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Here's that Cotton Club show ( Johnny 'Clyde' Copeland's birthday party). Bobby Kyle on guitar, SHEMEKIA COPELAND, I'm on bass, FLOYD PHILLIPS on keys. Shemekia wasn't even 21 years old yet...but an AMAZING TALENT!
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With Roscoe Gordon. Played bass for him at Chicago Blues. Roscoe wrote that great song "Just a Little Bit" aka " A Teeny Weeny Bit of Your Love". He's a hoot and a half!
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It's with great regret that I inform you that Floyd Phillips passed away on Christmas Day 2001. He was with his family in Texas. He was a wonderful musician and a really decent human being. I liked him a lot. Click on his name to see him with his last band.
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Show with JIMMY SPRUILL. That's Dona Oxford on keys. Terra Blues, NYC.
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Jazz Singer EVELYN BLAKEY
She's the eldest daughter of famed drummer Art Blakey. A treasured artist in NYC, she's my old pal from the 'hood...East Village, that is.
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My old buddy CATFISH HODGE.
I ran into him a couple years ago when he played a rare concert in NYC. We used to cross paths & trade sit-ins a lot when he lived in D.C. andI lived in Charlotte, NC. I recorded his song, "To the Left" on my new CD.
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Played warmup for TRACY NELSON in Chapel Hill,NC; 1979. She heard me sing during soundcheck, and I told her I knew all of her material so she asked me to sing backup on her set.
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Sitting in with LITTLE BUSTER at Manny's Carwash in NYC.
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Photo: Joe Grandwilliams
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COMMENTS? CLICK ON 'MESSAGE BOARD'...
IT'S FUN..AND YOU CAN REPLY TO SOMEBODY'S MESSAGE TOO!
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