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Joe “Fox” Smith (né Joseph Emory Smith; June 28, 1902 – December 2, 1937) was an American jazz trumpeter.

Known throughout his childhood as “Toots”, Smith originally started as a drummer but was convinced by Ethel Waters that he was far better as a trumpet player. It has been said that when he reached New York in 1920 he already had a fully formed style, which achieved “the vocalized sound, the blues spirit and the swing which makes for convincing jazz performance”.

In 1921, Smith joined the Black Swan Jazz Masters in Chicago, Illinois, directed at the time by Fletcher Henderson who described Smith as “the most soulful trumpet I ever had”. He also worked with the Jazz Hounds, the Broadway Syncopators, and finally with McKinney’s Cotton Pickers throughout the 1920s. He became famous from his work accompanying Bessie Smith, recording over 30 records. She stated that Smith was her preferred cornetist when recording, due to his reserved additions to her voice.Some of the other artists he worked with include Billy Paige, Noble Sissle, Eubie Blake, and Allie Ross.

Sam Tshabalala (born June 27, 1955, Mamelodi, Pretoria, South Africa) (sometimes transliterated as Sam Shabalala) is a South African guitarist and vocalist best known as a member of Malopoets from their founding in 1978 through their breakup in 1989.

James Evans Fuller (June 27, 1947 – March 3, 2017) was the lead guitaristand main songwriter for the 1960s rock band The Surfaris.

Fuller was known as the “Godfather” of surf music, a Californian instrumental music.

He was also a studio musician, and performed on many other artists’ such as “The Seeds”, rock, folk, and blues songs throughout his career, performing vocals, lead and bass guitar.

Fuller, with his Fender Stratocaster guitar in photographs and its sound on The Surfaris albums, contributed to the popularity of Leo Fender‘s instruments.

He is featured on “Hollywood’s Rock Walk of Fame”.

As of 2004 he continued to perform with The Surfaris and his other band, “Jim Fuller & The Beatnik” with a fan base in United States, Europe, and Japan.

He died on March 3, 2017, in Arcadia, California, at the age of 69.

Along with the rest of the Surfaris, Fuller was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame in 2019.

Joseph Edward Covington (born Joseph Edward Michno; June 27, 1945 – June 4, 2013) was an American drummer, best known for his involvements with Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna^[1] and Jefferson Starship.

Johnny “Big Moose” Walker (June 27, 1927 – November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and organist. He worked with many blues musicians, including Ike Turner, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Lowell Fulson, Choker Campbell, Elmore James, Earl Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Spann, Sunnyland Slim, Jimmy Dawkins and Son Seals.^[2]

St. Elmo Sylvester Hope (June 27, 1923 – May 19, 1967) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in the bebop and hard bopgenres. He grew up playing and listening to jazz and classical music with Bud Powell, and both were close friends of another influential pianist, Thelonious Monk.

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Rubén López Fürst ( June 26 , 1937 ; Buenos Aires , Argentina – July 25 , 2000 ; Buenos Aires , Argentina ) wasan Argentine jazz pianist and composer.

Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1903 August 14, 1958) was an American bluessinger, songwriter, and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s, when he played country music to mostly African-American audiences. In the 1930s and 1940s, he navigated a change in style to a more urban bluessound popular with working-class black audiences. In the 1950s, a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revivaland an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.

Reginald “Reggie” Workman (born June 26, 1937, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)^[1] is an American avant-garde jazz and hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work with both John Coltrane and Art Blakey.

Robert David Grusin (born June 26

1934) is an American composer, arranger, producer, jazz pianist, and band leader. He has composed many scores for feature films and television, and has won numerous awards for his soundtrack and record work, including an Academy Award and 10 Grammy Awards. In 1978, Grusin founded GRP Records with Larry Rosen, and was an early pioneer of digital recording.

Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, memoirist, and children’s author. She rose to fame in the 1970s with a string of hit records; her 13 Top 40 U.S. hits include “Anticipation” (No. 13), “The Right Thing to Do” (No. 17), “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain” (No. 14), “You Belong to Me” (No. 6), “Coming Around Again” (No. 18), and her four Gold-certified singles “You’re So Vain” (No. 1), “Mockingbird” (No. 5, a duet with James Taylor), “Nobody Does It Better” (No. 2) from the 1977 James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me, and “Jesse” (No. 11). She has authored two memoirs and five children’s books.