Hints and tips:
...Avant was known as a mentor — to Quincy Jones, Whitney Houston, Sean Combs, and to contemporary musicians too....
...His ancestor is the slave woman Priscilla, who was purchased in 1812 by James Barbour, who would later serve as a US senator and John Quincy Adams’ secretary of war....
...Louis Armstrong’s joyfully innocent syncopated trumpet and vocal reading got to No. 3, but it was Little Jack Little’s strict tempo version that reached No. 1....
...Who has more strings to their bow than Quincy Jones?...
...“When people think of jazz,” musician Quincy Jones once said, “their mental image is most likely one of Herman’s [photos].”...
...Tens of thousands of white men died at Gettysburg so Louis Armstrong could give us “Potato Head Blues”....
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