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"body": "\n\nKentucky singer and banjo/guitar player **Roscoe Holcomb** recorded some deeply felt, almost disturbing, \"moaning\" folk music. Bluegrass, old-timey, blues and spiritual songs and a variety of traditional Appalachian folk songs passed down through the generations. Some of his vocalizing comes straight from the church, and some of the songs seem to be improvised.\n\nHe lived a grueling life of pain, a farmer and coal miner, a tough motherfucker who broke his back several times, they say. He could also handle the fiddle and harmonica. He was recorded in 1958 and subsequently toured to some success during the folk revival, but pain and health problems shut him down. He made his last appearance in '78 but his music has been preserved by Folkways. They call his style \"the high lonesome sound\" and he was a favorite of Bob Dylan.",
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"html": "<p><img src=\"/images/2737f74aa869ccd6c4b21725040f61e1_large.jpg\" alt=\"\"></p>\n<p>Kentucky singer and banjo/guitar player <strong>Roscoe Holcomb</strong> recorded some deeply felt, almost disturbing, “moaning” folk music. Bluegrass, old-timey, blues and spiritual songs and a variety of traditional Appalachian folk songs passed down through the generations. Some of his vocalizing comes straight from the church, and some of the songs seem to be improvised.</p>\n<p>He lived a grueling life of pain, a farmer and coal miner, a tough motherfucker who broke his back several times, they say. He could also handle the fiddle and harmonica. He was recorded in 1958 and subsequently toured to some success during the folk revival, but pain and health problems shut him down. He made his last appearance in ‘78 but his music has been preserved by Folkways. They call his style “the high lonesome sound” and he was a favorite of Bob Dylan.</p>",
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"body": "\n\nOne of the three great Kings of blues guitar, along with BB and Albert, **Freddie King** was a commanding singer and an awesome electric guitarist with fast fingers. He was a huge influence on Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and other pale-faced blues-rockers. \n\nOriginally from Dallas, he started playing guitar at six. He moved to Chicago as a teenager and started absorbing all the killer blues happening in the city. He started playing in bands in the early '50s and worked with Willie Dixon, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Lockwood Jr and others. When King got the call to cut a record with the El-Bee label in '56, Lockwood backed him. \n\nThe late '50s yielded few recordings but he established himself as a top live act on the West Side and often worked alongside Magic Sam. The early '60s found him recording for Federal and \"Hide Away\" (named for the Hide Away Lounge where he played) was a chart hit in '61, an instrumental that crossed over to white audiences. He followed up with a lot of touring with major R&B acts such as James Brown, Jackie Wilson and Sam Cooke. \n\nAfter his first tour of Europe in '67, he signed to Cotillion and released two King Curtis-produced albums in '69 & '70. He started playing in the rock scene and signed to Leon Russell's Shelter label in the early '70s and his music took in more rock & funk influences. Heavy drinking and heavy touring caught up with him and he died at 42.",
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"body": "\n\nHappy birthday to the great blues pianist/singer/songwriter icon John Chatman aka **Memphis Slim**. With his permanent move to France in 1963 he may very well have been the first truly international blues superstar.\n\nThe son of a musician in Memphis, he made his first records at 25 for Okeh under his father's name Pete Chatman. He toured around the South before hitting Chicago in '39, hooking up in a duo with Big Bill Broonzy and working as a session pianist for Bluebird Records.\n\nIn the mid '40s he started using saxophone and drumkit in his band, now called The House Rockers (Willie Dixon was the original bassist) they had a #1 hit in '48 with \"Messin' Around\". They cut a bundle of sides for various indy labels (Miracle, King, Peacock, Folkways, Vee Jay) and in 1960 he toured Europe for the first time and by '63 had relocated there.\n\nHe continued touring to great success, hitting the folk revival festivals and even doing some acting in French films. He lived to be 72, dying in Paris. He was a powerful pianist with a commanding stage presence and he helped to modernize the blues. Tunes like \"Everyday I Have The Blues\" (his now-standard 1949 arrangement was called \"Nobody Loves Me\") have been covered by artists from Count Basie to BB King to Jimi Hendrix to Fela Kuti to Natalie Cole.",
