Wilton Lewis Felder, co-founders of the The Crusaders in his high school in Houston, Texas, worked with the grouping for over thirty years.

Electrical bass player, he worked for Motown Records (in Los Angeles) and various soul and R&B musicians. For the Jackson v and Marvin Gaye, only also for rock and pop artists and jazzman Joni Mitchell like for the singer Michael Franks. In 1985, Bobby Womack appears on Secrets.

Practiced to know : "As to equipment, Felder plays a Male monarch Super 20 tenor sax with a metal 105/0 Berg Larsen mouthpiece. He has also used Yamaha saxes. On Bass, it's a Fender Precision. He also played Aria bass guitars at one time, as well."

Listen Let's dance together, a very tired track.

George Duke, keyboard pioneer, composer, singer and producer has worked with important arranger and tape. He is known primarily for thirty-odd solo albums.

"Playing initially with friends from garages to local clubs, Duke chop-chop eased his manner into session piece of work, which refined his abilities and expanded his approach to music."

In 1967 he experimented the stone scene with Zappa. You tin appreciate his various collaboration with prestigious jazzman like Stanley Clarke and Billy Cobham (include on this blog) and the funk maestro George Clinton.

Itinclude the classic disco tune sampler I want y'all for myself.

"Duke had been fairly visible in the R&B earth releasing funk-based songs like "Reach for It" and "Dukey Stick". In 1979 he traveled to Rio de Janeiro, where he recorded A Brazilian Beloved Affair. He employed singers Flora Purim and Milton Nascimento and percussionist Airto Moreira. The album featured some Latin jazz and jazz-influenced material."

Finish of the 80's he was still experienced similar an Headhunters playing for Miles.

"Duke has also worked every bit musical director at numerous large-scale musical events, including the Nelson Mandela tribute concert at Wembley Stadium, London in 1988. In 1989, he temporarily replaced Marcus Miller equally musical manager of NBC'south acclaimed late-night music performance plan Sun Nighttime during its first flavor."

"Duke's songs accept been used by a wide diverseness of contemporary musicians in a broad assortment of genres. These include: "I Love Y'all More", sampled by firm music-act Daft Punk for their striking "Digital Love"; "Guilty", sampled past electronica music creative person Mylo in his song "Guilty of Love" on Destroy Rock & Roll."

On the Hip Hop area : I Hear Voices of  MF Doom include For Love, Someday was sampled by Kanye West for Common in Break My Heart, Spirit Of '94 (9th Wonder with Kaze) sucks Yous and Me, and Reach for Information technology were credited by Water ice Cube in True to the Game.

He notwithstanding plays with Marcus Miller and a man called David Sanborn (wonderful rock and popular starlist)

Yous can also mind Look what you lot observe

This is my first funky contribution. On these double album, I Wanna play for you have a 3 tracks in one introduction easy for radio players to fume a cigar or something.

Stanley Clarke was a classic double bass actor coming from the city of the and so beautiful Hanks flick were emarge the consciousness of gay liberation.

He began working with famous bandleaders and musicians including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, Gato Barbieri, Joe Henderson, Chick Corea, Pharoah Sanders, Gil Evans and Stan Getz. With Chick Corea, he made Render to forever, a fusion ring in the experimental mood.

Despite the no fun prevarications of the Stooges he plays with Stewart Copeland and Jeff Beck.

He fabricated a duo with George Knuckles in the commencement of the fourscore's, rythm the Manhattan Project with LWhite, Petrucciani and WShorter, Creature Logic, Implosions, Rite of strings, Vertu, McCoy Tyner, SMV with MMiller andJazz in the Garden.

As producer, he helps Roy Ayers, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Natalie Cole, Rodney Franklin, Ramsey Lewis & Nancy Wilson, Brenda Russell, Shalamar, etc

He appears on 29 B.O. movies, seven TV series, 25 TV movies, three animations and documentaries like the On the Road with Stanley Clarke consists of seven episodes including Marcus Miller, George Duke, Run a risk and Huff.

"He was an avid supporter of Scientology in his earlier musical productions. His current association with Scientology is not known." Perchance a new mormonian strategy ? Some tells he is surrounded by nazis when he sleeps on Hendrix appartment.

Some hates his name, some love the championship of the album, some the twos.

