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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- United States
- Active from
- 1935
- Active to
- 2006
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,628
- Total plays
- 16,257
Tags
clarinetjazzswingAllnew orleans jazz revival
He was born in Huntington, Long Island to a family of mixed Jewish and Irish-Catholic ancestry. His mother’s family originally came from Vienna, Austria, where his great-grandfather Alfred Roth had been a colonel in the Austro-Hungarian cavalry, the highest rank accessible to a Jew in the Habsburg Imperial army. After hearing Pee Wee Russell the first time, he was convinced that he wanted to be a jazz musician, too; and at the age of 16 he joined the musician's union, first as a baritone saxoph
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Huntington
- Occupation
- saxophonist
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- clarinet
- Image
- Kenny Davern.jpg
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- Commons category
- Kenny Davern
- date of death
- 2006-12-12
- date of birth
- 1935-01-07
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- birth name
- John Kenneth Davern
- name in native language
- Kenny Davern
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