Tagged: Professor Longhair

01/05/2013

Preserving The Home, And History, Of New Orleans’ Piano Professor #NOLA http://nola.tw/JH

09/28/2012

Runners, costumes and brass bands to raise money for local high schools; Tipitina’s concert afterward will help renovate Fess’s home http://nola.tw/Hj

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09/15/2012

BBHF Professor Longhair tribute snags legendary musicians http://nola.tw/HN

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07/20/2012

Tipitina’s @Tipitinas looks to keep dream of Fess alive by restoring historic home http://nola.tw/G2

Louisiana Today

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1942 - Samuel (Sammy) Rimington was born on this day. A jazz reed player and a native of Paddock Wood, Kent. In 1965, he moved to the US and worked with Big Bill Bissonnette's Easy Rider Jazz Band. Most of his work has been in the New Orleans jazz vein, playing with Louis Nelson, Big Jim Robinson, Chris Barber, Kid Thomas Valentine, Captain John Handy, and others. He has recorded extensively as a bandleader since the early 1960s. His main influences were George Lewis on clarinet and Captain John Handy on alto sax.

fact

1942 - Samuel (Sammy) Rimington was born on this day. A jazz reed player and a native of Paddock Wood, Kent. In 1965, he moved to the US and worked with Big Bill Bissonnette's Easy Rider Jazz Band. Most of his work has been in the New Orleans jazz vein, playing with Louis Nelson, Big Jim Robinson, Chris Barber, Kid Thomas Valentine, Captain John Handy, and others. He has recorded extensively as a bandleader since the early 1960s. His main influences were George Lewis on clarinet and Captain John Handy on alto sax.

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