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Artist: Dave Phillips
Bassist Dave Phillips was the replacement for Brian Holmburg in an Ohio-based heavy metal band called Embalmer. Listeners who feel the preoccupation with death is tasteless in this style of music should admit that in this case the combo's name at least demonstrates an interest in the practical, even mundane side of joining the hereafter. Death... [+] Read More
Artist: MORTICIOUS
Morticious Was Founded In 1987 A Underground Metal Band Out Of San Francisco Embalming There Brains With Bands Like:Trouble / Tank / The Brats /DR Know / Gism / Black Sab / Angel Witch / Exodus W/T Paul Baloff / D.R.I / Vio-Lence / Motorhead / Pentagram / Acid Bath / Satan / Venom / Witchfinder General / Thanks: Ron Quintana Of kusf In... [+] Read More
Artist: Deep Freeze Mice
Do-it-yourself post-punk band the Deep Freeze Mice released ten records in their decade-long existence, beginning as amateurs with no formal knowledge of what they were embarking on. The original lineup -- guitarist/vocalist Alan Jenkins, bassist Mick Bunnage (of the Statics), keyboardist Sherree Lawrence, and drummer Graham Summers (also of the... [+] Read More
Artist: Insision
A Swedish black metal band with a decidedly non-Swedish sound, Insision follows in the tradition of trailblazing American death metal bands like Suffocation and Morbid Angel. The band formed in 1997 from the remnants of underground metal bands Embalmer and Ildoor. A year later Insision released a demo, Meant to Suffer, and in turn signed with... [+] Read More
Artist: Julian Dash
A consumate section player, Julian Dash made some recordings as a leader late in his career but did his most memorable work while a member of Erskine Hawkins orchestra. He joined Hawkins in 1938. Only when Hawkins reduced the size of his band many years later did Dash begin doing other dates, both large and small group sessions. Dash started on... [+] Read More
Artist: Crickett Smith
The intriguing career of early jazz trumpeter Crickett Smith includes playing trumpet in the Ziegfield Follies and finishing out his life in India. Not only is he the only member of the Ziegfield Follies backing band about which such a claim can be made, he is surely one of the few American jazzmen to actually settle in India, a development that... [+] Read More
Artist: Ritmo Kaliente
Webster played with some of the top big band leaders of the 30s and 40s, including Bennie Moten, Jimmie Lunceford, Cab Calloway, Charlie Barnet, and Count Basie. Webster was first taught trumpet by an uncle. He attended Fisk University in the mid 20s, where he presumably met Lunceford, who attended Fisk around the same time. After college... [+] Read More
Artist: Dolores Parker
Later known as Dolores Parker Morgan, this jazz vocalist was honored in 1993 by the Smithsonian Museum of American History as one of the five surviving female vocalists of the Duke Ellington Orchestra. She started performing professionally when she was fresh out of high school after winning a 1939 amateur contest at the Regal Theatre in Chicago.... [+] Read More
