New York & East Coast

George Wellington Broome was born in New York probably in 1868. As an adult, he relocated with his family to Medford, a small town in Massachusetts, where he...

Race Records was the most common name used by record companies during the first half of the twentieth century to categorise recordings of Black artists that were marketed...

Lloyd Price was born on March 9th 1933 in Kenner, Louisiana, not far from New Orleans. He was the eighth of eleven children. Like many young kids, he was...

First published on July 30, 2020 After touring with legendary Jazz artists such as Miles Davis, both men decided to venture into song-writing and producing. They created a...

First published on July 29, 2020 Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson had staff positions at Motown, where they wrote and produced hits for Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross....

Jerry Wexler is remembered for many things within the music industry, but perhaps the most significant of all is his invention in 1949 of the term Rhythm and...

First published 12 August 2020 Strangely, one of the best Soul albums ever was released in the UK in 1968. It was manufactured by Polydor Records and pressed...