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"body": "\n\nHappy birthday to a true rock & roll countercultural hero, **Mick Farren**! His band The Deviants were one of the heaviest psychedelic, proto-punk bands of the late '60s and were part of London's underground scene along with Soft Machine, Syd Barrett & the Pink Floyd, Lemmy & Hawkwind, Mark Bolan and Pink Fairies.\n\nHe cut away from the music for a bit in the first half of the '70s to focus on his writing projects. He is well-known as a writer & social critic for _NME_ and other publications as well as several novels, biographies and non-fiction books and he organized festivals and food drives.\n\nReturning to music in the mid '70s he did projects with Chrissie Hynde, Wayne Kramer, Marky Ramone, actor Brad Dourif and members of Dr Feelgood and wrote some lyrics for Hawkwind, Pink Fairies and Motorhead. The Deviants would play and record once in awhile as well. He collapsed onstage at a Deviants show and died shortly after at 69.",
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"body": "\n\nThe underrated roots reggae toaster **Prince Jazzbo** was born on this day in 1951 with the given name Linval Roy Carter. Like every other Kingston youth, he started off working the sound systems before starting his recording career in the early '70s with Studio 1, Upsetter and others for producers Lee \"Scratch\" Perry, Bunny Lee, Glen Brown as well as for his own Ujama label, which he created in '77.\n\nHe hit with \"Crabwalking\" (an update on Horace Andy's \"Skylarking\") in '72. He is the dude on \"Croaking Lizard\" on the _Super Ape_ album by Perry. And he and I-Roy staged a beef, complete with diss tracks (\"Straight To I-Roy's Head\"). His 1976 Perry-produced album _Ital Corner_ (also known as _Natty Passing Thru_) remains a classic.\n\nIn the '80s his Ujama label's roster featured Frankie Paul, U-Roy, I-Roy, Big Youth, Zebra, Eric Donaldson and more. He never quite got as successful or well-known as other deejays but his Perry-produced material is top-ranking.",
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"body": "\n\nHappy birthday to another one they sometimes call The Fifth Beatle, **Billy Preston**. The future top session man grew up in Los Angeles a piano prodigy. At 10 he was performing with Mahalia Jackson and was on TV at 11 dueting with Nat King Cole. He played a young WC Handy in the biopic _St Louis Blues_ in '58.\n\nHe joined Little Richard's group in '62 as the band organist, meeting the Beatles in Germany. In '63 he played on Sam Cooke's absolute classic _Night Beat_. The same year Cooke produced Preston's first album, _16 Year Old Soul_. He joined Ray Charles' band in '67 and his session career took off, playing with Aretha Franklin, Barbara Streisand, Peter Frampton and many more.\n\nHe contributed heavily to the Beatles' _Let It Be_ album and played their final concert with the group. The \"Let It Be\"/\"Don't Let Me Down\" single was credited to \"The Beatles With Billy Preston\", the only authorized shared billing release in the group's catalogue. He contributed to _Abbey Road_ as well. After the Fab Four break-up, Preston continued working with John Lennon and Ringo Starr but most closely with George Harrison, who produced some Preston records.\n\nHe joined the Rolling Stones in 1970 and remained with them until '77. After that he still appeared on some Stones albums, as well as with member solo projects. He contributed to _There's A Riot Going On_ , the classic '71 album by Sly & the Family Stone. He contributed to the writing of hit songs \"You Are So Beautiful\" (Joe Cocker) and \"Love The One You're With\" (Stephen Stills). His own funky \"Outa-Space\" was a hit in '72 and he was _Saturday Night Live's_ first ever musical guest ('75). Miles Davis named a cut after him on his _Get Up With It_ album. He appeared in the wacky _Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_ movie in '78.\n\nHe briefly joined The Band in '91 and later years found him recording with Eric Clapton, Luther Vandross, Johnny Cash, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Neil Diamond and others, as well as recording gospel before his death from kidney failure.",
