Cynthia Whitcomb
Cynthia Whitcomb is an American television screenwriter and teacher.
She has been nominated for numerous awards including the Emmy, the Edgar and the Humanitas Prize.
Tony Overwater
Tony Overwater (Rotterdam, March 24, 1965) is a Dutch jazz bassist (acoustic bass and violone) and composer of jazz and improvisational music.
In 2002 he received the Boy Edgar Award, the most important jazz award in The Netherlands.
Presently, Overwater is mainly active in a crossover of jazz, Arab and early music.
Darius Semaña
Darius Gerard L. Semaña( born June 30, 1973) is a Filipino lead guitarist for the band Parokya ni Edgar and is the oldest member of the group.
Francis Smith of Warwick
Francis Smith of Warwick( 1672 – 1738) was an English master- builder and architect, much involved in the construction of country houses in the Midland counties of England.
Smith of Warwick may refer also to his brothers, or his son.
Jimmy "Jammin'" Smith
James Darwin Smith( 1926–1953) was an American jazz trumpet player who reached his peak in the early 1950s.
After a bebop debut with Miles Davis in a small group setting Smith continued to record for Blue Note and played a number of gigs in Chicago.
His first self composed stylistic jazz was a piece called" Cold Jammin" and earned him his nickname Jimmy" Jammin" Smith.
Smith died at the early age of 27 from a heroin overdose after one of his concerts.
Moyna Macgill
Moyna Macgill( born Charlotte Lillian McIldowie; 10 December 1895 – 25 November 1975) was an Irish- born British stage, film and television actress, and the mother of actress Angela Lansbury and producers Edgar and Bruce Lansbury.
E. Jack Neuman
Ernest Jack Neuman( February 27, 1921 – January 15, 1998) was an Edgar and Peabody award- winning American writer and producer.
Boy Edgar
Boy Edgar, pseudonyms of" George Willem Fred Edgar"( Amsterdam, 31 March 1915 – Aldaar, 8 April 1980), was a Dutch jazzconductor, pianist and Trumpeter.
He was also a member of the resistance who saved Jewish children during WW2 and was promoted as a doctor after the war on an investigation into multiple sclerosis.
Boy Edgar grew up in Amsterdam as the son of a merchant in Indian products.
His father was of Armenian descent and his mother was Indian.
Initially, the Edgar family was doing well.
During his childhood, Boy Edgar was able to visit the Dutch East Indies several times.
However, during the economic crisis in the 1930s, the Edgar family's company went bankrupt.
His father died in 1935 and left the family in poverty.
Boy Edgar first came into contact with jazz in high school.
Despite the fact that he had not received any musical training, Edgar succeeded in teaching himself arrangements and how to play the piano and the trumpet.
In 1932 he started his medical training at the University of Amsterdam.
He performed a lot to pay for his studies.
In 1935 Boy Edgar recorded a number of songs in the in The Hague, including" In the mood for love".
In 1936 he won a prize for amateur soloists in Brussels and a year later he became a member of the Hague ensemble.
In 1939 he became leader of this ensemble, which he remained until the German occupier banned jazz music.
During the war he married Mimosa Frenk( 1942- 9- 30), the Jewish daughter of Eli Frenk and Agnes Bushnach, and together they participated in the underground resistance to save Jewish children from deportation.
During the war he did his medical exam.
Edgar also composed music for orchestras that were allowed to perform.
Edgar was briefly imprisoned after the Second World War because he refused to go to the Dutch East Indies as a soldier.
The first years after the war he continued to act as a pianist in various European countries.
In 1950, Edgar obtained his PhD with a thesis on processes in the nervous system of multiple sclerosis, a disease that his wife was already suffering from at that time.
To fully focus on his scientific career and the care of his wife, Edgar stopped making music for some time.
His wife died on 3 December 1958.
On the fifth of Juli, 1960, he remarried Ida Jannie Lengtat.
In late 1960 Boy Edgar performed again for the first time.
Initially this was a one- off, but the reactions were so enthusiastic that the VARA decided to broadcast a monthly concert by Edgar and his.
During this period, Edgar was the director of the neuropathology laboratory' Meer en Bosch' in Heemstede.
Edgar made several full- length records during this period, won an Edison and regularly performed with international stars on radio and television.
In 1964 he received the Wessel Ilcken Prize.
The pinnacle of his artistic career was in the mid-60s, when recorded the LPs Now's the time( 1965) and Finch Eye( 1966).
In October 1966 Edgar left for the United States to teach at a number of universities and conduct further research.
He stayed in the United States for three years and returned in 1969.
Back in the Netherlands he became a doctor in Duivendrecht and the Bijlmermeer, but Edgar could no longer properly combine his work as a doctor and jazz.
His, which had already fallen apart during his absence, was finally dissolved in 1971.
In the 1970s, Edgar did conduct for the Boy Edgar Sound group.
After separating from Ida Jannie Lengtat on 1971- 06- 28, he remarried her on 1973- 7- 11.
At the end of 1979 he quit his job as a general practitioner.
A short time later he died at the age of 65.
As a tribute, the Wessel Ilcken Prize, which he had won in 1964, was renamed to the VPRO/ Boy Edgar Award in 1980; since 1992 it has been called the VPRO/ Boy Edgar Award.
This prize can be considered as the most important in the Dutch jazz world.
In 2018, Boy Edgar was posthumously awarded by Yad Vashem for his help to Jews during the Second World War.
Wessel Ilcken
Wessel Ilcken( December 2, 1923 in Hilversum – July 13, 1957 in Loosdrecht) was a Dutch jazz drummer.
Ilcken lived in Paris in his youth, where he began to play drums and played in Piet van Dijk's band.
In 1945, he married singer Rita Reys, and led his own group from 1950, touring widely throughout western Europe.
He played extensively on the Dutch jazz scene, including on the albums" Jazz Behind the Dikes"( 1955 – 56), and worked with the American musicians Joe Carroll, Bob Cooper, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton, and Herbie Mann, as well as the Swedish Lars Gullin.
He died in a car crash in 1957.
In 1963, the Wessel Ilcken Prijs for Dutch jazz musicians was instituted in his honor; this later became known as the Boy Edgar Prijs, in honor of Boy Edgar.
Buwi Meneses
Buhawi" Buwi" F. Meneses( born June 4, 1976) is a Filipino bassist for the band Parokya ni Edgar, and formerly for Franco.

Question: Are Jimmy "Jammin'" Smith and Boy Edgar of the same nationality?
Answer: no