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Persons behind the 'American Music' scene; (l. to r.) back: Chris Moreton, Pat Conte, Steve Calt (†), Bernie Klatzko (†), Don Kent (†), Sherwin Dunner, Howard Berg; front: Richard Nevins, Russ Shor, Ken Romanowski, Rob Fleder; source: Sing Out! Vol. 43 No. 3, p. 64; photographer: John Cohen
Yazoo Collector's Get-Together. NJ, summer '97
(l to r) back: Chris Moreton, Pat Conte, Steve Calt (†), Bernie Klatzko (†), Don Kent (†), Sherwin Dunner, Howard Berg (†); front: Richard Nevins, Russ Shor, Ken Romanowski, Rob Fleder; source: Sing Out! Vol. 43 No. 3 (Winter 1999), p. 64; photographer: John Cohen
Permanently Under Construction !

Persons
behind the 'American Music' scene
record label founders/owners, producers, promoters, researchers, discographers, collectors, photographers, movie makers, etc.

All information on this page is gathered from publicly accessible sources as indicated in the individual case. Nevertheless I will respect if anyone - especially a person still under the living - wants "her"/"his" data to be erased (as a whole or partially) - just drop me a line specifying your wishes !!!

Memphis, 1980; from left: Gayle Dean Wardlow, Bruce Bastin, Cheryl Evans (now Cheryl Thurber), David Evans, Bob Vinisky, Jim O'Neal, Kip Lornell, Doug Seroff, Paul Oliver; photographer: Amy van Singel (Courtesy of Jim O'Neal)
Memphis, 1980
(l to r): Gayle Dean Wardlow, Bruce Bastin, Cheryl Evans (now Cheryl Thurber), David Evans,
Bob Vinisky, Jim O'Neal, Kip Lornell, Doug Seroff, Paul Oliver
photographer: Amy van Singel (†)(Courtesy of Jim O'Neal)

 

At the 2002 Chicago Blues Festival; (Front row, left to right): Bob Koester, Dick Shurman, Jim O'Neal, Larry Hoffman, Scott Barretta; (Back rows, from left): Steve Tomashefsky, Justin O'Brien, Dawayne Gilley, Amy van Singel, Robert Pruter, Chris Strachwitz; photographer: Robert Barclay (Courtesy of Jim O'Neal)
At the 2002 Chicago Blues Festival
(Front row, left to right): Bob Koester, Dick Shurman, Jim O'Neal, Larry Hoffman, Scott Barretta
(Back rows, from left): Steve Tomashefsky, Justin O'Brien, Dawayne Gilley, Amy van Singel (†), Robert Pruter, Chris Strachwitz
photographer: Robert Barclay (Courtesy of Jim O'Neal)

 

At the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) conference in Chapel Hill, NC, May 17, 2014; (Left to right): Richard Weize (Bear Family), David Giovannoni (First Sounds), Rich Nevins (Shanachie/Yazoo), Lance Ledbetter (Dust-to-Digital), David Freeman (County), Cary Ginell (Origin Jazz Library), Chris Strachwitz (Arhoolie), Richard Martin (Archeophone); source: Cary Ginell @ facebook; photographer: Mike Devecka
At the ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) conference in Chapel Hill, NC, May 17, 2014
(l to r): Richard Weize (Bear Family), David Giovannoni (First Sounds), Rich Nevins (Shanachie/Yazoo), Lance Ledbetter
(Dust-to-Digital), David Freeman (County), Cary Ginell (Origin Jazz Library), Chris Strachwitz (Arhoolie), Richard Martin (Archeophone)
source: Cary Ginell @ facebook; photographer: Mike Devecka

 

sorted alphabetically by family name
click on photos to see enlarged versions (as far as available) !!!
Bernard Isaac Abrams
b. July 3, 1919 on Maxwell Street, Chicago, Illinois
d. December 14, 1997 (78) in Scottsdale, Arizona (on vacation)
buried in Waldheim Cemetery, west of Chicago
; click to enlarge!
founder and owner of Maxwell Radio Record Company / Ora Nelle label
Bernard Abrams' Maxwell Radio, TV, and Record Mart
at 831/833 Maxwell St., Chicago, Illinois
in 1976, Bernard Abrams' store moved down the street to 805 W. Maxwell
; click to enlarge!
Radio shop and record store at 830/832 Maxwell St., October 1, 1950

source: http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/...; photographer: Charles W. Cushman

Bernard Abrams' Maxwell Radio, TV, and Record Mart at 831/833 - directly across the street - might have looked similar

 

Herb Abramson
b. November 16, 1916 in Brooklyn, New York City
d. November 9, 1999 in Henderson, Nevada
record company executive and producer; co-founder of Atlantic Records
Herb Abramson @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Herb Abramson, Jerry Wexler & Ahmet Ertegun

source: www.disco-disco.com

 

Joris Adins a/k/a Georges Adins
b. October 16, 1932 in Kortrijk, Belgium
d. May 5, 1999 in Kortrijk, Belgium
made trips to the USA in November 1959 (Houston - Lightnin' Hopkins; St. Louis - Sonny Boy Williamson; Chicago - Muddy Waters), November 1962 (Tennessee - Howlin' Wolf), 1966 (California - Lightnin' Hopkins, T-Bone Walker, L.C. Robinson), 1968 and 1969
(see also Guido van Rijn in Encyclopedia of the Blues, A-J, p. 9)
Andre van Meenen (a childhood friend of Georges Adins), Big Bill Broonzy & Georges Adins, mid 1950s; source: Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France (Filipacci) 1977, p. 53; photographer: 'Georges Adins'; click to enlarge!
Andre van Meenen (a childhood friend of Georges Adins),
Big Bill Broonzy & Georges Adins, mid 1950s

source: Jean-Claude Arnaudon: Dictionnaire du Blues.- Paris, France
(Filipacci) 1977, p. 53; photographer: "Georges Adins"
 
Howling Wolf, Georges Adins & Sonny Boy Williamson; click to enlarge!
Howling Wolf, Georges Adins & Sonny Boy Williamson

source: http://blog.seniorennet.be/cowboy/
Georges Adins 1983; source: Rien Wisse: Georges Adins (1932-1999) 'Blues-toerist van de eerste generatie'.- Block #110 (zomer 1999), p. 35; photographer: Robert Sacre; click to enlarge!
Georges Adins 1983

source: Rien Wisse: Georges Adins (1932-1999) "Blues-toerist
van de eerste generatie".- Block #110 (zomer 1999), p. 35
photographer: Robert Sacre
 
Georges Adins; source: http://blog.seniorennet.be/cowboy/; click to enlarge!
Georges Adins

source: http://blog.seniorennet.be/cowboy/

 

Christiern Gunnar Chris Albertson
b. October 18, 1931 in Reykjavík, Iceland
found dead April 24, 2019 at his home in Manhattan, New York City
New York City-based jazz journalist, writer and record producer

Chris Albertson's blog @ stomp-off.blogspot.de
Chris Albertson @ Wikipedia
obituary @ The New York Times
Lonnie Johnson, Chris Albertson, John Hammond & Elmer Snowden in Albertson's Chester Ave. apartment, Philadelphia, 1959; source: http://stomp-off.blogspot.de/2010/03/discovering-john-hammond-closer-look.html; click to enlarge!
Lonnie Johnson, Chris Albertson, John Hammond & Elmer Snowden
in Albertson's Chester Ave. apartment, Philadelphia, 1959

source: stomp-off.blogspot.de
; click to enlarge!
Chris Albertson 2006

source: en.wikipedia.org; photographer: Bernard Weston

 

'You-Know-Who'
a very busy person who doesn't even want her name to be written here

a very busy person who doesn't even want her name to be written here

 

John G. Allinson
; click to enlarge!
founder and owner of Neshoba Records

Neshoba Records @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
; click to enlarge!

 

Roy C. Ames
b. April 8, 1937 in Beaumont, Texas
d. August 14, 2003 in West University Place, Texas
"record producer", founder of Home Cooking Records, co-owner [?] of Collectable Records,
who ripped off musicians for decades

exhaustive info about Roy C. Ames @ www.vinylrecords.ch
Houston Press articles @ www.houstonpress.com
; click to enlarge!
Roy C. Ames mug shot

source: Blues Access #20 (winter 1995), p. 10
; click to enlarge!
Roy C. Ames 1990s

source: Blues Access #30 (summer 1997), p. 54

 

Jean-Pierre Arniac
b. 1946
d. January 28, 2017
"Grand expert en blues, Jean-Pierre était bien connu de nos lecteurs pour son talent de photographe (qui illustre notamment l'Encyclopédie du Blues de Gérard Herzhaft) et pour ses conseils de disquaire passionné chez Boogie à Levallois-Perret."
obituary @ soulbag.fr par Jacques Périn
; click to enlarge!
Jean-Pierre Arniac

source: www.soulbag.fr/news/index/type/news/id/3610

 

Charles & Evelyn Aron
Charles Aron   b. 1907 in Romania; d. 1974 in Miami, Florida
Evelyn Aron (formerly Evelyn Marks)   b. 1919 in Chicago, Illinois; d. 1997 in Boulder, Colorado
original founders of Aristocrat Records
Aristocrat Records @ Wikipedia
The Aristocrat label @ hubcap.clemson.edu
; click to enlarge!
Charles & Evelyn Aron

source: www.history-of-rock.com

 

Rolf von Arx   →→→   Rolf von Arx

 

Moses 'Moe' Asch
b. December 2, 1905 in Warsaw, Poland
d. October 19, 1986 in New York City
founder and owner of Asch Records & Folkways Records
Moses Asch @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Moses Asch

source: front cover of Sing Out! Volume 26, Number 1 (May/June 1977)
www.petrillabooks.com; photographer: David Gahr

 

Cary Baker
b. November 14, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois
music journalist and publicist, who since 2004 operates the music PR firm Conqueroo
in the early 1970s editor of Chicagoan "Blue Flame" magazine

Cary Baker @ Wikipedia
Conqueroo
Conjuroo Records
interview with Cary Baker by Larry LeBlancs, 2011 @ www.celebrityaccess.com
Arvella Gray discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Cary Baker
; click to enlarge!
Cary Baker 2011

source: www.celebrityaccess.com

 

Alan Balfour
b. December 15, 1946 in Soho, London, UK
liner notes writer; "consultant" of 'Talking Blues' magazine; co-editor of 'Blues Link' magazine
'Soul Bag', 'Blues & Rhythm' magazines contributor
Alan Balfour December 19, 1976 at Charlie
Gillett's 1st Honky Tonk Christmas Party held at the London School of
Economics 'Three Tuns Bar'; click to enlarge!
Yeats' assistant "Shirley", David Yeats (DJM Records) & Alan Balfour
December 19, 1976 at Charlie Gillett's 1st Honky Tonk Christmas Party
held at the London School of Economics "Three Tuns Bar"

(courtesy Alan Balfour; photographer: Paul Harris)
 
Alan Balfour, 1979; source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 5; click to enlarge!
Alan Balfour 1979

source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 5
 
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
 
Larry Johnson, Bill Rowe & Alan Balfour, October 1, 1989 at The Onslow, Southampton; click to enlarge!
Larry Johnson, Bill Rowe & Alan Balfour, October 1, 1989
at The Onslow, Southampton

source: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=1753.30
Alan Balfour (left) at 'Euroweenie' 2010; click to enlarge!
Alan Balfour (left) at "Euroweenie" 2010
Alan Balfour giving a lecture at 'Euroweenie' 2010; source: ; click to enlarge!
Alan Balfour giving a lecture at "Euroweenie" 2010

 

Ivin Ballen
co-founder (1946) and - since 1948 - sole owner of Gotham Records
Gotham Records @ Wikipedia
Ivin Ballen at his pressing plant; source: Bruce Bastin: The Gotham Gallery.- Juke Blues #11<br>Winter 1987/88), p. 14-17; click to enlarge!
Ivin Ballen at his pressing plant

source: Bruce Bastin: The Gotham Gallery.- Juke Blues #11
Winter 1987/88), p. 14-17
Ivin Ballen's labels; source: Bruce Bastin: The Gotham Gallery.- Juke Blues #11 (Winter 1987/88), p. 14-17; click to enlarge!
Ivin Ballen's labels

source: Bruce Bastin: The Gotham Gallery.- Juke Blues #11 (Winter 1987/88), p. 14-17

 

Scott Barretta
b. in Virginia
writer and researcher for the Mississippi Blues Trail, former editor of Living Blues magazine,
and host of the radio show Highway 61 on Mississippi Public Broadcasting and Radio Free Amsterdam

; click to enlarge!
Paul Garon, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, Mark Camarrig, Scott Barretta at Living Blues Magazine Panel
during Blues Symposium at Dominican University, 2010

source: Alex Thomas' facebook photo (brightness enhanced by Stefan Wirz)

 

William Henry 'Bill' Barth
b. December 13, 1942 in New York City
d. July 14, 2000 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bill Barth @ Wikipedia


source:

 

Ralph Bass
b. Ralph Basso, May 1, 1911 in The Bronx, New York City
d. March 5, 1997 (85) on a plane between Chicago, Illinois and Nassau, Bahamas
record producer, talent scout for Black & White Records, Savoy Records, King Records, Federal Records and Chess Records

Ralph Bass @ Wikipedia

Black & White Records @ Wikipedia
Savoy Records @ Wikipedia
King Records @ Wikipedia
Federal Records @ Wikipedia
Chess Records @ Wikipedia
Phil Chess, Etta James & Ralph Bass, 1960; source: source: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/21/arts/music/etta-james-singer-dies-at-73.html ('Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images'); click to enlarge!
Phil Chess, Etta James & Ralph Bass, 1960

source: www.nytimes.com ("Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images")
Ralph Bass, James Cleveland & Freddy Mendelsohn, 1970s (September 1973? or April 1975?); source: Blues Unlimited #119 (May/June 1976), p. 21; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Ralph Bass, James Cleveland & Freddy Mendelsohn, 1970s

source: Blues Unlimited #119 (May/June 1976), p. 21; photographer: Norbert Hess

 

Bruce Bastin
b. September 19, 1939, in Chelmsford, England
Interstate Music Ltd. @ www.interstate-music.co.uk

Portugal kauft 8.000 Fado-Aufnahmen @ www.portugalmania.de

Flyright Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Krazy Kat Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Magpie Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Travelin' Man Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Bruce Bastin 1980 (?); source: Evening Argus (newspaper for Brighton and surrounding area) of October 23, 1980, as reproduced in Sailor's Delight No. 10 (1981), p. 57; click to enlarge!
Bruce Bastin 1980(?)
source: Evening Argus (newspaper for Brighton and surrounding area)
of October 23, 1980, as reproduced in Sailor's Delight No.10 (1981), p. 57
 
Bruce Bastin 2007 (?); source: <a href=
Bruce Bastin 2007(?)
source: www.library.ucsb.edu
 
; click to enlarge! ; click to enlarge!
Bruce Bastin / Interstate Music Collection
arriving at the University of California Santa Barbara Library

source: www.library.ucsb.edu

 

Joe Von Battle   →→→   Joe Von Battle

 

Daniel 'Dan' Beaumont
Associate Professor in History and Religion & Classics at the University of Rochester
author of "Preachin' the Blues: The Life and Times of Son House"
www.preachingtheblues.com
Daniel Beaumont, Clarksdale, Mississippi, May 2007<br>photographer: Julia Rabkin; click to enlarge!
Daniel Beaumont, Clarksdale, Mississippi, May 2007

source: www.preachingtheblues.com
photographer: Julia Rabkin

 

Chris Bentley
b. May 30, 1947 in London, UK
; click to enlarge!
contributor of 'Blues Unlimited', 'Roll Street Journal', 'Blues & Rhythm' & 'Juke Blues' magazines
writer of liner notes
; click to enlarge!
; click to enlarge!

