A high drummer from the 1930’s and 40’s, Nick Fatool was best-known for his association with Bob Crosby and dixieland configurations. Strangely enough, he didn’t regularly use Crosby until 1949 and he spent the majority of his formative years playing in swing-oriented big rings. Fatool began playing drums in Providence, …

The original Tex-Mex design of norteño was fused by Little Joe (born Jose Maria DeLeon Hernandez) with influences of country music, blues, and rock to generate the uptempo hybrid referred to as tejano. Regarding his music group, Y la Familia Borrachera, Small Joe has allowed his music to attain considerably …

b. 28 June 1902, Ripley, Ohio, USA, d. 2 Dec 1937. Along with his dad, six brothers along with a cousin all playing trumpet, it really is hardly astonishing that Smith also performed the device. By his past due teenagers, Smith was playing in NY, where he became a huge …

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 …

Joe Tex produced the very first Southern spirit record that also strike over the pop graphs (“Keep What YOU HAVE,” in 1965, produced quantity five in Billboard). His raspy-voiced, jackleg preacher design also laid a few of the most essential elements of rap’s basis. He is, probably, probably the most …

An excellent golf swing trumpeter who hardly ever gained much identification except from music artists, Joe Thomas was considered an extremely valuable player within the 1930’s and 40’s. He debuted skillfully with Cecil Scott in 1928 and performed through the entire Midwest with lesser-known groupings led by Darrell Harris, Eli …

The music of Joey DeFrancesco — a significant force within the revival from the Hammond B-3 organ being a jazz instrument, and a trumpeter and vocalist — runs the gamut from soul-jazz and bluesy grooves ? la Jimmy Smith to hard bop towards the more complex modal design of Coltrane …

Given birth to and raised in Fulton, MO, keyboardist/vocalist Joe McBride began using the piano in age 4. His uncle Bake McBride was an outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals as well as the Cleveland Indians. His first influences had been gospel music, bebop, straight-ahead jazz, Motown, and ’70s R&B …

Music was section of Joel Nava’s lifestyle right away. The Tejano vocalist, who’s of Mexican-American traditions, was created to hardworking parents within the Tx city of Victoria. He was raised in Slot Lavaca, TX, where he was affected by his grandfather’s accordion playing. Before he’d strike his teenager years, Nava …

Off their founding in 1996 through their touring slowdown in 2001, Fat Mama was emblematic of the broader move by jam bands as groups begun to meld an electric influence with their music. Through their three produces, one can visit a development from Herbie Hancock-influenced fusion to a fresh audio, …