Vernon Ford Story was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
11 Facts About Vernon Story
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Vernon Story was encouraged to take up the clarinet as a child by his uncle, Clarence Todd, a professional composer and pianist.
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Vernon Story played with notable jazz musician in Paris, including guitarist Django Reinhardt.
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Vernon Story arranged venues for subsets of the original band in Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, and Zurich.
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Vernon Story made a cameo appearance as an American jazz player in a Swedish thriller movie, Kvinnan Som Forsvann.
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The Rex Stewart Band, including Vernon Story, played at the first Nice Jazz Festival in 1948, probably the first formal international jazz festival.
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Vernon Story moved back to the booming tourist center of Atlantic City, New Jersey, in late-1948, playing solo and with his own band.
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When interest in the Bebop genre declined, Vernon Story moved with his family to Irvington, New York.
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Vernon Story played occasional sessions there and in Pleasantville, New Jersey, before leaving the professional music business and moving to Palo Alto, California, in 1992.
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Vernon Story died in his sleep early on April 20,2007, in Rio Vista, California.
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Vernon Story had combated prostate cancer for many years but he remained strong and active until the final few months of his illness.