Sly & the Viscaynes - Yellow Moon: Complete Recordings 1961-1962The amazing, unpredictable, one and only Sly Stone has never made a secret of his innocuous beginnings as a teenaged hopeful in Vallejo, California in the early 1960s. His earliest experiences as a musician and performer on the path to future glories would act as a signal lesson for the youthful Sylvester Stewart in the realities of the music business. A trio of singles with his interracial high school vocal group the Viscaynes, followed by two more

which made him a household name on both sides of the Atlantic

Rimsky-Korsakov/ Luisi/ Phil Zurich - Scheherazade

"Anita" and "Pick Yourself Up"

Joan Baez is one of the most revered and important names in contemporary folk music

She was an artist who had an impact far beyond the degree of her success

John Lewis

Taking influences from contemporaries such as Charley Patton

Cuban percussion

or were hits for other artists

He was an artist who very much typified the musical atmosphere of New Orleans in that era

Dave Cavanaugh

as he worked with some of the most influential and notable names in jazz during the bebop era