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Marty Sheller was created in Newark, NJ, on March 15, 1940. His initial device was snare drum, which he used in college at age group ten. Quickly thereafter he turned to trumpet, and produced his professional debut in 1958, playing a summer months gig on the Woodbine Resort within the …

If Jimmy Smith was “the Charlie Parker from the body organ,” Larry Teen was its John Coltrane. Among the great innovators from the middle- to past due ’60s, Young designed a unique modal method of the Hammond B-3 at the same time when Smith’s earthy, blues-drenched soul-jazz design was the …