* 1908 – Lee Wiley, American jazz singer ( d. 1975 )

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Some other famous peoples known to have lived in the county include General Lighthorse Harry Lee, Wiley Jones, and General John Simon Farley ( British ).

Ned Washington, Victor Young & Lee Wiley

#" The Last Motel "; Guest Stars: Ernie Lee Banks, Andrew Bilgore, Rita Branch, Michael Burke, Darren Foy, Rina Garcia, Perrey Reeves, Laurel Wiley, Ed Wing

He used first-rate vocalists, including Paul Small, Dick Robertson, Harlan Lattimore, Smith Ballew, Helen Rowland, Frank Munn, The Boswell Sisters, Lee Wiley and others.

Lee Wiley ( October 9, 1908 – December 11, 1975 ) was an American jazz singer popular in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

In the 1960s, Wiley retired, although she acted in a 1963 television film, Something About Lee Wiley, which told her life story.

* Lee Wiley Rarities ( 1991 )

* The Legendary Lee Wiley: Collector's Items 1931-1955 ( 1999 )

* Lee Wiley: Complete Fifties Studio Masters ( 2003 )

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* Lee Wiley at IMDB

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Wiley published several books during the course of his career, including Serenity, A Boxing Memoir ; Why Black People Tend To Shout ; and By Any Means Necessary: The Trials and Tribulations of Making Malcolm X, with Spike Lee.

The architects who built on Monument Avenue practiced in the region and nationally and included the firms of John Russell Pope, William Bottomley, Duncan Lee, Marcellus Wright, Claude Howell, Henry Baskervill, D. Wiley Anderson and Albert Huntt.

Guests have included Charles Platt, John Shirley, Tiffany Lee Brown, Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories, Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom, Rudy Rucker, Gareth Branwyn, Wiley Wiggins, Jason Scott of textfiles. com, Jessamyn West of librarian. net, journalists Danny O ' Brien and Quinn Norton and comedian John Hodgman.

With the help of his girlfriend Wiley ( Lee Purcell ), Renda escapes from Majestyk.

* Lee Purcell as Wiley

The collection includes more than 2, 000 works in a variety of media, including sculpture, paintings, prints, digital media, photographs, and drawings by artists such as Robert Arneson, Milton Avery, Gregory Barsamian, Joan Brown, Deborah Butterfield, Jim Campbell, Enrique Chagoya, Dale Chihuly, Ron Davis, Jay DeFeo, Roy DeForest, Tony Delap, Richard Diebenkorn, Jim Dine, Rupert Garcia, Philip Guston, Oliver Jackson, Il Lee, Hung Liu, Michael McMillen, Manuel Neri, Long Nguyen, Manuel Ocampo, Nathan Oliveira, Deborah Oropallo, Alan Rath, Raymond Saunders, Richard Shaw, Wayne Thiebaud, Bill Viola, and William T. Wiley.

When he was twenty he was touring with the Jess Stacy All-Stars featuring Lee Wiley.

Lee Wiley was among the first to record collections of one specific songwriter or songwriting team, beginning with George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin ( 1939 ), followed by Cole Porter ( 1940 ), Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart ( 1940 ), Harold Arlen ( 1943 ), Irving Berlin ( 1951 ) and Vincent Youmans ( 1951 ).

* Lee Wiley, American jazz singer of the 1930s

The revolution in jazz that took place around 1949, the evolution from the `` bebop '' school of Dizzy Gillespie to the `` cool '' sound of Miles Davis and Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, and the whole legend of Charlie Parker, had made an impression on many academic and literary men.

Watanabe, however, made no secret that, in addition to Lupin III, the series paid subtle tribute to his favorite American films and series, which were shown in Japan during the 1970s and ' 80s including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid ( the relationship between Spike and Jet ), Bruce Lee films ( Spike's martial-arts practice ), films with blues or jazz soundtracks ( the music of the series ), as well as Blaxploitation films ( the series has a very racially diverse supporting cast ).

* 1972 – Lee Morgan, American jazz musician ( b. 1938 )

Geddy Lee playing his Fender jazz bass at a 2008 live performance at the Xcel Energy Center

* 1927 – Lee Konitz, American jazz saxophonist

Peggy Lee ( May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002 ) was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress in a career spanning six decades.

Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia, the son of Jacqueline Carroll ( née Shelton ), a teacher of arts and black literature, and William James Edward Lee III, a jazz musician and composer.

* October 13 – Lee Konitz, American jazz composer and alto saxophonist

Alto saxophonist Jackie McLean and Spike Lee, son of jazz bassist Bill Lee and a long time critic of Eastwood, criticized the characterization of Charlie Parker remarking that it did not capture his true essence and sense of humor.

Police Squads opening sequence was based on the 1950s cop show M Squad, ( which starred Lee Marvin ), which opened with footage of a police car roving through an after-dark urban setting with a big band playing a jazz theme song in the background.

Perhaps the earliest free recordings in jazz are two pieces recorded under the leadership of jazz pianist Lennie Tristano: " Intuition " and " Digression ", both recorded in 1949 with a sextet including saxophone players Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh.

When New York cabarets featured jazz, they tended to focus on famous vocalists like Nina Simone, Bette Midler, Eartha Kitt, Peggy Lee, and Hildegarde rather than instrumental musicians.

Many artists made their mark with pop standards, particularly interpreters like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Frankie Laine, Nat King Cole ( originally known for his jazz piano virtuosity ), Lena Horne, Tony Bennett, Vic Damone, Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Eydie Gormé, Andy Williams, Nancy Wilson, Jack Jones, Rita Reys, Steve Lawrence and Cleo Laine.

The label has also found great commercial success with the vocalist Norah Jones, and released new albums by established artists on the fringes of jazz such as Van Morrison, Al Green, Anita Baker and newcomer Amos Lee, sometimes referred to as the " male Norah Jones ".

However, Jeanne Lee was a notable free jazz vocalist ; others such as Sheila Jordan, Linda Sharrock, and Patty Waters also made notable contributions to the genre.

* The Gigolo, a 1965 hard bop jazz album by trumpeter Lee Morgan

The Delta Museum, which is now housed in the former post office building in downtown Ferriday, honors Mickey Gilley, Jerry Lee Lewis, journalist Howard K. Smith, evangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Hollywood socialite Ann Boyar Warner and jazz musician Pee Wee Whittaker.

Lydon, Levene and Jeanette Lee were joined by a new drummer, 60-year-old jazz player Sam Ulano, who had been recruited for the gig from a bar, having apparently never heard the band before.

The album features such jazz and fusion luminaries as guitarists Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour ; bassist Chuck Rainey ; saxophonists Wayne Shorter, Pete Christlieb, and Tom Scott ; drummers Steve Gadd and Bernard Purdie ; ex-Miles Davis pianist / vibraphonist Victor Feldman and Grammy award-winning producer / arranger Michael Omartian on piano.

At an early age, she was introduced by her parents to blues music, jazz and art rock, which, she told Rolling Stone in 1995, would later influence her: " I was brought up listening to John Lee Hooker, to Howlin ' Wolf, to Robert Johnson, and a lot of Jimi Hendrix and Captain Beefheart.