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Tadd Dameron

At the age of 21, after teaching himself to play the piano, Tadd Dameron began his career as a professional musician in the orchestras of Freddie Webster and Blanche Calloway. From Cleveland, he moved to Chicago, where he wrote his first arrangements, before moving to New York and then, in the early '40s, to another great jazz city, Kansas City. A renowned composer and arranger, he wrote a large number of themes that served as a reference for the younger generation of boppers, of which he was one of the leaders, whether performing them in small groups or in large modern orchestra...