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Dewey Walter Redman , saxophoniste de jazz américain est né le 17 mai 1931 à Fort Worth (Texas) et décédé le 2 septembre 2006. Outre le saxophone, Dewey Redman pratique la clarinette et la musette.Il est par ailleurs le père du saxophoniste Joshua Redman.
Dewey Redman apprend la clarinette à l’âge de 13 ans. Il joue dans la fanfare de son lycée aux côtés de futurs grands jazzmen comme Ornette Coleman, Charles Moffett et Prince Lasha. Il apprend le saxophone et se spécialise dans le saxophone ténor. Diplômé de l’Université du « North Texas State », il est, de 1956...
Dewey Balfa (March 20, 1927 – June 17, 1992) was an American Cajun fiddler and singer who contributed significantly to the popularity of Cajun music. Balfa was born near Mamou, Louisiana. He is perhaps best known for his 1964 performance at the Newport Folk Festival with Gladius Thibodeaux and Vinus LeJeune, where the group received an enthusiastic response from over seventeen thousand audience members. He sang the song "Parlez Nous à Boire" in the 1981 cult film Southern Comfort, in which he had a small role.
Dewey Balfa was born in Grand Louis, Louisiana, a small community west of Mamou....
Don and Dewey were an American rock and roll duo, comprising Don "Sugarcane" Harris (1938 - 1999) and Dewey Terry (1938 - 2006). Both were born and grew up in Pasadena, California.
In 1954, Dewey Terry was a founding member of a group called The Squires while still in high school. He was later joined by a friend, Don Bowman (who would later change his name to Harris). In 1955 the Squires released a record on the minor Los Angeles-based label Dig This Record. In 1957 the group broke up, but Don and Dewey remained together.
Later that year they...
