Some 1970's & 80's R&B and Jazz Figures

Jerry Lawson ~ 75 ~ American singer with Doo-Wop group the Persuasions from the late sixties onward

THE PERSUASIONS ~ "UP ON THE ROOF";


THE PERSUASIONS ~ "DOO WOP MEDLEY";


Art Neville - 81 - New Orleans singer-songwriter and keyboardist w/The Meters & The Neville Brothers

THE NEVILLE BROS ~ "FLY LIKE AN EAGLE";


THE NEVILLE BROS ~ "EVERYBODY PLAYS THE FOOL";


Frankie Smith ~ 66 ~ American 1980's funk and R&B musician "Double Dutch Bus"

FRANKIE SMITH ~ "DOUBLE DUTCH BUS";



Lonnie Simmons ~ 70s ~ American record producer, founder of Total Experience Records (The Gap Band)

THE GAP BAND ~ "YOU DROPPED A BOMB ON ME"



Chuck Barksale ~ Singer with vocal group the Dells;

THE DELLS ~ "WICHITA LINEMAN";


THE DELLS ~ "OH WHAT A NIGHT";


Willie Ford ~ Singer with the Dramatics;

THE DRAMATICS ~ "IN THE RAIN";


THE DRAMATICS ~ "WHATCHA SEE IS WHAT YOUNG GET";


John Gary Williams ~ Singer with the Mad Lads;

THE MAD LADS ~ "COME CLOSER TO ME";



James Ingram ~ 66 ~ American 1980's Grammy winning R&B singer-songwriter ("Baby, Come to Me", "I Don't Have the Heart", "Yah Mo B There")


JAMES INGRAM & LINDA RONSTADT ~ "SOMEWHERE OUT THERE";



Harold Mabern ~ 83 ~ American jazz pianist and composer solo and with Roland Kirk, the Jazztet, George Coleman, Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, Lee Morgan, Wes Montgomery, Jackie McLean, Gene Ammons, Stanley Turrentine, George Benson, Tiny Grimes

GEORGE COLEMAN OCTET w/ HAROLD MABERN ~ "WALTZING WESTWARD"


Edwin Birdsong ~ 77 ~ American 1970's & 80's funk keyboardist

EDWIN BIRDSONG ~ "NIGHT OF THE FULL MOON";



Joseph Jarman ~ 81 ~ American Jazz sax and clarinetist with the Art Ensemble of Chicago;

THE ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO & CECIL TAYLOR;



Jack Sheldon; Jazz trumpeter w/Stan Kenton, Art Pepper and Gerry Mulligan and the voice of the "Schoolhouse Rocks" toons "I'm Just A Bill" and "Conjunction Junction"

SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS ~ "I'M JUST A BILL";


SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKS ~ "CONJUNCTION FUNCTION";


Davey Williams - 66 - American avant-garde Jazz guitarist (Curlew) and music critic

CURLEW ~ "ST CROIX";



Irv Williams ~ 100 ~ American Big Band Jazz sax and clarinet player w/Ella Fitzgerald, Fletcher Henderson, Mary Lou Williams, Billy Eckstine, Sarah Vaughan, Dizzy Gillespie, Johnny Hodges and as band leader from the 1940's onward

IRV WILLIAMS;


Vic Vogel ~ 84 ~ Hungarian born Montreal Jazz pianist, composer and conductor from the 1960's onward also recorded with Prog-Fusion band Offenbach

OFFENBACH & VIC VOGEL ~ "GEORGIA ON MY MIND";