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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1946-11-18
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Bennie Wallace began playing jazz in 1959 in a school band under the direction of jazz drummer Chet Hedgecoth. Hedgecoth took the students to hear good jazz bands in the area and once even drove them a hundred miles to hear the Count Basie band. Through Chet, Wallace also discovered the Amvets club, a local black after-hours jazz venue. It was there that he had his first opportunity to sit in and play in a real jazz club. In the summer of 1965, the owner of the Amvets, Seth Crenshaw, gave Wa
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Wallace
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Chattanooga
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Educated at
- University of Tennessee
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
- Record label
- Enja Records
- Official website
- www.benniewallace.com
- Image
- Bennie Wallace (cropped).jpg
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- Bennie Wallace
- date of birth
- 1946-11-18
- influenced by
- Eric Dolphy
- start of work period
- 1977-00-00
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