 

Joachim-Ernst 'J.E.' Berendt
b. July 20, 1922 in Berlin, Germany
d. February 4, 2000 in Hamburg, Germany
www.j-e-berendt.de
Joachim-Ernst Berendt @ Wikipedia
Joachim-Ernst Berendt & Sun Ra; source: http://www.jazzpages.com/news/Joachim-Ernst-Berendt-Sendungen-SWR.htm; photographer: Hans Kumpf; click to enlarge!
Joachim-Ernst Berendt & Sun Ra

source: www.jazzpages.com, photographer: Hans Kumpf
Joachim-Ernst Berendt; source: http://dothephantomlimbo.blogspot.de/2012/09/phantom-limbo-radio-show-no-25.html; click to enlarge!
Joachim-Ernst Berendt

source: dothephantomlimbo.blogspot.de

 

Bess and Isaac 'Ike' Berman
co-founders (1944) and -owners of Apollo Records
Apollo Records @ Wikipedia
Apollo Records Story @ www.bsnpubs.com
; click to enlarge!
Bess Berman

source: www.uncamarvy.com

 

Jonas Bernholm
b. November 25, 1946 in Stockholm, Sweden
Jonas Bernholm Rhythm and Blues Collection, 1976-1991 @ Smithsonian
Mr. R&B Jonas Bernholm, Stockholm, July 5, 1986; source: Blues Forum #20 (May 1987), p. 34; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Mr. R&B Jonas Bernholm, Stockholm, July 5, 1986

source: Blues Forum #20 (May 1987), p. 34; photographer: Norbert Hess
Charles Brown, Jonas Bernholm & Ruth Brown; source: ; photographer: Hans Ekestang; click to enlarge!
Charles Brown, Jonas Bernholm & Ruth Brown

source: www.smokestackblues.com
photographer: Hans Ekestang
 
Jonas Bernholm with Mike Sanchez and Friends, Stockholm; source: www.myspace.com/mikesanchezandhisband; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Jonas Bernholm with Mike Sanchez and Friends, Stockholm

source: www.myspace.com/mikesanchezandhisband
photographer's name not given

 

Bihari brothers
Bihari brothers @ Wikipedia
 
Lester Louis Bihari
b. May 12, 1912 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
d. September 9, 1983 in Los Angeles, California
 
; click to enlarge!
Lester Bihari & possibly his secretary Leona Wynn, 1950s

www.706unionavenue.nl
Julius Jeramiah 'Jules' Bihari
b. September 9, 1913 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
d. November 17, 1984 in Los Angeles, California
(pseudonym "Jules Taub")
Jules Bihari, January 11, 1981; source: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/bluesphoto_one/56/</a>; photographer: Jim O'Neal; click to enlarge!
Jules Bihari, January 11, 1981

source: https://egrove.olemiss.edu/bluesphoto_one/56/; photographer: Jim O'Neal
Saul Samuel Bihari
b. March 9, 1918 in St. Louis, Missouri
d. February 22, 1975 in Los Angeles, California
(pseudonym "Sam Ling")
; click to enlarge!
Saul Bihari

source: www.vocalgroupharmony.com
 
; click to enlarge!
Saul Bihari

source: Blues Unlimited # 142 (Summer 1982), p. 20
 
Joseph 'Joe' Bihari
b. May 30, 1925 in Memphis, Tennessee
(pseudonym "Joe Josea")
Joe Bihari, B.B. King, Hunter Hancock, unidentified man, 1964; click to enlarge!
Joe Bihari, B.B. King, Hunter Hancock, unidentified man, 1964

www.gettyimages.ie

 

Les Blank
b. November 27, 1935 in Tampa, Florida
d. April 7, 2013 in Berkeley, California
Les Blank @ Wikipedia
Les Blank during the production of
Les Blank during the production of
"Blues According to Lightnin' Hopkins", 1967

source: http://photos2.hi5.com/0055/362/037/ikXhQ4362037-01.jpg
photographer: Skip Gerson
Les Blank at 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 4.-12. 7. 2008; click to enlarge!
Les Blank at 43rd Karlovy Vary
International Film Festival, 4.-12. 7. 2008

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Les_Blank.jpg

 

Allan Block
Allan Block discography @ www.wirz.de
Rory Block with son Thiele in front of her father's Sandal Shop in Greenwich Village, New York City (West 4th St.); source: Front cover of 'Rory Block - The Early Tapes 1975 / 1976'; photographer: David Gahr; click to enlarge!
Rory Block with son Thiele in front of her father's Sandal Shop
in Greenwich Village, New York City (West 4th St.)

source: Front cover of 'Rory Block - The Early Tapes 1975 / 1976';
photographer: David Gahr

 

Günter 'Bessie' Boas
b. Februar 15, 1920 in Dessau, Germany
d. Dezember 14, 1993 in Selm, Germany
musician (pianist, vocalist), jazz journalist, promoter
Günter Boas @ Wikipedia (de)
; click to enlarge!
Günter Boas

source: Front cover of LP
"Oscar Klein's Bluesmen & Günter Boas"
Joke JLP 204 (Germany 1977)
; click to enlarge!
Günter Boas

source: www.zeit.de

 

Marina Bokelman
teacher of American and European folklore and folksongs, photographer

The Coon Can Gam - A Blues Ballad Tradition.- Masters Thesis, Los Angeles: University of California UCLA, 1968. 277 pp.
Finding Aid for the Marina Bokelman Collection @ www.olemiss.edu
; click to enlarge!
Marina Bokelman & Lucinda deLorimier, 2012

source: www.zoomaru.net

 

Brett Bonner
writer, editor of "Living Blues" magazine
Floyd Dixon & Brett Bonner, June 2006; source: http://www.bobcorritore.com/photos56.html; photographer: Bob Corritore; click to enlarge!
Floyd Dixon & Brett Bonner, June 2006

source: www.bobcorritore.com; photographer: Bob Corritore

 

Vivian Carter Bracken & James C. 'Jimmy' Bracken
Vivian Bracken, née Carter   b. March 25, 1921 in Tunica, Mississippi; d. June 12, 1989 in Gary, Indiana
James Bracken   b. May 23, 1909 in Guthrie, Oklahoma, but grew up in Kansas City; d. February 20, 1972 in Chicago, Illinois
co-founders (1953) and co-owners of Vee-Jay Records with Vivian's brother, Calvin Carter
Vivian Carter @ Wikipedia
James Bracken @ Wikipedia
The Vee-Jay Story @ www.bsnpubs.com
James Bracken, Ewert Abner, Vivian Carter & Calvin Carter; source: http://www.fineprintheroes.com/main.php?g2_itemId=1271; click to enlarge!
James Bracken, Ewert Abner, Vivian Carter & Calvin Carter

source: www.fineprintheroes.com
Vivian Carter & James Bracken; source: http://www.bsnpubs.com/veejay/veejaystory1.html; click to enlarge!
Vivian Carter & James Bracken

source: http://www.bsnpubs.com

 

Ernst Bornemann, later changed his name to Ernest Borneman
b. April 12, 1915 in Berlin, Germany
d. June 4, 1995 in Scharten, Upper Austria
German crime writer, filmmaker, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, jazz musician, jazz critic,
psychoanalyst, sexologist, and committed socialist
Ernst Bornemann @ de.Wikipedia
Ernest Borneman @ en.Wikipedia
http://www.jazzzeitung.de/jazz/2003/12/dossier-bornemann.shtml
; click to enlarge!
"In Christmas mood, collectors and artist meet. Derrick Stewart-Baxter,
Ernest Borneman, Chicago Bill (Broonzy) and Albert McCarthy."

source: Bob Groom: The Blues Revival.- London (Studio Vista) 1971, p. 90
(The photo appeared on p. 19 of the Melody Maker on December 15, 1951)

 

Keith Briggs
b. July 15 , 1943 in London, England
d. March 6, 2005 (61) in Skellingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England
@

Keith Briggs

source:

 

Bruce Bromberg
b. October 31, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois
d. December 26, 2021
record producer, co-founder of HighTone Records

Bruce Bromberg @ Wikipedia
HighTone Records @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Bruce Bromberg 2010

source: www.bobcorritore.com; photographer: Bob Corritore

 

Don Bronstein
@


source:

 

John Broven
b. November 4, 1942 in Maidstone, England
johnbroven.com
Blues Unlimited team, 1964; l.-r.: Neil Paterson, Simon Napier, John Broven, Graham Ackers, Rose & Mike Leadbitter, Anna & Dave Williams; source: ; click to enlarge!
Blues Unlimited team, 1964
Neil Paterson, Simon Napier, John Broven, Graham Ackers,
Rose & Mike Leadbitter, Anna & Dave Williams

source: http://johnbroven.com/jjb/biography.html
 
John Broven 1978(?); source: Evening Argus (newspaper for Brighton and surrounding area) 1978?, as reproduced in Sailor's Delight No.8 (198?); click to enlarge!
John Broven 1978(?)

source: Evening Argus (newspaper for Brighton and surrounding area) 1978?, as reproduced in Sailor's Delight No.8 (198?)
 
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
 
Ahmet Ertegun & John Broven in the Atlantic Records office, October 2006; source: http://www.thebluegrassspecial.com/archive/2009/august2009/bookexcerptaugust09.php; click to enlarge!
Ahmet Ertegun & John Broven
in the Atlantic Records office, October 2006
source: www.thebluegrassspecial.com
("courtesy John Broven")

 

Ian Brown
co-founder and owner of Revival Records

Revival Records @ Wikipedia
Revival Records discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!

 

Joe Brown
JOB, Abco Records


source:

 

Peter Brown
b. June 2, 1945 in England (?)
'Jazz Record Mart' employee, founder and owner of Down With The Game Records

Down With The Game discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Peter Brown 2012
(in all probability)
source: Peter Brown @ facebook.com

 

Walter Bruyninckx
b. August 27, 1932 in Belgium, living in Mechelen, Belgium
jazz discographer

Walter Bruyninckx @ Wikipedia (de)
Walter Bruyninckx; click to enlarge!

 

Yannick & Margo Bruynoghe
Yannick Bruynoghe   b. 1924 in Louvain, Belgium; d. March 30, 1984 in Uccle, Brussels, Belgium
author of "Big Bill Blues - William Broonzy's Story As Told To Yannick Bruynoghe"
co-author (with Stanley Dance) of "Jazz Era - The Forties"
Yannick Bruynoghe, Brussels, 1983; source: Robert Sacré: Yannick Bruynoghe obituary.- Living Blues 60/61 (Summer/Fall 1984), pp. 71-72 (and other mags); photographer: Robert Sacré; click to enlarge!
Yannick Bruynoghe, Brussels, 1983

source: Robert Sacré: Yannick Bruynoghe obituary
Living Blues 60/61 (Summer/Fall 1984), pp. 71-72 (and other mags)
photographer: Robert Sacré

 

Jim Bulleit
co-founder of Bullet Records

Bullet Records @ Wikipedia (en)
Bullet Records @ Wikipedia (de)
Number One With a Bulleit @ www.iwu.edu
; click to enlarge!
Jim Bulleit

source: www.iwu.edu

 

Tony Burke
b. April 9, 1952 in Manchester, England
editor of "Blues & Rhythm - The Gospel Truth"
Blues & Rhythm @ www.bluesandrhythm.co.uk
Tony Burke, 1980s; source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 18<br>photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Tony Burke, 1980s

source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 18
photographer's name not given

 

Jean 'Buz' Buzelin
b. 1947 in Paris, France
graphist, drawer, painter, and jazz journalist, jazz critic, liner notes writer, "Soul Bag" contributor
short bio @ www.festivaldejazzdeserres.com
Jean Buzelin 1980s; source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 5; click to enlarge!
Jean Buzelin 1980s

source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 5
Jean Buzelin 2011(?); source: http://www.festivaldejazzdeserres.com/ENGLISH/en_artistes/en_buz.htm; click to enlarge!
Jean Buzelin 2011(?)

source: www.festivaldejazzdeserres.com
Jean Buzelin 2011(?); source: http://www.festivaldejazzdeserres.com/ENGLISH/en_info_pratiques/en_qui.htm; click to enlarge!
Jean Buzelin 2011(?)

source: www.festivaldejazzdeserres.com

 

Stephen Calt a/k/a Steve Calt
b. March 14, 1946 in New York City
d. October 17, 2010 (64) at Middle Village, Queens County, New York
obituary @ thedeltablues
Steve Calt and his (2 years younger) sister Maggie visiting Gary Davis, early 1964; source: Stephen Calt: I'd Rather Be The Devil - Skip James + The Blues.- New York (Capo Press) 1994, p. 263; click to enlarge!
Steve Calt and his (2 years younger) sister Maggie
visiting Gary Davis, early 1964
source: Stephen Calt: I'd Rather Be The Devil - Skip James + The Blues
New York (Capo Press) 1994, p. 263
; click to enlarge!
Steve Calt & Dave Mann: Looney Tunes
Blue Goose BG 2017 (1975)



; click to enlarge!
Stephen Calt 1997

source: Yazoo Collector's Get-Together. NJ, summer '97 [see photo top left]

 

Arnold S. 'Arnie' Caplin
b. Mai 8, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York City
d. Dezember 25, 2009 at Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
jazz drummer and artist, record producer, founder and owner of Historical Records and Biograph Records

Arnold S. Caplin @ Wikipedia

Historical Records @ www.wirz.de
Biograph Records @ www.wirz.de
Arnold S. Caplin 1969 Arnold S. Caplin 1976
Arnold S. Caplin 1969 & 1976   (courtesy Alan Caplin)

 

Vivian Carter   →→→   Vivian & James Bracken

 

Samuel Barclay Charters a/k/a Sam Charters
b. August 1, 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
d. March 18, 2015 at his home in Arsta, Sweden
Samuel Charters @ Wikipedia
obituary by Larry Rohter @ The New York Times
Samuel B. Charters & Larry Johnson; click to enlarge!
Samuel B. Charters & Larry Johnson

source: booklet of Armadillo CD ARMD 00013 (2002); photographer: Brian Kramer

 

Marcel Chauvard
b. August 8, 1926 in Paris, France
d. August 17, 1968 in Paris, France
obituary by Jacques Demêtre in Blues Unlimited 57 (November 1968), p. 10
; click to enlarge!
Vivian Carter and Marcel Chauvard in Paris, France (flea market), 1960

source: Blues Unlimited 139 (Autumn 1980), p. 30; photographer: Jacques Demêtre

 

Leonard, Phil & Marshall Chess
Leonard Chess, b. Lejzor Shmuel Czyz, March 12, 1917 in Motal, Poland (now in Belarus); d. October 16, 1969 in Chicago, IL
Phil Chess, b. Fiszel Czyz, March 27, 1921 in Czestochowa, Poland; d. October 18, 2016 in Tucson, AZ
Marshall Chess, b. March 13, 1942 in Chicago, IL
Chess Records @ Wikipedia
Leonard, Marshall (Leonard's son) & Phil Chess>, mid 1960s; source: Block #102 (apr/mei/juni 1997), p. 8; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Leonard, Marshall (Leonard's son) & Phil Chess, mid 1960s

source: Block #102 (apr/mei/juni 1997), p. 8; photographer's name not given

 

Siegfried A. "Ziggy" Christmann
; click to enlarge! record producer, founder and owner of Ornament Records

Ornament Records discography
L+R Records discography (Living Country Blues USA series)
@ www.wirz.de
Living Country Blues USA - The Introduction (L+R 42.030 DLP 1980); click to enlarge!
Othar Turner & Ziggy Christmann 1980; source: notes to L+R 42.030; photographer: Axel Küstner; click to enlarge!
Othar Turner & Ziggy Christmann 1980

source: notes to L+R 42.030; photographer: Axel Küstner

 

Dave Clarke a/k/a "Latchford Slim" a/k/a "Duncan Disorderly" a/k/a "Dick Scography"
cartoonist of "Sailor's Delight" magazine
Eddie Boyd signing autographs for some British blues fans in Manchester, 1965: Rick Green, Neil Carter, Dave Clarke; source: Blues & Rhythm #260 (June 2011), p. 5; photographer: Brian Smith; click to enlarge!
Eddie Boyd signing autographs for some British blues fans
in Manchester, 1965: Rick Green, Neil Carter, Dave Clarke

source: Blues & Rhythm #260 (June 2011), p. 5; photographer: Brian Smith

 

Lawrence 'Larry' Cohn
b. October 4, 1932 in Brooklyn, New York
record producer, writer, critic and jurist
best known as one of the creators of Legacy Recordings, a branch of Sony Music Entertainment
and as the originator and producer of the Roots 'N' Blues series
Lawrence Cohn @ Wikipedia
Lawrence Cohn @ discogs.com
; click to enlarge!
Lawrence Cohn

source: Cohn's facebook page

 

Bob Corritore
b.
musician, founder of Blues Over Blues Records @


source:

 

Dr. John H. Cowley
John Cowley: West Indies Blues: an historical overview 1920s-1950s - blues and music from the English-speaking West Indies.- in: Robert Springer, ed., "Nobody Knows Where the Blues Came From": Lyrics and History, Jackson, University Press of Mississippi, 2006, pp. 187-263 @ sas-space.sas.ac.uk
; click to enlarge!
John Cowley, Nancy Scott & Dave Peabody
(standing)
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
AFC 1996/021: Music and Migration: Aspects of Black Music in the British Caribbean, the United States, and Britain...[1750-1950] by John H. Cowley Doctoral dissertation entitled, "Music & Migration: Aspects of Black Music in the British Caribbean, the United States, and Britain, before the Independence of Jamaica and Trinidad & Tobago." Two volumes. Discusses the development and impact of calypso and related music. University of Warwick, Coventry, England. 1992.

John Cowley Blues Talk - Americana @ The Chapel; click to enlarge!
"John Cowley Blues Talk - Americana @ The Chapel"
April 27, 2012

source: photostream of "pixelwitch" @ www.flickr.com

 

Robert Crumb
@


source:

 

Louis F. 'Lou' Curtiss
b.
@

Lou Curtiss

source:

 

Michael Cuscuna
@


source:

 

Bill Dahl
@


source:

 

Norman Darwen
contributor, member of the editorial committee of 'Blues & Rhythm' magazine
@

Norman Darwen

source:

 

Joe Davis
b. October 6, 1896 in New York City, New York
@


source:

 

John R.T. (Ross Twiston) Davies
b. March 20, 1927 in Wivelsfield, East Sussex, UK
d. May 25, 2004 in Burnham, Buckinghamshire, UK
musician (reeds,trumpet, cornet, trombone)/discographer, vocal, recording engineer
John R.T. Davies - The Ultimate Preservationist by Nick Dellow @ www.vjm.biz

John R.T. Davies

source:

 

Norman Dayron
@


source:

 

Marc de Jonghe / Robert 'Bob' Vanderschueren
Belgian blues photographers
; click to enlarge!
Marc de Jonghe, Fred Below, a fan & Bob Vanderschueren, 1970s

source: www.bobcorritore.com; photographer: André Hobus

 

Jacques Demêtre
b. Dimitri Wyschnegradsky, February 16, 1924 in Paris, France
later Frenchified his name to Dimitri Vicheney (his father was composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky)
d. June 24, 2020 (96) in Paris, France
Jacques Demêtre @ bluesagain.com
Jacques Demêtre @ en.wikipedia.com
; click to enlarge!
Little Sonny Willis, Jacques Demêtre, John Lee Hooker and Emmet Slay
at Joe von Battle's recording studio, 1959

source: Blues Unlimited 139 (Autumn 1980), p. 28; photographer: "Jacques Demêtre" Marcel Chauvard

 

Jacques Demêtre 2007; source: http://www.bluesagain.com/p_interviews/jacque%20demetre%20part1.html; click to enlarge!
Jacques Demêtre ~2007
source: http://www.bluesagain.com/p_interviews/jacque%20demetre%20part1.html

 

ED Denson
Takoma Records discography @ www.wirz.de


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Scott Dirks
b. March 5, 1958 in Moses Lake, WA
@


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Robert (Malcolm Ward) M.W. Dixon
b. January 25, 1939 in Gloucester, England
Professor of Linguistics at The Cairns Institute, James Cook University, Queensland,
and formerly Director of the Research Centre for Linguistic Typology at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
co-author, with John Godrich (and later Howard W. Rye), of the definitive discography of American prewar blues and gospel recordings,
"Blues and Gospel Records: 1890-1943"
Robert M.W. Dixon @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!

source:

 

