Connie Wainwright

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Connie Wainwright was an American jazz guitarist .

Live and act

Connie Wainwright played in the bands of Jimmy Mundy , Hot Lips Page , Jabbo Smith and around 1942 with Earl Hines from the late 1930s . From mid-1944 he was a member of Billy Eckstine and His Orchestra ; he was part of Eckstine's big band until it was dissolved in early 1947. In October 1946, he worked on the side of Miles Davis , Gene Ammons , Linton Garner , Tommy Potter and Art Blakey on recordings of the singer "Ann Baker" (aka Ann Hathaway , "I've Always Got the Blues") and Earl Coleman ("Don't Sing Me the Blues") with; No further recordings are available from later years. In the field of jazz he was involved in 19 recording sessions between 1938 and 1946.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Todd Bryant Weeks: Luck's In My Corner: The Life and Music of Hot Lips Page . 2014
  2. ↑ Leslie Gourse : Sassy: The Life of Sarah Vaughan . 2009, p. 21
  3. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed August 9, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Wainwright, Connie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1910
DATE OF DEATH 20th century or 21st century