Tag Archives: New Orleans R&B

Beth McKee is a singer and songwriter who comes from Jackson, Mississippi, but was raised all around the American South. She takes on piano, body organ, and accordion aswell. Her music can be deeply affected by and steeped in the region’s wealthy musical history from blues and R&B to Cajun, …

Trombone Shorty may be the best-known moniker for Troy Andrews. He was created right into a well-known New Orleans musical family members in 1986. His grandfather, Jessie Hill, was a locally well-known R&B documenting artist. His old sibling, Wayne “12” Andrews, was an effective jazz trumpeter who was simply also …

From the center of Philadelphia, PA, this all-star lineup has a colorful band of personnel with decades of encounter. Bandleader Pete Eshelman can be presented on accordion and vocals and he offers performed piano with such performers as Bo Diddley, Sleepy LaBeef, and New Orleans’ very own Charles “Honeyboy” Otis. …

As owner of and maker for Ace Information, John Vincent played a significant component in the primary many years of New Orleans R&B in the past due ’50s, dealing with Huey Smith, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Clanton, as well as others. Given birth to John Vincent Imbragulio, he experienced the music …

This wasn’t the Canadian band who became the Music group; the original people of the Hollygrove-New Orleans gospel quartet known as the Hawks — Albert Veal, John Henry Morris, Paul Exhano, and Sam Tophia — started their profession by contacting themselves the Humming Four and had been all part of …

The Riff Raffs were an organization from Lafayette, LA, that played New Orleans-styled rock and R&B in the past due ’50s and early ’60s. Many of the music artists in the group documented as solo performers for the Ram memory label, including vocalist Bobby Page, vocalist/pianist Roy Perkins, tenor saxophonist …

The Stokes were an outfit formed by Allen Toussaint while he is at the army. The group, created at Fort Hood, documented a small number of tunes for Joe Banashak’s Quick Records label, mainly as demos, including “Poor Boy SURELY GOT TO Move,” which presented Toussaint on vocals, a genuine …

Scatman Patin was tenor saxophonist in the Riff Raffs, a Lafayette, LA group that played New Orleans-styled rock and roll and R&B in the past due 1950s and early 1960s. Many of the music artists in the group documented as solo performers for the Ram memory label, including Patin, vocalist …

Louisiana pianist Roy Perkins made some small singles on little regional brands in the late ’50s and early ’60s which were quite definitely in the design of the era’s New Orleans rock and roll & move and R&B. Perkins had not been in fact from New Orleans, but from Lafayette …

Johnny Vincent was the creator of Ace Information, among the pioneering forces in New Orleans R&B. Blessed John Vincent Imbruglio in Hattiesburg, MS, on Oct 3, 1927, as a teenager he gained pocket cash by selling utilized information retired from his parents’ restaurant’s jukebox, charging a nickel apiece — with …