A pawnbroker is an individual or business that offers secured loans to people, with items of personal property used as collateral. The items having been pawned to the broker are themselves called pledges or pawns, or simply the collateral. While many items can be pawned, pawnshops typically accept jewelry, musical instruments, home audio equipment, computers, video game systems, coins, gold, silver, televisions, cameras, power tools, firearms, and other relatively valuable items as collateral.
Benjamin David Goodman was an American clarinetist and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing".
Hezekiah Leroy Gordon Smith, better known as Stuff Smith, was an American jazz violinist. He is well known for the song "If You're a Viper".
The James Taylor Quartet are a British four-piece jazz funk band formed in 1985 by Hammond organ player James Taylor following the break-up of his former band The Prisoners, and in the wake of Stiff Records' bankruptcy. The band consists of James Taylor (organ), Mark Cox (guitar), Andrew McKinney (bass), and Pat Illingworth (drums). Recordings and live performances often include vocalist Yvonne Yanney.
Bengt Hallberg was a Swedish jazz pianist, composer and arranger.
Rudolph Van Gelder was an American recording engineer who specialized in jazz. Over more than half a century, he recorded several thousand sessions, with musicians including Booker Ervin, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey, Lee Morgan, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver, Herbie Hancock, Grant Green and George Benson. He worked with many different record companies, and recorded almost every session on Blue Note Records from 1953 to 1967.
Helge Palmcrantz was a Swedish inventor and industrialist.
Billy Bang, born William Vincent Walker, was an American free jazz violinist and composer.
Georg Riedel was a Czechoslovak-born Swedish double bass player and composer. Riedel migrated to Sweden at the age of four and attended school in Stockholm, including the Adolf Fredrik's Music School.
Eva Taylor was an American blues singer and stage actress.
Putte Wickman was a Swedish jazz clarinetist.
Lars Erstrand was a Swedish vibraphonist.
Sven Arne Domnérus was a Swedish jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
"Bald Headed Woman" is a traditional blues song, covered by British rock band the Kinks on their eponymous debut album in 1964. Another British rock band, the Who, recorded it in 1964 as the B-side of their first top-ten single "I Can't Explain". The song has also been covered by other artists of the time, including Harry Belafonte, as seen in the Bob Dylan documentary, No Direction Home. It became a number one hit on Kvällstoppen for Swedish rock group Hep Stars in 1965.
Jim Anderson is a recording engineer and Producer of acoustic music in the recording, radio, television, and film industries.
Egil "Bop" Johansen was a Norwegian-Swedish jazz drummer, teacher, composer, and arranger.
William Barron, Jr. was an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist.
Sture Nordin was a leading Swedish jazz bassist.
Jazz at the Pawnshop is a multi-session recording made by Gert Palmcrantz on December 6–7, 1976, at Jazzpuben Stampen (Pawnshop) in Stockholm, Sweden. A pawnshop had operated on the site prior to the jazz club. Proprius Records founder Jacob Boethius produced the album, and it has been issued at least five times under multiple labels and formats. The album is regarded by many audiophiles as one of the best sounding jazz recordings of the 20th Century.
Mark Levinson is an American audio equipment designer, recording and mastering engineer, and multi-instrumentalist musician. He was formerly married to the actress Kim Cattrall.
