by Bman | May 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
Been on the music for 14 years. Started with blues band BMW-"Blues Music Works". Currently lead singer of "Miss Freddye and the Blue Faze Band". also duo acouistic act "Miss Freddye & Mike Huston on acoustic sounds. Starting singing at the age of 15, mostly in...
by Bman | Apr 5, 2013 | Uncategorized
Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family. His father, Thomas Turrentine, Sr., was a...
by Bman | Apr 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
I just received Vision From Heaven, the recent release by Ronnie 'Byrd' Foster. This is a posthumous release as Foster passed 2 years ago. Mr. Foster was born on September 16, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Music Hall of Fame and...
by Bman | Feb 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Blues/R&B vocalist/actor. Born in Pittsburgh and migrating to California in 1949, Harry Caesar scored an R&B hit in 1952 for Los Angeles entrepreneur John Dolphin's Recorded in Hollywood label with the violent "Goodbye Baby." He was also involved in the L.A. doo wop...
by Bman | Oct 13, 2012 | Uncategorized
Raymond Matthews Brown (October 13, 1926 – July 2, 2002) was an influential American jazz double bassist, known for extensive work with Oscar Peterson among many others. Ray Brown was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had piano lessons from the age of eight. After...