Always good to know : "When playing electric bass, Clarke places his right manus so that his fingers arroyo the strings much as they would on an upright bass , but rotated through 90 degrees. To achieve this, his forearm lies above and nearly parallel to the strings, while his wrist is hooked downward at nigh a right angle. For pb and solo playing, his fingers partially hook underneath the strings and then that when released, the strings snap against the frets, producing a biting percussive attack. In improver to an economical variation on the funky Larry Graham -style slap-north'-pop technique, Clarke as well uses downward thrusts of the unabridged right hand, hit two or more than strings from higher up with his fingernails (examples of this technique include "School Days", "Rock and Whorl Jelly", "Wild Dog", and "Danger Street").

Clarke has long been associated with Alembic basses, and much of his recorded output has been produced on Alembic instruments, particularly a dark-wood-colored custom bass in the Serial I body style. These basses are handmade neck-through-body instruments fabricated from a mixture of exotic woods and a proprietary active pickup organization that is powered from an external power supply. A Stanley Clarke Signature Model bass guitar is produced by Alembic. Clarke also utilizes full-range amplification for his basses, including ii QSC 2050 amplifiers, more than in keeping with a keyboardist's rig than a bassist's or guitarists. To extend his melodic range, he likewise plays on tenor and piccolo basses. Clarke's are usually curt scale (78 cm or 30.75″), iv string, Carl Thompson or Alembic.

In the late 1970s, Clarke was playing Rick Turner's first graphite neck on his Alembic "Black Dazzler" bass, and he decided to have an all composite bass made. He commissioned designer/luthier Tom Lieber to blueprint and build this bass, having purchased one of Lieber'southward Spider grinder basses in 1979. In 1980 Lieber and Clarke formed the Spellbinder Corporation and produced a express run of l Spellbinder basses. I left-handed bass was built as a souvenir from Stanley to Paul McCartney . After the run, the molds were destroyed. In 2007 Clarke again teamed up with Lieber and Rick Turner to reform the Spellbinder Corp. and produce a express run of 125 of the Spellbinder Bass II, which he played on the RTF reunion tour. Clarke has also played a Ken Smith BT Custom, and a German language made Löwenherz Tenor Bass

His current pedalboard consists of a TC Electronic Thou-System, an MXR Bass Octave Deluxe and an EBS Bass IQ Envelope."

And also : "He invented the piccolo bass and the tenor bass. The piccolo bass is tuned one octave higher than the traditional electrical bass. The tenor bass is tuned one fourth higher than standard. Both of these instruments have enabled Clarke to extend his melodic range to higher and more than expressive registers." James Nadal

Another burn on the bayou dedicated to Stevie Wonder with the contribution of Lenny White and the production of Coke Escovedo with his brother Pete coming out from Santana woodstockian project.

Playing onstage between 15 and 25 members, they included drummer Lenny White, Hancock bass player, vocalist Wendy Haas (Fanny*), trumpeter Tom Harrell (Haden, Silver), guitarist Neal Schon (Santana).

The daughter of Pete, latin percussionist Sheila Eastward. (the well know Prince Sheila playing likewise with George Duke), became as teenager in the band.

* Fanny was an American all-female band recruiting keyboardist Nickey Barclay of Joe Cocker'southward Mad Dogs & Englishmen touring ensemble. The ring was and then renamed Fanny 'to denote a female spirit'. Members of the band also worked as session musicians for Barbra Streisand'southward              Barbra Joan Streisand. Todd Rundgren produced              Mother's Pride. Fanny toured with Slade, Jethro Tull and Humble Pie, gaining widespread popularity in the United Kingdom. Patti Quatro (sister of Suzi Quatro) joined on guitar. David Bowie revealed his respect for the band. Patti Quatro continued to work for Suzi Quatro, Electric Light Orchestra, Keith Moon, and France Gall. Brie Brandt touring and recording with Elton John.

They comes like War from the w coast experiment something on the borderline of cultural obligations. Many bands were just at this time a ceremonious right chachachajembeguitar fevers.

Without the name of Santana the band fabricated important contribution in social do good and american audience with covers similar Brown Eyed Daughter, In A Silent Way and I Feel Free.

Tell Her She's Lovely were their prohiminent hit unmarried.

The official website deserve a very rich biography. This is good for everything you always wanted to know about the ring only were agape to ask.

