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Baccus is a legendary Cleveland organist — the bridge between Jimmy Smith and Larry Adolescent.

The Minnesota jazz-pop sextet Bozo Allegro is made up of members who select to put into practice simply first names: Diane (saxophones/vocals), Clay (saxophone/vocals), Rebekka (keyboards/vocals), John (guitar/vocals), Tag (bass/vocals), and Brian (drums). The group’s root base lie inside a precursor music group, Shearman & the Sharks, a mainly “rehearsal” …

Medeski, Martin and Timber bassist Chris Timber studied structure, and jazz and classical bass in his hometown Boulder, Colorado. In 1989, he visited the New Britain Conservatory of Music in Boston, and researched with Dave Holland, Geri Allen and Bob Moses, but shortly transformed his enrollment to part-time to be …

b. 19 August 1934, Memel, Lithuania. Naura can be a self-taught pianist and flautist who researched beliefs, sociology and visual arts in Berlin. In the 50s he and Wolfgang Schluter (vibes) began a music group that sought to combine blues, bebop and Western avant garde and became among the leading …

Acquaye’s design synthesizes contemporary dance designs and older, pre-electric urban designs. He’s also a instructor, performer and playwright, with many well-known Ghanaian musicals under his belt.

Leo Gooden had his very own small R&B and soul-jazz kingdom moving in East St Louis in the first 1960s, so that as a politician, membership owner, regional businessman, and sometimes vocalist, he wore a whole lot of hats and held a whole lot of strings. Through his LG category …

Wynder K. Frog was a jazz/blues music group arranged in 1967 by key pad participant Mick Weaver. The account of the group — that was billed as Wynder K. Frogg in another of its first London gigs (starting for the after that newly-formed Visitors) — was relatively fluid, specifically in …

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 …

Among jazz’s great unsung saxophonists, Harold Vick could be put into a category with famous brands Booker Ervin, David “Fathead” Newman, Wilton Felder, and Adam Clay — hard-toned, aggressive, funky tenorists who have placed an focus on the blues even while they embodied state-of-the-art bop-derived modernism. Although he led fairly …

Jazz pianist Harold McKinney was a traveling power in Detroit’s jazz picture in the ’40s on through the brand new millennium. McKinney was motivated to study traditional music as a kid by his mom, Bessie Walon McKinney, an organist. He was changed into a jazzman when he strolled into an …