Tampa Red - The Guitar Wizard: The Tampa Red Collection 1929-53Hudson Whittaker, better known as Tampa Red, was a hugely prolific and influential blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, an innovative slide guitarist and the first black musician to play a National steel bodied guitar. Moving from Florida to Chicago in the 1920s, he started recording in 1928 with Thomas Dorsey, playing in a hokum style as well as blues, over the years incorporating a pop oriented style with The Chicago Five. Playing electric guitar

Battle Trance

and with the almost alchemic blend of their voices

with his signature composition being "That's What I Like About The South"

"Exceptional

"Danny Boy" and "What Will I Tell My Heart"

"I'd Rather Loan You Out" and "Three Hearts in a Tangle"

Josef Myslivecek (1737-1781) also known as Il Divino Boemo (The Divine Bohemian) was one of the most celebrated opera composers in Italy in the 1770s

songwriter and guitarist famous for the distinctive sound of his unique nine-string guitar

He appeared in over 100 films and became a TV star on the Roy Rogers Show

and also posthumously

former Onra collaborators T3 & Reggie B

The pioneering Mary Lou Williams is an artist whose versatility and ability matched that of her peers and whose contribution to music remains vital