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It’s beneficial to get an early on start on your selected profession, but Billy Preston took the idea to extremes. By age group ten he was playing keyboards with gospel diva Mahalia Jackson, and 2 yrs afterwards, in 1958, he was highlighted in Hollywood’s film bio of W.C. Handy, St. …

Although not an enormous name in jazz, Melvin Sparks brought his Offer Green-influenced electric guitar to a number of soul-jazz and organ combo recordings from the later ’60s and early ’70s. A fan of jazz in addition to R&B and blues, the Houston indigenous took up your guitar at 11, …