orpheus"
• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (Alt)
• Nancy
• Samba De Orfeu
• The One I Love

• My Funny Valentine
• Late Lament
• Like Someone in Love
• I Should Care
• Then I'll Be Tired of You
• Ill Wind
• Desmond Blue
• Body and Soul
• I've Got You Under My Skin
• Advise and Consent
• Autumn Leaves
• Imagination

• Take Ten
• Romance de Amor
• Was a Sunny Day
• Music for a While
• Skylark
• Indian Summer

• Squeeze Me
• I'm Old Fashioned
• Nuages (alternate take)
• Why Shouldn't I
• Everything I Love
• Warm Valley
• Till the Clouds Roll By
• Mean to Me
• Song From M*A*S*H (Suicide Is Painless)
• Wave

• Glad To Be Unhappy
• Rude Old Man
• Poor Butterfly
• Stranger In Town
• A Taste Of Honey
• Any Other Time
• Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo
• Angel Eyes

• When Joanna Loved Me
• That Old Feeling
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• Here's That Rainy Day
• Easy Living
• I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face
• Bewitched
• Blues for Fun
• All Through the Night
• Rude Old Man

• When Joanna Loved Me
• Polka Dots and Moonbeams
• Here's that Rainy Day
• Easy Living
• I've Grown Accustomed to your Face
• Bewitched

• Outubro (October)
• Gira Girou (Round 'n' Round)
• Faithful Brother
• To Say Goodbye
• From the Hot Afternoon
• Circles
• Martha & Romao
• Catavento
• Canto Latino
• Crystall Illusions
• Gira Girou (Round 'n' Round) (alternate take)
• Faithful Brother (alternate take)
• From the Hot Afternoon (alternate take 1)
• Catavento (alternate take)
• Canto Latino (alternate take)
• From the Hot Afternoon (alternate take 2)

• Bossa Antigua
• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
• O Gato
• Samba Cantina
• Curacao Doloroso
• Ship Without a Sail
• Alianca
• Girl From East 9th Street
• The Night Has a Thousand Eyes (alternate take)
• Samba Cepeda
• O Gato (alternate take)

Born: 1924-11-25

Died: 1977-05-30