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United kingdom session musicians Jon Tag (vocals, guitar, drums) and John Almond (vocals, woodwinds, vibes, percussion) met while playing together in John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and remaining in 1970 to create Mark-Almond, sometimes known as the Mark-Almond Band. Ahead of his profession with Mayall, Tag and Mick Jagger co-produced Marianne Faithfull’s …

A significant but little-heard branch from the Big Star family members tree, Rock Town was a short-lived pop/rock and roll music group from Memphis, TN, that featured Chris Bell and Jody Stephens shortly before they teamed up with Alex Chilton. Mainly a studio task, Rock Town was the brainchild of …

One of the most versatile mid-’60s garage area groupings — indeed, these were generally too accomplished and pop-savvy to seriously merit the garage area band label — We individuals had some big strikes in Florida, but never broke out nationally, in spite of releases over the huge RCA and Problem …

Despite a comparatively prolific recording profession which yielded up to 40 solo edges and a group of celebrated collaborations with vocalist Lucille Bogan, pianist/singer Walter Roland continues to be among the blues’ most elusive and mysterious numbers. Likely given birth to in or about Birmingham, AL, circa 1900, he 1st …

Mickey Melchiondo adopted the name Dean Ween when he was an adolescent in New Wish, Pa. He and friend Aaron Freeman — who known as himself Gene Ween — produced Ween if they had been just 14 years of age, hardly ever imagining that they’d end up being saddled with …

In 1970, Utmost Roach 1st organized M’Boom, a distinctive unit comprised entirely of percussionists. Through the use of such tools as marimba, xylophone, tympani, vibes, bells, gongs, drum models, and a good musical noticed, Roach leads an extremely colourful and self-sufficient group. Originally a septet made up of Roach, Warren …

Influenced from the romantic crooning of Chet Baker and Mel Tormé aswell as the greater radical scat singing and vocalese of Tag Murphy and Jon Hendricks, Lou Lanza created an individual and distinctive tone of voice early in his job. When Lanza obtained a small pursuing playing the Philadelphia jazz …

No regards to the Uk alternative rock-band from the same name, the San Francisco-based Charlatans have already been widely credited as beginning the Haight-Ashbury psychedelic picture. In retrospect, their contribution was even more of a public one, planting seed products of the rock counterculture using their unconventional, sometimes outrageous outfit …

Centipede was a 50-piece jazz-rock orchestra assembled past due in 1970 by pianist Keith Tippett (b. 1947) to be able to perform his large-scale conceptual function “Septober Energy.” Composed of a primary of musicians attracted from Tippett’s personal music group as well as the orbit from the Smooth Machine and …

Body fat Mattress are primarily referred to as the just-post-Jimi Hendrix Experience music group of Noel Redding, putting away several albums in the past due 1960s and early 1970s. The Jimi Hendrix connection was most likely responsible for attaining Fat Mattress a lot of whatever interest they were able to …