" El Chicano has performed in different venues worldwide with many major artists including the Allman Brothers, Chaka Kahn, Jose Feliciano,the Jacksons, Lou Rawls, Sonny & Cher, Earth Current of air & Fire, Santana, Rare Earth, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder,Three Dog Night, Rod Stewart, the Guess Who, James Brown,the O'Jays, Smokey Robinson, the Temptations,and the 4 Tops – most too many more to mention, including a long list of Jazz and Latino Artists." elchicanomusic.com

The Argentinian jazz tenor saxophonist and composer Gato Barbieri comprehend the free jazz motility in the 1960s knowing for his Latin jazz recordings in the 1970s.

Inspired by Albert Ayler and Pharoah Sanders he was fusing music from South America into his playing in the late 1960s and contributed to multi-creative person projects like the Liberation Music Orchestra of Charlie Haden (Ornette Coleman).

Final Tango in Paris put him to Impulse! legendary californian characterization.

His proper name was also associate with Miles Davis, Luther Vandross, Sheila E. and Marvin Gaye.

Hither are the three chapters concept albums.

The Verve bio, one of the most of import jazz Characterization of the 60's, seemed to be corrupted past an official pirate hip hop representative, or something like a rock left minded oriented around The Shadow of the True cat, maybe a kind of national compatriot people revendication.

To overwrite the joking spirit of this article (I'm a good prince) I can tell that Gato is a traitor, living U.s.a. to Argentine were he was coming from, physically.

Traitor giving naturally, simply and costless (costing him time and money) his sensibility to LAtin civilisation.

That was for the people playing with bottles, without any message in fact.

When you meet the guy you lot can think he was a kind of James Chocolate-brown fucking with any Peggy Sue passing him past. I can't tell Y'all the truth.

It seem that Gato tin make happy someone similar Michael Moore thinking he is the real american, satisfying a politically correct skilful thinker that want the workers support.

So, Gato is the musician for every Moore living nether the profile of Michael Moore. Past the way he became the musician for every bastard telling he tin do what he want for his Moorian audition.

For myself, I promise that y'all'll satisfy yourself with something not too familiar, including a very impressive jazzy track yous can listen with rock latino or boogalian stuff, a little bit agressive merely not besides much with a saxo that can captivate your sense.

I saved what seemed to be the real Verve words.

"In Buenos Aires, Barbieri also had the opportunity to perform with visiting musicians similar Cuban mambo king Perez Prado, Coleman Hawkins, Herbie Mann, Dizzy Gillespie, and João Gilberto.

Barbieri credits his learning of musical discipline to his years working with Don Cherry while living in Europe. While collaborating with Cherry in the mid-60s, the saxophonist also recorded with American departer Steve Lacy and South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim, then known as Dollar Brand. Other associations during Barbieri's free jazz days included time with Charlie Haden, Carla Bley and the Jazz Composer's Orchestra, also every bit dates with Stanley Clarke, Airto Moreira, Chico O'Farrill and Lonnie Liston Smith. He had recorded a scattering of albums on the Flight Dutchman characterization in the early on 70s and and then signed with Impulse where he recorded his classic Chapter Series Latin America, Hasta Siempre, Viva Emiliano Zapata and Live in New York.  While at Impulse, Last Tango hit, and past the mid-70s, his coarse, wailing tone began to mellow with ballads similar "What a Difference a Solar day Makes" (known to Barbieri as the vintage bolero "Cuando Vuelva a tu Lado") and Carlos Santana's "Europa." Many polish jazz stations later adopted "Europa" as their theme vocal, indicative of the vibe of the "new" format, which launched in the late 80s.

Most of Barbieri'south A&K recordings of the late 70s –including the brisk selling 1976 opus Caliente!–featured this softer jazz approach, simply early 80s dates like the live Gato…Para Los Amigos had a more intense, rock influenced South American sound.

Afterwards many years of musical inactivity due to the passing of his first wife Michelle (too his closest musical confidant) and his own triple bypass surgery half-dozen weeks later, Barbieri returned stronger than always with the 1997 Columbia offering Que Pasa, the quaternary highest selling Contemporary Jazz album of the year.

