Qamar, Nadi, 1917-

LC control no.	nr 91024338
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Qamar, Nadi, 1917- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Qamar, Nedi, 1917- Givens, Spaulding, 1917-
Associated place	Bennington (Vt.)
Located	California New York (N.Y.) Kewaunee (Wis.)
Birth date	19170706
Place of birth	Cincinnati (Ohio)
Field of activity	Jazz Mbira music
Affiliation	Bennington College
Profession or occupation	Pianists Jazz musicians Musical instrument makers Composers Arrangers (Musicians) College teachers Mbira players
Found in	His The nuru taa African musical idiom [SR] c1975: label (Nadi Qamar) container (b. Cincinnati, Ohio; jazz pianist 1935-1962; currently plays African or African-derived instruments) WW among Black Americans, 6th ed. (Qamar, Nadi Abu, b. Cincinnati, OH 7-6-1917, son of William Givens & Alberta Bennett Givens) Hill, A. Compulsion [SR] 1965?: labels (Nadi Qamar) container (Nedi Qamar) LCCN 93-720200: Strings and keys, 195-? The Debut Records story, p1997: outer container (Spaulding Givens) booklet, page 3 (Spaulding Givens (Nadi Qamar), piano; track originally released on Spaulding Givens/Charles Mingus: Strings and keys) page 19 (pianist Spaulding Givens, better known as Nadi Qamar) Facebook, May 18, 2015 (Nadi Qamar (Spaulding Givens); born in Cincinnati, Ohio of Cherokee, Seminole, and African heritage; spent 10 years in California, during which he composed, arranged, and performed with Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Oscar Pettiford and the Los Angeles All Stars, among others; spent 25 years in New York City; during the 1960s, he developed expertise with the African likembi as a craftsman, composer, performer, and educator, and assumed the stage name, Nadi Qamar; after seven years as a professor at Bennington College in Vermont, Qamar moved to Wisconsin to free-lance; currently resides in Kewaunee, Wisconsin)
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