Lincoln Mills is among the hardly any early jazzmen whose name could possibly be mistaken for a company, and quite a significant one in that. However when the trumpeter called Lincoln Mills finished his own lifestyle in the past due ’50s, it got nothing in connection with the outcome of …

It could come being a surprise for some that fast-as-quicksilver tempo guitarist Kim Miller of ’70s Philly spirit music group Quick Funk likes steady jazz groups just like the Rippingtons, but it’s true. On the other hand, pay attention to Miller’s music, that are sprinkled through the entire recordings he …

A male-female duo, Don Gardner and Dee Dee Ford reached the graphs in 1962 with “I WANT Your Loving,” a high 20 hit in the mildew of Ike & Tina Turner. Gardner experienced created a Philadelphia group, known as the Sonotones, in 1952, but teamed up with Ford a decade …

Hard-singing soul/blues vocalist Johnny Williams’ biggest strike was “Sluggish Movement, Pt.1,” a 1972 TOP R&B solitary for Gamble & Huff’s Philadelphia International Information. He also documented edges for Epic and Chicago Spirit maker Carl Davis’ Dakar subsidiary, Bashie. Created Johnny Lee Williams on January 15, 1942, in Tyler, AL, he …

Frank Virtue was among the founders in back of the postwar pop music growth in Philadelphia. A prodigiously talented guitarist and bassist, and a gifted arranger, he was operating expertly while still in university and became a bandleader throughout a yr spent in america Navy. In 1947 he founded the …

Although technically they have only released one album as Stampfel & Weber, 1981’s Going Nowhere Fast, singer/violinist/banjoist Peter Stampfel (b. Oct 29, 1938, in Wauwautosa, WI) and vocalist/guitarist Steve Weber (b. June 22, 1942, in Philadelphia, PA) been employed by together on / off, being a duo and with others, …

William Henry Fry was to nineteenth-century NY what Virgil Thomson became a hundred years later — a composer, paper critic, and writer who proselytized tirelessly with respect to American music. He was also Thomson’s distant forerunner on Horace Greeley’s NY Tribune (which merged using the Herald in 1924 to create …

In a day and time where rap is synonymous with foul-mouthed, gun-toting misogynists catering towards the grossest of stereotypes, generally there reaches least one rap artist who would like to make his name a good one. REAL LOVE delivered Terrence Reed’s rap will end up being truer to rap’s first …

Indie-jangle pop ensemble Julie Ocean (the name of the band, not really a vocalist,) structured their functions in Washington, D.C. for the scant couple of years of their lifetime. Initially Friendship Rose Shop, called for an area retail florist, they changed to Julie Sea, inspired with a song in the …

Maker/songwriter/guitarist/vocalist T. Life’s biggest strike was Evelyn “Champagne” King’s 1978 million-selling one “Pity.” The monitor was utilized as the starting theme for Keenan Ivory Wayans’ 1994 film Low Down Dirty Pity (Touchstone House Video) and was included on the 1998 RCA film soundtrack CD Even more Monty. Sometimes acknowledged as …