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With an unmistakable blues wail, filled with emotion and poignancy, altoist Hank Crawford bridges the gap between that tradition which of jazz more completely than every other living horn player. Delivered in Memphis, Crawford was steeped within the blues custom from an early on age. He started playing piano but …

A longtime staple from the Memphis music picture, maker Jim Dickinson helmed classes for successive generations of cult heroes spanning from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to Big Celebrity to the Substitutes, additionally financing his keyboard skills to recordings from Ry Cooder, the Rolling Rocks, Aretha Franklin, among others. Dickinson started his …

The name Adam Luther Dickinson may possibly not be well-known however the sound of his piano and organ undoubtedly are. Regarding his group the Dixie Flyers, home band on the Atlantic-owned Requirements Documenting Studios in Miami, FL, Dickinson followed such stellar performers as Aretha Franklin, Carmen McRae, Delaney & Bonnie, …