Doug Dobell
b. 1917 in London, England
d. July 10, 1987 in Nice, France
record store proprietor and record producer
assistant: Ray Bolden
"Dobell's parents ran a bookshop at 77and sometime in late forties their jazz loving son gradually changed the focus to selling jazz 78s etc. In the 50s he and another began a jazz mail order-cum-distribution outfit named Agate which operated out of a premises at 10 Rathbone Place. With the folk/blues boom of late 50s/early sixties Dobell began selling folk/blues and related from this address under the auspices of a guy named Jerry. When the shop next door to 77 C X Rd became vacant in 1965 Doug took up the lease and moved the folk & blues into 75 in October that year. Xmas Eve 1980 the leases to both shops expired and weren't renewed due to the proposed redevelopment of that side of Charing Cross Road. It took Dobell about a year to find other suitable premises (21 Tower Street)." (Alan Balfour @ www.charliegillett.com)

Doug Dobell @ Wikipedia
77 Records @ Wikipedia
77 Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Doug Dobell at The Roundhouse in Soho, 1957; source: http://www.charliegillett.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=11122&start=15 (posted 2009 by Ian A. Anderson as 'from Eric Winter's archive') [cropped from the original photo by Stefan Wirz]; click to enlarge!
Doug Dobell at The Roundhouse in Soho, 1957

source: www.charliegillett.com (posted 2009
by Ian A. Anderson as "from Eric Winter's archive")
[cropped from the original photo by Stefan Wirz]
Dobell's Folk/Jazz Record Shop at 75/77 Charing Cross, London; source: Christopher Booker & Candida Lycett Green: 'Goodbye London - An illustrated Guide To The Threatened Buildings'; London (Fontana) 1973, p. 62; scan courtesy Alan Balfour; click to enlarge!
Dobell's Folk/Jazz Record Shop at 75/77 Charing Cross, London

source: Christopher Booker & Candida Lycett Green: "Goodbye London - An illustrated
Guide To The Threatened Buildings".- London (Fontana) 1973, p. 62
(scan courtesy Alan Balfour)

 

Paul Duvivié
@
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source:

 

Tim Duffy
founder and executive director of the Music Maker Relief Foundation
@
; click to enlarge!
Guitar Gabriel and Tim Duffy in Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1991

source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/capturing-the-blues-in-black-and-white/
("Photo courtesy Tim and Denise Duffy")

 

Bob Eagle
b. April 19, 1945 in Melbourne, Australia
lawyer and music researcher; started magazine "Alley Music", has written numerous articles for magazines
wrote (with Eric S. LeBlanc) "Blues - A Regional Experience"
short Bob Eagle bio @ chicagosouthsidepiano.com
; click to enlarge!
Bob Eagle

source: Bob Eagle @ facebook (cropped by Stefan Wirz)

 

Ahmet & Nesuhi Ertegun
Ahmet Ertegun, b. July 31, 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey; moved to Washington, D.C. in 1935
d. December 14, 2006 in New York City
co-founder / owner of Atlantic Records

Ahmet Ertegun @ Wikipedia
Ahmet Ertegun, Big Joe Turner & Jerry Wexler; source: Blues & Rhythm #27 (March 1987), p. 27; photographer: Dan Nooger; click to enlarge!
Ahmet Ertegun, Big Joe Turner & Jerry Wexler

source: Blues & Rhythm #27 (March 1987), p. 27; photographer: Dan Nooger

 

Dr. David Evans
b. January 22, 1944 in Boston, Massachusetts
David Evans @ Wikipedia
High Water Records @ highwaterrecords.com
High Water Recording Company discography @ www.wirz.de
David Evans, Berlin, November 6, 1980; source: Blues Forum #2 (März/April/Mai 1981), p. 22; photographer: M. Klose; click to enlarge!
David Evans, Berlin, November 6, 1980

source: Blues Forum #2 (März/April/Mai 1981), p. 22; photographer: M. Klose
David Evans, g & Axel Küstner, hca, June 21, 2011 at Fête de la musique Hannover, Germany; source: notes to L+R 42.030; photographer: David Evans, g & Axel Küstner, hca; June 21, 2011 at Fête de la musique Hannover, Germany; photographer: Stefan Wirz; click to enlarge!
David Evans, g & Axel Küstner, hca; June 21, 2011
at Fête de la musique Hannover, Germany

photographer: Stefan Wirz
 

 

Hans W. Ewert
Hans W. Ewert @ www.wdr3.de
Phillip Walker, Hans W. Ewert, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny Littlejohn, Robert Cray; Blues Fest Bonn, July 21, 1985; source: Blues Forum #19 (February 1986), p. 15; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Phillip Walker, Hans W. Ewert, Jimmy Rogers, Johnny
Littlejohn, Robert Cray; Blues Fest Bonn, July 21, 1985

source: Blues Forum #19 (February 1986), p. 15; photographer: Norbert Hess
Hans W. Ewert
Hans W. Ewert 2010s
(?)
source: www.amigos-mallorca.com

 

John Fahey
@


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Leslie 'Les' Fancourt
b. August 5, 1952, in London, UK
The guy responsible for the blues department of Dobell's record shop from its 1981 relocation
from Charing Cross Rd. to Tower St., London, until Dobell's closure in 1992
Record producer/compiler; (co-)author of several discographies:
- Leslie Fancourt: Chess R&B - A Discography of the R&B Artists on the Chess Labels (1947-1975).- Faversham 1984 & (2nd ed.) 1991
- Leslie Fancourt: Chess Blues - A Discography of the Blues Artists on the Chess Label (1947-1975).- Faversham 1989
- Les Fancourt: British Blues on Record (1957-1970), Faversham (Retrack Books) 1989
- Leslie Fancourt: Blue Horizon Records 1965-1972 - A discography.- Faversham (Retrack Books) 1992
- Les Fancourt: Boogie Chillen - A Guide to John Lee Hooker on Disc.- Cheadle (A Blues & Rhythm Publication, ed. by Tony Burke) 1992
- Mike Leadbitter, Leslie Fancourt & Paul Pelletier: Blues Records 1943-70, Vol. 2, L-Z.- London (Record Information Services) 1994
- Les Fancourt & Bob McGrath: The Blues Discography 1943 - 1970.- Vancouver 2006 & (2nd ed.) 2012
Les Fancourt @ allmusic. com
Les Fancourt @ discogs. com
; click to enlarge!
Monica and Don Sollash, Les Fancourt and Leon Parker at exhibition "Dobells Jazz Folk Blues" (10.04.13 - 18.05.13)
Private view: Tuesday 9th April 2013 6 - 8.30pm

source: www.chelseaspace.org/archive/dobells-pv.html

 

Renaud Kriger & André Fanelli
co-founders and co-editors of "Blues and Swing Magazine"
; click to enlarge!
Renaud Kriger, André Fanelli, Claude Gazengel, T-Bone Walker & Koko Taylor, Montreux 1972

bluesandswing.over-blog.com

 

Leonard Feather
b. September 13, 1914 in London, England
d. September 22, 1994 in Encino, California
Leonard Feather @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Robert Goffin, Benny Carter, Louis Armstrong, Leonard Feather, 1942

source: Wikipedia

 

William Ferris Jr.
@


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Raeburn 'Ray' Flerlage
b. July 13, 1915 in Cincinnati, Ohio
d. September 28, 2002 in Chicago, Illinois
Chicago based independent photojournalist

Ray Flerlage @ www.bluesworld.com
The photographs of Ray Flerlage @ users.rcn.com/cowdery
Ray Flerlage obituary @ www.delmark.com
Marc PoKempner & Ray Flerlage, Chicago, September 3, 2000; >source: Block #115 (herfst 2000), p. 40; photographer: Rien Wisse; click to enlarge!
Marc PoKempner & Ray Flerlage, Chicago, September 3, 2000

source: Block #115 (herfst 2000), p. 40; photographer: Rien Wisse

 

Robert Ford
@


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Byron Foulger
contributor, member of the editorial committee of 'Blues & Rhythm' magazine
Byron Foulger, Henry Qualls & Phil Wight at the Utrecht Blues Estafette, 1994; source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neverslim/278476449/ ('Never Slim'); photographer: Mike Rainsford; click to enlarge!
Byron Foulger, Henry Qualls & Phil Wight at the Utrecht Blues Estafette, 1994

source: www.flickr.com ("Never Slim"); photographer: Mike Rainsford

 

James Fraher
photographer
@


source:

 

Michael Frank
b. May 5, 1949 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
founder and owner of Earwig Music
http://www.earwigmusic.com/
Earwig Story par Jean-Luc Varres in 'Soul Bag' magazine #140 (Automne 1995). p. 6-8
; click to enlarge!
Bruce Iglauer, Jerry Del Guidice, Bob Koester & Michael Frank, 2012

source: www.thebluesblast.com; photographer: Bob Kieser

 

Steve Franz
@


source:

 

David Gahr
b. September 18, 1922 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d. May 25, 2008 (85) in Brooklyn, New York
David Gahr @ Wikipedia
obituary @ New York Times
David Gahr</b> at work 1964 Newport Folk Festival; photographer: John Byrne Cooke; click to enlarge!
David Gahr at work 1964 Newport Folk Festival

source: http://www.cookephoto.com/davidgahr.html
photographer: John Byrne Cooke
; click to enlarge!
David Gahr 2004

source: "Ameliaaah"'s photostream at flickr

 

Paul Garon
b. July 7, 1942 in Louisville, Kentucky
Paul Garon @ Wikipedia
www.beasleybooks.com
; click to enlarge!
Paul Garon, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, Mark Camarrig, Scott Barretta at Living Blues Magazine Panel
during Blues Symposium at Dominican University, 2010

source: Alex Thomas' facebook photo (brightness enhanced by Stefan Wirz)

 

Galen Gart
Editor, writer, publisher


source:

 

Robert L. 'Bob' Geddins
b. February 6, 1913 in Highbank, Texas
d. February 16, 1991 in Oakland, California
San Francisco Bay Area blues and rhythm and blues musician and record producer
Bob Geddins @ en.wikipedia.com
Bob Geddins @ discogs.com
Bob Geddins; source: http://thepioneeronline.com/7330/artsentertainment/oakland%E2%80%99s-blues-walk-of-fame-to-open-soon/; click to enlarge!
Bob Geddins

source: http://thepioneeronline.com/7330/artsentertainment/oakland%E2%80%99s-blues-walk-of-fame-to-open-soon/

 

Rudy van Gelder   →→→   Rudy van Gelder

 

Lawrence 'Lou' Gellert
b. September 14, 1898 in Budapest, Hungaria
d. 1979, exact date and location unknown
Lawrence Gellert @ Wikipedia
discography of Lawrence Gellert recordings @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Lawrence Gellert collecting songs, 1930s

source: back cover of Rounder LP 4004

 

Jean Georgakarakos
JOC @


source:

 

Charlie Gillett
@


source:

 

Bill Givens
b. 1930 in Morristown, New Jersey
his family resided in Louisville by 1940
d. January 23, 1999 (68)
co-founder (1960, with Pete Whelan) of "Origin Jazz Library" label
originjazz.com
Origin Jazz Library discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Bill Givens

source: web.archive.org/web/20110715015108/http://www.originjazz.com

 

John Godrich
b. ~1927 in Swansea, Wales
d. January 13, 1991 (64) in Swansea, Wales

co-author, with M.W. Dixon (and later Howard W. Rye), of the definitive discography of American prewar blues and gospel recordings,
"Blues and Gospel Records: 1890-1943"
; click to enlarge!
John Godrich

source: Steve Cushing: Pioneers of the Blues Revival.- Urbana, Chicago & Springfield (University of Illinois Press) 2014, p. 122
("Courtesy Godrich Family")

 

Kenneth S. Goldstein
@


source:

 

Kazuyuki Goto
Trio Records discography @ www.wirz.de


source:

 

Alan Govenar
@


source:

 

Bill Graham
@ www.wirz.de


source:

 

Bill Grauer
d. December 16, 1963 in New York City
co-founder of Riverside Records
target="_blank"> @


source:

 

Michael Gray
@


source:

 

Manuel A. 'Manny' Greenhill
b. March 10, 1916 in New York
d. April 14, 1996 (80) in Los Angeles; California
union activist who later became a folk music manager,
establishing Folklore Productions in 1958
Manuel Greenhill @ folkloreproductions.com
Manny Greenhill; source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down - The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 220; photographer: David Gahr; click to enlarge!
Manny Greenhill

source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down
- The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 220
photographer: David Gahr
Newport 1967: Joni Mitchell, unknown, unknown, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Manny Greenhill, unknown; source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down - The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 299; photographer: David Gahr; click to enlarge!
Newport 1967: Joni Mitchell, unknown, unknown,
Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Manny Greenhill, unknown
source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down
- The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 299
photographer: David Gahr

 

Bill Greensmith
b. August 8, 1949 in the UK
Jim O'Neal, Neil Slaven, Bob Hall, Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe; photographer: Bob Riesman; click to enlarge!
Jim O'Neal, Neil Slaven, Bob Hall, Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe
at 3rd Annual Blues Today Symposium, Oxford Mississippi, February 26, 2005

photographer: Bob Riesman

 

Ted Griffiths
@


source:

 

Bob Groom
blues historian and writer; founder (March 1965) and editor of "Blues World" magazine
Bob Groom> - Founder of the Knutsford Blues; source: cover of 'Sailor's Delight' #15 (1983); click to enlarge!
Bob Groom - "Founder of the Knutsford Blues"

source: cover of "Sailor's Delight" #15 (1983)
 
; click to enlarge!
Bob Groom & Sleepy John Estes

source: Bob Groom: The Blues Revival.- London (Studio Vista) 1971, p. 52 (Bob Groom collection)
Bob Groom & Karl Gert zur Heide at Blues Convention, London, 1969; source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18; photographer: Charles Colquhoun; click to enlarge!
Bob Groom & Karl Gert zur Heide
at Blues Convention, London, 1969

source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18
photographer: Charles Colquhoun

 

Albert Grossman
@

 

Stefan Grossman
@


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Peter Guralnick
@


source:

 

John Henry Hammond II
b. Dezember 15, 1910 in New York City
d. Juli 10, 1987 in Manhattan, New York City
talent scout, record producer and music critic
John Hammond @ Wikipedia
Lonnie Johnson, Chris Albertson, John Hammond & Elmer Snowden in Albertson's Chester Ave. apartment, Philadelphia, 1959; source: http://stomp-off.blogspot.de/2010/03/discovering-john-hammond-closer-look.html; click to enlarge!
Lonnie Johnson, Chris Albertson, John Hammond & Elmer Snowden
in Albertson's Chester Ave. apartment, Philadelphia, 1959

source: stomp-off.blogspot.de
; click to enlarge!
John Hammond

source: frozengrin.blogspot.de
cartoonist: Peter Dunlap-Shohl

 

John Harmer
record shop co-owner ("J & F"), record producer
; click to enlarge!
John Breckow & John Harmer circa 1975

(courtesy Frank Scott)

 

Mark Sinclair Harris
b. May 24, 1955 in Merton, SW London, England
Pickin' The Blues #1; click to enlarge! editor and publisher of "Pickin' The Blues" (1982-1984)
reviews editor for "Juke Blues" (1989-2000)
contributor to "The New Blackwell Guide To Recorded Blues" (1996)

Pickin' The Blues @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
; click to enlarge!
Mark Harris 1982
; click to enlarge!
Ike Turner & Mark Harris mid 1990s
; click to enlarge!
Mark Harris 2012
(all photos courtesy Mark Sinclair Harris)

 

Paul Harris
@


source:

 

Sheldon Harris
b. August 13 1924 in Cleveland, Ohio, raised and educated in Brooklyn, New York
d. September 8, 2005 (81) in Wall Township, New Jersey
short bio @ clio.lib.olemiss.edu
credits @ www.allmusic.com
Sheldon Harris with Jimmy Rushing, late 1960s; source: Living Blues #181 (Nov./Dec. 2005), p. 87 ('courtesy: Blues Archive'); click to enlarge!
Sheldon Harris with Jimmy Rushing, late 1960s

source: Living Blues #181 (Nov./Dec. 2005), p. 87 ("courtesy: Blues Archive")
Sheldon Harris, Brooklyn, April 30, 1981; source: Blues Forum #5 (1.Quartal 1982), p. 34 ; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Sheldon Harris, Brooklyn, April 30, 1981

source: Blues Forum #5 (1.Quartal 1982), p. 34
photographer: Norbert Hess

 

Karl Gert zur Heide   →→→   Karl Gert zur Heide

 

Horst "Mr. St. Louis Blues" Herling
b. 1933 in Germany
Horst & Ingrid Herling - Sammlung @ www.archive-in-thueringen.de
; click to enlarge!
Horst Herling & Earthquake, St. Louis, April 19, 1981

source: Blues Forum #5 (1.Quartal 1982), p. 24; photographer: Ray Gehl

 

Sjef Hermans
b. August 26, 1954 in The Netherlands
musician, "Block - Tijdschrift voor blues" stuff member
Champagne Charlie @ www.champagnecharlie.nl
; click to enlarge!
Sjef Hermans late 1990s

source: Block 105 (jan/feb/mrt 1998), p. 51
photographer: Rien Wisse
; click to enlarge!
Sjef Hermans 2011

source: www.thebluegrassspecial.com
photographer: Jan van der Beek

 

Gérard Herzhaft
b. November 8, 1943 in Meyzieu, France
ecrivain, musicologue, historien, conférencier, musicien
"Blues Unlimited", "Living Blues" and "Soul Bag" contributor
Gérard Herzhaft @ www.gerardherzhaft.com
Gérard Herzhaft 1980s; source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 6; click to enlarge!
Gérard Herzhaft 1980s

source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 6
; click to enlarge!
Gérard Herzhaft

source: www.blogger.com

 

Norbert Hess
Louisiana Red, Karlheinz Drechsel, Norbert Hess, Doctor Ross, Tommy Tucker, East-Berlin, Hochschule für Ökonomie, November 24, 1977; >source: Blues Forum #6 (2. Quartal 1982), p. 15; photographer: Uli Pschewoschny; click to enlarge!
Louisiana Red, Karlheinz Drechsel, Norbert Hess, Doctor Ross, Tommy Tucker
East-Berlin, Hochschule für Ökonomie, November 24, 1977

source: Blues Forum #6 (2. Quartal 1982), p. 15; photographer: Uli Pschewoschny
["highlight" by Stefan Wirz}

