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Solidly in the type of the fantastic Hammond B-3 jazz players like Jimmy Smith, Groove Holmes, Jimmy McGriff, and Outdoors Bill Davis who emerged in the 1950s, Dan Fogel caught the B-3 bug early. Delivered June 21, 1948, in Atlantic Town, NJ, Fogel could place claim to getting Jackie Gleason’s …

Arthur Prysock was perfectly in the home performing jazz, blues, or R&B, but his smooth-as-silk baritone produced him a superbly effective (and underappreciated) pop crooner in the way of his key impact, Billy Eckstine. Prysock was created January 2, 1929, in Spartanburg, SC, and was the sibling of saxophonist Crimson …

Vocalist/guitarist Jaime Urrutia gained reputation as an associate of Ejecutivos Agresivos and frontman in the favorite rock and roll trio Gabinete Caligari, two organizations connected with Spain’s Movida Madrileña countercultural motion. Though the motion also created such popular rings as Derribos Arias and Decima Victima, Urrutia is regarded as probably …

Keyboardist and bandleader Mike Jackson proved along with his memorable 1994 Revenge of Mister Mopoji that he was zero typical background program man from your smooth soul times of the O’Jays. Jackson offers continued to relate with newer moments in soul directly into the hip-hop period, inviting evaluations with another …

Saxophonist and bandleader Jim Wynn was created June 21, 1912, in Un Paso, TX, but was raised in LA, where his initial device was the clarinet. Switching to tenor saxophone, he started his professional profession with Charlie Echols and was a sideman on a huge selection of Western world Coastline …

Though she was the epitome of the vocal cool motion from the 1950s, June Christy was a warm, chipper vocalist in a position to loosen up her impressive voice on bouncy swing tunes and set herself aside from various other vocalists with her deceptively simple enunciation. From her amount of …

He was beloved worldwide seeing that the king from the endless boogie, an authentic blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were simultaneously both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker documented in a great number of more designs than that more than a profession that extended across over fifty …

Actress/vocalist Jane Russell was most widely known while Marilyn Monroe’s brunette sidekick in the 1953 film adaptation from the 1949 music Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and on her behalf other looks in films from the 1940s and ’50s, notably her debut in the racy (because of its period) The Outlaw. But …

Having a crystalline voice of fragile beauty and a sensitive quality of musicianship, Elizabeth Harwood was a lyric soprano from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Her cleverness and musical attention led her to a wide selection of music, and her beautiful, blond appearance and simple stage manner produced her welcome …

American pop lyricist Mack Gordon wrote hit songs for stage productions and, frequently, for movies. He was involved with two important film songwriting duos: with composer Harry Enjoy the 1930s and with Harry Warren in the 1940s. Gordon was created in Warsaw, Poland, and shifted to N.Con.C. along with his …