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Rowles, Jimmie

LC control no.n 82025138
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Personal name headingRowles, Jimmie
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Variant(s)Rowles, Jimmy
Hunter, James George
Rowles, James George
See alsoCorporate body: Benny Goodman Quintet
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Birth date19180819
Death date19960528
Place of birthSpokane, Wash.
Place of deathBurbank, Calif.
Profession or occupationPianist Composer
Found inGerry Mulligan and Jimmy Witherspoon ... [SR] p1972.
His kinda' groovy! [SR] 1962: label (Jimmie Rowles) container (the ie ending was the one he learned at the elder Rowleses' knees, the one he's used since, and the one he'd like us to employ on this album)
Brown, R. As good as it gets [SR] 1993?, p1978: label (Jimmy Rowles) container (piano)
New Grove dict. of jazz (Rowles, Jimmie (Jimmy) (Hunter, James George); b. 8-19-18, Spokane, WA; pianist; took the name Rowles from his stepfather)
Feather, L.G. Enc. of jazz, 1960 (Rowles, James George (Jimmy); b. 8-19-18, Spokane, Wash.; piano)
New York times, 5-30-96 (Jimmy Rowles, 77, pianist and composer, d. 5-28-96, Burbank, Calif.)