Tag Archives: The Four Blazes

There is a better-known and similar group with this same name that was based away of Chicago, as well as for awhile expanded towards the Five Blazes. The Western Coast version in fact beat the additional one in to the documenting studio by many years, nonetheless it was the name …

Holy blazes! Just how many Blazes have there been? This important vocal group documented as the Four Blazes, the Three Blazes, the Five Blazes, as well as the just basic Blazes on the bad counting day time in the studio room. The group was founded in 1940 as the Four …

Eddie Chamblee was an excellent, sometimes inspirational participant who made efforts both in big-band and small-combo configurations in addition to early R&B. Chamblee analyzed legislation at Chicago Condition University, then used several Army rings from 1941 to 1946. He going a little group in Chicago from 1946 before mid-’50s, then …

Known for blues-drenched jazz and jazz-drenched blues, Floyd McDaniel was an integral part of the Chicago picture for some of his 80 years. The vocalist/guitarist was created in Athens, Alabama but spent a lot of his existence within the Windy Town, where he’d relocated to when he was 15, in …