Leonard Ware
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
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- Helen Osborne Storrow, 1864-1944
- World order
- The landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942
- The landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1984-10-15
adult alternative pop/rockadult contemporary r&bcontemporary r&bdancedance-popdisco
Discography
- Nervous2010
- Valentine2011
- Strangest Feeling2011
- Running2012
- 110%2012
- Wildest Moments2012
- Devotion2012
- Taking in Water2012
- Night Light2012
- If You’re Never Gonna Move2013
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Leonard Ware (December 28, 1909 - March 30, 1974) was an American jazz guitar player and composer, who was one of the early electric guitarists in jazz. Ware was born in Richmond, Virginia and attended Tuskegee Institute in his youth, where he learned to play oboe. He switched to guitar and began leading his own trio, which performed in New York's Greenwich Village during the 1930s and 1940s. Ware played on clarinetist/saxophonist Sidney Bechet's first recordings as leader in November 1938 for
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leonard
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Richmond
- Place of death
- New York City
- Genre
- jazz
- Instrument
- guitar
- Image
- Billy Taylor, Zutty Singleton, Leonard Ware (Gottlieb 15341).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1909-12-28
- date of death
- 1974-03-30
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- Leonard Ware
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