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The six-decade career of producer, arranger, and composer Ray Ellis spans from Billie Vacation to Barbra Streisand to Emmylou Harris. He also loved great achievement in television, composing practically all of the backdrop music for computer animation studio room Filmation from 1968 to 1982. Given birth to July 28, 1923, …

A fiery drummer and a masterful accompanist, Philly Joe Jones found fame as an integral member using the 1st classic Kilometers Davis Quintet. After offering in the Military, he shifted to NY in 1947, became the home drummer at Cafe Culture and used a who’s who of bop (including Charlie …