‘I'll Be Home’ was the first national hit record for the Flamingos, reaching number 5 on the R&B charts in 1956. The biggest ...
A Chess Records Tribute Channel is a treasure chest of vintage blues, jazz, Soul, rock and roll and gospel video clips in one location. Marshall Chess portrait by Alex Healy; courtesy of ...
In 1968, Marshall Chess, the innovative son of label owner Leonard Chess ... Gene Barge, who was well known in the music world as Daddy G – he had played on “Rescue Me” by Fontella Bass ...
The singer stayed in the music business, though ... “You Gave Me Soul” and co-producing the record with Chess stalwart Leonard Caston Jr, who had played piano on “Rescue Me.” ...
She was raised with seven older siblings and was exposed to music and the arts from a young ... a funky rock-soul group that consisted of Riperton, Leonard Chess, Judy Hauff, Sidney Barnes ...
Legendary musician Leonard Bernstein conducted a piece of classical music, pop-singer Andy Williams ... had struck a bond with while beating him at chess. The boy who hadn’t yet gotten over ...
In his biographical film, Darnell Martin recreates America’s music scene in the 1940s, when bar owner and Polish immigrant ...
The Macomba Lounge, at 3905 South Cottage Grove, Chicago, was an after-hours music club owned by Leonard Chess from 1946 to October 1950, when it burned down.
Sarah Leonard, who has died of a brain tumour aged 71, was the go-to soprano for many avant-garde composers, especially those ...
Scientists measure the variability in musical pieces. Music is widely known to evoke emotions, but how exactly do these ...
Leonard Glenn Francis, a former defense contractor convicted for masterminding an unprecedented bribery and fraud scheme targeting the U.S. Navy, was sentenced Tuesday in federal court to 15 years ...