New Guinea & Jazz

[Peter Friedman]

When reading the booklet for the 2 CD set JOHNNY GRIFFIN/SAL NISTICO/ROMAN SCHWALLER - THREE GENERATIONS OF TENOR SAXOPHONE I saw that the piano player - Paul Grabowsky - was born in Lae, New Guniea , but raised in Australia. That got me wondering how many other jazz players were born in locations not even closely associated with jazz? Any suggestions for other unusual birthplaces for jazz musicians?

By the way, Grabowsky plays very well on this session.

[John Tapscott]

Alan Broadbent was born in New Zealand; Valery Ponomarev in Russia.

[Larry Kart]

Sun Ra

[carnivore]

Does Canada count ????

[Ted O'Reilly]

Does Canada count ????

How very droll...

(signed)

Oscar Peterson

Maynard Ferguson

Georgie Auld

Kenny Wheeler

Rob McConnell

Moe Koffman

Ed Bickert

etc., etc....

[carnivore]

gotcha!

New Zealand has also contributed Mike Nock and Bruce Johnstone

[Larry Kart]

Bassist Eddie DeHaas and pianist Bubi Chen -- both from Indonesia.

[carnivore]

Martial Solal Algeria

Dusko Goykovich what was Yugoslavia

[BillF]

No more likely than New Guinea is the featureless Manchester suburb of Altrincham, birthplace of Alan Barnes.

[Caravan]

Danny Barcelona (long time Louis Armstrong drummer) was from the Phillipines