Remaining together following departure of frontman Wayne Fontana, the Mindbenders got off to 1 of the very most guaranteeing starts any music group could appreciate, when their debut solo “A Groovy Sort of Appreciate” soared to number 2 within the U.K. and topped the graph in the us. And got …

Also called the brand new York Jazz Trio, this combo is really a studio-only group who focus on recording classic standards in an easy, post-bop style. THE BRAND NEW York Trio features three gifted music artists who are solidly established over the East Coastline jazz picture. Pianist Costs Charlap is …

The Scottish music group Sugartown has roots that stretch back again to the first ’80s with the brand new wave outfit Friends Again. Keyboardist Paul McGeechan was an associate of Friends Once again from 1982 to 1984. After Close friends Again split up, McGeechan became a member of Love and …

Wayne Brown’s longest working woman vocalist, Martha Large (aka Martha Harvin), began her profession in Washington, D.C. She went to the same senior high school (Roosevelt) and sang within the same chapel (Trinity AME Zion) as Sandra Bears, Carrie Mingo, Elegance Ruffin, and Margie Clark, the Four Jewels, but didn’t …

As a program bassist and an associate from the famous Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (with Barry Beckett, Roger Hawkins, and Jimmy Johnson), David Hood is broadly admired for his workmanship and versatility dealing with a great range of music artists in his 40-yr career. Created on Sept 21, 1943, in …

Though endlessly puzzled with the singer Big Joe Turner, pianist Joe Turner originated from a totally different direction, following a James P. Johnson/Fat Waller stride custom, armed with an excellent technique and an excellent sense of golf swing. Given birth to in Baltimore, he began to find out the piano …

Following a break-up of Tokyo Blade, vocalist Vicki James Wright became disillusioned using the British rock and roll scene and relocated to LA searching for compatible musicians. Following a series of fake begins, he finally stabilized a line-up of August Worchell and Christopher Stewart (guitars), Andy Rogers (bass) and Stephen …

Vocalist/songwriter/guitarist John Martyn was created Iain David McGeachy on Sept 11, 1948, in New Malden, Surrey, and raised in Glasgow by his grandmother. He started his innovative and expansive profession at age 17 with a method affected by American blues performers such as for example Robert Johnson and Miss James, …

New Britain saxophonist Myanna Pontoppidan (who only uses her initial name professionally) has acquired a popularity for being among the edgier, more intense, and hard-blowing players within the pop-jazz/NAC field. Although Myanna (who has the tenor, alto, soprano, and baritone saxes) is normally definately not a bop purist, her melodic, …

A veteran who paid his dues for over ten years before finding his shot at single stardom, Bobby Womack persevered through tragedy and dependence on emerge as you of spirit music’s great survivors. In a position to sparkle in the limelight as a vocalist or behind the moments as an …