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    Leon Alexander Anthony Abbey (May 7, 1900 – September 1975) was an American jazz violinist and bandleader. He was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on May...
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  • The Savoy Bearcats were an eleven-piece jazz band, led by Leon Abbey, which was the house band at the Savoy Ballroom in New York City from its opening...
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  • football player John Abbey (organ builder) (1785–1859), English organ builder John Roland Abbey (1894–1969), English book collector Leon Abbey (1900–1975), American...
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  • Abbey Road is the eleventh studio album by the English rock band the Beatles, released on 26 September 1969, by Apple Records. It is the last album the...
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    León and Castile) became the greatest benefactors of the Abbey of Cluny, where Abbot Hugh (died 1109) undertook construction of the huge third abbey church...
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    saxophone and clarinet, with Elmer Snowden (1925), Joe Steele, Henri Saparo, Leon Abbey (including a tour of South America), Charlie Skeete and Jelly Roll Morton...
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    The Royal Abbey of Our Lady of Fontevraud or Fontevrault (in French: abbaye de Fontevraud) was a monastery in the village of Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, near...
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  • trumpet. In the mid-1920s he played with June Clark (1925), Edgar Dowell, Leon Abbey, Duncan Mayers, Bobbie Brown, Bobby Lee, Billy Butler, Charles Turner...
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    as the golden age of jazz in India. It began with jazz musicians like Leon Abbey, Crickett Smith, Creighton Thompson, Ken Mac, Roy Butler, Teddy Weatherford...
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    Cluny Abbey (French: [klyni]; French: Abbaye de Cluny, formerly also Cluni or Clugny; Latin: Abbatia Cluniacensis) is a former Benedictine monastery in...
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  • Brownies (playing alongside Ovie Alston) and toured Europe as a member of Leon Abbey's orchestra. In 1929 he married Ada "Bricktop" Smith and played in clubs...
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  • in France he married a woman and stayed there until 1935, working with Leon Abbey, Louis Armstrong, and Arthur Briggs.[citation needed] After returning...
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  • decade. In the 1940s, he spent time with Hines again, Horace Henderson, Leon Abbey, Cootie Williams, and Cab Calloway. He also recorded with The Mills Brothers...
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  • played with a number of popular bands including those of Benny Carter, Leon Abbey, Oran "Hot Lips" Page, and Chris Columbus. After the end of World War...
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  • Depression, he spent nine years in Southeast Asia, working with Herb Flemming, Leon Abbey, and Teddy Weatherford, mostly in Bombay and Batavia. In 1936, he recorded...
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  • of the 1930s, McCord played in France for a year and toured India with Leon Abbey in 1936. McCord led his own trio in Amsterdam in 1937, then worked with...
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    The Abbey of Saint Genevieve (French: Abbaye Sainte-Geneviève) was a monastery in Paris. Reportedly built by Clovis, King of the Franks in 502, it became...
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    is called as the golden age of jazz in India, when jazz musicians like Leon Abbey, Crickett Smith, Creighton Thompson, Ken Mac, Roy Butler, Teddy Weatherford...
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    dependent on that abbey, the new foundation was raised in 1864 to the rank of an independent abbey by Pope Pius IX, and Guéranger appointed Léon Bastide to be...
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    Moreruela Abbey (Monasterio de Santa María de Moreruela) is a former Cistercian monastery in the province of Zamora in Castile and León, Spain. The abbey is...
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    Urraca (León, 24 June 1081 – Saldaña, 8 March 1126), called "the reckless" (la temeraria), was Queen of León, Castile and Galicia from 1109 until her death...
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    Alfonso IX (15 August 1171 – 23 or 24 September 1230) was King of León from the death of his father Ferdinand II in 1188 until his own death. He took steps...
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  • audience. A UFC Welterweight Championship bout between current champion Leon Edwards and Belal Muhammad headlined the event. The pair previously fought...
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  • worked with Eddie South, Noble Sissle, Freddy Johnson, Freddy Taylor, and Leon Abbey, as well as with his own groups. He was in Bombay in 1936, playing with...
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    Paul Aurelian (redirect from Pol de Leon)
    of Batz. He was first buried at Saint-Pol-de-Léon, but his relics were later transferred to Fleury Abbey. He was succeeded as bishop by his companion...
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  • 1141. About 1157, he succeeded his father, Guihomar III, as the Viscount of Léon in Brittany. According to William of Malmesbury, Harvey declined an invitation...
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    they didn't improvise. Bandleaders who were also violinists included Leon Abbey, Clarence Black, Carroll Dickerson, and Erskine Tate. Violin became a...
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  • Abbey of Marmoutier, cited in Généalogie des vicomtes de Léon It is described in a charter dated 1208 as an hereditary sénéchaussée of Hervé de Léon André...
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  • appearing at the Boeuf Sur Le Toit with Leon Abbey's orchestra. While touring Belgium again during the late summer, Leon Abbey arranged for Myrtle to appear with...
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  • Saratoga Club, the Savoy Ballroom and in the Blackbirds revue, played with Leon Abbey, and toured in South America. He moved to Europe in the 1950s. Americans...
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