Marvin "Smitty" Smith - American jazz drummer and composer. Marvin Smith was born in Waukegan, Illinois, where his father, Marvin Sr., was a drummer. "Smitty" was exposed to music at […]
Louis Risbrook - Bassist in American funk/disco group, B.T. Express. Doc Pumus - American blues singer and songwriter. He is best known as the co-writer of many rock and roll hits. […]
Jimmy Mundy - American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Earl Hines. Joe Smith - American jazz trumpeter.
Florence Ballard - American singer and a founding member of the Motown vocal female group the Supremes. She sang on 16 top 40 singles with the group, including ten number-one […]
Bobby Day - American rock and roll and R&B singer, multi-instrumentalist, music producer, and songwriter. He is best known for his hit record "Rockin' Robin", written by Leon René under […]
Bill Withers - American singer-songwriter and musician. He had several hits over a career spanning 18 years, including "Ain't No Sunshine", "Grandma's Hands", "Use Me", "Lean on Me", "Lovely Day" […]
Arthur Blythe - American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. Tommy Lipuma - American music producer. He received 33 Grammy nominations, 5 Grammy wins, and his productions sold over 75 million […]
Doc Severinsen - American jazz trumpeter who led the NBC Orchestra on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Joe Zawinul - Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence […]
Earl Van Dyke - American soul musician, most notable as the main keyboardist for Motown Records' in-house Funk Brothers band during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Louis Jordan - […]
Peter Brown - American singer-songwriter and record producer. Bonnie Pointer - American singer, best known for having been a member of the vocal group, the Pointer Sisters. Roquel Billy Davis […]
Swamp Dogg - American soul and R&B singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. Big John Patton - American jazz, blues and R&B pianist and organist often known by his nickname, […]
Gerald Levert - American singer-songwriter, producer and actor. Levert was best known for singing with his brother, Sean Levert, and friend Marc Gordon of the vocal group LeVert. Levert was […]
