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The music producer Adrian Younge was hanging out on Twitter one day and tweeted, “Who is better: The Dramatics or The Delfonics?” As his followers erupted in a debate over the two soul groups, one follower mentioned that the lead singer of The Delfonics, William Hart, was a friend of his dad’s and that Hart just happened
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Bernice Johnson Reagon,
Leonard Brown • John Coltrane and Black America's Quest for Freedom: Spirituality and the Music

Albert Ayler’s Spiritual Unity from 1964
Ted Gioia • How to Listen to Jazz
Big Mama Thornton (“Hound Dog”)
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Forty years after Deborah,