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"body": "\n\nA self-taught tenor saxophonist (and activist) from Chicago, **Clifford Jordan** was underrated and not a flashy type but he enjoyed a long career in jazz, traveling all over the world and lending his hand to various non-profits.\n\nWhile still in Chicago he played R&B, as well as bop with Max Roach and Sonny Stitt. In '57 he moved to NYC, and cut his first of three albums for Blue Note, the classic _Blowing In From Chicago_ , co-led with Sun Ra's tenor man John Gilmore and featuring members of the Jazz Messengers. In the late '50s he worked in groups led by Horace Silver and JJ Johnson.\n\nIn the early '60s he played with Kenny Dorham and Roach, as well as with Paul Chambers, Sonny Clark, Sahib Shihab and others. He was in the Charles Mingus sextet with Eric Dolphy that toured Europe in '64. In the late '60s he was living in Europe and toured Africa and the Middle East with Randy Weston. In '68 he started his own production company and record label, Frontier Records, producing records for Pharaoh Sanders, Ed Blackwell and others. He also worked in the '60s with Lloyd Price and James Brown.\n\nIn '72 he played Lester Young in the stage show _Lady Day_ and later in the decade worked with Richard Davis, Cedar Walton, Dizzy Reese and Charles Tolliver, and in the '80s & '90s with Art Farmer, Slide Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Andrew Hill, Carmen McRae, Mal Waldron and his own big band.\n\nHis long career saw him release many acclaimed records on Blue Note, Riverside, Strata East, Muse, SteepleChase, DIW and many more labels of quality. He died of lung cancer at 61.",
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Roscoe Holcomb / Sept 5, 1912 - Feb 1, 1981
September 5, 2017
Kentucky singer and banjo/guitar player Roscoe Holcomb recorded some deeply felt, almost disturbing, "moaning" folk music. Bluegrass, old-timey, blues and spiritual songs and a variety of traditional Appalachian folk songs passed down through the generations. Some of his vocalizing comes straight from the church, and some of the songs seem...
Freddie King / Sept 3, 1934 - Dec 28, 1976
September 3, 2017
One of the three great Kings of blues guitar, along with BB and Albert, Freddie King was a commanding singer and an awesome electric guitarist with fast fingers. He was a huge influence on Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan and other pale-faced blues-rockers. Originally from Dallas, he started playing guitar...
Memphis Slim / Sept 3, 1915 - Feb 24, 1988
September 3, 2017
Happy birthday to the great blues pianist/singer/songwriter icon John Chatman aka Memphis Slim. With his permanent move to France in 1963 he may very well have been the first truly international blues superstar. The son of a musician in Memphis, he made his first records at 25 for Okeh under...
Mick Farren / Sept 3, 1943 - July 27, 2013
September 3, 2017
Happy birthday to a true rock & roll countercultural hero, Mick Farren! His band The Deviants were one of the heaviest psychedelic, proto-punk bands of the late '60s and were part of London's underground scene along with Soft Machine, Syd Barrett & the Pink Floyd, Lemmy & Hawkwind, Mark Bolan...
Prince Jazzbo / Sept 3, 1951 - Sept 11, 2013
September 3, 2017
The underrated roots reggae toaster Prince Jazzbo was born on this day in 1951 with the given name Linval Roy Carter. Like every other Kingston youth, he started off working the sound systems before starting his recording career in the early '70s with Studio 1, Upsetter and others for producers...
Billy Preston / Sept 2, 1946 - June 6, 2006
September 2, 2017
Happy birthday to another one they sometimes call The Fifth Beatle, Billy Preston. The future top session man grew up in Los Angeles a piano prodigy. At 10 he was performing with Mahalia Jackson and was on TV at 11 dueting with Nat King Cole. He played a young WC...
Clifford Jordan / Spet 2, 1931 - March 27, 1993
September 2, 2017
A self-taught tenor saxophonist (and activist) from Chicago, Clifford Jordan was underrated and not a flashy type but he enjoyed a long career in jazz, traveling all over the world and lending his hand to various non-profits. While still in Chicago he played R&B, as well as bop with Max...
Horace Silver / Sept 2, 1928 - June 18, 2014
September 2, 2017
Happy birthday to that great hard bop pianist Horace Silver! He was of Cape Verdean heritage but grew up in Connecticut. He studied classical music as well as taking in the music of Cabo Verde that his father taught him. As a teenager he gigged on both piano and tenor...
