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January 29, 1912 ~ Jazz guitarist, bass guitarist Ulysses Livingston born in Bristol, Tennessee, USA ~ Roadie for Horace Henderson. Would go on to work as a musician with artists such as Lil' Armstrong, Frankie Newton, Sammy Price, Coleman Hawkins, Benny Carter, Ella Fitzgerald, Cee Pee Johnson, and the Spirits Of Rhythm, as well as lead his own band the Four Blazes ~ Livingston passed away in 1988
January 29, 1862 ~ Classical composer Frederick Delius, full name Frederick Theodore Albert Delius, born in Bradford, UK ~ Influenced by European composers such as Edvard Grieg and Richard Wagner as well as African-American music encountered during a stay in Florida as manager of an orange plantation. Enjoyed popularity in Germany from the 1890s and in his native England from the 1900s onwards. Best known for his cantata Mass Of Life based on the Friedrich Nietzsche-novel Thus Spoke Zarathustra and the opera A Village Romeo And Juliet ~ Delius passed away in 1934