Buster Bailey
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- Mental and Manual Calisthenics: for the Modern Mallet Player
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1902-07-19
- Active to
- 1967-04-12
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William C. "Buster" Bailey (July 19, 1902 – April 12, 1967) was a jazz musician specializing in the clarinet, but also well versed on saxophone. Originally from Memphis, Tennessee, Bailey was one of the most respected session players of his era. Buster Bailey was a master of the clarinet and was educated on the instrument by classical teacher Franz Schoepp, the man who taught Benny Goodman. Bailey got his start with W.C. Handy’s Orchestra in 1917 when he was just fifteen years old. <a href="htt
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Buster
- Family name
- Bailey
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Memphis
- Place of death
- Brooklyn
- Occupation
- musician
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Image
- John Kirby, Buster Bailey, Washington DC, May 1946 (Gottlieb).jpg
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- Buster Bailey
- date of birth
- 1902-07-19
- date of death
- 1967-04-12
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1917-00-00
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