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Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame
1996 Candidates
Jimmy Witherspoon, aka "Spoon"(Arthur L. Porter Lifetime Achievement Award Winner)
Vocalist and bassist, born in Gurdon, Arkansas in 1923, he sang in church from the time he was five. His mother played piano, and instilled in him the virtues and values of fundamental religion. When he was in his teens, Spoon made his break to see the world. He moved to Los Angeles and worked as a dishwasher-cook before joining the Merchant Marines in 1941.
In 1944 he joined the Jay McShann Band for four years, and then on his own he unleashed "Ain't Nobody's Business," acknowledged to be a classic performance. He followed it with two secondary hits, "No Rollin' Blues" and "Big Fine Girl."
He then toured Europe and the U.S., singing with such musicians as Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Count Basie, Woody Herman, Red Garland, John Coltrane, Philly Joe Jones, Paul Chambers, Shelly Manne and innumerable other world-renowned jazz luminaries.
(M&E Booking Agency release)
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