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Harlem Nocturne - Earl Bostic
Earl Bostic (April 25, 1912 – October 28, 1965) was an American jazz and rhythm and blues alto saxophonist and a pioneer of the post-war American Rhythm and Blues style. He had a number of popular hits such…
Continue Reading »Who Owns The Joint - Johnny Sparrow
After playing with Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton's bands in the mid-'40s, sax player Johnny Sparrow formed his own band, Johnny Sparrow and His Bows and Arrows. The group was based in Philly in the early 1950s, and…
Continue Reading »I've Found A new Baby - Roy Eldridge, Jimmy Mundy
Jimmy Mundy (28 June 1907–24 April 1983) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie and Earl Hines. Born James Mundy in Cincinnati, Ohio, and gained his…
Continue Reading »Nick Vigarino
“Many a bluesman paid backbreaking dues chopping cotton in the flat Delta fields of Mississippi and Arkansas. There was no cotton crop to tend to in the grimy rust belt town of Youngstown, Ohio in the 1960’s, but…
Continue Reading »Got My Eye On You - Sabrina Weeks and Swing Cat Bounce - New Release Review
I just received the newest release, Got My Eye On You, by Sabrina Weeks and Swing Cat Bounce and it's radio bound. From the first note on the first song it has a distinctive sound. The title track,…
Continue Reading »Cry To Me - Freddie Scott
Freddie Scott (April 24, 1933 – June 4, 2007) was an American soul singer and songwriter. His biggest hits were "Hey, Girl", a top ten US pop hit in 1963, and "Are You Lonely For Me", a no.1…
Continue Reading »Ask me Now - Joe Henderson
Joe Henderson (April 24, 1937 – June 30, 2001) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. In a career spanning more than forty years Henderson played with many of the leading American players of his day and recorded for…
Continue Reading »Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist. Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving…
Continue Reading »Eyesight to the Blind - Manuel Arrington
Photo by Bob Corritore b. 24 April 1944; Collins, MS Chicago blues vocalist who has performed with the Manuel Arrington Blues Revue and New Orleans Beau group. A frequent performer in Chicago blues venues If you support live…
Continue Reading »Birmingham Bertha - Walter Barnes & His Royal Creolians
Walter Barnes (July 8, 1905 in Vicksburg, Mississippi – April 23, 1940 in Natchez, Mississippi) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist and bandleader. Barnes grew up in Chicago and studied under Franz Schoepp in addition to attending the…
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