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Russell Gunn (The Kennedy Center)

Russell Gunn

Russell Gunn was nine when his family moved from Chicago to East St. Louis, Illinois. A year later he picked up the trumpet and began a nearly decade-long membership in the school band. It was his high school band director who forced him to take his craft more seriously, leading to a full scholarship at Jackson State University. Eventually Gunn made his way to New York City at the invitation of saxophonist Oliver Lake, an active player on the New York City ôloft jazzö scene.

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Russell Gunn 3/27/01: Russell Gunn

A 1999 Grammy Nominee for "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance of the Year," horn dynamo Russell Gunn and Ethnomusicology inventively combine jazz, blues, and funk.

Russell Gunn

A 1999 Grammy Nominee for "Best Contemporary Jazz Performance of the Year," horn dynamo Russell Gunn and Ethnomusicology inventively combine jazz, blues, and funk.

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