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Wade Legge (born February 4, 1934 in Huntington , West Virginia , † August 15, 1963 in Buffalo , New York) is an American jazz pianist .
Wade Legge became a professional musician at the age of fourteen and had a duo with bassist Lou Hackney . In 1951 Milt Jackson recommended him to Dizzy Gillespie , with whom he was engaged from 1952 to 1955 and visited Europe (Paris) with him in 1953. Legge then worked freelance in New York for several years . a. at Johnny Richards , made records with Pete Brown , Jimmy Cleveland , Charles Mingus ( Tonight at Noon ), Joe Roland and Sonny Rollins and under his own name in Europe (1953). He made Cool Breeze (1947).
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literature
- Carlo Bohländer , Karl Heinz Holler, Christian Pfarr: Reclam's Jazz Guide . 5th, revised and supplemented edition. Reclam, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-15-010464-5 .
- Martin Kunzler : Jazz Lexicon. Volume 1: A – L (= rororo-Sachbuch. Vol. 16512). 2nd Edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-16512-0 .
- Bielefeld catalog. New Media, Nuremberg 1988 & 2002, ISSN 0171-9505 .
- Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD . 6th edition. Penguin, London 2002, ISBN 0-14-051521-6 .
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| SURNAME | Legge, calf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 4, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huntington , West Virginia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 15th August 1963 |
| Place of death | Buffalo , New York |