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Trombonist John Ewing carried not merely his lengthy horn case however the nickname of “Streamline,” an evocative name to be certain, but not one which appears to have ever been found in some of extensive saving credits. Maybe Streamline Ewing simply sounded too ridiculous, a bit just like a hazy …

A West Coast program stalwart who appeared on an array of leap blues waxings through the later ’40s and early ’50s, guitarist Gene Phillips faded from watch even prior to the dawn of rock and roll & move. Any significant collector from the Bihari brothers’ budget-priced Crown albums (you understand, …

Blues shouter and later gospel preacher, Gatemouth Moore got his begin in Kansas Town while still an adolescent, performing for the rings of Bennie Moten and Walter Barnes. Graced having a soft but powerful tone of voice much like Charles Dark brown, Moore spent the 1940s penning and documenting songs, …

Pianist Joe Liggins and his music group, the Honeydrippers, tore in the R&B graphs during the past due ’40s and early ’50s making use of their polished make of polite R&B. Liggins have scored massive strikes with “The Honeydripper” in 1945 and “Green Champagne” five years afterwards, posting a great …

A sophisticated stylist in alto saxophone who vacillated throughout his profession between leap blues and jazz, bald-pated Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson (he shed his hair in early stages following a botched bout using a lye-based hair-straightener) also possessed a playfully distinctive vocal delivery that stood him in great stead with blues …