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| - American swing and bop jazz guitarist.Born : March 31, 1911 in Charleston, South Carolina.Died : March 01, 1987 in Las Vegas, Nevada.From 1937 until his death in 1987, aged seventy-five, Freddie Green occupied the rhythm guitar chair in various ensembles led by pianist [a145262], backing celebrated players such as saxophonist [a258433], clarinetist [a254768], and vocalist [a33589], to name a few.«When he played with Count Basie, everyone knew that Freddie Green was half the orchestra on his own, the man who helped the band breathe. He was the %22working lung%22, and as an accompanist he played %22four-to-the-bar%22 like nobody else. The secret of his swinging lightness lay in the fact that he didn't play all the strings, merely three or four of them.» [Philippe Baudoin]
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