Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson

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• 24th March 1982

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Bio

Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (December 18, 1917, Houston, Texas â€" July 2, 1988, Los Angeles, California) was an American jump blues, jazz, bebop and R&B alto saxophonist and blues shouter. He was nicknamed Cleanhead after a lye-laced straightener destroyed his hair. During the late 1930s, he was a member of an incredible horn section in Milton Larkin's orchestra, sitting next to Arnett Cobb and Illinois Jacquet.