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Leon Haywood Biography, Photos, Pictures

Soul/funk journeyman Leon Haywood periodically dented the charts in the 1970s with hits that tapped into the grooves and musical hooks of the day’s trends An accomplished songwriter and arranger, Haywood never pretended to be an innovator, and his hits are cheerful derivations of ’70s midtempo funk and romantic ballads, usually embellished by smooth string charts

Session pianist Leon Huff became half of a seminal R&B songwriting and production team when he teamed with Kenny Gamble in 1965 Huff played on sessions for Phil Spector, the Ronettes, and Carole King in New York City before moving to Philadelphia

Leon Patillo Biography, Photos, Pictures

Christian singer, songwriter, and keyboardist Leon Patillo got his start in the professional music business when he fronted a band called Creation in the San Francisco area in the late ’60s and early ’70s

Songwriter, singer, and producer Leon Ware is one of the less-recognized products of the Motown Records music factory of the 1960s and ’70s, primarily because he has tended to work behind the scenes despite recording a series of albums under his own name

Leonard Chess Biography, Photos, Pictures

As the co-founder of the legendary Chess Records label, producer Leonard Chess played a pivotal role in the birth of the Chicago electric blues movement of the postwar era, launching the careers of legends ranging from Muddy Waters to Howlin’ Wolf to Little Walter

Leonard Ware Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the early electric guitarists, Ware played on clarinetist/saxophonist Sidney Bechet’s first (belated) recordings as leader in November 1938 for the Vocalion label

Leothus Lee Green Biography, Photos, Pictures

Leothus Lee Green, also known as Pork Chops, was an early contemporary of Little Brother Montgomery and a mentor to Roosevelt Sykes Born in Mississippi around 1900, Green worked as a clothes presser in Vicksburg while perfecting his piano technique

Leroy Burgess Biography, Photos, Pictures

Flip through any old stack of underground disco and boogie vinyl released between the late ’70s and mid-’80s If the name Leroy Burgess isn’t in the credits of at least one out of the first 50 you scan, consider it a fluke

The term “urban blues” is usually applied to post-World War II blues-band music, but one of the forefathers of the genre in its pre-electric format was pianist Leroy Carr

Leroy Foster Biography, Photos, Pictures

As a charter member of the Headhunters, the brash crew that also included Muddy Waters and Jimmy Rogers (so named because of their penchant for entering nightclubs featuring other musicians and blowing them off the stage with their superior musicianship), “Baby Face” Leroy Foster was on hand to help develop the postwar Chicago blues idiom