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Few blues tracks have stood the test of Dad Period as enduringly as “Goin’ Straight down Gradual.” Its composer, St. Louis Jimmy Oden, endured rather impressively himself — he documented through the early ’30s and was still at it a lot more than three years later. If not really for …

b. 26 June 1903, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, d. 30 Dec 1977, Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was also called St. Louis Jimmy, Big Bloke, Poor Boy and Aged Guy Oden. Although he was a reasonably able pianist, Oden’s popularity rests primarily on his prowess like a blues vocalist and composer. His …

Chicago-bred instrumentalist and producer Zachary Mastoon was raised playing jazz (he was among the founders of the group Transmission alongside Stuart Bogie and Eric Perney until they remaining for college) and funk (his band finished up backing rapper Diverse), though he didn’t uncover the sort of downbeat experimental electronica and …

Milt Buckner, the “St. Louis Fireball,” is normally acknowledged with having popularized the Hammond body organ through the early 1950s. Initial presented in 1934, the device was instantly seized upon by Thomas “Fatty acids” Waller, whose syncopated tube body organ information of 1926-1929 type the primal bedrock from the jazz …

The Chicago, IL-based Rhymefest (born Che Smith) first gained nationwide attention because the co-songwriter of Kanye West’s Grammy-winning “Jesus Strolls.” His association with Western actually returned many years prior; the MC’s individually released Uncooked Dawg, released in 2001, was created entirely by way of a pre-fame Western. Later authorized to …

b. Cyril J. Trimnell-Ritchard, 1 Dec 1897, Surry Hillsides, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, d. 18 Dec 1977, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Starting being a dancer, Ritchard produced his theatrical debut in Sydney in 1917. Among his initial companions, in Katinka (1918), was Madge Elliott (b. 12 Might 1896, London, Britain, …

Compton, CA-based MC Guerilla Dark, a deceased ringer for Notorious B.We.G., was created in Chicago and spent period with his family members in Mississippi just before going to the Western Coast. A short label deal dropped through, leading Dark to stop on his ambitions; his existence took an intense change …

Trumpet/composer Amir ElSaffar is really a classically trained musician who explores both jazz and traditional Iraqi maqam music. Blessed in Chicago, IL, in 1977 for an Iraqi dad and American mom, ElSaffar was raised hearing an eclectic mixture of music that eventually resulted in his studying traditional music at DePaul …