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The duo of Roy Kral and Jackie Cain (1928) were particularly well-known in the ’40s and ’50s. They combined vocalese, laughter and display business patter, with Cain also being truly a great ballad and interpretative vocalist. Kral fulfilled Cain in Chicago while he was playing piano inside a quartet. They …

Shaped in 2002 in Montclair, NJ, by previous high-school classmates rapper R-DeLeon (Leon Collins) and singer B-Tizzy (Sheldon Maxwell), Group Embassador’s goal was to generate upbeat, all-inclusive music, influenced mostly from the duo’s Caribbean root base (Collins was created in Trinidad, and Maxwell in Jamaica). Following the release from the …

John Patton, generally known as Big John Patton, was among Blue Note’s busiest soul-jazz organists through the golden age of the Hammond B-3s. Between 1963 and 1970 Patton prepared up 11 albums’ worthy of of material being a head and sat along with a dizzying procession of competent improvisers, and …