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The initial Supremes, who tend to be described for convenience’s sake as the Columbus Supremes to tell apart them in the very much better-known Motown female trio, are remembered only by serious R&B scholars and doo wop enthusiasts. In 1954, Bobby Isbell (bass) and Eddie Dumas (second tenor) became a …

Couple of instrumentalists establish themselves with such solid authority as Paul O’Dette is wearing the lute. Actually, one writer defined him as “the clearest case of genius ever to contact his device.” Actually, O’Dette helped define the specialized and stylistic criteria to which twenty-first hundred years performers of early music …