by Bman | Mar 29, 2013 | Uncategorized
Camille Howard (March 29, 1914 β March 10, 1993) was an American R&B pianist and singer. Howard was born in Galveston, Texas. When in California in the 1940s, she became the featured piano player with Roy Miltonβs Solid Senders, playing on all their early hits on...
by Bman | Mar 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Maurice James Simon (born March 26, 1929, Houston, TX) is a jazz saxophonist. A high school classmate of Eric Dolphy (1945-6) Simon appears on an early 1945 Los Angeles recording in a band led by Russell "Illinois" Jacquet and which also included Teddy Edwards,...
by Bman | Mar 24, 2013 | Uncategorized
Arnett Cobb (August 10, 1918 β March 24, 1989) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist, sometimes known as the "Wild Man of the Tenor Sax" because of his uninhibited stomping style. Cobb is credited with writing the words and music for the jazz standard "Smooth...
by Bman | Mar 20, 2013 | Uncategorized
Marcia Ball (born March 20, 1949, Orange, Texas, United States) is an American blues singer and pianist, born in Orange, Texas but who grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. She was described in USA Today as "a sensation, saucy singer and superb pianist... where Texas...
by Bman | Mar 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
GREEN, CLARENCE (1934β1997). Blues guitarist and band leader Clarence Green was born in Mont Belvieu, Texas, in Chambers County, on January 1, 1934. He was a versatile guitarist who should not be confused with the piano-playing blues singer Clarence "Candy" Green...
