Joe Evans’ profession began in Pensacola, FL, where he took sax lessons — tutored by Ray Shep — instead of the hard labor done with the city’s guys folk. He shortly learned the alto sax and gigged with regional bands before obtaining a break via his cousin, jazz trumpeter Pal …

After mentoring with Rev. Clay Evans, creator of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Chapel in Chicago, older pastor, faith innovator, songwriter, maker, and all-round business owner Rev. Charles Jenkins overran the reins from the mission’s choir, Fellowship Chicago, and released the blockbuster gospel record THE VERY BEST of Both Worlds in 2012, …

The Charleston Chasers was a name utilized between 1925 and 1931 for some documenting groups that didn’t exist beyond the studios. The 1925 release (which documented two figures) matched up cornetist Leo McConville with trombonist Miff Mole and pianist Arthur Schutt. By their second program two years later on, the …

The elegantly nicknamed Sir Charles Thompson was mostly of the musicians connected with swing who was simply able to create a graceful, wholehearted transition to bop at that time the revolution was happening. His piano design can be light-fingered and extra within a witty, inventive, Basie-descended bop way, and he …

Before he passed on at age 64 from pneumonia, drummer Denis Charles enjoyed a diverse and nomadic career. Blessed in St. Croix, Charles started his professional musical profession at age seven playing bongos with an area band. Charles transferred to NY in 1945. Enamored deeply with Artwork Blakey’s physical design, …

The talented early recording artist Roy Evans logged almost 30 session credits between your mid-’20s and early ’30s like a singer, pianist, and drummer — nonetheless it was his yodelling that got him probably the most work. A superficial go through the game titles of his edges might trigger the …

Exactly what will five dollars get you today? It could get you a whole lot of solid R&B doo wop tranquility if you’re discussing the Five Dollars group who documented for Lot of money Information. The group, who documented both as the Five Dollars as well as the Don Juans, …

The Monotones recorded a spate of clever novelties in the past due ’50s/early ’60s, probably the most successful which was the enduring “(Who Wrote) The Publication of Like?,” an enormous Top Ten strike (quantity five pop/quantity three R&B) in 1958. The group created in 1955, when 17-year-old lead vocalist Charles …

The Cellos’ singing was as smooth because the sound of the instrumental namesake. Created at Charles Evans Hughes SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL on Western 18th Road in Manhattan, the Cellos had been Alvin Williams (bass), Billy Montgomery (1st tenor), Alton Campbell (ballad business lead), Bobby Thomas (baritone), and Cliff Williams (second …

American composer Peter Lieberson was created in NEW YORK, the son of Goddard Lieberson, the president of Columbia Information, and Vera Zorina, an actress, ballerina, and choreographer. As a kid, Lieberson trained himself tranquility from hearing the jazz information of Costs Evans, and he was subjected to the music of …