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Kenny Hagood

Kenny Hagood has been played on NTS shows including Monument Eternal: An Alice Coltrane Special, with Oop-Bop-A-Da first played on 9 February 2025.

Kenny "Pancho" Hagood (1926 - November 9, 1989) was an American jazz vocalist.

Hagood was born in Detroit, Michigan and first sang at age 17 with Benny Carter. He sang with Dizzy Gillespie from 1946 to 1948 and then with Tadd Dameron later in 1948. He recorded two pieces with Thelonious Monk in 1948 and with Miles Davis on the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1950. He then moved to Chicago and later Paris; he recorded with Guy Lafitte in the 1960s. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1965 to 1980. In the 1980s he returned to the Detroit area.

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Kenny Hagood

Kenny Hagood has been played on NTS shows including Monument Eternal: An Alice Coltrane Special, with Oop-Bop-A-Da first played on 9 February 2025.

Kenny "Pancho" Hagood (1926 - November 9, 1989) was an American jazz vocalist.

Hagood was born in Detroit, Michigan and first sang at age 17 with Benny Carter. He sang with Dizzy Gillespie from 1946 to 1948 and then with Tadd Dameron later in 1948. He recorded two pieces with Thelonious Monk in 1948 and with Miles Davis on the Birth of the Cool sessions in 1950. He then moved to Chicago and later Paris; he recorded with Guy Lafitte in the 1960s. He moved to Los Angeles, California in 1965 to 1980. In the 1980s he returned to the Detroit area.

Original source: Last.fm

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