 

Yasufumi Higurashi
founder and owner of P-Vine Records


source:

 

Lee Hildebrand
Images of the Blues (1998) @ jazztimes.com
Lee Tanner & Lee Hildebrand, late 1990s; source: Block #110 (somer 1998), p. 29; photographer: Chris Duffey; click to enlarge!
Lee Tanner & Lee Hildebrand, late 1990s

source: Block #110 (somer 1998), p. 29; photographer: Chris Duffey

 

Dr. Donald R. Hill
b. November 21, 19?? in Palos Verdes Estates, California
Prof. of Africana and Latino Studies and Anthropology at State University College at Oneonta, New York
Donald Hill @ oneonta.edu
Donald Hill @ facebook
Bob Koester & Don Hill; source: http://bluesrevue.com/2011/01/the-photo-page-%E2%80%93-bob-koester-delmark-and-magic-sam-1-7-11/#; click to enlarge!
Don Hill & Bob Koester, early 1960s
when Seymour's Record Mart became The Jazz Record Mart

source: bluesrevue.com

 

Jaap Hindriks
b. September 1, 1950
Blues Estafette @ www.bluesworld.com
; click to enlarge!
Blues Estafette promoter Jaap Hindriks & Long John Hunter

source: Block #106 (april/mei/juni 1998), p. 38; photographer: Marc Frijlink

 

Jac Holzman
b. September 15, 1931 in New York City
founder, chief executive officer and head of both Elektra Records and Nonesuch Records
Jac Holzman @ Wikipedia
Elektra Records @ Wikipedia
Jac Holzman, Theo Bikel, Pete & Toshi Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Fred Hellerman, Maynard Solomon, 1965; source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down. The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York (Anchor Books) 1979, p. 264; photographer: David Gahr; click to enlarge!
Jac Holzman, Theo Bikel, Pete & Toshi Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Fred Hellerman, Maynard Solomon, 1965

source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down. The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.-
New York (Anchor Books) 1979, p. 264; photographer: David Gahr

 

André Hobus
@


source:

 

Michael Hortig
b. July 19, 1958 in Graz, Austria
Austrian boogie woogie and blues pianist; photographer; field recordings 1980 & 1981 in the south of the USA;
magazine contributor; organizer (since 2002) of the annual Steirische Boogie Woogie Festival in Arnfels, Austria
Michael Hortig @ facebook.com
Michael Hortig @ discogs.com
Michael Hortig @ allmusic.com
Michael Hortig & M O T T   W I L L I S near Chrystal Springs, Mississippi, October 1981; courtesy of Michael Hortig
Michael Hortig & Mott Willis near Chrystal Springs, Mississippi, October 1981
Courtesy of Michael Hortig
Michael Hortig, 2016; source: Michael Hortig's facebook page
Michael Hortig 2016
source: Michael Hortig's facebook page

 

Thomas Tom Byrd Hoskins a/k/a "Fang"
b. February 3, 1941 in Charlottesville, Virginia
d. January 27, 2002
rediscoverer and for a while manager of Mississippi John Hurt
"Fang" @ www.bluesworld.com
; click to enlarge!
Tom Hoskins

source: http://myforum.mississippijohnhurtnews.com/... (courtesy Fred Bolden)

 

Cilla & Mick Huggins
Cilla Huggins b. November 20, 19?? in Bristol, England
Mick Huggins b. December 27, 1947 in Hitchin, England
www.jukeblues.com
Bez Turner, Cilla Huggins & Chris Strachwitz, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Bez Turner, Cilla Huggins & Chris Strachwitz
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
Cilla Huggins, Ike & Jeannette Turner and Mick Huggins at the London Television Studios on the South Bank, 1997; ('photo by Nigel Cawthorne, courtesy Cilla Huggins'); click to enlarge!
Cilla Huggins, Ike & Jeannette Turner and Mick Huggins
at the London Television Studios on the South Bank, 1997

source: www.bobcorritore.com ("photo by Nigel Cawthorne
courtesy Cilla Huggins")

 

Terence "Terry" Ibbott
record cover designer, photographer
@


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Bruce Iglauer
b. July 10, 1947 in Ann Arbor, Michigan
founder and owner of Alligator Records
www.alligator.com
; click to enlarge!
Bruce Iglauer, Jerry Del Guidice, Bob Koester & Michael Frank, 2012

source: www.thebluesblast.com; photographer: Bob Kieser

 

Carl Jones
aka C.J., Jump Jones, Morris Jones and Carl O'Jones
b. June 9, 1913 in Waxahatchie, Texas
d. September 24, 1985 in Chicago, Illinois
musician; owner of C.J., Colt, Firma Records
C.J. Records @ rateyourmusic.com
Colt Records @ rateyourmusic.com
Firma Records @ rateyourmusic.com
; click to enlarge!
source: Living Blues # 30 (nov.-dec. 1976), p. 9 ("Courtesy Carl Jones")
; click to enlarge!

 

Max Jones
@


source:

 

Marc de Jonghe   →→→   Marc de Jonghe

 

Orrin Keepnews
@


source:

 

Charles Keil
author "Urban Blues"
@


source:

 

Donald Theodore Don Kent
b. April 20, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois
Don & Sylvia Kent's house on Hudlow Road in Union Mills caught fire February 26, 2013;
Don had 2nd degree burn wounds on his hands after he tried to rescue inventory - hence the gloves in the 2010s photo!
Latest news as of March 28, 2013

d. August 9, 2015 at the Regional Medical Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina
; click to enlarge!
Don Kent @ Wikipedia
Don Kent obituary @ nytimes.com

Mamlish Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Country Turtle Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Flying Crow Records discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!   ; click to enlarge!
; click to enlarge!
Don Kent 1997

source: Yazoo Collector's Get-Together. NJ, summer '97
[see photo top left]
; click to enlarge!
Don Kent 2010s

source: John [Heneghan]'s Old Time Radio Show

 

Karl Georg Günther Kieser
b. March 24, 1930 in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany
Günther Kieser @ Wikipedia (de)
; click to enlarge!
Günther Kieser 19??

source: www.lr-musikarchiv.de
; click to enlarge!
Günther Kieser 2010

source: www.op-online.de; photographer: George

 

Klaus 'Mojo' Kilian
@


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Bernard S. "Bernie" Klatzko
b. August 30, 1926 in Deer Park, New York
d. November 15, 1999 (73) at North Shore Hospital in Glen Cove, New York
Herwin Records discography @ www.wirz.de
obituary @ The New York Times
; click to enlarge!
Bernie Klatzko
at the Jazz Record Center in New York City

source: 78 Quarterly #1 (1967), p. 30; no credit given
; click to enlarge!
Bernie Klatzko 1997

source: Yazoo Collector's Get-Together, NJ, summer '97
[see photo top left of this page]

 

Dan Kochakian
@


source:

 

Robert Gregg Bob Koester   R.I.P.
b. October 30, 1932 in Wichita, Kansas
d. May 12, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois
Bob Koester @ Wikipedia
Delmark Records @ www.delmark.com
History of Delmark Records by Sandra Pointer-Jones @ www.delmark.com
A day in the life of Delmark Records by Andy Argyrakis @ www.concertlivewire.com
Bob Koester & Don Hill; source: http://bluesrevue.com/2011/01/the-photo-page-%E2%80%93-bob-koester-delmark-and-magic-sam-1-7-11/#; click to enlarge!
Don Hill & Bob Koester, early 1960s
when Seymour's Record Mart became The Jazz Record Mart

source: bluesrevue.com
Bob Koester in the Jazz Record Mart; source: http://indangerousrhythm.blogspot.de/2008/10/bob-koester-76-today.html; click to enlarge!
Bob Koester in the Jazz Record Mart

source: indangerousrhythm.blogspot.de
Bob Koester, 2008; source: http://www.concertlivewire.com/delmark.htm; click to enlarge!
Bob Koester, 2008

source: www.concertlivewire.com; photographer: Andy Argyrakis
Bob Koester, 2008; source: http://www.concertlivewire.com/delmark.htm; click to enlarge!
Bob Koester, 2008

source: www.concertlivewire.com; photographer: Andy Argyrakis

 

Alexis Korner
@
source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1992, p. 18; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir; click to enlarge!
Alexis Korner

source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 2.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1992, p. 18; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir

 

Edward Krehbiel
@

 

Renaud Kriger & André Fanelli
co-founders and co-editors of "Blues and Swing Magazine"
; click to enlarge!
Renaud Kriger, André Fanelli, Claude Gazengel, T-Bone Walker & Koko Taylor, Montreux 1972

bluesandswing.over-blog.com

 

Axel Küstner
b. April 5, 1956 in Göttingen, Germany; lives in Bad Gandersheim, Germany
Big Joe Williams, Crawford, Mississippi, September 1978; click to enlarge!
L+R Records discography (Living Country Blues USA series)
@ www.wirz.de
Living Country Blues USA; click to enlarge!
Axel Küstner & Archie Edwards 1980; source: notes to L+R 42.030; photographer: Axel Küstner; click to enlarge!
Axel Küstner & Archie Edwards 1980

source: notes to L+R 42.030; photographer: Axel Küstner
 
Axel Küstner; source: http://www.lr-musikarchiv.de/sammlungen.html; click to enlarge!
Axel Küstner

source: www.lr-musikarchiv.de
David Evans, g & Axel Küstner, hca, June 21, 2011 at Fête de la musique Hannover, Germany; source: notes to L+R 42.030; photographer: David Evans, g & Axel Küstner, hca; June 21, 2011 at Fête de la musique Hannover, Germany; photographer: Stefan Wirz; click to enlarge!
David Evans, g & Axel Küstner, hca; June 21, 2011
at Fête de la musique Hannover, Germany

photographer: Stefan Wirz
 
Axel Küstner at an exhibition of his photographs in Aschersleben, Germany, October 2008; source: http://www.mz-web.de/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=ksta/page&atype=ksArtikel&aid=1222437584643; click to enlarge!
Axel Küstner at an exhibition of his photographs ("Images of the Deep South")
in Aschersleben, Germany, October 2008

source: www.mz-web.de; photographer: Susanne Thon

 

Karl Emil Knudsen
b. June 16, 1929 in Copenhagen(?), Denmark
d. September 5, 2003 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Storyville Records
Storyville Records @ Wikipedia
Storyville Records (blues) discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Karl Emil Knudsen

source: www.karl-emil-knudsen.dk

 

Michael 'Cub' Koda
b. October 1, 1948 in Detroit, Michigan


 

Leonard Len Kunstadt a/k/a "Kazoo Papa"
b. May 15, 1925 in Brownsville, Brooklyn, New York City
d. April 23, 1996 (70) in New York City
Len Kunstadt @ Wikipedia
www.spiveyrecords.com
Spivey Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Len Kunstadt & Victoria Spivey; click to enlarge!
Len Kunstadt & Victoria Spivey

source: www.spiveyrecords.com
 
Len Kunstadt in his storage place, Brooklyn, May 2, 1981; source: Blues Forum #11 (3. Quartal 1983), p. 9; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Len Kunstadt in his storage place, Brooklyn, May 2, 1981

source: Blues Forum #11 (3. Quartal 1983), p. 9; photographer: Norbert Hess
'Kazoo Papa: Len Kunstadt, Helmstedt, Germany, April 30, 1980; source: Blues Forum #11 (3. Quartal 1983), p. 14; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
"Kazoo Papa" Len Kunstadt
Helmstedt, Germany, April 30, 1980

source: Blues Forum #11 (3. Quartal 1983), p. 14; photographer: Norbert Hess
 
Len Kunstadt, Brooklyn, February 19, 1983, with 30,000 newly acquired 78 rpm records; source: Blues Forum #11 (3. Quartal 1983), p. 13; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Len Kunstadt, Brooklyn, February 19, 1983
with 30,000 newly acquired 78 rpm records

source: Blues Forum #11 (3. Quartal 1983), p. 13; photographer: Norbert Hess

 

Arthur C. Art Laibly / Laibley / Leibley
b. April 17, 1894 in Cincinnati, Ohio
d. October 30, 1971 in Arlington Heights, Cook County, Illinois
Paramount Records' sales manager and recording director
Arthur Laibley @ www.recordingpioneers.com
Arthur Laibly; source: 78 Quarterly #7 (1992), p. 26; click to enlarge!
Arthur Laibly

source: 78 Quarterly #7 (1992), p. 26
("courtesy of Gayle Dean Wardlow")

 

Stephen C. [Charles] Steve LaVere
b. December 11, 1943 in North Hollywood, California
d. December 27, 2015 at his residence in Greenwood, Mississippi   R.I.P.
www.deltahaze.com
Willie Coffee & Stephen C. LaVere; source: Blues & Rhythm 153 (October 2000), p. 23; from Robert Mugge's film
Willie Coffee & Stephen C. LaVere

source: Blues & Rhythm 153 (October 2000), p. 23
(from Robert Mugge's film "Hellhounds on my Trail"
Courtesy Charlotte Ferguson, Leeds International Film Festival)

 

Donald Firth Don Law
b. February 24, 1902 in London, England
d. December 20, 1982 in LaMarque, Texas
head of Columbia Records' "country music" division
Don Law bio @ www.rockabilly.nl
; click to enlarge!
Don Law

source: countrymusichalloffame.org

 

Mike Andrew Leadbitter
b. March 12, 1942 in Simla, India
d. November 16, 1974 (32) in London, England
Mike Leadbitter and Blues Unlimited @ www.recordsbymail.com
Blues Unlimited team, 1964; l.-r.: Neil Paterson, Simon Napier, John Broven, Graham Ackers, Rose & Mike Leadbitter, Anna & Dave Williams; source: ; click to enlarge!
Blues Unlimited team, 1964
Neil Paterson, Simon Napier, John Broven, Graham Ackers,
Rose & Mike Leadbitter, Anna & Dave Williams

source: http://johnbroven.com/jjb/biography.html
 
Blues Unlimited #111 (December - January 1974/75), p. 3; click to enlarge!
Mike Leadbitter

source: Blues Unlimited #111 (December - January 1974/75), p. 3
photographer's name not given
front cover of Blues Unlimited #111 (December - January 1974/75); click to enlarge!
Jackie Wilson & Mike Leadbitter

source: front cover of Blues Unlimited #111 (December - January 1974/75)
photographer's name not given

 

Eric Stephen LeBlanc a/k/a eRIC LeBlanc
b. March 19, 1946 in St. John, New Brunswick, Canada; raised in Montreal, Canada
d. September 2, 2015 (69) in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada   R.I.P.
His research data have been published in the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2nd ed., 2002),
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues (2005) and numerous magazines,
including Goldmine, Down Beat, Blues & Rhythm, Living Blues, and Juke Blues
He wrote (with Bob Eagle) "Blues - A Regional Experience"
Eric LeBlanc @ vcm.bc.ca
obituary @ www.earthsoption.com
Eric LeBlanc; photo from Victoria Times Colonist newspaper by Adrian Lam; click to enlarge!
Eric LeBlanc

source: Victoria Times Colonist; photographer: Adrian Lam

 

Jean-Pierre Leloir
b. June 27, 1931 in Paris, France
d. December 20, 2010 in Paris, France
photographer

www.photo-leloir.net
Jean-Pierre Leloir @ Wikipedia (fr)
Jean-Pierre Leloir obituary by Pierre Perrone @ www.independent.co.uk
; click to enlarge!
François-René Cristiani, Jean-Pierre Leloir in action, Jacques Brel, Léo Ferré
& Georges Brassens, January 6, 1969 in Paris, France ("Table Ronde BBF")

source: sicavouschante.over-blog.com ("collection Leloir")
Jean-Pierre Leloir 1989; source: href=
Jean-Pierre Leloir 1989

source: www.independent.co.uk

 

Horst Lippmann
b. 1927 in Eisenach, Germany
d. 1997 in Frankfurt a. M., Germany
Horst Lippmann @ Wikipedia
American Folk Blues Festival discography @ www.wirz.de
Scout Records discography @ www.wirz.de
L+R Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau; source: front cover of L+R ; click to enlarge!
Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau

source: front cover of L+R

 

John Avery & Alan Lomax
@


source:

 

Mel London
b. April 9, 1932 in Mississippi
d. May 16, 1975 (43) in Chicago, Illinois
songwriter, record producer, and record label owner
(1957-1964: Chief Records and its subsidiaries Profile Records and Age Records;
later: All-Points, Mel/Mel-Lon, Bright Star, and Starville Records)
Mel London @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Mel London (left) & Ricky Allen (right)

source: http://sundayblues.org/archives/tag/mel-london

 

James Baxter Long, Sr. "J.B." Long
b. December 25, 1903 in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
d. February 25, 1975 in Burlington, North Carolina
J.B. Long @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
J.B. Long

source: Blues Unlimited 108 (June/July 1974), p.15

 

Christopher 'Kip' Lornell
b. February 13, 1953 in Denver, Colorado
@
; click to enlarge!
Charles Wolfe & Kip Lornell 1992(?)

source: The Life & Legend of Leadbelly (1992), blurb

 

Rainer E. Lotz
b. 1937 in Hamburg, Germany
Rainer E. Lotz @ facebook.com
; click to enlarge!
Rainer E. Lotz

www.russian-records.com

 

Peter B. Lowry f/k/a Pete Lowry
b. April 1, 1941 in Montclair, New Jersey
Peter B. Lowry @ Wikipedia
Trix Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Pete Lowry & Tarheel Slim 1970s; source: The Blues Collection # 84 ('East Coast Blues') (1996), p. 1006; photographer: Valerie Wilmer; click to enlarge!
Pete Lowry & Tarheel Slim 1970s

source: The Blues Collection # 84 ('East Coast Blues') (1996), p. 1006
photographer: Valerie Wilmer
<b>Pete Lowry</b> & Tarheel Slim 1970s; source: Blues Unlimited 123 (1977), p. 30; click to enlarge!
Pete Lowry & Tarheel Slim 1970s

source: Blues Unlimited 123 (1977), p. 30
photographer: Valerie Wilmer

 