Joe Yamanaka / Sept 2, 1946 - Aug 7, 2011
September 2, 2017
Here's a birthday shout-out to the Japan's Yamanaka Joe , actor, singer, activist & humanitarian. Born Akira Yamanaka to a Japanese prostitute mother and a Caribbean-American soldier father he never met, whom he believed to be either Cuban or Jamaican. He grew up in an orphanage and got TB as...
Walter Davis, Jr / Sept 2, 1932 - June 2, 1990
September 2, 2017
Happy birthday to the underrated bop pianist Walter Davis Jr. Lifelong close friends with Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, he was a session pianist of great soulful taste. From Richmond VA, he played as a teenager with Babs Gonzales and got a big gig at the Apollo with...
Alton Ellis / Sept 1, 1938 - Oct 10, 2008
September 1, 2017
Born on this day in 1938, the soulful Alton Ellis was one of the finest rocksteady singers Jamaica ever produced. With a career going back to the late '50s, he recorded early on doing ska, R&B and ballads in the duo Alton & Eddy (and with his sister Hortense) for...
Arsenio Rodríguez / Aug 31, 1911 - Dec 30, 1970
August 31, 2017
Happy birthday to the great Cuban tres player and son montuno legend, one of the founding fathers of salsa and mambo, Aresnio Rodríguez!! His 1940's & '50s conjuntos were major building blocks in creating the mambo style, adding conga, multiple trumpets, piano and tumbao basslines to the son cubano format,...
Dave Brockie / Aug 30, 1963 - March 23, 2014
August 30, 2017
Here's a shout-out to the original scumdog of the universe, Dave Brockie , better known as Oderus Urungus of the heavy metal/comedy/theatre/shock troupe GWAR. A Canadian, Brockie played bass, guitar or sang in the bands Death Piggy, X-Cops and DBX. For GWAR he reinvented himself as the 50 billion-year old...
Kenny Dorham / Aug 30, 1924 - Dec 5, 1972
August 30, 2017
One of the greats, bop trumpeter & arranger (and singer!) Kenny Dorham may be best known for his composition "Blue Bossa" but check your collection and you will find his name on dozens and dozens of classic sides. His playing is exquisite and clear-toned with perfectly placed notes, and he...
Hal Russell / Aug 28, 1926 - Sept 5, 1992
August 28, 2017
The original Flying Luttenbacher, Hal Russell was a Chicago icon. A multi-instrumentalist, he played tenor sax, c-melody, soprano, drums, trumpet, vibes, marimba, musette, congas and keyboards. One of the most surreal jazz characters of the second half of the twentieth-century jazz scene, this guy brought humor, theater and playfulness into...
Alice Coltrane / Aug 27, 1937 - Jan 12, 2007
August 27, 2017
One of my very favorites is the pianist/harpist/composer and cosmic music traveler Alice McLeod, known later as Alice Coltrane. Another great jazz artist from Detroit, she is possibly best known for being the wife and collaborator of John Coltrane, but Alice is an amazing artist in her own right. She...
Lester Young / Aug 27, 1909 - March 15, 1959
August 27, 2017
Happy birthday to the great and influential tenor saxophonist Lester Young , the President. The original jazz hipster, he was a key link between the swing and bop eras and was a modernist with an emotionally-driven and harmonically-gifted style. He grew up in New Orleans and played in the Young...
Sonny Sharrock / Aug 27, 1940 - May 25, 1994
August 27, 2017
** Sonny Sharrock came around 'bout the same time as Jimi Hendrix and brought a fast & heavy string-shaking style into free jazz, with massive chords and rock energy. His sound & style contained elements of hard rock, doo-wop, funk, bop and soul, and he claims to model his playing...
Clifford Jarvis / Aug 26, 1941 - Nov 26, 1999
August 26, 2017
Happy birthday to the boisterous Clifford Jarvis , stylish drummer of post-bop and free jazz who also worked well with other percussionists. He was from Boston and came from a family of trumpeters. He started playing drums at 10 and studied with Alan Dawson. Early professional experience with Chet Baker...
Junior Delgado / Aug 25, 58-4/11/2005
August 25, 2017
Happy born day to one of my favorite reggae singers, the rootical Junior Delgado. Born Oscar Hibbert in Kingston, he was nephew to musician Lenny Hibbert. As a teenager in the early '70s he was a member of the vocal group Time Unlimited, which recorded for Lee "Scratch" Perry, Duke...