Jimmy Knepper
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1927-11-22
- Active to
- 2003-06-14
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- 1,370
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- 9,393
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James M. Knepper was born on November 22, 1927 in Los Angeles, California. He began his musical career with the trombone at the age of nine. He started playing professionally at the young age of 15, in jazz bands and at dance clubs in the 1940’s. Knepper’s first big job was with Freddie Slack, a jazz piano player leading his own big band. After that he worked with other jazz big bands led by Roy Porter, Charlie Spivak, Claude Thornhill, Woody Herman, and even Stan Kenton in 1959. <a href="https
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- Triadelphia
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- trombone
- Image
- Jimmy Knepper.jpg
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- Jimmy Knepper
- date of birth
- 1927-11-22
- date of death
- 2003-06-14
- medical condition
- Parkinson's disease
- cause of death
- Parkinson's disease
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Jimmy Knepper
- birth name
- James Minter Knepper
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