Herman Lubinsky
b. August 30, 1896 in Bradford, Connecticut
d. March 16, 1974 in Montclair, New Jersey
radio station owner and principal of Savoy Records and affiliated labels

short Herman Lubinski bio @ www.rockabilly.nl
Savoy Records @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Herman Lubinsky

source: www.fineprintheroes.com
; click to enlarge!
Herman Lubinsky

source: www.uncamarvy.com

 

R R Macleod
d. December 19, 2009 in N. Berwick, Scotland, UK
@


source:

 

Fritz Marschall
; click to enlarge!
founder of "german BLUES circle" (GBC) /
editor of "german BLUES circle info" (1976 - 2006)
; click to enlarge!
; click to enlarge!
Fritz Marschall

source: www.lr-musikarchiv.de

 

Robert Burton 'Mack' McCormick
b. August 3, 1930 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
d. November 18, 2015 in Houston, Texas
musicologist and folklorist

Mack McCormick Foundation @ www.mackmccormick.org
Mack McCormick @ Wikipedia
Mack McCormick obituary @ TexasMonthly
Mack McCormick ; source: http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/rip-mack-mccormick/; click to enlarge!
Mack McCormick

source: http://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/rip-mack-mccormick/
Mack McCormick, December 23, 2006; source: http://www.mackmccormick.org; photographer: John Tennison; click to enlarge!
Mack McCormick, December 23, 2006

source: www.mackmccormick.org; photographer: John Tennison

 

Bob McGrath
producer of discographies


 

James McKune
b. 1911 at Long Island City, Queens, New York
murdered September 11, 1971 in a hotel room at the Broadway Central, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, East 4th St., New York City
legendary pioneer blues collector
Natural Truth - Marybeth Hamilton celebrates the passion of a record collector
; click to enlarge! ; click to enlarge!
source: 78 Quarterly Vol 1, No 3 (1988), p. 54 (McKune article at pp. 54-62) (Ruth Berg being his sister 3 years his junior)

 

Lillian Shed McMurry
b. December 30, 1921 in Purvis, Mississippi
d. March 18, 1999 in Jackson, Mississippi
record producer, in 1950 formed Diamond Record Company,
the Trumpet Records label and Globe Music publishing company
Lillian McMurry @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Lillian McMurry

source: www.thisdayinrock.com/

 

Huey Meaux
record producer, label owner


 

Lester Franklin Melrose
b. December 14, 1891 in Sumner, Illinois, relocated to Chicago around 1914
d. April 12, 1968 in Lake, Florida
record producer & talent scout for RCA Victor Records and its subsidiary Bluebird, Columbia, and Okeh

Lester Melrose @ Wikipedia
top row: Ernest (Little Son Joe) Lawlars, Big Bill Broonzy, Lester Melrose, Roosevelt Sykes, St. Louis Jimmy Oden; below: Washboard Sam, c. 1940s; source: http://www.highway61radio.com/?p=3419 ('Yannick and Margo Bruynoghe Collection'); click to enlarge!
top row: Ernest (Little Son Joe) Lawlars, Big Bill Broonzy, Lester Melrose
Roosevelt Sykes, St. Louis Jimmy Oden; below: Washboard Sam, c. 1940s

source: www.press.uchicago.edu ("Yannick and Margo Bruynoghe Collection")
Lester Melrose & Tampa Red; source: Blues & Rhythm #31 (Sept. 1987), p. 27; click to enlarge!
Lester Melrose & Tampa Red

source: www.africanafrican.com

 

Fred 'Freddy' Mendelsohn
b. May 16, 1917
d. April 28, 2000 in Palm Beach County, Florida
record producer, talent scout; co-founder of Regent Records, Herald Records and Regal Records
president (partner of Herman Lubinsky) of Savoy Records

Fred Mendelsohn @ Wikipedia

Regent Records @ Wikipedia
Herald Records @ Wikipedia
Regal Records @ Wikipedia
Savoy Records @ Wikipedia
Ralph Bass, James Cleveland & Freddy Mendelsohn, 1970s (September 1973? or April 1975?); source: Blues Unlimited #119 (May/June 1976), p. 21; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Ralph Bass, James Cleveland & Freddy Mendelsohn, 1970s

source: Blues Unlimited #119 (May/June 1976), p. 21; photographer: Norbert Hess

 

Eddie & Leo Mesner
Aladdin Records


source:

 

Anton J. Mikofsky
photographer
@


source:

 

Andrew Cameron Miller
co-founder of Revival Records

Revival Records @ Wikipedia
Revival Records discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!

 

Joseph Denton "Jay D." Miller a/k/a J.D. Miller
b. May 5, 1921 in Iota, Louisiana, but spent many childhood years in El Campo, Texas
d. March 23, 1996 in Lafayette, Louisiana
J.D. "Jay" Miller @ Wikipedia
Jay Miller in front of his Modern Music Center in Crowley, LA, December 15, 1980; source: Blues Forum #7 (3. Quartal 1982), p. 13; photographer: Erik Lindahl/Jefferson; click to enlarge!
Jay D. Miller in front of his Modern Music Center
in Crowley, LA, December 15, 1980

source: Blues Forum #7 (3. Quartal 1982), p. 13
photographer: Erik Lindahl/Jefferson
Jay Miller & Johnnie Allen, Crowley, LA, August 30, 1984; source: Blues Forum #16 (4. Quartal 1984), p. 44; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Jay Miller & Johnnie Allen, Crowley, LA, August 30, 1984

source: Blues Forum #16 (4. Quartal 1984), p. 44; photographer: Norbert Hess

 

George Mitchell
b. January 9, 1944 in Coral Gables, Florida
and raised in Atlanta, Georgia
music historian, writer, record producer, musician and photographer
George Mitchell @ Wikipedia
George Mitchell bio @ www.libs.uga.edu
George Mitchell @ flickr.com
; click to enlarge!
George Mitchell

source: www.libs.uga.edu
; click to enlarge!
George Mitchell & George Daniel

source: www.examiner.com; photographer: Fred Fussell

 

Kurt Mohr
b. September 12, 1921 in Geneva, Switzerland
d. November 4, 2007 (86) in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Timeline for Kurt Mohr @ In A Mellow Tone
obituary @ Soul Bag
Jimmy Rushing and <b>Kurt Mohr</b>, Paris, October 1957; click to enlarge!
Jimmy Rushing and Kurt Mohr, Paris, October 1957

source: http://rollcallblog.blogspot.de/2009_01_29_archive.html
("© Marc Biker, collection Imperial")
Aretha Franklin, Ted White & Kurt Mohr, Paris, May 1968; click to enlarge!
Aretha Franklin, Ted White & Kurt Mohr, Paris, May 1968

source: http://www.otisredding.fr/rock&_folk.htm
("© Kurt Mohr, personel collection")

 

Peter Moody
Sunflower Records discography @ www.wirz.de


source:

 

George A. Moonoogian
b. January 14, 1941 in Haverhill, Essex, Massachusetts
d. December 17, 2012 in Amesbury, Massachusetts
co-editor of "Whiskey, Women and . . ."
; click to enlarge!   ; click to enlarge!
George Moonoogian as member of "The Serenders" (left) and a/k/a G.M. Hooker

(courtesy Craig Ruskey and Ray Templeton)

 

Jacques Morgantini
b. 1924 (?) in Pau, France
living in Gan - 7, rue du Padoin F.64 (near Pau, France)
French historian of blues and jazz music
co-founder of "Hot club de France"
Jacques Morgantini @ www.discogs.com
Jacques Morgantini (standing), Hugues Panassié (seated left) and Mezz Mezzrow; source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 5.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 115; photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir; click to enlarge!
Jacques Morgantini (standing),
Hugues Panassié (seated left) and Mezz Mezzrow

source: Les Génies du Blues, Volume 5.- Paris (Editions Atlas) 1993, p. 115
photographer: Jean-Pierre Leloir
Jacques Morgantini ; source: http://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/2013/02/12/conference-de-jacques-morgantini,1117501.php; photographer: 'DR'; click to enlarge!
Jacques Morgantini, 2013

source: http://www.larepubliquedespyrenees.fr/2013/02/12/conference-de-jacques-morgantini,1117501.php; photographer: "DR"

 

Marcelle Chailleux Morgantini
b. April 7, 1925 in Sarthe, France
d. September 23, 2007 (82) in Gan, France
; click to enlarge!
feature "Marcelle Morgantini and MCM Records" @ Son Maxwell

MCM Records discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Luc Nicolas-Morgantini, Muddy Waters Jr. (James Williams), Marcelle Morgantini, Bobby King and Didier Tricard, Chicago, October 1975; source: http://www.soulbag.presse.fr ('photo courtesy Didier Tricard'); click to enlarge!
Luc Nicolas-Morgantini, Muddy Waters Jr. (James Williams), Marcelle
Morgantini
, Bobby King and Didier Tricard,
Chicago, October 1975

source: http://www.soulbag.presse.fr ("photo courtesy Didier Tricard")
Marcelle Morgantini mixing at Ma Bea's 1975/76; source: http://www.unrulysun.net/sonmaxwell/feature-marcelle-morgantini-and-mcm-records/; click to enlarge!
Marcelle Morgantini mixing at Ma Bea's 1975/76

source: www.unrulysun.net

 

Tony Mostrom
b.
@

Tony Mostrom

source:

 

Robert Mugge
@


source:

 

Simon Napier
b. October 31, 1939 in Manchester, England
d. December 1, 1990 (51) in Cooden (suburb of Bexhill-on Sea), England
co-founder and editor of 'Blues Unlimited' magazine
Blues Unlimited team, 1964; l.-r.: Neil Paterson, Simon Napier, John Broven, Graham Ackers, Rose & Mike Leadbitter, Anna & Dave Williams; source: ; click to enlarge!
Blues Unlimited team, 1964
Neil Paterson, Simon Napier, John Broven, Graham Ackers,
Rose & Mike Leadbitter, Anna & Dave Williams

source: http://johnbroven.com/jjb/biography.html
 
Simon Napier & Karl Gert zur Heide at Blues Convention, London, 1969; source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18; photographer: Charles Colquhoun; click to enlarge!
Simon Napier & Karl Gert zur Heide
at Blues Convention, London, 1969

source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18; photographer: Charles Colquhoun
Simon Napier in the Bexhill basement, 1972; source: Juke Blues #22 (Winter/Spring 1991), p. 22 ('courtesy Diana Napier'); click to enlarge!
Simon Napier in the Bexhill basement, 1972

source: Juke Blues #22 (Winter/Spring 1991), p. 22 ("courtesy Diana Napier")
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott

 

Syd Nathan
b. April 27, 1904 March 5, 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio
d. March 5, 1968 in Miami Beach, Florida
Syd Nathan @ Wikipedia
Syd Nathan biography @ rockhall.com
Syd Nathan; source: http://wfmuichiban.blogspot.de/2012/05/syd-nathan-speaks.html; click to enlarge!
Syd Nathan

source: wfmuichiban.blogspot.de
 
; click to enlarge!
Syd Nathan and King Records @ youtube.com
Syd Nathan & Hank Ballard; source: Ace Records ad in Blues & Rhythm #273 (October 2012), p. 2 ('Courtesy King Records'); click to enlarge!
Syd Nathan & Hank Ballard

source: Ace Records ad in Blues & Rhythm #273
(October 2012), p. 2 ("Courtesy King Records")

 

Richard Nevins
b. 1943
co-founder (with Dan Collins) of Shanachie Entertainment
shanachie.com
Shanachie Records @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Richard Nevins 1997

source: Yazoo Collector's Get-Together. NJ, summer '97 [see photo top left]

 

Giles Oakley
author "The Devil's Music"


source:

 

Eli Oberstein
Bluebird A&R man and owner of "Varsity" records
@


source:

 

Jas Obrecht
@


source:

 

Martin van Olderen   →→→   Martin van Olderen

 

Paul Oliver
b. May 25, 1927 in Nottingham, England
d. August 15, 2017 in Shipton-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire, England
Paul Oliver @ Wikipedia
Paul Oliver & Paul 'Sailor' Vernon; click to enlarge!
Paul Oliver & Paul "Sailor" Vernon
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
Paul Oliver; click to enlarge!
Paul Oliver and Johnny Parth, Vienna, 1987

source: Blues & Rhythm 120 (1997), p. 10

 

Bengt Olsson
b. May 27, 1949 in Helsingborg, Sweden
d. January 19, 2008 in Malmö, Sweden
discography of Bengt Olsson recordings @ www.wirz.de
Bengt Olsson in front of his shop 'Gray's' in Malmö, Sweden, c. 1998/99; photo courtesy of Scott Barretta; click to enlarge!
Bengt Olsson in front of his shop "Gray's" in Malmö, Sweden, c. 1998/99

photo courtesy of Scott Barretta

 

Amy van Singel / Jim O'Neal
Amy van Singel (temporarily known as Amy O'Neal) a/k/a "Atomic Mama"   b. October 11, 1949 in Hinsdale, Illinois
d. September 19, 2016 in Ellsworth, Maine
Jim O'Neal   b. November 25, 1948 in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Jim O'Neal @ Bluesesoterica
Jim & Amy O'Neal; source: eBay auction; click to enlarge!
 
Jim & Amy O'Neal; source: eBay auction; click to enlarge!
 
Jim & Amy O'Neal; source: eBay auction; click to enlarge!
Jim & Amy O'Neal 1983

source: eBay auction of CHICAGO SUN-Times photos taken by Jim Klepitch
 
Jim & Amy O'Neal; source: eBay auction; click to enlarge!
back of photo on the left including a copy of the short
article in the CHICAGO SUN, Febr. 27, 1983
; click to enlarge!
Paul Garon, Jim O'Neal, Amy van Singel, Mark Camarrig, Scott Barretta at Living Blues Magazine Panel
during Blues Symposium at Dominican University, 2010

source: Alex Thomas' facebook photo (brightness enhanced by Stefan Wirz)

 

Dr. Harry Oster
b. April 12, 1923 in Cambridge, Massachusetts
d. January 19, 2001 in Iowa City, Iowa
Harry Oster @ Wikipedia
discography of Harry Oster recordings @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Harry Oster

source: Harry Oster: Living Country Blues.-
Detroit (Folklore Associates), 1969, blurb
; click to enlarge!
Willie B. Thomas, Harry Oster, and Butch Cage 1960

source: David Gahr / Richard Shelton: The Face Of Folk Music.- New York 1968, p. 45
photographer: David Gahr

 

Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes, better known as Johnny Otis
b. December 28, 1921 in Vallejo, California, grew up in Berkeley, California
d. January 17, 2012 in Los Angeles, California
musician, producer, songwriter, record label owner
Johnny Otis @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Johnny Otis, Shuggie Otis & Bobby Day

photographer: Frank Scott

 

Tary Owens
b. November 6, 1942 in Toledo, Ohio
d. September 21, 2003 in Houston, Texas
; click to enlarge!
Tary Owens page @ www.maryannprice.com

Tary Owens short bio @ www.texasghetto.org

"Tary Owens, Texas Folklorist and Musician - A Life Remembered"
by Ruth K. Sullivan
@ library.txstate.edu

Catfish Records @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Tary Owens & Grey Ghost; click to enlarge!
Tary Owens & Grey Ghost

source: www.austinchronicle.com; photographer: Martha Grenon
Tary Owens; click to enlarge!
Tary Owens

source: www.maryannprice.com

 

Harry Herbert Pace
b. January 6, 1884 in Covington, Georgia
d. 1943 in Chicago, IL; Illinois
Harry Pace @ Wikipedia
Black Swan Records founder Harry Pace, an original @ www.aaregistry.org
The Rise and Fall of Black Swan Records by Jitu K. Weusi @ www.redhotjazz.com
; click to enlarge!
Harry H. Pace

source: harryherbertpace.blogspot.de
some cleaning up of original photo by Stefan Wirz

 

Stevenson Palfi
@


source:

 

Robert Franklin Palmer Jr.
b. June 19, 1945 in Little Rock, Arkansas
d. November 20, 1997 at the Westchester County Medical Center in Valhalla, New York
writer, musicologist, clarinetist, saxophonist, and blues producer
Robert Palmer @ Wikipedia
Robert Palmer; source: Robert Palmer: Deep Blues.- New York (The Viking Press), 1981, blurb; click to enlarge!
Robert Palmer

source: Robert Palmer: Deep Blues.- New York (The Viking Press), 1981, blurb

 

Hugues Panassié
b. February 27, 1912 in Paris, France
d. December 8, 1974 in Montauban, France
French jazz critic and record producer
co-founder of "Hot club de France"

Hugues Panassié @ Wikipedia
Hugues Panassié tribute @ Youtube
Hugues Panassie; click to enlarge!
Hugues Panassié & Tiny Grimes, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948

source: Wikipedia; photographer: William P. Gottlieb

 

Johnny Parth
b. December 12, 1923 in Vienna, Austria
Johnny Parth @ Wikipedia

Roots Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Paltram Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Truth Records discography @ www.wirz.de
HK Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Paul Oliver; click to enlarge!
Paul Oliver and Johnny Parth, Vienna, 1987

source: Blues & Rhythm 120 (1997), p. 10

 

George Paulus
b. April 23, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois
d. November 15, 2014 in Downers Grove, Illinois
record producer, founder and owner of Barrelhouse Records, St. George Records,
African Folk Society, Delta Swing, Floatin' Bridge & Negro Rhythm Records

www.stgeorgerecords.com
George Paulus @ Wikipedia

Barrelhouse Records @ www.wirz.de
Negro Rhythm Records @ www.wirz.de
St. George Records @ www.wirz.de
George Paulus & Wanda Feathers (Charlie Feathers' daughter); click to enlarge!
George Paulus & Wanda Feathers (Charlie Feather's daughter)

source: www.hankwilliamslistings.com

 

Sonny Payne
@


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Dave Peabody
b. April 20, 1948 in Southall, Middlesex, London, England
Dave Peabody @ Wikipedia
Dave Peabody discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
John Cowley, Nancy Scott & Dave Peabody
(standing)
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott

 

Ralph Peer
b. Mai 22, 1892 in Independence, Missouri
d. January 19, 1960 in Hollywood, California
American talent scout, recording engineer and record producer in the field of music in the 1920s and 1930s
Ralph Peer @ Wikipedia


