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Both virtuosos and innovators on their respective instruments, steel guitar player Speedy West and guitarist Jimmy Bryant recorded genre-shattering instrumental music in the 1950s that combined country music with bebop jazz music. Blisteringly fast tempos, pleasing melodic phrasing coupled with startling technique, an undying sense of playfulness, and unusual sounds squeezed out of their instruments were their forte--and their recordings together are actually the first recordings ever featuring a solid-body electric guitar. .

Willie Bryant (August 30, 1908 – February 9, 1964) was an American jazz and rhythm & blues bandleader, singer, and disc jockey. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Bryant grew up in Chicago and took trumpet lessons to little success. His first job in entertainment was dancing in the Whitman Sisters Show in 1926. He worked in various vaudeville productions for the next several years, and in 1934 he appeared in the show Chocolate Revue with Bessie Smith. In 1934, he put together his first big band, which at times included Teddy Wilson, Cozy Cole, Johnny Russell, Benny Carter, Ben Webster,...

DANNY BRYANT’s RedEyeBand, have been playing professionally now for nine years. Danny was born in Hertfordshire England in July 1980, and still resides there today. Ken Bryant on bass and Trevor Barr on drums complete this stellar line up. First hailed as a ‘young guitar prodigy’ Danny began playing aged 15, turning professional just three years later, and in the last decade has paid his dues clocking up endless miles of travelling and approximately two thousand shows in many countries around the world. After a decade of hard toil he now gets the recognition he so well deserves, being acknowledged...

Don Bryant (born April 4, 1942) is a singer and songwriter. He was born in 1942 in Memphis, Tennessee. Bryant was staff songwriter for Hi Records. He married soul singer Ann Peebles in 1974. .