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Charles Brown was a blues and R&B singer and pianist who was one of the most admired performers of his era, both for his performances as lead singer with The Three Blazers and for his solo work. H...
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Erroll Garner was one of the most distinctive jazz piano stylists of the post-war era, his approach transcending the emerging sub-genres of modern jazz, although his music was rooted in swing and he w...
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Pianist Floyd Cramer was one of the most influential musicians in country music during the late 1950s and early ‘60s, and is especially associated with his use of what was called the “slip...
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Milt Jackson is best-known as the long-time vibraphone player with The Modern Jazz Quartet, one of the most important and longest-established ensembles in post-war jazz. However, in the seven years pr...
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Best-known for her classic 1955 Top 10 hit “Cry Me A River”, Julie London was a fine sultry-voiced jazz and pop singer, who enjoyed her greatest popularity during the “cool” er...
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Porter Wagoner was, for more than a quarter of a century, one of the most recognisable and high-profile stars in country music, his impressive stature, his mane of blond hair and his flashy colourful ...
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Following in the wake of Fats Domino, Lloyd Price helped define the distinctive New Orleans R&B sound when he recorded his landmark 1952 No. 1 R&B hit “Lawdy Miss Clawdy” at his ve...
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Etta James is widely regarded as one of the finest female blues, R&B and soul singers of the modern era, second only in some eyes to Aretha Franklin - Atlantic’s Jerry Wexler called her &ldq...
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Jerry Lewis was one of the artists on Sam Phillips Sun label who were in the vanguard of the rock 'n' roll explosion, and remains a huge country star to this day
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