Although he could generally play bop, Ray Bryant’s using combined jointly older elements (including blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, as well as stride) right into a distinctive, soulful, and swinging style; no-one performed “After Hours” that can compare with him. Younger sibling of bassist Tommy Bryant as well as the uncle of …

b. 7 Feb 1925, Lynbrook, Long Isle, USA, d. 9 June 2002, New Hyde Recreation area, NY, USA. Born right into a musical environment (his mom was a concert pianist), Alexander started playing piano as an extremely small kid. At college, he produced a harmonica music group then planned to …

Later referred to as Dolores Parker Morgan, this jazz vocalist was honored in 1993 from the Smithsonian Museum of American Background among the five surviving woman vocalists from the Duke Ellington Orchestra. She began performing expertly when she was new out of senior high school after earning a 1939 novice …

Inspired by jazz and classical aswell as electronic, Wes Steed and Jeannette Beliefs restarted their previous tasks (Steed with garage area group the Gamma Rays, and Beliefs being a pianist) to create the synthesizer-based duo Recreation area Avenue Music. Their history provides an inventive method of indie pop, noticeable on …

Trenton, NJ-born guitarist/bassist Raymond Earl was an intrinsic person in Philly spirit music group Quick Funk, who subsequently was a part of MFSB, the studio room aggregation that was the home music group for Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International Information. Earl implemented the business lead of his old …

Although they truly became important statistics within the Saddle Creek community of Omaha, NE, Orenda Fink and Maria Taylor produced their initial tag in Athens, GA, where they formed Azure Ray in 2001. Both music artists — both Alabama natives in addition to childhood close friends — relocated to Athens …

Playing right down to earth solos on many way-out Dizzy Gillespie edges, the tenor saxophonist Ray Abrams was area of the Abramson family musical dynasty. He was created Raymond Abramson in NEW YORK in the first ’20s. His more youthful sibling Lee Abramson, who became Lee Abrams, was a jazz …

Pianist/songwriter Raynard Miner co-wrote the main R&B strikes by Small Milton (“We’re Gonna ENSURE IT IS”), Fontella Bass (“Recovery Me personally” and Jackie Wilson (“(Your Like Keeps Lifting Me personally)Higher and Higher,” originally recorded with the Dells along with a 1977 million-selling strike for Rita Coolidge). Various other Dells strikes …

Ray Cost covered — and kicked up — just as much music turf seeing that any nation vocalist from the postwar period. He was lionized because the guy who preserved hard nation when Nashville proceeded to go pop, and vilified because the guy who proceeded to go pop when hard …

Known primarily for his difficult 1963 remake from the blues regular “Tin Skillet Alley” (offering the moaning lead acoustic guitar of Johnny Heartsman) for the tiny Sahara logo design, vocalist Ray Agee documented for an array of labeling both huge and small through the 1950s and ’60s without very much …