This name may lead in lots of stylistic directions in the music business, jazz discographers alone acknowledging the existence of at least four differing people named Jimmy Ford and/or Jim Ford and James Ford. The locale for trumpeter Jimmy Ford was Chicago, the Windy City’s name also a practical dual, …

The Ragamuffins were the proto-version from the Music Machine, as the trio, formed in 1965, expanded to a five-piece and changed their name towards the Music Machine in 1966. All three Ragamuffins — innovator, vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Sean Bonniwell, drummer Ron Edgar, and bassist Keith Olsen — experienced just …

Shadow spun faraway from the Ohio Players about 1979 and hung about long a sufficient amount of (3 years) to record 3 albums. Their identification was shrouded in secret, James “Gemstone” Williams (drummer), William “Billy” Beck (keyboards), and Chet Willis (electric guitar) were apparently the main associates. Other music artists …

b. 1899, USA, d. 1973. A reliable exponent of violin, saxophone and clarinet, Meroff’s 1st professional engagements had been in vaudeville. When he made a decision to type his very own dance music group in the middle-20s, he were able to recruit a number of the best sidemen of your …

While a trombonist active on the classic jazz picture from the ’40s was occasionally credited as Alfonso King, occasionally as just basic Al King, it had been the same loud brassman adding to the wildness from the Arnett Cobb band aswell as the sweet sonic aroma of flowers in Ella …

Wright was raised in Kansas Town and came old in the ’20s, a period when the town was developing right into a middle of jazz activity. Wright discovered to try out while students at Lincoln SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. He became a member of Bennie Moten’s music group in the Panama …

Ruler Mutt & His Tennessee Thumpers stay among the great mysteries of jazz discography. They documented only ten edges at one program on the Gennett studios in Richmond, IN, on Feb 12, 1929. Issued in no constant purchase on Gennett, Champ, and Supertone, primary 78-rpm copies of Ruler Mutt records …

The doo wopping Gainors (the foundation from the name is a mystery), who scored regionally their first-time out-the-box in 1958 on Crimson Top Information with “THE TRICK,” were Garnett Mimms, Howard Tate, Sam Bell, Willie Combo, and John Jefferson. Mimms produced the group in Philadelphia (where he grew up) after …

Milt Larkin led one of the biggest of all place rings but, tragically, it never recorded and will just be regarded as legendary. Larkin was a self-taught trumpeter, motivated to try out after hearing Bunk Johnson. He freelanced throughout Tx, including with Chester Boone and Giles Mitchell’s Birmingham Blue Blowers. …

Drummer Ronnie Bedford is one particular excellent, but often seemingly invisible performers who type the backbone of jazz. Bedford continues to be functioning at his trade since he was 16 in the 1940s, and spent some time working with and made an appearance in the albums of several of the …