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Roomful of Blues

During the period of their decades-long existence, Roomful of Blues successfully became a franchise unto themselves, built even more on the brand-name collective identity than in the voices from the myriad individual users who kept the band a smoothly humming machine. Explaining Roomful of Blues that method, however, gives brief …

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Greg Piccolo

Ex – Roomful of Blues vocalist and saxman Greg Piccolo was created Might 10, 1951 in Westerly, Rhode Isle. At age 13 he was playing sax using a six-piece rock-band, the Rejects. 2 yrs later he became a member of Duke Robillard being a vocalist for the Variants, a United …

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Porky Cohen

Best-known for his years as trombonist with Roomful of Blues, Porky Cohen finally had his recording debut being a leader in 1996, an extremely pleasurable outing for Bullseye Blues with lots of the people of the group. He began playing trombone at 13 and considers Jack port Teagarden his most …

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Doug James

b. Douglas Adam Schlecht, 21 August 1953, Turlock, California, USA. Inspired to take a pastime in music by his cathedral organist mother, Adam soon started teaching himself to try out saxophone, eventually selecting the baritone relation although he also has tenor saxophone and bass clarinet. After he and his family …

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