Chuck

Chuck Norris

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American jazz and blues guitarist

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Eldridge Norris was an American jazz and blues guitarist. Biography Norris was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Chicago, where he was tutored in music composition and performance by Walter Dyett. He moved to Los Angeles in the mid-1940s, played in nightclubs, and developed a reputation as a session musician in Hollywood. He released some recordings under his own name in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He also accompanied the singers Percy Mayfield and Floyd Dixon and for some time played in the Johnny Otis Orchestra. He also worked with such performers as Amos Milburn, Dinah Washington, and Little Richard. In 1980, he recorded a live album, The Los Angeles Flash, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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