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Dave Penny
@
Dave Penny, 1980s; source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 18<br>photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Dave Penny, 1980s

source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 18
photographer's name not given

 

Jacques Périn
b. 1947 in Neuilly-sur-Seine
founder (1965) of R&B Appreciation Society; founder (1968) and editor (1968-2007) of "Soul Bag" magazine
membre du collège électoral de l'Académie du Jazz
Soul Bag @ Wikipedia (fr)
www.soulbag.presse.fr
Jacques Périn 1980s; source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 7; click to enlarge!
Jacques Périn 1980s

source: Soul Bag #100 (septembre/octobre 1984), p. 7
Jacques Périn & Sharrie Williams, January 18, 2012; source: http://blogdechoc.over-blog.com/article-academie-du-jazz-remise-des-prix-2011-97229353.html; click to enlarge!
Jacques Périn & Sharrie Williams, January 18, 2012

source: blogdechoc.over-blog.com

 

J. Nicholas 'Nick' Perls
b. April 4, 1942 in New York City
d. July 22, 1987 (45) in New York City
Nick Perls @ Wikipedia

Nick Perls appreciation page @ www.wirz.de
Yazoo Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Blue Goose Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro, June 23, 1964 (Son House 'rediscovery'); source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down - The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194; photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera; click to enlarge!
Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro
June 23, 1964 (Son House "rediscovery")

source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down
The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194
photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera
 
Nick Perls presenting a cheque to Sam Chatmon; source: Juke Blues No. 10 (Autumn 1987), p. 3, Editorial announcing Nick Perls's death on 22 July 1987 (
Nick Perls presenting a cheque to Sam Chatmon

source: Juke Blues No. 10 (Autumn 1987), p. 3, Editorial announcing
Nick Perls's death on 22 July 1987 ("courtesy Bob Groom)
Nick Perls; source: ; click to enlarge!
Mike Cooper & Nick Perls
at Blues Convention, London, 1969

source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18; photographer: Charles Colquhoun
Unknown (in whiteface) [this is <i>not</i> Larry Johnson!] & Nick Perls (in blackface); source: Front cover of Yazoo LP 1024; click to enlarge!
Unknown (in whiteface) [this is not Larry Johnson!]
& Nick Perls (in blackface)

source: Front cover of Yazoo LP 1024

 

Sam Phillips
@


source:

 

Leroy Jodie Pierson
b. October 22, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri
founder and owner of Boogie Disease Records , co-founder and co-owner of Nighthawk Records

Boogie Disease Records @ www.wirz.de
Nighthawks Records @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Leroy Jodie Pierson 1988(?)
source: front cover of Nighthawk LP 202 (1988)
; click to enlarge!
Leroy Jodie Pierson 2011

source: youtube.com

 

Sylvia Pitcher
@


source:

 

Marc PoKempner
b. January 14, 1948 in Pottsville, Pennsylvania
Chicago based independent photojournalist
www.pokempner.net
Marc PoKempner & Ray Flerlage, Chicago, September 3, 2000; >source: Block #115 (herfst 2000), p. 40; photographer: Rien Wisse; click to enlarge!
Marc PoKempner & Ray Flerlage, Chicago, September 3, 2000

source: Block #115 (herfst 2000), p. 40; photographer: Rien Wisse

 

Colin Pomeroy
West Kensington
founder of Jazz Collector label
@


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Tom Pomposello
@


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Dr. André J. M. Prévos
b. 1948 in Rochefort-sur-Mer, France
d. March 14, 2002 in Scranton, Pennsylvania (54)
Professor of foreign languages at Pennsylvania State University-Worthington Scranton
writer, contributor of "Soul Bag" magazine
; click to enlarge!
André M. Prévos

source: www.soulbag.presse.fr

 

William Russell 'Bill' Quinn
b. January 8, 1904 in Amesbury, Massachusetts
d. January 4, 1976 in Pasadena, Texas
founder and owner of Gold Star Records
Gold Star Records @ Wikipedia
Blues Unlimited #144 (Spring 1983), p. 26; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Bill Quinn

source: Blues Unlimited #144 (Spring 1983), p. 26; photographer's name not given

 

Frederic Ramsey Jr.

b. January 29, 1915 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
@
; click to enlarge!
Fred Ramsey, Jr. and Percy Humphrey

source: www.jerryjazzmusician.com

 

Fritz Rau
b. 1930 in Pforzheim, Germany
Fritz Rau @ Wikipedia

American Folk Blues Festival discography @ www.wirz.de
Scout Records discography @ www.wirz.de
L+R Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau; source: front cover of L+R ; click to enlarge!
Horst Lippmann & Fritz Rau

source: front cover of L+R

 

Mike Raven (real name: Austin Churton Fairman)
b. November 15, 1924 in London, England
d. April 24, 1997 (72) at Bodmin Moor, Cornwall, England
Mike Raven @ Wikipedia
obituary @ The Independent
Mike Raven 'The Mike Raven Blues Show' XTRA 1047 (1966); click to enlarge!
Mike Raven

"The Mike Raven Blues Show"   XTRA 1047 (1966)
Mike Raven 'The Mike Raven Blues Sampler', Transatlantic TRA SAM 5 (1969); click to enlarge!
Mike Raven

"The Mike Raven Blues Show"   Transatlantic TRA SAM 5 (1969)

 

Rosetta Reitz
b. September 28, 1924 in Utica, New York
d. November 1, 2008 in Manhattan, New York
feminist and jazz historian, founder and owner of Rosetta Records
Rosetta Reitz @ Wikipedia
Rosetta Records discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Rosetta Reitz

source: jwa.org/node/1320; photographer: Jill Lynne

 

Robert 'Bob' Riesman
b. October 31, 1954 in Illinois
@
; click to enlarge!
Bob Riesman

source:

 

Tano Ro
record producer, booking and management agent, photographer
www.feelingoodproductions.com
www.myspace.com/boogietano
Nico Vallone, Tano Ro, Gary Smith & Andy Just; source: http://www.myspace.com/boogietano/photos/3495765/tagged#{%22ImageId%22%3A3495765}; click to enlarge!
Nico Vallone, Tano Ro, Gary Smith & Andy Just

source: www.myspace.com

 

Don Deadric Robey
b. November 1, 1903 in the Fifth Ward of Houston, Texas
d. June 16, 1975 of a heart attack at St. Luke's Hospital in Houston, Texas
record label executive, songwriter and record producer; aka "Deadric Malone"
Don Robey @ Wikipedia
credits @ www.allmusic.com
; click to enlarge!
Don Robey, eating his hat

source: Billboard 9. Nov. 1963, pp. 11, 20

 

Bobby Robinson
b. April 16, 1917 in Union, South Carolina
d. January 7, 2011 (93) in Harlem, New York City
record shop owner, songwriter, and producer
Bobby Robinson @ Wikipedia
Bobby Robinson @ discogs.com

Bobby Robinson inside his store, 1976; source: Juke Blues 15 (Spring 1989), p. 11; photographer: Val Wilmer; click to enlarge!
Bobby Robinson inside his store, 1976

source: Juke Blues 15 (Spring 1989), p. 11; photographer: Val Wilmer

 

Gerrit Robs a/k/a Gerard Robs
Black Magic Records @ home.tiscali.nl/blackmagicrecords.nl
Don Zijlstra, Gerrit Robs & Jerry McCain at Blues Estafette '90, Utrecht, November 1990; source: Block #77 (jan/feb/mrt 1991), p. 14; photographer: Rien Wisse; click to enlarge!
Don Zijlstra, Gerrit Robs & Jerry McCain at Blues Estafette '90, Utrecht, November 1990

source: Block #77 (jan/feb/mrt 1991), p. 14; photographer: Rien Wisse

 

Arthur "Art" Rosenbaum
b. December 6, 1938 in Ogdensberg, New York, grown up in Indianapolis, Indiana
Art Rosenbaum @ artrosenbaum.org
A Conversation with Art Rosenbaum by Fred C. Fussell @ georgiamusicmag.com

THE WORLD AT LARGE - The Art Rosenbaum Mural at The University of Georgia Center for Humanities and Arts; source: http://artrosenbaum.org/reviews/worldatlarge.pdf; click to enlarge!
THE WORLD AT LARGE - The Art Rosenbaum Mural at The University of Georgia Center for Humanities and Arts

source: http://artrosenbaum.org/reviews/worldatlarge.pdf
Art Rosenbaum recording Ronister Johnson, Sapelo Island, 1976; click to enlarge!
Art Rosenbaum recording Ronister Johnson
Sapelo Island, 1976

source: front cover of "Art Of Field Recording Sampler"
Dust-to-Digital DTD-06 (2006)
Art Rosenbaum plays six string banjo<br>in front of one of his paintings, 2005; photographer: Fred C. Fussell; click to enlarge!
Art Rosenbaum plays six string banjo
in front of one of his paintings, 2005

source: www.downhomeradioshow.com
photographer: Fred C. Fussell

 

Gene Rosenthal
b. January 16, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri
founder and owner of Adelphi Records
www.adelphirecords.com Adelphi Records discography @ www.wirz.de
John Townley, Peter Stampfel & Gene Rosenthal in Soho, NYC, 2010; source: http://www.astrococktail.com/sailor.html; photographer: Susan Townley; click to enlarge!
John Townley, Peter Stampfel & Gene Rosenthal in Soho, NYC, 2010

source: www.astrococktail.com; photographer: Susan Townley

 

Anthony Rotante
editor of "Blues Research"


source:

 

Fred Rothwell
author of "Long Distance Information - Chuck Berry's Recorded Legacy.- Music Mentor Books 2001
co-author (with Phil Wight) of "The Complete Muddy Waters Discography".- Blues & Rhythm Publication 1992
"Blues & Rhythm" contributor
; click to enlarge!
Phil Wight & Fred Rothwell

(courtesy Phil Wight)

 

Bill Rowe
b. September 13, 1947 in Portsmouth, England
d. December 9, 1997 (50) in Portsmouth, England
Introduction to Otis Spann - the discography, compiled by Bill Rowe @ ourblues.wordpress.com
Larry Johnson, Bill Rowe & Alan Balfour, October 1, 1989 at The Onslow, Southampton; click to enlarge!
Larry Johnson, Bill Rowe & Alan Balfour, October 1, 1989 at The Onslow, Southampton

source: http://weeniecampbell.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=1753.30

 

Mike Rowe
The Post War Blues @ Wikipedia

The Post War Blues discography @ www.wirz.de
Jim O'Neal, Neil Slaven, Bob Hall, Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe; photographer: Bob Riesman; click to enlarge!
Jim O'Neal, Neil Slaven, Bob Hall, Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe
at 3rd Annual Blues Today Symposium, Oxford Mississippi, February 26, 2005

photographer: Bob Riesman

 

 

Arthur N. 'Art' Rupe
b. Arthur Goldberg, September 5, 1917 in the Pittsburgh suburb of Greensburg, Pennsylvania
; click to enlarge!
Art Rupe @ Wikipedia
Specialty Records @ Wikipedia
The Specialty Records Story @ www.bsnpubs.com
; click to enlarge!
; click to enlarge!
Art Rupe

source: rockhall.com
; click to enlarge!
Art Rupe Interview on Little Richard @ youtube.com

 

Michel Ruppli
discogropher
@


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Craig Ruskey
"Blues Writer"
@


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Tony Russell
b. August 15, 1946 in London, England
music historian and author who has written on country music, blues, jazz, and other forms of popular music
Tony Russell @ facebook.com
; click to enlarge!
Tony Russell

source: www.facebook.com/tony.russell.9400

 

Brian Rust
b. March 19, 1922 in Golders Green, London, England
d. January 5, 2011 in Swanage, England
Brian Rust @ Wikipedia
Brian Rust - Jazz Discographer in conversation with Nick Dellow @ www.vjm.biz
; click to enlarge!
Brian Rust & Sylvester Ahola

source: www.vjm.biz
Brian Rust - Jazz Discographer in conversation with Nick Dellow; >source: http://www.vjm.biz/newpage8.htm; click to enlarge!
Brian Rust

source: www.vjm.biz

 

Howard W. Rye
b. October 27, 1947 in Herne Bay, Kent, UK
("east of the River Medway and never to be confused with Kentish Men born west of the River Medway")
independent scholar of Jazz and Blues
co-editor of Robert M.W. Dixon, John Godrich & Howard W. Rye: Blues & Gospel Records 1890 - 1943, 4th ed. 1997
Howard Rye; click to enlarge!   Howard Rye; click to enlarge!
Howard Rye

photographer: Kurt Hriczucsah

 

Robert Sacré
b. August 5, 1940 in Charleroi, Belgium
Robert Sacré @ www.bluesworld.com
David Evans, Jim O'Neal, Robert Sacré, Dick Shurman, John Broven, Mike Rowe at 'Liège International Meeting 1984 - Hommage a Charley Patton', September 1984; source: Blues Unlimited #146 (Autumn/Winter 1984), p. 53; photographer: Cilla Huggins; click to enlarge!
David Evans, Jim O'Neal, Robert Sacré, Dick Shurman,
John Broven & Mike Rowe at "Liège International Meeting
1984 - Hommage à Charley Patton", September 1984

source: Blues Unlimited #146 (Autumn/Winter 1984), p. 53
photographer: Cilla Huggins
; click to enlarge!
Lurrie Bell, Robert Sacré & Dick Shurman

source: Robert Sacre's Facebook page

 

Robert Santelli
@


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Arthur Edward "Uncle Art" Satherly a/k/a "Mr. Country Music"
b. October 19, 1889 in Windmill Hill, Bedminster, Bristol, Somerset, Gloucestershire, England
d. February 10, 1986 in Fountain Valley, Orange, California
record producer and A&R man
Art Satherly @ Wikipedia
Arthur Satherly @ www.recordingpioneers.com
; click to enlarge!
Arthur Satherly

source: 78 Quarterly #7 (1992), p. 26
("courtesy of Stephen Calt")

 

Dave Sax
@


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Herbert & Edwin Schiele
Herwin Records @


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Siegfried Schmidt-Joos
@


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Robert Eric Schoenfeld
d. October 23, 2006
@


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Frank Scott
b. September 28, 1942 in London, England
founder and owner of "Roots & Rhythm" record store (1974), later (1978) mail order operation
www.rootsandrhythm.com
Frank Scott 1968; (courtesy Frank Scott); click to enlarge!
Frank Scott 1968

(photo courtesy Frank Scott)
Frank Scott 1968; (courtesy Frank Scott); click to enlarge!
Frank Scott

source: www.facebook.com

 

Bob Shad
b. February 12, 1920 in New York City as Abraham Shadrinky
d. March 13, 1985 in Los Angeles
record producer and record label owner
Bob Shad @ Wikipedia
Blues Unlimited #144 (Spring 1983), p. 27; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Bob Shad, 1954

source: Blues Unlimited #144 (Spring 1983), p. 27; photographer's name not given

 

Arnold Shaw
d. September 26, 1989 in Las Vegas
@


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Peter Shertser
@


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Eddie Shuler
b. March 27, 1913 in Wrightsboro, Texas, moved to Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1942
d. July 23, 2005 (92) at his son's home in Atlanta, Georgia
Goldband Records @ Wikipedia
The Story of Goldband Records by Steve Green @ www.purecajun.com
Goldband Records: The Early Years @ wired-for-sound.blogspot.de
@ www.talentondisplay.com
Eddie Shuler at the mixer console in his Goldband Recording Studio, Lake Charles, Louisiana, May 11, 1981; source: Blues Forum #7 (3. Quartal 1982), p. 13; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Eddie Shuler in his Goldband Recording Studio,
Lake Charles, Louisiana, May 11, 1981

source: Blues Forum #7 (3. Quartal 1982), p. 13; photographer: Norbert Hess

 

Tim Schuller
b.
d. February 29, 2012
Dallas-based journalist, blues and jazz historian; contributor to Living Blues, Blues Access, The Met, Southwest Blues,
Buddy Magazine; music editor of the Dallas Observer in the 80's
@


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Richard L. 'Dick' Shurman
b. May 23, 1950 in Los Alamos, New Mexico
Dick Shurman @ Wikipedia
Dick Shurman - An Interview with an Iconic Blues Man by Terry 'Gatorman' Lape @ www.illinoisblues.com
Ronnie Baker Brooks, Koko Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Magic Slim, Richard Shurman, Roger Naber; source: http://www.illinoisblues.com/Archive/BluesBlasts/2010/BluesBlast4_29_10.htm
Ronnie Baker Brooks, Koko Taylor, Elvin Bishop, Magic Slim, Richard Shurman, Roger Naber

source: www.illinoisblues.com

 

Jim Simpson
b. 1938 in Westminster
Big Bear Music Group @ www.bigbearmusic.com
From Black Sabbath to jazz - Jim Simpson's made his musical mark @ the Birmingham Post
Big Bear Records discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Jim Simpson, Big Bear Music Group

source: www.flickr.com

 

Amy van Singel   →→→   Amy van Singel / Jim O'Neal

 

Neil Slaven
b. August 6, 1944 in Caterham, England
'Mike Vernon and Neil Slaven making drummer Keef Hartley an offer which he simply can't refuse!', c. 1970; source: Bob Brunning: BLUES - The British Connection.- Poole (Blandford Press), 1986, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 96 & 79 ('Mike Vernon' / David Wedgbury, Decca Press Dept.); click to enlarge!
"Mike Vernon and Neil Slaven making drummer
Keef Hartley an offer which he simply can't refuse!", c. 1970

source: Bob Brunning: BLUES - The British Connection.-
Poole (Blandford Press), 1986, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 96 & 79
("Mike Vernon" / David Wedgbury, Decca Press Dept.)
Neil 'A larger one please' Slaven, 1980s; source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 19; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Neil "A larger one please" Slaven, 1980s

source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 19
photographer's name not given
 
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Neil Slaven, John Broven, Simon Napier & Alan Balfour
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
Jim O'Neal, Neil Slaven, Bob Hall, Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe; photographer: Bob Riesman; click to enlarge!
Jim O'Neal, Neil Slaven, Bob Hall, Bill Greensmith, Mike Rowe
at 3rd Annual Blues Today Symposium, Oxford Mississippi,
February 26, 2005

photographer: Bob Riesman

 

