Johnny Raducanu - Blues Unison

From the 1967 album ''Jazz in tare mea'' ( Jazz in my country)

The images are from prints by Tommy G. Thompson (www.tomsart4u.com)

Johnny Răducanu is a Romanian Jazz musician, of Romani ethnicity, whose family has a long musical tradition dating back to the 17th century.
He started playing the double bass at the age of 19; however, his instrument of choice is the piano. Among his countless collaborations outside Romania were those with Art Farmer (trumpet) and Slide Hampton (trombone), as well as Friedrich Gulda (piano) and Guido Manusardi (piano).
In 1987 Johnny Răducanu received an honorary membership in the Louis Armstrong Academy in New Orleans. He is the founder of the Romanian Jazz school, and during a musical career spanning over half a century, he discovered, nurtured and trained several generations of Romanian jazz musicians. Leonard Feather named him Mr. Jazz of Romania.

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• Blues
• unison
• Johnny
• Raducanu
• Jazz
• Romania
• music
• Jazz in tara mea

[VladTG]

R.I.P. Johnny Raducanu, you will be remembered.

[wolfboysgone]

Wow Romanian New Orleans jazz. Who knew? Great jazz prints, too.