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Al Sears
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American jazz tenor saxophonist (1910-1990)
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- 9
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1910
- Active to
- 1990
Discography
Member of
- Duke Ellington and His Orchestra1944–1949
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- 1,338
- Total plays
- 4,986
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Al Sears (Macomb, Illinois, February 21, 1910 - New York City, March 23, 1990) was an American tenor- and alto saxophonist and bandleader. He played jazz and rhythm & blues. Sears played as a teenager saxophone with Fats Waller. In 1928 Sears replaced the tenor saxophonist Johnny Hodges in the orchestra of Chick Webb, in the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem. He toured with the revue "Keep Shufflin'", then he played with Zack Whyte in Cincinnati and with Elmer Snowden. <a href="https://www.last.fm/musi
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Macomb
- Place of death
- New York City
- Occupation
- composer
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Image
- Johnny Hodges and Al Sears, Aquarium, New York, ca. Nov. 1946 (William P. Gottlieb 04191).jpg
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- Al Sears
- date of birth
- 1910-02-22
- date of death
- 1990-03-23
- ethnic group
- African Americans
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