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Led by Sonny Til, the Orioles had been the first black color vocal group to sing music directly for any black color audience. Through their early recordings — that have been manufactured in the past due ’40s and early ’50s — the music group laid the groundwork for R&B vocal …

Because of her being located in north California, Jessica Williams is a bit underrated, but (about proof her units for Jazz Concentrate and Hep) she actually is among the best jazz pianists of today. Williams is usually a robust virtuoso whose total control of the key pad, wit, solid feeling …

John Hall was most widely known, for most from the initial four years of his open public life, being a singer and guitarist, principally using the group Orleans — although that group, an outgrowth from the more prosaically-named John Hall Trio and John Hall Quartet, arrived some four years after …

b. Leah Cohen, 1948, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Younger sister of ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot from the Mamas AS WELL AS THE Papas, Cohen wedded session participant Russ Kunkel in 1968. After documenting some demo recordings of her personal tracks, Kunkel was authorized to Dunhill Information. Her 1st record, ‘Billy’, was released …