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Artist: Mooch
The Mooch were a British psychedelic/hard-rock band from East Anglia, who built up a name for themselves in places such as Sudbury, Braintree, and Halstead, and landed a recording contract with Pye Records during the late 1960's. Brian Tatum, formerly of the Baskervilles, played organ and sang lead, while American-born Dave Winthrop, later of... [+] Read More
Artist: Mooch
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Artist: DJ Disk
As an original member of the Rock Steady Crew and the Invisibl Skratch Piklz, DJ Disk had gained a lot of experience as a DJ and producer before going out on his own. After appearing on several scattered compilations, he toured with Primus in 1998 as their official DJ. Disk was a founding member of El Stew, a group that dealt with the more... [+] Read More
Artist: Bludgers
Based in Champaign, IL, the quartet the Bludgers consisted of lead singer John Pheloung, guitarist Andy Leach, bass player Craig Walls, and drummer Sean Fogerty. They took their name from a New Zealand term for someone that mooches. With a sound that embraced power pop, folk, and blues, the group fell somewhere between the Gin Blossoms and the... [+] Read More
Artist: The Distants
Four of the Distants became members of the world renown Temptations, the most popular male recording group ever. They began as Otis & the Siberians with a line up of Otis Williams, Elbridge "Al" Bryant, James Crawford, Arthur Walton, and Vernard Plain. Detroit DJ, Bill Williams discovered them singing at a hop and became their manager, and help... [+] Read More
Artist: Roy Porter
Roy Porter accomplished so much in such a short period of time that it is surprising how brief his jazz career actually was. He picked up early experience touring with Milt Larkin in 1943, had a stint in the military and then settled in Los Angeles. Porter worked with Teddy Bunn in 1944, gigged frequently with Howard McGhee (with whom he made... [+] Read More
Artist: Russell Smith
Trumpeter and vocalist Russell Smith came out of the same trumpet-obsessed family as Joe Smith and five other brothers, all of them known to earn money with a trumpet mouthpiece between their lips, as had their father and stern mentor Luke Smith, Sr. Not to be mixed up with an Indianapolis bandleader of the same name, the trumpeter Russell Smith... [+] Read More
Artist: Duke Ellington
Duke Ellington was the most important composer in the history of jazz as well as being a bandleader who held his large group together continuously for almost 50 years. The two aspects of his career were related; Ellington used his band as a musical laboratory for his new compositions and shaped his writing specifically to showcase the talents of... [+] Read More
Artist: James Crawford
James "Pee Wee" Crawford and his high-school chums seemed to have a fixation concerning the extremes of geography, harmonizing their sweet voices in doo wop combos named Otis & the Siberians and the Distants. Far away is also an apt description of Crawford's distance from the hit record charts; he is a member of the large auxiliary cast of... [+] Read More
