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Within Vinony's link graph, Chuck Higgins is referenced by 29 other articles, and connects out to England, California and Los Angeles.
It sits within the topics 1924 births, 1999 deaths and 20th-century American male musicians.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1929-07-27
- Active to
- 2022-04-09
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,028
- Total plays
- 17,327
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Charles Williams Higgins (April 17, 1924 – September 14, 1999) was an American rhythm & blues saxophonist. Higgins, who was noted for mixing elements of Latin Jazz with Blues, recorded in Los Angeles during the mid-fifties, notably for the Specialty, Combo and Doo-Tone labels, and is best remembered for the song "Pachuko Hop". Higgins relocated from his birth place of Gary, Indiana to Los Angeles in his teens, where he played trumpet and went to school at the Los Angeles Conservatory. <a href="
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Gary
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- saxophone
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- date of birth
- 1924-04-17
- date of death
- 1999-09-14
- cause of death
- lung cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
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