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John Patton, generally known as Big John Patton, was among Blue Note’s busiest soul-jazz organists through the golden age of the Hammond B-3s. Between 1963 and 1970 Patton prepared up 11 albums’ worthy of of material being a head and sat along with a dizzying procession of competent improvisers, and …

Gene McDaniels was one of the most popular performers to emerge from the 1950s R&B picture just like “spirit” begun to establish itself seeing that a definite subcategory (and later on the dominant audio) from the last mentioned genre. Blessed Eugene Booker McDaniels in Kansas Town, Kansas in 1935, and …

Bennie Moten is today best-remembered because the leader of the music group that partly became the nucleus of the initial Count number Basie Orchestra, but Moten deserves better. He was an excellent ragtime-oriented pianist who led the very best territory music group from the 1920s, an orchestra that basically set …