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Phil Upchurch

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Phil Upchurch (born July 19, 1941, Chicago, Illinois) is an American blues, jazz and R&B guitarist and bassist. [1]

76 relations: After the Rain (Muddy Waters album), B.B. King, Bad Benson, Bass guitar, Ben Sidran, Billboard (magazine), Blue Thumb Records, Blues, Bob Krasnow, Breezin', Cadet Records, Cannonball Adderley, Carmen McRae, Cat Stevens, Chess Records, Chiaroscuro Records, Chicago, Curtis Mayfield, David Sanborn, Dee Clark, Dizzy Gillespie, Don't Let Go (Ben Sidran album), Donny Hathaway, Everything Is Everything (Donny Hathaway album), Feeling Blue, Gary Burton, Gene Chandler, George Benson, Good King Bad, Groovin' with the Soulful Strings, Grover Washington Jr., Guitarist, Harvey Mason, Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Laws, Jack McDuff, Jazz, Jimmy Reed, Jimmy Smith (musician), Joe Williams (jazz singer), Joel Whitburn, John Lee Hooker, Lenny Breau, Magnetic Feel, Michael Jackson, Mose Allison, Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington, Muddy Waters, Music recording certification, Natalie Cole, ..., Oscar Brown, Otis Rush, Quincy Jones, Raindrops (Dee Clark song), Ramsey Lewis, Red Holloway, Rhythm and blues, Richard Holmes (organist), Rotary Connection, Sean Rickman, Stan Getz, The Chicago Theme, The Dells, The Heatin' System, The Natural Thing (Jack McDuff album), The Real Thing (Dizzy Gillespie album), The Soulful Strings, The Spaniels, The Way I Feel (Phil Upchurch album), Them Changes, Tommy LiPuma, United States, Upchurch (album), What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David, Woody Herman, You Can't Sit Down. Expand index (26 more) »

After the Rain (Muddy Waters album)

After the Rain is the sixth studio album by Muddy Waters, a follow-up to the previous years' Electric Mud and sharing many of the musicians from that album.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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Bad Benson

Bad Benson is a 1974 studio album by American guitarist George Benson, released on CTI Records.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Ben Sidran

Ben Hirsh Sidran (born August 14, 1943) is an American jazz and rock keyboardist, producer, label owner, and music writer.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blue Thumb Records

Blue Thumb Records was an American record label founded in 1968 by Bob Krasnow and former A&M Records executives Tommy LiPuma and Don Graham.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bob Krasnow

Robert Alan "Bob" Krasnow (July 20, 1934 – December 11, 2016) was an American music industry entrepreneur.

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Breezin'

Breezin is a studio album by jazz/soul guitarist George Benson.

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Cadet Records

Cadet Records was an American record label which began as Argo Records in 1955 as the jazz subsidiary of Chess Records.

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Cannonball Adderley

Julian Edwin "Cannonball" Adderley (September 15, 1928 – August 8, 1975) was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Carmen McRae

Carmen Mercedes McRae (April 8, 1922 – November 10, 1994) was an American jazz singer.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Chess Records

Chess Records was an American record company, founded in 1950 in Chicago and specializing in blues and rhythm and blues.

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Chiaroscuro Records

Chiaroscuro Records is a jazz record company and label founded by Hank O'Neal in 1970.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Curtis Mayfield

Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, and one of the most influential musicians behind soul and politically conscious African-American music.

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David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.

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Dee Clark

Dee Clark (November 7, 1938 – December 7, 1990) was an American soul singer best known for a string of R&B and pop hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s, including the song "Raindrops," which became a million-seller in the United States in 1961.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, and singer.

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Don't Let Go (Ben Sidran album)

Don't Let Go is an album by pianist Ben Sidran featuring performances recorded in 1974 and released on the Blue Thumb label.

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Donny Hathaway

Donny Edward Hathaway (October 1, 1945 – January 13, 1979) was an American jazz, blues, soul and gospel singer, songwriter, arranger, organist, and pianist.

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Everything Is Everything (Donny Hathaway album)

Everything Is Everything is the first studio album by American soul artist Donny Hathaway, which was released on July 1, 1970 on the Atlantic Records' subsidiary, Atco.

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Feeling Blue

Feeling Blue is an album by jazz and R&B guitarist Phil Upchurch recorded in 1967 and released on the Milestone label.

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Gary Burton

Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator.

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Gene Chandler

Gene Chandler (born Eugene Drake Dixon, July 6, 1937) nicknamed "The Duke of Earl" or simply "The Duke", is an American singer, songwriter, talent scout, music producer and record label executive.

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George Benson

George Benson (born March 22, 1943) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Good King Bad

Good King Bad is a studio album by American guitarist George Benson featuring performances recorded in 1975 and released by CTI Records.

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Groovin' with the Soulful Strings

Groovin' with the Soulful Strings is the second album by the American soul-jazz instrumental group the Soulful Strings.

