Guitarist/songwriter/maker Ray Parker Jr. experienced strikes mainly because Raydio (the million-selling “Jack port and Jill,” “You Can’t Switch That”), Ray Parker Jr. & Raydio (“Two Locations at exactly the same time,” “A FEMALE Needs Like [Just AS IF YOU Perform]”), and Ray Parker Jr. (the main R&B and pop platinum …

A promising clarinetist, Don Murray’s early loss of life (five days in short supply of his 25th birthday) implies that he will end up being forever from the 1920s as well as the white jazz music artists of the period. Murray’s brief profession found him using a number of the …

This artist was created Horatio Durant but never used his real first name professionally. He was of Panamanian descent and significant amounts of his profession was spent as both pianist and personnel arranger for the Deep River Kids, a vocal group that held taking a good half of a hundred …

Best-known for his drumming and marching/tap dancing abilities, Frank Parker began his career in present business at age 5. Delivered sometime during 1919 in New Orleans, Parker performed as an associate of Child Clayton’s music group before relocating to LA, CA, and starting up with Teddy Buckner (on the Beverly …

Stationed in North Western England in the past due ’70s, Brenda Ray started her musical job in age post-punk, working under various aliases and melding raw punk instrumentation with dance rhythms and reggae affects. During this time period, Ray created D.I.Con. recordings within the nebulous Liverpudlian collective Naffi, working as …

Known beneath the amusing but relatively dusty stage name of “the Outdated Employed Hand,” this performer’s real forte was being a radio announcer. Nevertheless, the loose mixture of live radio creation and music that dominated the traditional days of nation music, old-time, and early bluegrass radio broadcasting allowed him to …

Parachute took main in Charlottesville, VA, where in fact the group honed its pop/rock and roll sound — equivalent parts Maroon 5 as well as the Fray, with an focus on classical guitar, piano, and affable vocals — beneath the original name Sparky’s Flaw. Made up of people William Anderson …

Ray Parker, Jr. produced Raydio in 1977, with vocalists Arnell Carmichael and Jerry Knight. Knight was the business lead singer within the group’s 1st big strike, “Jack port and Jill,” in 1978. Additional group members had been Larry Tolbert, Darren Carmichael, and Charles Fearing. He managed the strap until 1981, …

An accomplished composer and instructor, Ray Copeland was a good trumpeter from your ’40s before ’80s in golf swing, bebop, hard bop, and despite having stage rings. He offered many workshops and jazz background programs, and his playing shown a confident, interesting firmness and crackling energy, aswell as effective range …

Ray Anderson is a full time income embodiment from the uninhibited and sometimes rambunctious method of individualized expression that is clearly a vital component dating back again to the origins of jazz through Lester Bowie, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, and Roy Eldridge to Excess fat Waller, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Move …