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Post-bop saxophonist Chris Potter silently became one of the most sophisticated and well known stylists from the ’90s and early 2000s, both being a leader so when a sideman in a number of prominent groups. Delivered in Chicago on New Year’s Time 1971, Potter was raised mainly in Columbia, SC, …

Fred Man spent the majority of his playing career using the Duke Ellington Orchestra. He was raised in NEW YORK. Man caused Joseph C. Smith’s Orchestra and led his personal group. Nevertheless after becoming a member of Duke Ellington’s Washingtonians within the springtime of 1925 (changing the group’s previous innovator …

One of the more interesting male/female vocal groups, the Independents produced some outstanding singles in the first ’70s. Chuck Jackson, Maurice Jackson, Helen Curry, and Eric Thomas specialised in melodramatic, overwrought, but flawlessly performed love tunes. Their first solitary for Wand, “Simply so long as you Require Me,” arranged the …