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There are a minimum of three different blues musicians who utilized the moniker “Guitar Slim.” In cases like this, the “Slim” involved was the first. Delivered Alec Seward on March 16, 1902, in Charles Town, VA, as a kid (he previously 14 siblings), he found your guitar and started playing …

Among the great golf swing/Dixieland cornetists, Ruby Braff experienced long stretches of his profession unable to get function because his music was considered out-of-fashion, but his fortunes improved from the 1970s. An extremely expressive participant who in old age liked to create his solos up to low notice, Braff’s playing …

Roy Montrell was among the busiest sessionmen, and something of the very most influential guitarists in New Orleans for a lot more than 20 years, using everyone from Bobby Mitchell to Roy Milton and Lloyd Cost, in addition to being truly a fixture in Fat Domino’s music group for years–along …

Within a crucial period that bore witness towards the emergence of ska and its own later on mutations into rocksteady and lastly reggae, Justin Hinds was being among the most successful saving artists around the Jamaican music scene, his sweet tenor spotlighted on a huge selection of Duke Reid-produced singles …

Given birth to Joseph Levitch in Newark, NJ, Lewis was most widely known as a film comedian/article writer/movie director/maker; he do try his hands at serious performing, however, recording many singles and something charted recording in the past due ’50s. His additional charted solitary was “EVERYTHING Depends upon You” (#68, …

Johnny Cymbal recorded less than as many titles while Sybil had personalities. He was created in Ochitree, Scotland, on Feb 3, 1945, but his parents shifted to Goderich, Ontario, after that Cleveland, OH. He began performing at 13, trained himself your guitar, and afterwards wore a variety of musical hats: …

A longtime fixture from the Chicago bop picture — and criminally underappreciated beyond it — pianist John Young collaborated with jazz giants which range from Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald to Dexter Gordon throughout a profession spanning a lot more than six years. Delivered March 16, 1922 in Small Rock, …

A reliable, sympathetic accompanist and solid soloist, bassist John Lindberg’s best-known for his function in the String Trio of NY. Lindberg researched music in Ann Arbor, MI, before shifting to NY in 1977. He performed and recorded within the Individual Arts Outfit with Joseph Bowie and Bobo Shaw in the …

Most songwriters from the 1930s by no means figured — as well as planned about figuring — in the annals of rock and roll & roll. Several bluesmen got lucky (and Big Joe Williams and Willie Dixon got actually lucky, as performers and composers); and once in awhile Irving Berlin’s …

Arthur Godfrey was a dynamic entertainer for some of his lifestyle, a minimum of a half of a hundred years of executing in radio, tv and films, of performing and performing ukulele and acoustic guitar, upgrading to microphones to provide tone of voice to his most recent promotional structure. Whether …