Joel Slotnikoff
b. October 16, 1945 in New York, NY
produced 1990 St. Louis Blues Festival, managed and produced two Big Bad Smitty CDs.
Cover photos for Adelphi Records. Dealer in rare records for 20 years
Joel Slotnikoff's website
Joel Slotnikoff @ discogs.com
Joel Slotnikoff; click to enlarge!
Joel Slotnikoff

source: Joel Slotnikoff at myspace.com

 

Al Smith
b. November 23, 1923 in Bolivar County, Mississippi
d. February 7, 1974 in Chicago, Illinois
Al Smith discography - part one @ hubcap.clemson.edu
Al Smith discography - part two @ hubcap.clemson.edu

Blues On Blues discography @ www.wirz.de
Bluesway discography @ www.wirz.de
source: Blues Unlimited 118 (1976), p. 13; photographer: Norbert Hess; click to enlarge!
Al Smith

source: Blues Unlimited 118 (1976), p. 13; photographer: Norbert Hess

 

Brian Smith
@


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Chris Smith
b. July 6, 1949
founder and owner of Policy Wheel Records; editor of 'Blues Link' magazine, "Blues & Rhythm" contributor
liner notes writer; co-editor of "The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings"

Policy Wheel Records @ www.wirz.de
'Blues Link' magazine @ www.wirz.de
Chris Smith & Phil Wight, 2005 (courtesy Phil Wight); click to enlarge!
Chris Smith & Phil Wight, 2005

(courtesy Phil Wight)
Chris Smith 2012; source: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=784798347; click to enlarge!
Chris Smith 2012

source: www.facebook.com

 

Harry Smith
@


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Maynard Solomon
co-founder of Vanguard Records, music producer, later musicologist
b. January 5, 1930 in New York
Maynard Solomon @ Wikipedia
Vanguard Records @ Wikipedia
Jac Holzman, Theo Bikel, Pete & Toshi Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Fred Hellerman, Maynard Solomon, 1965; source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down. The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York (Anchor Books) 1979, p. 264; photographer: David Gahr; click to enlarge!
Jac Holzman, Theo Bikel, Pete & Toshi Seeger, Harold Leventhal, Fred Hellerman, Maynard Solomon, 1965

source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down. The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.-
New York (Anchor Books) 1979, p. 264; photographer: David Gahr

 

Henry Columbus 'H.C.' Speir
b. October 6, 1895 in Prospect, Mississippi
d. April 22, 1972 (76) in Jackson, Mississippi
Owner of a music store in downtown Jackson, Mississippi
"talent scout" for OKeh, Victor, Gennett, Columbia, Vocalion, Decca and Paramount

H.C. Speir @ Wikipedia
Godfather Of Delta Blues @ www.bluesworld.com
H.C. Speir, 1960s; source: Gayle Dean Wardlow: Chasin' That Devil Music.- San Francisco (Backbeat Music) 1998, p. 132; photographer: Gayle Dean Wardlow; click to enlarge!
H.C. Speir, 1960s

source: Gayle Dean Wardlow: Chasin' That Devil Music.-
San Francisco (Backbeat Music) 1998, p. 132; photographer: Gayle Dean Wardlow
H.C. Speir, 1960s; source: David Evans: Tommy Johnson.- London (Studio Vista), 1971, p. 44; click to enlarge!
H.C. Speir, 1960s
source: David Evans: Tommy Johnson
London (Studio Vista), 1971, p. 44; photographer: Marina Bokelman

 

Evelyn Hruby-Sperker f/k/a Evelyn Parth
b. July 31, 1941 in Vienna, Austria
d. May 12, 2016
Evelyn Hruby-Sperker @ www.kunst-lukasgilde.at

Roots Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Paltram Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Truth Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Stephanie Wiesand, Lightnin' Hopkins, Evelyn Parth, Munich, Germany, 1964; source: Alan Govenar: Lightnin' Hopkins - His Life and Blues.- Chicago (Chicago Review Press) 2010, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 178 & 179; photographer: Chris Strachwitz; click to enlarge!
Stephanie Wiesand, Lightnin' Hopkins, Evelyn Parth
Munich, Germany, 1964

source: Alan Govenar: Lightnin' Hopkins - His Life and Blues.- Chicago (Chicago Review Press) 2010, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 178 & 179; photographer: Chris Strachwitz
Evelyn Hruby-Sperker; click to enlarge!
Evelyn Hruby-Sperker

source: www.kunst-lukasgilde.at

 

Philip 'Phil' Spiro
b. June 28, 1940 in New York City
moved to Silicon Valley in 1989, later moved to University of California, Berkeley (retired since 2000)
recently (2013) lives in Mountain View, south of San Francisco, California
contributor of "The Broadside of Boston"
early member of Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson's band "Snake Man"
along with Nick Perls and Dick Waterman "rediscovered" Son House in 1964

Dick Waterman about finding Son House in 1964 @ www.sundayblues.org (Newsweek July 13, 1964)

Phil Spiro interviewing Mississippi John Hurt & Skip James on WTBS-FM (Cambridge, MA) c. October 1964 @ Youtube

"Viola Blues for Al Wilson and Phil Spiro" by Alan Sondheim @ www.furtherfield.org
Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro, June 23, 1964 (Son House 'rediscovery'); source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down - The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194; photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera; click to enlarge!
Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro
June 23, 1964 (Son House "rediscovery")

source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down
The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194
photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera

 

Richard K. 'Dick' Spottswood
b. April 17, 1937 in Maryland
musicologist, author, record pruducer and radio host
Richard K. Spottswood @ Wikipedia
Melodeon Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Piedmont Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Dick Spottswood with Mississippi John Hurt; Front cover of Steve Cushing's forthcoming [July 2014] book 'Pioneers of the Blues Revival'; click to enlarge!

Dick Spottswood with Mississippi John Hurt
Front cover of Steve Cushing's book "Pioneers of the Blues Revival"

 

Robert Springer
b. 1946
Professor (émérite) of English at the University of Metz in Longeville les Metz, France
contributor to Blues Unlimited, Jefferson, Living Blues
author of "Authentic Blues: Its History and Its Themes" (1996)
editor of "Nobody Knows Where the Blues Came From" (2006)
; click to enlarge!
Robert Springer mid 1990s

www.poslarchive.com

 

Anthony Francis Tony Standish
b. December 7, 1931 in Richmond (inner suburb of Melbourne), Victoria, Australia
d. December 17, 2016 in Australia
producer, record label owner (Heritage Records), writer, photographer, book shop proprietor
Heritage Records @ wirz.de
obituary @ www.theage.com.au
Tony Standish
Tony Standish R.I.P.
(December 7, 1931 - December 17, 2016)
source: Tony Standish's facebook page

 

John Stedman
b. 1954 in Kent, UK
@


source:

 

John Steiner
b. July 21,1908 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d. June 3, 2000 (91) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
John Steiner article by Bob Koester @ www.delmark.com
SD Records discography @ hubcap.clemson.edu
John Steiner; click to enlarge!
John Steiner

source: 78 Quarterly Vol. 1, No. 7 (1992), p. 30

 

Michael Mike Addison Stewart
b. September 18, 1943 in North Carolina
d. October 11, 2007 (64) in Mill Spring, North Carolina
obituary by Tony Russell @ The Guardian
Backwards Sam Firk discography @ wirz.de
Michael Stewart a/k/a 'Backwards Sam Firk'; click to enlarge!
Michael Stewart a/k/a "Backwards Sam Firk"

source: http://static.rateyourmusic.com/lk/f/a/c51b6
48b6b51a6980944a493a5f6016f/2858995.jpg

Memphis Piano Red and Michael Stewart visit Sleepy John & family at home in Brownsville, Tennessee; click to enlarge!
Memphis Piano Red and Michael Stewart visit Sleepy John Estes & family at home in Brownsville, Tennessee

source: http://www.adelphirecords.com/video/YankSleepy.html

 

Derrick Stewart-Baxter
b. August 24, 1911 in the UK
d. November 17, 1992 (81) in Brighton, England
; click to enlarge!
"In Christmas mood, collectors and artist meet. Derrick Stewart-Baxter,
Ernest Borneman, Chicago Bill (Broonzy) and Albert McCarthy."

source: Bob Groom: The Blues Revival.- London (Studio Vista) 1971, p. 90
(The photo appeared on p. 19 of the Melody Maker on December 15, 1951)

 

Henry Stone - producer, label owner
@


source:

 

Chris Strachwitz
b. July 1, 1931 in Gross Reichenau, Lower Silesia (then within Germany and now known as Bogaczów, Poland)
Chris Strachwitz @ Wikipedia
www.arhoolie.com
Arhoolie Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Chris Strachwitz, Arhoolie Records, and Traditional Blues Field Recordings by Matthew Block @ www.delmark.com
Bez Turner, Cilla Huggins & Chris Strachwitz, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Bez Turner, Cilla Huggins & Chris Strachwitz
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
Chris Strachwitz; source: http://blog.nz-online.de/peltner/category/country-western/; click to enlarge!
Chris Strachwitz

source: http://blog.nz-online.de/peltner/category/country-western/

 

Lee Tanner
b. 1931 in New York City
short Lee Tanner bio @ lucieawards.com
Images of the Blues (1998) @ jazztimes.com
Lee Tanner & Lee Hildebrand, late 1990s; source: Block #110 (somer 1998), p. 29; photographer: Chris Duffey; click to enlarge!
Lee Tanner & Lee Hildebrand, late 1990s

source: Block #110 (somer 1998), p. 29; photographer: Chris Duffey
Lee Tanner, 2010; source: http://lucieawards.com/10/honorees/LeeTanner.html; click to enlarge!
Lee Tanner, 2010

source: lucieawards.com

 

John Tefteller
b. December 26, 1958 in La Mirada, California
www.tefteller.com
; click to enlarge!
John Tefteller

source: sundayblues.org

 

Ray Templeton
b. September 24, 1953 in Bellshill, Scotland
contributor, member of the editorial committee of 'Blues & Rhythm' magazine
Ray Templeton, 1980s; source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 19; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Ray Templeton, 1980s

source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 19
photographer's name not given

 

Studs Terkel
d. October 31, 2008 (96) in Chicago, Illinois
@


source:

 

Nicolas Teurnier
editor of "Soul Bag" magazine (since 2007)

Soul Bag @ Wikipedia (fr)
www.soulbag.presse.fr
Nicolas Teurnier & Jacques Périn, 2012; source: http://www.franceblues.com/?p=1217; click to enlarge!
Nicolas Teurnier & Jacques Périn, 2012

source: www.franceblues.com

 

Bob Thiele
b. July 27, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York City
d. January 30, 1996 in New York City
record producer
Bob Thiele @ Wikipedia
Bob Thiele; source: Front cover of Bob Thiele Emergency: Head Start.- Flying Dutchman LP 10104 (1969); click to enlarge!
Bob Thiele 1969
(?)
source: Front cover of Bob Thiele Emergency: Head Start.- Flying Dutchman LP 10104 (1969)

 

Robert 'Bob' Tilling
b. September 29, 1944 in Bristol, England
d. January 25, 2011 in Jersey
@


source:

 

Keith Tillman
English bassist, founding member of The Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation. He subsequently joined
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers. In the 1980s he played with Mainsqueeze.
Founder and owner of Python Records.
Python Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Bo Diddley and Mainsqueeze London, March 1984; left to right: Bo Diddley, 'Stretch', Dick Heckstall-Smith, Keith Tillman, Dave 'Munch' Moore; source: Blues Unlimited 148/149 (Winter 1987), p. 52; photographer: George White; click to enlarge!
Bo Diddley and Mainsqueeze, London, March 1984
left to right: Bo Diddley, Leonard 'Stretch' Stretching, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Keith Tillman, Dave 'Munch' Moore
source: Blues Unlimited 148/149 (Winter 1987), p. 52; photographer: George White

 

Jeff Todd Titon
b. December 8, 1943 in Jersey City, New Jersey
Emeritus Professor of Ethnomusicology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Jeff Todd Titon @ Wikipedia
Jeff Todd Titon @ Brown University
Jeff Todd Titon @ American Folklore Society
; click to enlarge!
Jeff Todd Titon

source: http://www.afsnet.org/?page=JeffToddTiton

 

Serge Tonneau
@


source:

 

Ray Topping
@


source:

 

Perrine & Didier Tricard
Isabel Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Luc Nicolas-Morgantini, Muddy Waters Jr., Marcelle Morgantini, Bobby King and Didier Tricard, Chicago, October 1975; source: http://www.soulbag.presse.fr ('photo courtesy Didier Tricard'); click to enlarge!
Luc Nicolas-Morgantini, Muddy Waters Jr., Marcelle
Morgantini, Bobby King and Didier Tricard,
Chicago, October 1975

source: http://www.soulbag.presse.fr ("photo courtesy Didier Tricard")

 

Bez Turner
Bez Turner @ www.discogs.com
Bez Turner, Cilla Huggins & Chris Strachwitz, London 1986; source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott; click to enlarge!
Bez Turner, Cilla Huggins & Chris Strachwitz
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott

 

(Prof. Dr.) Jean-Pierre Urbain
b. January 20, 1963 in Verviers, Belgium
d. October 1, 2016 (53) in Liège, Belgium
blues writer; ABS, Arvern Blues Society
Jean-Pierre Urbain à la Galerie Ouverture @ www.ouvertures.be
; click to enlarge!
Jean-Pierre Urbain

source: http://www.umexpert.nl/expert/jean-pierre-urbain-2/

 

Rudy van Gelder
b. November 2, 1924 in Jersey City, New Jersey
d. August 25, 2016 in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
recording engineer
Rudy van Gelder @ Wikipedia
Rudy van Gelder; click to enlarge!
Rudy van Gelder

source: http://www.jazzwax.com/2012/02/interview-rudy-van-gelder-part-2.html

 

Martin van Olderen
b. January 3, 1931
d. January 26, 2002 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
; click to enlarge! ; click to enlarge!
Oldie Blues Records discography
@ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge! ; click to enlarge!
Martin van Olderen at Amsterdam Blues Festival, March 15, 1997; source: Block 102 (april/mei/juni 1997), p. 37; photographer: Rien Wisse; click to enlarge!
Martin van Olderen at Amsterdam Blues Festival, March 15, 1997

source: Block 102 (april/mei/juni 1997), p. 37; photographer: Rien Wisse

 

Guido van Rijn
b. April 11, 1950 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
co-founder (1970) of the Netherlands Blues and Boogie Organisation
MC at some of the annual Utrecht Blues Estafettes; contributor of magazines like "Blues Unlimited" and "Blues & Rhythm"
record producer; founder and owner of Agram Blues Records
Guido van Rijn @ www.bluesworld.com
; click to enlarge!
Guido van Rijn, 1970s

source: Bob Corritore's André Hobus Blues Photo Library Part 1, Page 3 [cropped]
photographer: André Hobus

 

Amy van Singel   →→→   Amy van Singel / Jim O'Neal

 

Billy Vera
@


source:

 

Michael William Hugh 'Mike' Vernon
b. November 20, 1944 in Harlow, Middlesex, England
Mike Vernon @ Wikipedia
Mike Vernon @ www.fleetwoodmac.net
Mike Vernon: Producing British Blues @ www.soundonsound.com
Blue Horizon Records @ Wikipedia
Mike Vernon; source: Melody Maker August 2, 1969, p. 12; click to enlarge!
Mike Vernon

source: Melody Maker August 2, 1969, p. 12
'Mike Vernon and Neil Slaven making drummer Keef Hartley an offer which he simply can't refuse!', c. 1970; source: Bob Brunning: BLUES - The British Connection.- Poole (Blandford Press), 1986, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 96 & 79 ('Mike Vernon' / David Wedgbury, Decca Press Dept.); click to enlarge!
"Mike Vernon and Neil Slaven making drummer
Keef Hartley an offer which he simply can't refuse!", c. 1970

source: Bob Brunning: BLUES - The British Connection.-
Poole (Blandford Press), 1986, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 96 & 79
("Mike Vernon" / David Wedgbury, Decca Press Dept.)
; click to enlarge!
brothers Richard & Mike Vernon, c. 2010

source: www.soundonsound.com

 

Paul "Sailor" Vernon
b. July 5, 1949 in London, England
'Sailor's Delight #14 (1983); click to enlarge! ← ← ← ← ← ← ← ← ← ← Sailor's Delight (1978 - 1984)
ed. by Paul 'Sailor' Vernon

Last Swill and Testament
The Hilarious, Unexpurgated Memoirs of Paul 'Sailor' Vernon
Blues Fanatic, Rare Record Dealer, Ligger, Erstwhile Bon Viveur and Friend to the Stars
ISBN-13: 978-0-9547068-4-5; paperback, 228 pages, illustrated, 2008
@ musicmentor0.tripod.com → → → → → → → → → → →
; click to enlarge!
Paul Oliver & Paul 'Sailor' Vernon at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday, September 6, 1986 at the 'Break For The Border', Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm; click to enlarge!
Paul Oliver & Paul "Sailor" Vernon
at a venue for Chris Strachwitz' visit on Saturday,
September 6, 1986 at the "Break For The Border",
Charing Cross Road, London, booked for 7pm

source: Frank Scott archive; photographer: Frank Scott
Paul Vernon, one of the Lancaster Players 2009; source: http://lancasterplayers.org/onstage2.htm; click to enlarge!
Paul Vernon, one of the Lancaster Players 2009

source: http://lancasterplayers.org/onstage2.htm

 

Richard Vernon
b. December 19, 1946 in Harrow, UK
@
; click to enlarge!
Richard Vernon & his brother Mike Vernon, c. 2010

source: www.soundonsound.com

 

Robert 'Bob' Vanderschueren   →→→   Marc de Jonghe / Robert Vanderschueren

 

Johnny Vincent
b. Oktober 3, 1925 in Laurel, Mississippi
d. Februar 4, 2000 in Jackson, Mississippi
Ace Records @ Wikipedia (de)
Johnny Vincent; source: Blues & Rhythm # 40 (November 1980), p. 5; photographer: Paul Harris; click to enlarge!
Johnny Vincent

source: Blues & Rhythm # 40 (November 1980), p. 5; photographer: Paul Harris

 

