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The correct answer is: Teddy Hill!
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photo by William Gottlieb/Library of Congress
Teddy Hill (right), with Thelonious Monk, Howard McGhee, and Roy Eldridge, in front of Minton’s Playhouse, New York, N.Y., ca. Sept. 1947
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While he led a successful big band in the 1930’s that featured young musicians like Roy Eldridge, Frankie Newton, Bill Coleman and Dizzy Gillespie, Teddy Hill (1909 – 1978) is best remembered as the manager of Harlem’s Minton’s Playhouse, famous for its role in the development of modern jazz.
Visit his Wikipedia page by clicking here
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Listen to Teddy Hill and His Orchestra play “Blue Rhythm Fantasy,” a 1937 recording including, among others, Dizzy Gillespie, Dicky Wells, Russell Procope, and Howard Johnson.
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