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“Philadelphia” Jerry Ricks offers taken the artwork of blues acoustic guitar to new amounts along with his two groundbreaking produces for the Rooster Blues label. Elevated in the town of Brotherly Like, Ricks continues to be splitting his time taken between Philadelphia and parts north during summer time and Mississippi …

Lew Tabackin is among the few jazz musicians that has been able to build up very different musical personalities in two instruments. Being a tenor saxophonist, he’s a hard-driving, tough-toned participant similar to Sonny Rollins, Don Byas, and occasionally, tone-wise, Ben Webster. But simply because a flutist, he appears like …

While Solomon Burke hardly ever made a significant influence upon the pop market — he hardly ever, actually, had a high 20 hit — he was a significant early spirit pioneer. On his ’60s singles for Atlantic, he brought a nation impact into R&B, with psychological phrasing and intricately built, …