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Clifford Scott (musician)
Clifford Donley Scott (June 21, 1928 – April 19, 1993), born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, was an American saxophonist and flautist who played in jazz, blues, and R&B idioms. Scott started as a drummer in a family band and also learned to play piano and violin before picking up clarinet as a teenager. He played in a house band led by James Hopkins at San Antonio's Avalon Grill in the late 1940s, then worked with Amos Milburn, Jay McShann, Lionel Hampton, Roy Brown, and Roy Milton. In 1955 he began working with Bill Doggett, and was a prominent soloist on many of Doggett's most famous recordings, including "Honky Tonk". He also recorded as a leader in the late 1950s and early 1960s and worked as a session musician for rock, pop, and R&B recordings. In the 1960s he worked with Sonny Thompson, Jimmy Witherspoon, Gerald Wilson, Onzy Matthews, and Frank Butler, and was a member of Ray Charles's ensemble from 1966 to 1968 and again in 1970. Late in his career he worked pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Antonio, Texas
("Cradle of Freedom") , image_map = , mapsize = 220px , map_caption = Interactive map of San Antonio , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1= State , subdivision_name1 = Texas , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name2 = Bexar, Comal, Medina , established_title = Foundation , established_date = May 1, 1718 , established_title1 = Incorporated , established_date1 = June 5, 1837 , named_for = Saint Anthony of Padua , government_type = Council-Manager , governing_body = San Antonio City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Ron Nirenberg ( I) , leader_title2 = City Manager , leader_name2 = Erik Walsh , leader_title3 = City Council , leader_name3 = , unit_pref = Imperial , area_total_sq_mi = 504.64 , area_total_km2 = 1307.00 , area_land_sq_mi = 498.85 , area_land_km2 = 1292.02 , area_water_sq_mi = 5.79 , area_water_km2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Butler (musician)
Frank Butler (February 18, 1928 – July 24, 1984) was an American jazz drummer. Early life Butler was born in Kansas City, Missouri, but later moved west and was associated in large part with the West Coast school. He played the drums in multiple high school bands (including one in Omaha, Nebraska), in local jazz combos, and in USO shows during World War II.Feather, p. 150. Career Butler never became well known, but was highly regarded by fellow musicians (in 1958, veteran drummer Jo Jones proclaimed him "the greatest drummer in the world")Goia, p. 323. and performed with numerous jazz notables. Early in his career he played with the Dave Brubeck combo at a 1950 engagement in San Francisco, before Brubeck's group gained a national following in the mid-1950s.Chadbourne. He went on to perform and record with Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ben Webster, Harold Land, Hampton Hawes and Art Pepper in the 1950s and 1960s. He performed on several television seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Kind Of Jazz
''My Kind of Jazz'' is a 1970 album by Ray Charles. Track listing # "Golden Boy" (Charles Strouse, Lee Adams) – 3:34 # "Booty Butt" (Ray Charles) – 4:11 # "This Here" (Bobby Timmons) – 4:43 # " I Remember Clifford" ( Benny Golson) – 3:39 # "Sidewinder" (Lee Morgan) – 3:29 # "Bluesette" (Toots Thielemans) – 3:22 # "Pas–Se–O–Ne Blues" ( John Anderson) – 4:43 # "Zig Zag" (Bill Baker) – 4:31 # "Angel City" (Teddy Edwards) – 4:24 # "Señor Blues" (Horace Silver) – 5:24 Personnel *Bobby Bryant, Bill King, Marshall Hunt, Blue Mitchell - trumpet *Glen Childress, Henry Coker, Joe Randazzo (and Edward Comegys? or Fred Murrell? or David Phelps?) - trombone *J. Lloyd Miller - alto saxophone, oboe * Curtis Peagler - alto saxophone * Andy Ennis, Albert McQueen, Clifford Scott - tenor saxophone * Leroy Cooper - baritone saxophone *Ben Martin - guitar *Edgar Willis - bass *Ernest Elly - drums *Teddy Edwards Theodore Marcus Edwards (April 26, 1924 – April 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please Please Please (album)
''Please Please Please'' is the debut studio album by the Famous Flames under the billing " James Brown and His Famous Flames", featuring the first album of recordings during Brown's long career. It includes the group's first two hit singles, the title track and " Try Me" (R&B #1, Pop #48), along with all the non-charting singles and b-sides he had recorded up to the time of the album's release. The album was reissued in 2003 by Polydor on a Japanese 24-bit remastered import CD packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Track listing Personnel ;Musicians *James Brown - lead vocals ;The Famous Flames **Bobby Byrd - backing vocals, piano **Johnny Terry - backing vocals **Sylvester Keels - backing vocals **Bill Hollings - backing vocals **Louis Madison - backing vocals **Nafloyd Scott - guitar ;Additional personnel *Clifford Scott - tenor saxophone *Kenny Burrell - guitar *Edwyn Conley - bass *George Dorsey - alto saxophone *John Faire - guitar *David "Panama" Francis David Albert ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business", "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first 10 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on January 23, 1986. Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He first came to national public attention in the mid-1950s as the lead singer of the Famous Flames, a rhythm and blues vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd. With the hit ballads "Please, Please, Please" and " Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Bland
Robert Calvin Bland (born Robert Calvin Brooks; January 27, 1930 – June 23, 2013), known professionally as Bobby "Blue" Bland, was an American blues singer. Bland developed a sound that mixed gospel with the blues and R&B. He was described as "among the great storytellers of blues and soul music... hocreated tempestuous arias of love, betrayal and resignation, set against roiling, dramatic orchestrations, and left the listener drained but awed." He was sometimes referred to as the "Lion of the Blues" and as the "Sinatra of the Blues". His music was also influenced by Nat King Cole. Bland was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1981, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, and the Memphis Music Hall of Fame in 2012. He received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame described him as "second in stature only to B.B. King as a product of Memphis's Beale Street blues scene". Life and career Early life Bland was born Robert Calvin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freddie King
Freddie King (September 3, 1934December 28, 1976) was an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter. He is considered one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" (along with Albert King and B.B. King, none of whom were blood related). Mostly known for his soulful and powerful voice and distinctive guitar playing, King had a major influence on electric blues music and on many later blues guitarists. Born in Gilmer, Texas, King became acquainted with the guitar at the age of six. He started learning the guitar from his mother and his uncle. King moved to Chicago when he was a teenager; there he formed his first band the Every Hour Blues Boys with guitarist Jimmie Lee Robinson and drummer Frank "Sonny" Scott. As he was repeatedly being rejected by Chess Records, he got signed to Federal Records, and got his break with single "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" and instrumental " Hide Away", which reached number five on the ''Billboard'' magazine's rhythm and blues chart in 1961. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Awhile With Doggett
''Dance Awhile with Doggett'' is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1958. Lpdiscography.com, accessed July 3, 2019King Records Discography: King LP585 accessed July 5, 2019 Critical reception reviewer Myles Boisen stated "The emphasis on this release is on R&B-inflected combo jazz ranging from the soft (but not sappy) sound of Doggett's ethereal organ ... Of course, this wouldn't be a complete smorgasbord without a touch of the exotic ... As alway ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doggett Beat For Dancing Feet
''Doggett Beat for Dancing Feet'' is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1957. Lpdiscography.com, accessed July 3, 2019King Records Discography: King LP557 accessed July 5, 2019 Critical reception reviewer Bill Dhal stated "Doggett's fatback organ cooks in tandem with Butler's licks and Scott's sax".Track listing # "Soft" ( |
A Salute To Ellington
''A Salute to Ellington'' is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1957. accessed July 3, 2019King Records Discography: King LP532 accessed July 5, 2019 Track listing # "" (, |
Dame Dreaming
''Dame Dreaming'', also known as ''Dame Dreaming with Bill Doggett'', is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1957. accessed July 1, 2019King Records Discography: King LP532 accessed July 5, 2019 Critical reception reviewer Myles Boisen stated "This was one of Bill Doggett's smooth 'n' easy recordings ... don't expect anything that will rattle the ice cubes in your martini".Track listing # " |
Everybody Dance The Honky Tonk
''Everybody Dance the Honky Tonk'' is an album by American organist Bill Doggett released by the King label in 1956. accessed July 1, 2019King Records Discography: King LP531 accessed July 1, 2019 Reception reviewer Bill Dahl stated "This hugely influential jazz-laced R&B quartet plays their classic two-part instrumentals and several more groovers".Track listing # "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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