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Roy Eldridge
Roy Eldridge
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Bill Coleman
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Count Basie
Count Basie
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer (1904-1984)
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Coleman Hawkins
Coleman Hawkins
American jazz saxophonist
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Don Lamond
Don Lamond
American musician
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Jabbo Smith
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Preston Jackson
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Chu Berry
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Ward Pinkett
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Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
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Gus Johnson
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Dodo Marmarosa
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Gerry Mulligan
Gerry Mulligan
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Lester Young
Lester Young
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Adrian Rollini
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Isham Jones
American bandleader, saxophonist, bassist and songwriter
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Claude Hopkins
Claude Hopkins
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Eddie Costa
Eddie Costa
American jazz musician; pianist and vibraphonist
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Buster Smith
Buster Smith
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Alex Chilton
Alex Chilton
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Lars Edegran
Lars Edegran
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Scrappy Lambert
Scrappy Lambert
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Marian McPartland
Marian McPartland
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Eddie Lang
Eddie Lang
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Phil Moore
Phil Moore
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Count Basie Orchestra
Count Basie Orchestra
American big band led by Count Basie
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Red Allen
Red Allen
American jazz musician, band leader
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Derek Smith
Derek Smith
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Johnny Guarnieri
Johnny Guarnieri
American musician
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Freddy Johnson
Freddy Johnson
American musician
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Walter Page
Walter Page
American jazz musician
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Fess Williams
Fess Williams
American musician
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Zoot Sims
Zoot Sims
American jazz saxophonist
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Ben Webster
Ben Webster
American saxophonist
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Whiteman
American jazz musician and radio personality
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Charlie Green
Charlie Green
American jazz trombonist
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Fletcher Henderson
Fletcher Henderson
American pianist, bandleader, arranger and composer
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Charlie Christian
Charlie Christian
American swing and jazz guitarist
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Rune Gustafsson
Rune Gustafsson
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Eddie Condon
Eddie Condon
US musician
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Pete Brown
Pete Brown
American musician
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Jaki Byard
Jaki Byard
American musician
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Bernie Glow
Bernie Glow
American musician
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John Kirby
John Kirby
jazz bassist
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Peter Ind
Peter Ind
British jazz musician, painter and nonfiction writer
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Maynard Ferguson
Maynard Ferguson
Canadian jazz musician and bandleader
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Norman Mason
Norman Mason
American bandleader, conductor and jazz musician
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Mulgrew Miller
Mulgrew Miller
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Jerome Don Pasquall
Jerome Don Pasquall
American musician
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Joe Sullivan
Joe Sullivan
American musician
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André Previn
André Previn
German-American pianist, conductor and composer
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Horace Silver
Horace Silver
American jazz pianist and composer (1928–2014)
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Bill Potts
Bill Potts
American musician
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Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington
American jazz musician, composer and band leader
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Edmond Hall
Edmond Hall
American jazz clarinetist
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Snooky Young
Snooky Young
American musician
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Stan Getz
Stan Getz
American jazz saxophonist
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Jimmie Lunceford
Jimmie Lunceford
American musician
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Joe Venuti
Joe Venuti
jazz violinist
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Al Cohn
Al Cohn
American saxophonist
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John Dankworth
John Dankworth
British musician (1927-2010)
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Mills Blue Rhythm Band
Mills Blue Rhythm Band
band that plays jazz
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Stan Kenton
Stan Kenton
American pianist, composer, arranger and band leader
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Stéphane Grappelli
Stéphane Grappelli
French jazz violinist
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Gene Kardos
Gene Kardos
American musician
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Trummy Young
Trummy Young
American jazz trombonist
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Kenny Wheeler
Kenny Wheeler
Canadian composer and trumpet and flugelhorn player
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Gerald Wilson
Gerald Wilson
American trumpetist (1918-2014)
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George Gershwin
George Gershwin
American composer and pianist (1898-1937)
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Billy Eckstine
Billy Eckstine
American musician
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Milt Hinton
Milt Hinton
American musician and photographer
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Victor Young
Victor Young
American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor, orchestra leader (1900-1956)
Cassino Simpson
American musician

Cassino Simpson

Intro
American musician
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Music

Wendell "Cassino" Simpson (July 22, 1909 – March 27, 1952) was an American jazz pianist, best known for his associations on the Chicago jazz scene.

Simpson may have studied piano under Zinky Cohn. He first recorded in 1923 with Bernie Young, then recorded with the Moulin Rouge Orchestra in 1925. Following this he joined Arthur Sims's orchestra, recording with them in 1926. Sims died soon after, and Bernie Young took over as bandleader; Simpson remained in the ensemble until 1930. Concomitantly, he recorded with Jabbo Smith's Rhythm Aces on his 1929 Brunswick Records releases.

From 1931 to 1933 he played with Erskine Tate, though he never recorded with him. He recorded as a leader under various names, with Jabbo Smith and Milt Hinton as sidemen. In 1933 he cut a few sides with Half Pint Jaxon, a female impersonator.

Soon after his recordings with Jaxon, Simpson apparently became mentally disturbed, and was institutionalized in 1935 in Elgin, Illinois. While there, he continued to play piano and vibraphone in a hospital dance band, and played bass drum in the hospital's marching band. He recorded solo piano numbers on the grounds of the hospital in the middle of the 1940s. Simpson was never released from the hospital, where he died in 1952.