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“Spider” John Koerner continues to be an influential specialist of traditional folk music and nation blues because the times of the past due-’50s/early-’60s folk revival. Both in his group, Koerner, Ray & Glover, and by himself, he offers helped popularize early folk and blues music through his shows and recordings, …

The older brother of Chuck Mangione, Gap Mangione has spent the majority of his career surviving in his native Rochester. Through the 1960-65 period, both Mangiones played jointly regularly within the bebop group the Jazz Brothers, documenting three boppish albums for Riverside from 1960-61. Once the band split up, Difference …