A world-renowned jazz saving designer and musician, composer/pianist Kevin Toney’s music addresses a broad selection of styles and it is timeless and vintage yet always modern. Born and elevated in Detroit, Michigan, he went to the exclusive Cass Technical SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and performed with lots of the city’s best …

Although he by no means became a “star,” Williams was seemingly almost everywhere through the ’60s, performing and saving in several visible situations under such leaders as Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Grant Green, Lou Donaldson, and Yusef Lateef. Influenced by bop trumpeter Fat Navarro and saxophonist Charlie Parker, Williams started …

Wynn Stewart was among the leading numbers of West Coastline nation music, developing in the first ’50s the design that would later on become referred to as the Bakersfield sound. Alongside Tommy Collins and Buck Owens, Stewart stripped down the audio of honky tonk, removing the metal guitars and counting …

b. Walter Howard O’Brien, 19 January 1936, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Although his family members, on his mom’s part, was musical, O’Brien was used when just six-weeks old. Luckily, nevertheless, his adoptive parents had been also musically willing and he started playing piano as a kid, listening to information from the …

Among the initial Caucasian acts to execute at traditional dark venues like the Apollo in NY, the Uptown in Philadelphia, as well as the Howard in Washington, D.C., Dante & the Evergreens are kept in mind for his or her 1960 novelty saving, “Alley Oop.” Documented at exactly the same …

Blue Note Information manufacturer George Butler spearheaded the venerable jazz label’s controversial change into the industrial mainstream, helming now-classic fusion and funk periods decried by purists but embraced by following generations of acidity jazz enthusiasts. Delivered Sept 2, 1931, in Charlotte, NC, Butler examined at Howard School before getting a …

The Valentines never had any R&B or pop hits in the national charts to talk about, but are most likely most widely known for serving being a launching pad for a couple important careers, specifically that of Richard Barrett, one of the biggest A&R men of all-time. Barrett originally began …

The oldest from the Jones brothers, Hank Jones is a supreme accompanist and underrated soloist. He’s being among the most achieved sight visitors in jazz, and his versatility and sensitive design have held him extremely active cutting periods and employed in different groups and designs ranging from golf swing to …

Songwriter George Forrest’s best-known functions are the criteria “Strangers in Heaven” and “Baubles, Bangles and Beads.” Along with his regular collaborator Robert Wright (blessed Robert Craig Wright in 1914), Forrest amassed an enviable set of melody credits for the stage and display screen. Blessed George Forrest Chichester Jr. in Brooklyn, …

Among the great drummers from the 1950s, Artwork Taylor was on the many hard bop and jam session-styled classes. His first essential gig was with Howard McGhee in 1948, which was accompanied by organizations with Coleman Hawkins (1950-1951), Friend DeFranco (1952), Bud Powell (1953 and 1955-1957), and George Wallington (1954-1956). …