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Hastings, Count

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Personal name headingHastings, Count
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Variant(s)Hastings, Lowell
Hastings, Red
Birth date1916-03-04
Death date1993-07-01?
Place of birthNewark (N.J.)
Place of deathNew York (N.Y.)
Field of activityJazz Rhythm and blues music Bop (Music)
Profession or occupationSaxophonists Jazz musicians Rhythm and blues musicians
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Found inLCCN 93-710047: Count Hastings, p1988
Count "Red" Hastings and Danny Turner-Eddie Woodland, 1990: label (Count "Red" Hastings) insert (Lowell Hastings; Lowell W. Hastings; saxophonist; became "one of New York's finest session men, appearing with almost every big R&B act of the 50s ...")
Be bop wino WWW site, February 8, 2018: blog posting dated November 18, 2007 (Lowell Hastings, aka "Count" Hastings, aka "Red" Hastings; tenor saxophonist; cut two sessions for Gotham Records, in November 1948 and in January 1950; "this compilation ... takes us neatly into the realms where rhythm and blues merged into bop and jazz ...")
Eagle, Bob. Blues, ©2013: page 264 (Lowell "Count" Hastings (Lowell W. Hastings); born March 4, 1916, Newark, New Jersey; died probably New York, New York, July 1, 1993; saxophonist)