An excellent trumpeter with an unfortunate nickname, Irving Randolph was hardly ever a significant name but he was an excellent swing stylist. At the start of his profession, Randolph used Destiny Marable on riverboats and acquired stints using the place rings of Walt Farrington (1923-24), Willie Austin, Artwork Sims, Norman …

Pop/rock vocalist and songwriter Johnny Tillotson enjoyed his ideal success in the first ’60s when he scored some Top Ten strikes including “Poetry in Movement” as well as the self-penned “It all Keeps Directly on a-Hurtin’.” Altogether, he positioned 30 singles and LPs in the Billboard graphs between 1958 and …

Clarinetist, saxophonist, vocalist, and bandleader Jimmy Sturr is easily probably one of the most popular modern-day polka professionals, with an increase of than 100 albums to his credit because the 1960s. After considerable touring and documenting, Sturr arrived to his own through the ’80s and ’90s, dominating the Grammy Honours’ …

The Flairs were a significant West Coastline doo wop group, best remembered to be the starting pad for both Richard Berry and Cornell Gunter, who both continue to success within their subsequent solo careers. The initial group — Arthur Lee Maye (tenor), Thomas “Pete” Fox (2nd tenor), Obediah “Obie” Jessie …

b. George Nowlan, 29 Apr 1925, Randolph, Massachusetts, USA. Davis, who phone calls himself a ‘Yankee Irishman’, bought his trumpet along with his cash flow from a delivery circular and he performed in senior high school rings. At age 14 he was executing using the Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra. From age …

An East Coastline Latin rock-band that mixes in a definite mixture of Afro-Cuban, salsa, R&B, soul, funk, jazz, and hip-hop elements, Seguida were shaped in 1972 when bassist and arranger Randolph Ortiz, then only 19 yrs . old, acquired the vision to mix two Bronx barrio rings, Latin Spirit Inc. …

The S.O.S. Music group hit using a two-million-selling one, “INVEST SOME TIME (STILL DO IT),” their first-time out, before having many hit singles created and made by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. The Atlanta, GA-borne music group was were only available in 1977, when keyboardist/vocalist Jason Bryant, saxophonists Billy Ellis …

Among the rates of reissue producers, Nick Shaffran may be the kind to whom other producers choose advice and help. Because the 1980s, he’s been accountable, straight or indirectly, for a few of the greatest American reissues of nation and rock and roll & move music, by everyone from Roy …

Willie Perryman passed two nicknames during his lengthy profession, both of these thoroughly apt. He was referred to as Piano Crimson due to his albino epidermis pigmentation for some of his executing life. However they known as him Dr. Feelgood through the ’60s, and that is just what his raucous, …

Cozy Cole’s drumming was an important ingredient in a lot of the jazz documented through the 1930s and ’40s, and he belongs within the same pantheon with Sidney Catlett, Jo Jones, Chick Webb, Dave Rough, Gene Krupa, Specifications Powell, and J.C. Noticed. William Randolph “Cozy” Cole was created in East …