Today’s Soul Birthdays – June 28
Jimmy Munday - American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Earl Hines. Joe "Fox" Smith - American jazz trumpeter.
Jimmy Munday - American jazz tenor saxophonist, arranger, and composer, best known for his arrangements for Benny Goodman, Count Basie, and Earl Hines. Joe "Fox" Smith - American jazz trumpeter.
Little Eva - American pop singer. Although some sources claim that her stage name was inspired by a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt, which prompted her family to call her "Little Eva".
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 hits. Ronald Winans - American Gospel singer who gained fame as a member of The Winans. Stanley Clarke - American bassist, film composer and founding […]
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 the pseudonym Jimmie Thomas. Syl Johnson - American blues and soul singer and record producer. Andre Couch - American gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, record […]
Ahmad Jamal - American jazz pianist, composer, bandleader and educator. For six decades, he has been one of the most successful small-group leaders in jazz. Paul Williams (The Temptations) - American baritone singer and choreographer. Williams was noted for being one of the founding members and original lead singer of the Motown group The Temptations. […]
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 albums.
Della Reese - American jazz and gospel singer, actress, and ordained minister whose career spanned seven decades. She began her long career as a singer, scoring a hit with her 1959 single "Don't You Know?". Gene Chandler - American singer, songwriter, music producer, and record-label executive. Chandler is nicknamed "the Duke of Earl" or, simply, […]
Doc Sevenrinsen - American jazz trumpeter who led the band on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Joe Zawunil - Austrian jazz keyboardist and composer. First coming to prominence with saxophonist Cannonball Adderley, Zawinul went on to play with Miles Davis and to become one of the creators of jazz fusion, a musical genre that […]
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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 - American saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and bandleader who was popular from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Known as "The King of the Jukebox", he […]
Debbie Sledge - Musical artist from vocal group Sister Sledge.
Swamp Dogg - American soul and R&B singer, musician, songwriter and record producer. Williams has been described as "one of the great cult figures of 20th century American music." Big John Patton - American jazz, blues and R&B pianist and organist often known by his nickname, Big John Patton. Patton was one of the most […]