"It'south the melody," he continually says. "The melody is the nigh important affair, and something I very much love. When I play the saxophone, I play life, I play love, I play acrimony, I play confusion, I play when people scream; all of these aspects of the world I inhabit get naturally of import to me. Information technology'due south heady that people are nonetheless moved when I play, and I consider myself blessed to take had fans that have listened to me for such a long time. They yet do, and I'grand still having fun. When I start recording, I am playing for me, simply when I play a concert, I play for me and them.  It is not a "show", but it is a musical bulletin.  They understand where I am coming from."

© Verve Music Group

Nosotros all know were the american minorities are coming from and we could respect that, despite their so know mediatic promotion on movies, radio stations and ad world.

The guy played and then many times that he forgot to save the skillful in rock like in every other music way.

A New Perspective (1963) is a very intimate Byrd, reflecting his instruction while his father was a Methodist minister. This 5 tracks is a kind of modern reinterpretation of religious patterns. With Hancock on piano, Kenny Burrel on guitar and Hank Mobley alto sax, this anthology is non only a Blueish Note anthology or a cute Reid Miles design. In the same time unproblematic and complex, this perspective offers something that, not ridiculously, could be named beautiful.

With a poster and a characterization self promotion within.

"Built-in in Detroit in 1932, Byrd his studies at Wayne State University (1954) were interrupted past armed forces service, during which he played in an Air Strength band. He then attended the Manhattan Schoolhouse of Music (MA in music teaching). At the aforementioned time he was the favorite studio trumpeter of the bop label Presitge (1956-58), though he also recorded oftentimes for Riverside and Blue Notation.

He gave performances with George Wallington (1955), Art Blakey (1956), and forth with Gigi Gryce was a member of the Jazz Lab Quintet (1957). He as well performed with Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and others, before settling into a partnership with Pepper Adams (1958-61). After studying limerick in Europe (1963-63) Byrd began a career in black music education, teaching at Rutgers, the Hampton Institute, Howard Academy, and (later on receiving a police degree, 1976) N Carolina Central University; in 1982 he was awarded a doctorate by Columbia Teachers College.

Post-obit the death of Clifford Brown in 1956, Byrd was for a few years arguably the finest difficult-bop trumpeter. He had non but a masterful technique, displayed on all his albums from this catamenia, but besides a beautiful tone. He resumed playing in the 1970s and fabricated several pleasant recordings in a jazz-rock way. His best-selling album Black Byrd led to the germination of his students into the Blackbyrds, a hit group of the mid-1970s." BARRY KERNFELD, The New Grove Dictionary Of Jazz

Black Rythm Revolution seem to be the starting time solo album of the guy, peradventure captivate by the music festival Zaire 74*.

Leo Morris became Idris Muhammad in the 1960s upon his religious conversion with his spectorian Da Doo Ron Ron wife, Dolores Brooks.

"Leo Morris, thirteen Nov 1939, New Orleans, Louisiana, United states of america. Immaculate, imaginative and equally at dwelling on gimmicky jazz and more than popular funk and soul sessions, Idris Muhammad is one of America's nearly impressive and swinging drummers. Playing since the age of 8, he began working professionally in the soul scene in the early 60s, accompanying vocalists Jerry Butler, Sam Cooke and the Impressions. The gifted bebop alto saxophonist Lou Donaldson hired Muhammad for his soul jazz group in 1965, and piece of work with guitarist George Benson followed. In the early 70s, Muhammad became house drummer for Prestige Records, once more playing mainly an unadventurous soul/jazz that offered him little room to stretch out and take reward of his talents.

Spells with Roberta Flack followed, but by the end of the 70s, Muhammad was able to put together his ain ring and started concentrating on modernistic jazz. Towards the end of the decade he joined difficult-bop tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin, and then began a celebrated spell with some other tenor saxophonist, Pharoah Sanders. He continues to work intermittently with Sanders, and toured internationally and recorded with an all-star saxophone-orientated band that included Chico Freeman, Arthur Blythe, Sam Rivers and pianist Don Pullen. He also records every bit the Keystone Trio with John Hicks and George Mraz, and as part of Chartbusters." The Encyclopedia of Pop Music by Colin Larkin

Every bit you can run across, it's not the original Prestige pressing.

* Zaire 74 was a music festival in Kinshasa celebrating the boxing match Rumble in the Jungle where played another Muhammad (Ali).