Charles Luckeyth “Luckey” Roberts was a transcendentally gifted pianist from the “San Juan Hill” ragtime college along with a author of both popular and classical materials. Blessed in Philadelphia along with a lifelong Quaker and teetotaler, Roberts begun to play the lease celebrations in Harlem around 1908 and was usually …

Jimmy Dorsey was both an accomplished reed participant, focusing on alto saxophone and clarinet, and something of the very best bandleaders from the golf swing era. In the first and late intervals of his profession, he co-led rings with his young brother Tommy; among, he obtained some Latin-tinged strikes that …

In the annals from the blues, there’s never been anyone that can compare with the Howlin’ Wolf. Six feet three and near 300 pounds in his salad times, the Wolf was the primal drive from the music spun out to its supreme summary. A Robert Johnson might have possessed even …

The founder from the Trumpet Information label, producer Lillian Shedd McMurry, was a pivotal force behind the preservation from the Delta blues sound, helming the first-ever studio sessions from legends like Sonny Youngster Williamson and Elmore Adam. Delivered in 1921 in Purvis, MS, she was created into a tight Baptist …

Among the prototypical Italian-American crooners, Vic Damone parlayed a even, mellow baritone into big-time pop stardom through the ’40s and ’50s. Early in his profession, his inflection and phrasing had been obviously indebted to Frank Sinatra, who once famously known as him “the very best group of pipes available.” General, …

b. 13 Feb 1919, Canton, Mississippi, USA. Henley discovered harmonica as a kid and performed for nation dances. Shifting to Chicago in 1943, he spent a while with John Lee ‘Sonny Son’ Williamson and found a great deal of technique, although his just record, documented in 1958, owes even more …

Possibly the most underrated gospel vocalist and songwriter of black gospel’s golden age, Dorothy Love Coates symbolized, in what of Craig Werner’s A BIG CHANGE Is Gonna Come: Music, Race as well as the Soul of America, “the very best of what the first ’60s offered: a style of call …

Long-running funk clothing L.T.D. — Like, Togetherness and Devotion — had been produced in Greensboro, NEW YORK in 1968 by keyboardist Jimmie “J.D.” Davis and saxophonist Abraham “Onion” Miller, both of whom previously supported the fantastic Sam & Dave. Upon relocating to NEW YORK, the duo recruited guitarist Johnny McGhee, …

After first finding acclaim as an associate from the Steve Miller Music group, singer/songwriter Boz Scaggs continued to take pleasure from considerable solo success in the 1970s. Blessed William Royce Scaggs in Ohio on June 8, 1944, he grew up in Oklahoma and Tx, and while participating in prep college …

For a while through the 1970s, there have been two “Keiths” who played prominent — though never overlapping — tasks in the wonderful world of art rock and roll and progressive rock and roll music. In most of enthusiasts and informal FM listeners, there is Keith Emerson, the embodiment of …