While the most well-known McGhee in jazz trumpet is without a doubt the bebop dignitary, big band trumpeter John McGhee recorded with both Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald in the ’30s. On the far side of the railroad monitors, an old-time nation harmonica player, vocalist, and electric guitar picker using …

Music background is filled with great tragedies, and among these may be the sad reality that there surely is zero Barbecue Joe. There is a Barbecue Bob, yes, and a Bongo Joe, and the countless supporters of barbecue and “joe” will have to end up being quite happy with them. …

A singer named Ivan Minott changed his name to Bob Houston throughout a brief profession with big rings in the ’40s and ’50s — conceivably eras when his genuine initial name, sounding correct from the Axis of Bad, could have had somewhat less appeal than classic reliable “Bob,” particularly when …

b. 20 March 1908, Detroit, Michigan, USA, d. 1977, Detroit, Michigan, USA. Early in his profession, Chester performed tenor saxophone with different rings, including those led by Irving Aaronson, Ben Bernie and Ben Pollack. Then considered bandleading, developing his first clothing in Detroit. Although he previously only limited achievement during …

Lorri Ham, who goes on her married name, Hafer, was created in to the music sector. The only kid of vocalist Mary Mayo and musician, songwriter, and manufacturer Al Ham, Hafer was destined to sing. Her profession started on the sensitive age group of five when she performed being a …

Nino Tempo & Apr Stevens’s regards to rock and roll was pretty tenuous; in the end, the majority of their early and middle-’60s strikes were improvements of popular criteria like “Deep Crimson,” “Whispering,” “Stardust,” and “Tea for just two.” They weren’t quite in the easy-listening mainstream, though, because of the …

His stage name sounding such as a fragment of a disagreement within a Chinese language laundromat, Zeke Zarchy is a trumpeter using a towering discography, twin towers actually with one comprising his busy function through the swing era as well as the other composed of his program man activities from …

A preacher’s child from Tennessee, Julia Rich’s street to learning to be a jazz vocalist is a winding one. Graduating from employment as a performing waitress in 1980, she began performing gigs in night clubs in Chattanooga. During this time period she caused bass participant Eddie Edwards and Stanley Turrentine …

Although Juanita Williams might seem like a brand-new face over the blues scene, one pay attention to her brilliant debut album over the Big Mo label, Introducing Juanita Williams, and you understand this girl is an expert. Actually, she’s spent the final twenty years as business lead vocalist for the …

This folk-rock outfit was formed in 1985 by Gary Miller and his accordion-toting twin brother Glenn Miller as a car for realizing their collective creative juices. Gary’s insightful lyrics had been smart beyond his years, his mind was abuzz with amazing melodies, and Glenn was an achieved self-taught accordionist. To …