Rolf Max von Arx
b. March 19, 1931
d. August 6, 2008
Whoopee Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Walter Lüssi, Rolf von Arx & Arx' wife; source: http://www.fridolin.ch/uploads%5CPDF-Zeitung-Archiv%5C20061102%5CSeite_20.pdf; click to enlarge!
Walter Lüssi, Rolf von Arx & Arx' wife, 2006

source: www.fridolin.ch

 

Joe Von Battle
b. 1915 in Macon, Georgia
d. 1973 in Detroit, Michigan
owner of the legendary Joe's Record Shop, at 3530 Hastings Street
Detroit pre-Motown record producer
founder / owner of J.V.B. Records and its subsidiaries Battle, Gone, Viceroy, and Von Records
Joe Von Battle - Requiem for a Record Shop Man by Marsha Battle Philpot
; click to enlarge!
Joe Von Battle
source: http://marshamusic.wordpress.com/page-joe-von-battle-requiem-for-a-record-shop-man/

Eddie Kirkland, Aaron 'Little Sonny' Willis & Emmit Slay in front of Joe Von Battle's Record Shop on 12th Street, Detroit, 1960 (Joe Von Battle standing in the doorway!); source: Joachim E. Berendt & William Claxton: Jazz Life - Auf den Spuren des Jazz.- Offenburg (Burda Druck und Verlag GmbH) 1961, p. 190; photographer: William Claxton; click to enlarge!
Eddie Kirkland, Aaron 'Little Sonny' Willis & Emmit Slay
in front of Joe Von Battle's Record Shop on 12th Street, Detroit, 1960
(Joe Von Battle standing in the doorway!)
source: Joachim E. Berendt & William Claxton: Jazz Life - Auf den Spuren des Jazz.- Offenburg
(Burda Druck und Verlag GmbH) 1961, p. 190; photographer: William Claxton

 

Max E. Vreede
b. March 17, 1927 in The Netherlands
d. October 3, 1991 in Hague, The Netherlands
Dutch collector and discographer
wrote the first important discography about the Paramount "Race" series
Max Vreede; click to enlarge!
Max Vreede; click to enlarge!
Max Vreede in the late 1950s,
visiting 78 dealer Jake Schneider in New York
courtesy Hans Eekhoff
Max Vreede; click to enlarge!
Max Vreede

photographer: Hans Eekhoff

 

Elijah Wald
@


source:

 

Gayle Dean Wardlow
b. August 31, 1940 in Freer, Texas
Gayle Dean Wardlow @ Wikipedia
Gayle Dean Wardlow @ www.bluesworld.com
Gayle Dean Wardlow Research Interviews @ thedeltablues
Gayle Dean Wardlow; source: http://www.tdblues.com/?p=1125; click to enlarge!
Gayle Dean Wardlow

source: http://www.tdblues.com/?p=1125

Hawkeye Herman & Gayle Dean Wardlow at the Paramount Blues Festival, Grafton, WI, September 23, 2006; source: http://blindman.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=27001; click to enlarge!
Hawkeye Herman & Gayle Dean Wardlow
at the Paramount Blues Festival, Grafton, WI, September 23, 2006

source: http://blindman.15.forumer.com/index.php?showtopic=27001 (Hawkeye Herman)

 

Dick Waterman
b. July 14, 1935 in Plymouth, Massachusetts
Dick Waterman @ Wikipedia
Dick Waterman Music Photography @ www.dickwaterman.com
Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro, June 23, 1964 (Son House 'rediscovery'); source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down - The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194; photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera; click to enlarge!
Nick Perls, Dick Waterman, Son House, Phil Spiro
June 23, 1964 (Son House "rediscovery")

source: Eric von Schmidt & Jim Rooney: Baby, let me follow you down
The illustrated story of the Cambridge folk years.- New York 1979, p. 194
photographer: Mrs. House using Dick Waterman's camera
Dick
Dick Waterman March 2012 at the University
of Mississippi's Overby Center

source: laborsouth.blogspot.de/

 

Tony Watson
b. October 29, 1946 in Leeds, England
contributor, member of the editorial committee of 'Blues & Rhythm' magazine
Tony Watson, 1980s; source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 18; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Tony Watson, 1980s

source: Blues & Rhythm #26 (Jan./Febr. 1987), p. 18
photographer's name not given
Tony Watson; source: ; photographer's name not given; click to enlarge!
Tony Watson, 20??

 

Dietrich Wawzyn
b.
review of "On The Road Again 1963" @ www.nodepression.com
"Wawzyn originally produced three feature-length documentaries for German television on blues, gospel, and "hillbilly music" from the footage he and Strachwitz had gathered, but unfortunately all three of the films have been lost. As a result, this DVD never really feels like a complete linear documentary, but rather a collection of scenes. Still, these are scenes any fan of American roots music will love seeing."
Dietrich Wawzyn and his wife, Anna Marie, filming in the Third Ward, Houston, Texas, 1963; source: Alan Govenar: Lightnin' Hopkins - His Life and Blues.- Chicago (Chicago Review Press) 2010, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 178 & 179; photographer: Chris Strachwitz; click to enlarge! ; click to enlarge! ; click to enlarge!
Dietrich Wawzyn and his wife, Anna Marie,
filming in the Third Ward, Houston, Texas, 1963

source: Alan Govenar: Lightnin' Hopkins - His Life and Blues.- Chicago
(Chicago Review Press) 2010, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 178 & 179; photographer: Chris Strachwitz
Dietrich Wawzyn - On The Road Again 1963
Down Home Blues, Jazz, Gospel and More
Filmed on Location 1963

source: bagger.tumblr.com

 

Bob Weinstock
owner of Prestige Records
@


source:

 

Richard Weize
b. August 4, 1945 in Bad Gandersheim, Germany
founder (1975) and owner of Bear Family Records
www.bear-family.de
Richard Weize @ Wikipedia (de)
Bear Family Records @ Wikipedia (en)
; click to enlarge!
Richard Weize 2010

source: www.wdr5.de; photographer: Veronika Bock (?)
; click to enlarge!
Richard Weize with a "booklet" to one of his CD boxes

source: www.weser-kurier.de; photographer: Peter von Döllen

 

Peter John 'Pete' Welding
b. November 15, 1935 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
d. November 17, 1995 (60) at his home in Rancho Cucamonga (Alta Loma), California
record producer; editor of 'Down Beat' magazine; contributor of "Blues Unlimited' & 'Living Blues' magazines
founder and owner of Testament Records
Pete Welding @ Wikipedia
Testament Records @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Pete Welding magazine feature

source: www.vintageadbrowser.com

 

Jerry Wexler
b. January 10, 1917 in The Bronx, New York City
d. August 15, 2008 in Sarasota, Florida
music journalist; record producer for Atlantic Records

Jerry Wexler @ Wikipedia
Atlantic Records @ Wikipedia
Ahmet Ertegun, Big Joe Turner & Jerry Wexler; source: Blues & Rhythm #27 (March 1987), p. 27; photographer: Dan Nooger; click to enlarge!
Ahmet Ertegun, Big Joe Turner & Jerry Wexler

source: Blues & Rhythm #27 (March 1987), p. 27; photographer: Dan Nooger

 

Pete Whelan
record collector; co-founder (1960, with Bill Givens) of "Origin Jazz Library" label
editor (starting 1967) of "78 Quarterly"
Pete Whelan interview @ www.bluesworld.com
originjazz.com
Origin Jazz Library discography @ www.wirz.de
; click to enlarge!
Pete Whelan

source: www.bluesworld.com

 

Stephanie Wiesand
b. 1912 in Germany
d. c. 2012 (at 100) in Germany
front cover of Blues Forum # 6 (2. Quartal 1982); Lightnin' Hopkins; photographer: Stephanie Wiesand; click to enlarge!
credits (as actress) @ www.imdb.de
credits (as photographer) @ www.discogs.com

← ←   1963/64 Stephanie Wiesand photographs on front covers of 'Blues Forum'   → →

front cover of Blues Forum # 13 (1. Quartal 1984), Victoria Spivey; photographer: Stephanie Wiesand; click to enlarge!
Stephanie Wiesand, Lightnin' Hopkins, Evelyn Parth, Munich, Germany, 1964; source: Alan Govenar: Lightnin' Hopkins - His Life and Blues.- Chicago (Chicago Review Press) 2010, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 178 & 179; photographer: Chris Strachwitz; click to enlarge!
Stephanie Wiesand, Lightnin' Hopkins, Evelyn Parth, Munich, Germany, 1964

source: Alan Govenar: Lightnin' Hopkins - His Life and Blues.- Chicago (Chicago Review Press) 2010, unpaginated photo pages between pp. 178 & 179; photographer: Chris Strachwitz

 

Phil Wight
Phil's Spot
contributor, member of the editorial committee of 'Blues & Rhythm' magazine
Byron Foulger, Henry Qualls & Phil Wight at the Utrecht Blues Estafette, 1994; source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neverslim/278476449/ ('Never Slim'); photographer: Mike Rainsford; click to enlarge!
Byron Foulger, Henry Qualls & Phil Wight
at the Utrecht Blues Estafette, 1994

source: www.flickr.com ("Never Slim"); photographer: Mike Rainsford
Phil Wight, September 2012 (courtesy Phil Wight; photographer: Avril Wight; click to enlarge!
Phil Wight, September 2012

(courtesy Phil Wight; photographer: Avril Wight)

 

Francis Wilford-Smith a/k/a "Smilby"
b. March 12, 1927 in Rugby, Warwickshire, England
"His romancing of fellow student Pamela Kilby (whom he married in 1949) earned them
the collective nickname 'Smilby', a pen-name he would later use on his cartoons." (Bear Alley obit)

d. December 4, 2009 (82) in Ledbury, Herefordshire, England
Francis Wilford-Smith; click to enlarge!
Francis Wilford-Smith @ Wikipedia
obituary by Mark Bryant @ The Independent
obituary by Michael Gray @ handmemytravelinshoes.blogspot.de
obituary by "Enoch Bolles" @ enochbolles.blogspot.de
obituary @ Bear Alley
Magpie Records (4400 series) @ www.wirz.de
Francis Wilford-Smith; click to enlarge!
Francis Wilford-Smith; source: http://enochbolles.blogspot.de/2009/12/francis-smilby-smith-1927-2009.html; click to enlarge!
Francis Wilford-Smith

source: enochbolles.blogspot.de ("© Pamela Smith")
'Smilby' front cover of 'Punch' on September 30, 1959; source: http://punch-cartoons.blogspot.de/2011/02/smilby-1927-2009.html; click to enlarge!
"Smilby" Punch front cover September 30, 1959

source: punch-cartoons.blogspot.de

 

[Jay] Mayo ("Ink") Williams
b. September 25, 1894 in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, grew up in Monmouth, Illinois
d. January 2, 1980 in Chicago, Cook, Illinois (85)
talent scout and supervisor of recording sessions, record producer
in 1927, he left Paramount and started The Chicago Record Company ("Black Patti" label)
later moved to Brunswick Records and its subsidiary label Vocalion
in 1934 hired as head of the "race records" department at Decca
after leaving Decca in 1945 worked freelance and ran several small, independent labels
(Harlem, Chicago, Southern, Ebony)

Mayo Williams @ www.paramountshome.org
Ebony, Chicago, Southern, and Harlem: The Mayo Williams Indies @ hubcap.clemson.edu
Mayo Williams 1920s; source: ; click to enlarge!
Mayo Williams 1920s

source: hubcap.clemson.edu
Mayo Williams 1970; source: 78 Quarterly #7 (1992), p. 27; (
Mayo Williams 1970

source: 78 Quarterly #7 (1992), p. 27
("courtesy of Stephen Calt")

 

Valerie Sybil "Val" Wilmer
b. December 7, 1941 in Harrogate, England
photographer, jazz historian and writer

Valerie Wilmer @ Wikipedia
Baby Tate & Valerie Wilmer, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1972; source: Photographs by Valerie Wilmer: The Face of Black Music.- New York (Da Capo) 1976, back cover; photographer: Terry Quaye; click to enlarge!
Baby Tate & Valerie Wilmer
Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1972

source: Photographs by Valerie Wilmer: The Face of Black Music
New York (Da Capo) 1976, back cover; photographer: Terry Quaye
Valerie Wilmer; source: http://www.thejazzbaroness.co.uk/images/20.jpg; click to enlarge!
Valerie Wilmer

source: http://www.thejazzbaroness.co.uk/images/20.jpg

 

Alan 'Blind Owl' Wilson
b. July 4, 1943
d.
@ www.alanwilsoncannedheat.com
Alan Wilson @ Wikipedia


source:

 

Thomas Blanchard 'Tom' Wilson
b. March 25, 1931 in Helena, Montana, grew up in Waco, Texas
d. September 6, 1978 in Los Angeles, California
record producer
Tom Wilson @ Wikipedia
; click to enlarge!
Tom Wilson & Bob Dylan, 1965

source: en.wikipedia.org

 

Steve Wisner
record producer; founder of Mr. Blues Records
Mr. Blues Records discography @ www.wirz.de
Steve Wisner & Big Guitar Red, 1975; source: back cover of Bedrock BEDLP15; photographer: Jim O'Neal; click to enlarge!
Steve Wisner & Big Guitar Red, 1975

source: back cover of Bedrock BEDLP15; photographer: Jim O'Neal

 

Rien & Marion Wisse
editors of Block - Tijdschrift voor blues
Block - Tijdschrift voor Blues @
Mike Welch, Marion Wisse, Chris Vachon; source: Block - Tijdschrift voor Blues 98 (april/mei/juni 1996), p. 31; photographer: Rien Wisse; click to enlarge!
Mike Welch, Marion Wisse, Chris Vachon

source: Block - Tijdschrift voor Blues 98 (april/mei/juni 1996), p. 31; photographer: Rien Wisse

Rien Wisse & Hubert Sumlin at B.L.U.E.S.; source: Block - Tijdschrift voor Blues 69 (jan/feb/mrt 1989), p. 26; photographer: Marion Wisse; click to enlarge!
Rien Wisse & Hubert Sumlin at B.L.U.E.S.
source: Block - Tijdschrift voor Blues 69 (jan/feb/mrt 1989), p. 26; photographer: Marion Wisse

 

Ernest C. Withers
b. 1922
d. 2007
photographer
Ernest C. Withers Photography Collection @ nmaahc.si.edu


source:

 

John W. (Wesley) Work III
b. July 15, 1901 in Tullahoma, Tennessee
d. May 17, 1967 in Nashville, Tennessee
composer, educator, choral director, musicologist and scholar of African-American folklore and music
John W. Work III @ Wikipedia
John W. Work III @ www.blackpast.org
John W. Work III; source: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/work-john-wesley-iii-1901-1967 (Courtesy of the Library of Congress); click to enlarge!
John W. Work

source: www.blackpast.org/aah/work-john-wesley-iii-1901-1967
(Courtesy of the Library of Congress)
John W. Work III; source: Black World Vol. XXIII, No. 9 (July 1974), p. 37; photographer: Marion Pálfi; click to enlarge!
John W. Work

source: Black World Vol. XXIII, No. 9 (July 1974), p. 37
photographer: Marion Pálfi

 

Ernest Lafayette Ernie Young
b. December 2, 1892 in Pulaski, Tennessee
d. June 8, 1977 in Nashville, Tennessee
Excello Records @ Wikipedia
Excello singles discography @ www.soulfulkindamusic.net
Excello albums discography @ www.bsnpubs.com
Ted Adams (of Ernie's Record Mart), Ted Jarrett & Ernie Young; source: Cashbox of December 10, 1955, reproduced in Block 108 (Winter 1998), p. 15; click to enlarge!
Ted Adams (of Ernie's Record Mart), Ted Jarrett & Ernie Young

source: Cashbox of December 10, 1955, reproduced in Block 108 (Winter 1998), p. 15

 

Dr. Joseph Jerome 'Jerry' Zolten
b. in McKeesport, Pennsylvania (graduated in 1963)
writer, advocator for, and producer of American roots music
Jerry Zolten @ Wikipedia
Jerry Zolten @ facebook
... playing with Bo Diddley (1980s); photo courtesy Jerry Zolten; click to enlarge!
... playing with Bo Diddley (1980s)
Robert Crumb & Jerry Zolten; photo courtesy Jerry Zolten; click to enlarge!
... fighting with Robert Crumb (2006)
... with Dixie Hummingbirds & Fairfield Four (1990s); photo courtesy Jerry Zolten; click to enlarge!
... with Dixie Hummingbirds & Fairfield Four (1990s)
photos courtesy Jerry Zolten

 

Karl Gert zur Heide
ragtime and blues researcher; magazine contributor
author of "Deep South Piano - The Story of Little Brother Montgomery"
Simon Napier & Karl Gert zur Heide at Blues Convention, London, 1969; source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18; photographer: Charles Colquhoun; click to enlarge!
Simon Napier & Karl Gert zur Heide
at Blues Convention, London, 1969

source: Blues & Rhythm #259 (May 2011), p. 18; photographer: Charles Colquhoun
Karl Gert zur Heide 2005; source: http://archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/archiv/festivals2005/07_jazzfest05/jazz_05_programm/jazz_05_ProgrammlisteDetailSeite_3236.php; click to enlarge!
Karl Gert zur Heide 2005

source: archiv2.berlinerfestspiele.de
photographer: Monika zur Heide

 



Will be expanded frequently !!!

 

Sources / Further reading:
- own record collection
- Robert Ford: A Blues Bibliography, 2nd Edition (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2007
- eBay auctions
- diverse internet resources

thanks to Bob Riesman, Chris Smith, Frank Scott, Alan Balfour, Ray Templeton, Rolf Stensletten, Michael Collins, Dave Moore, Phil Wight, Robert Sacré, Lex Jansen, Kurt Hriczucsah, Bob Eagle, Eric Simkin, Alex van der Tuuk, Gary Wheelock, Scott Dirks, Pat Conte, Hubert Stowitschek, Jim Clay, Klaus Kilian and Axel Küstner for additional info / scans / photo files

 

 

 

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