biography
| name: |
Jacquet, Jean Baptiste
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, known as Illinois
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pronunciation:
[zhakay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1922– )
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| biography:
| Jazz musician, born in Broussard, Louisiana, USA. An outstanding tenor saxophonist, he emerged with Lionel Hampton (1942), toured with Jazz at the Philharmonic (1944–7), and led his own bands thereafter. |
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