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Grover Washington Jr.

Grover Washington Jr. (December 12, 1943 – December 17, 1999) was an American jazz-funk / soul-jazz saxophonist.

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Guitarist

A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar.

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Harvey Mason

Harvey William Mason (born February 22, 1947) is an American jazz drummer, record producer, and member of the band Fourplay.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.

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Hubert Laws

Hubert Laws (born November 10, 1939) is an American flutist and saxophonist with a career spanning over 40 years in jazz, classical, and other music genres.

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Jack McDuff

Eugene McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001), known professionally as "Brother" Jack McDuff or "Captain" Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jimmy Reed

Mathis James Reed (September 6, 1925August 29, 1976) was an American blues musician and songwriter.

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Jimmy Smith (musician)

James Oscar Smith (December 8, 1925 or 1928 – February 8, 2005) was an American jazz musician who achieved the rare distinction of releasing a series of instrumental jazz albums that often charted on Billboard.

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Joe Williams (jazz singer)

Joe Williams (born Joseph Goreed; December 12, 1918 – March 29, 1999) was an American jazz singer.

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Joel Whitburn

Joel Carver Whitburn (born November 29, 1939) is an American author and music historian.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Lenny Breau

Leonard Harold Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was an American-born guitarist and music educator.

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Magnetic Feel

Magnetic Feel is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1975 and released on the Cadet label.

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Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer.

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Mose Allison

Mose John Allison Jr. (November 11, 1927 – November 15, 2016) was an American jazz and blues pianist, singer, and songwriter.

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Mr. Oscar Brown Jr. Goes to Washington

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Natalie Cole

Natalie Maria Cole (February 6, 1950 – December 31, 2015) was an American singer, voice actress, songwriter, and actress.

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Oscar Brown

Oscar Brown Jr. (October 10, 1926May 29, 2005) was an American singer, songwriter, playwright, poet, civil rights activist, and actor.

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Otis Rush

Otis Rush (born April 29, 1934) is a blues guitarist and singer.

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Quincy Jones

Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (born March 14, 1933), also known as "Q", is an American musician and record producer.

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Raindrops (Dee Clark song)

"Raindrops" is a 1961 song by the American R&B singer Dee Clark.

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Ramsey Lewis

Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis Jr. (born May 27, 1935) is an American jazz composer, pianist and radio personality.

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Red Holloway

James Wesley "Red" Holloway (May 31, 1927 – February 25, 2012) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Holmes (organist)

Richard Arnold "Groove" Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre.

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Rotary Connection

Rotary Connection was an American psychedelic soul band, formed in Chicago in 1966.

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Sean Rickman

Sean Rickman is an American drummer, vocalist, guitarist, bassist, songwriter, producer and recording artist from Washington, DC.

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Stan Getz

Stan Getz (born Stanley Gayetski; February 2, 1927 – June 6, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist.

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The Chicago Theme

The Chicago Theme is an album by flautist Hubert Laws recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's Studio in New Jersey in 1974 and released in 1975 on the CTI label.

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The Dells

The Dells were an American R&B vocal group.

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The Heatin' System

The Heatin' System is a double album by organist Jack McDuff recorded in 1971 which was his fourth release on the Cadet label and the first following his stint with Blue Note.

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The Natural Thing (Jack McDuff album)

The Natural Thing is a 1968 album by organist Brother Jack McDuff which was his first release on the Cadet label.

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The Real Thing (Dizzy Gillespie album)

The Real Thing is an album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring James Moody recorded in 1969 and originally released on the Perception label.

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The Soulful Strings

The Soulful Strings were an American soul-jazz instrumental group formed in Chicago in 1966.

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The Spaniels

The Spaniels were an American R&B doo-wop group, best known for the hit "Goodnite, Sweetheart, Goodnite".

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The Way I Feel (Phil Upchurch album)

The Way I Feel is an album by jazz and R&B guitarist Phil Upchurch recorded in 1969 and released on the Cadet label.

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Them Changes

Them Changes is a live album by pianist Ramsey Lewis which was recorded in Minneapolis in 1970 and released on the Cadet label.

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Tommy LiPuma

Tommy LiPuma (July 5, 1936 – March 13, 2017) was an American music producer.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Upchurch (album)

Upchurch is an album by jazz and R&B guitarist Phil Upchurch recorded in 1969 and released on the Cadet label.

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What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David

What the World Needs Now: Stan Getz Plays Burt Bacharach and Hal David is an album by saxophonist Stan Getz which was released on the Verve label in 1968.

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Woody Herman

Woodrow Charles Herman (May 16, 1913 – October 29, 1987) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, singer, and big band leader.

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You Can't Sit Down

"You Can't Sit Down" was originally recorded in 1959 as "Can't Sit Down" by The Bim Bam Boos on Dasher Records catalogue number D-500 and credited to Dasher - Muldrow, it featured Philip Upchurch on guitar and Cornell Muldrow on organ.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Upchurch

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