Edmond Hall
Sign in to saveAmerican jazz clarinetist (1901–1967)
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- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1901-05-15
- Active to
- 1967-02-11
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Edmond Hall (15 May 1901, Reserve, Louisiana – 11 February 1967, Boston) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader. His father Edward Blainey Hall and mother Caroline Duhe had eight children, Priscilla (1893), Moretta (1895), Viola (1897), Robert (1899), Edmond (1901), Clarence (1903), Edward (1905) and Herbert (Herb, 1907). It took Edmond Hall a long period to develop his own musical individuality, but by the early '40s he had a very distinctive and dirty sound on the clarinet that was i
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- human
- Given name
- Edmund
- Family name
- Hall
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Orleans
- Place of death
- Cambridge
- Occupation
- jazz musician
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Record label
- Blue Note
- Image
- Edmond Hall.jpg
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- ethnic group
- African Americans
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- Edmond Hall
- date of birth
- 1901-05-15
- date of death
- 1967-02-11
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