OLanda Draper The Associates | fr

Victory and Associates write rock anthems that you didn’t know you needed. Take the parts of huge classic rock you may actually WANT to turn up, mix it with the parts of indie rock that ROCK, funnel it through post-punk sensibility with driving, energetic force and you are on the trail to victory… and associates. This is the sound of giving a high five, this is the sound of being alive. Victory and Associates have been around the block, know their way around a good song and endeavor to deliver something exciting to both musician and non-musician alike. These things...

Ray Draper was an excellent tuba soloist, one of the few in the 1950s to utilize the instrument for bop improvisations. After attending the Manhattan School of Music, he played and recorded with Jackie McLean (1956-1957), worked with Donald Byrd, and recorded with John Coltrane (1958). Draper was with Max Roach's band (1958-1959) and worked with Don Cherry in the early '60s. However, from that point on drugs played havoc with his life. He did play later in the 1960s with Horace Tapscott, Archie Shepp, Brother Jack McDuff (recording with him in 1971), and Howard Johnson's group Gravity, but had...

There are at least two recording artists with this name: (1) Yolanda is a Neo-Soul songstress who was born Yolanda Johnson in New York, and now resides in L.A, according to her Myspace page. If you were a viewer of BET Jazz's "Soul Sessions" video show, you became familiar with the groove of Yolanda's "Individual" -- which was used in the opening animation. Yolanda comes from a soulful family, decades ago, her father and cousins all had recording careers. The photos on the site are not accurate. If you google "Yolanda Johnson," you can find images as well as You...