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December 16, 2011 A compilation of folk, gospel, and bluegrass from the 1982 Book Of The Month Club 3-LP boxset.
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September 13, 2011 79-minutes of southern-fried soul-funk w/Vinegar Joe, The Meters, Little Feat, and the Muscle Shoals Horns.
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June 22, 2011 Enjoy the warmer weather with this collection of original hits from the 1950s and 1960s that are mostly long-forgotten.
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January 20, 2012 She called Johnny Otis her guru – he died the day before.
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January 19, 2012 He helped steer several performers to stardom, including Etta James, Jackie Wilson, Esther Phillips, Big Mama Thornton.
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January 11, 2012 Milano wove his backup tenor tones into the musically seamless harmonies of 1950s and ’60s hits like “A Teenager in...
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January 11, 2012 Ardolino was a teenage amateur when tapped by NRBQ. He spent the next few decades providing nimble, propulsive backbeats for...
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January 08, 2012 Born Dave Alexander, he was known as the Boogie-Woogie man of Marshall, Texas.
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January 06, 2012 Weston played on the albums Penguin and Mystery to Me.
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January 03, 2012 Reinhardt played with Dickey Betts and Berry Oakley before they joined The Allman Brothers band. He signed on with Iron...
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January 01, 2012 He backed jazz greats who visited Toronto throughout the ’60s and ‘70s: Buddy Tate, Buck Clayton, Bobby Hackett, Harry ‘Sweets’...
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December 30, 2011 The guitarist also performed with Billy Squier and the late Clarence Clemons.
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December 30, 2011 The group’s one big hit was “Talk Talk,” a proto-punk single that broke into the Top 20 in 1966.
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December 29, 2011 The High Priestess of Popular Song.
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December 29, 2011 Campo brought rippling syncopation to Jack Paar’s “Morning Show” on CBS television in the early 1950s.
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December 29, 2011 Rainwater got his start with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and The Foggy Mountain Boys in 1949.
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December 27, 2011 A leading figures in the postwar jazz avant-garde, Williams played with Tony Williams, T-Bone Walker, and Miles Davis.
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December 27, 2011 Motorhead’s vocals were featured in Ruben and the Jets, and MOI’s “Burnt Weeny Sandwich”.
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December 26, 2011 Taylor was one of the final links to Kansas City’s heyday as a jazz mecca in the 1930s.
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December 24, 2011 A drummer, leader, composer, educator, and author, DeRosa was co-founder of the International Association for Jazz Education.
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December 24, 2011 including the London House and Mister Kelly’s in Chicago, formed with his wife one of the top bands for local...
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December 20, 2011 A list of artists who died in 2011 compiled by Bill Reichblum for the KadMusArts blog (includes links to obituaries).
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December 19, 2011 As an artist Havel played a key role in the Czech underground scene that included avant-garde band: Plastic People of...
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December 19, 2011 Brookmeyer was integral to groups led by Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Jimmy Giuffre, and Clark Terry.
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