Les Spann. Recording with Eddie ´lockjaw´ Davis, New York, 1966

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Les Spann recording with Eddie ´lockjaw´ Davis, New York, 1966.

Les Spann (by name Leslie Spann Jr.) was an American jazz guitarist and flautist. From 1950 to 1957, he studied music at Tennessee State University. At the end of that time he worked with Phineas Newborn Jr. and in 1958 with Ronnell Bright. The following year, he joined a quintet in New York City led by Dizzy Gillespie, performing solos on flute and guitar and appearing on two of Gillespie's albums for Verve Records. After a year with Gillespie, he went to Europe as a member of Quincy Jones's big band.


b. May 23, 1932 in Pine Bluff Arkansas.
d. January 24, 1989 in New York.

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