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Tuff Green
Richard “Tuff” Green was a jazz and R&B bassist and bandleader.〔(Center for Southern Folklore ) Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕
After studying with Jimmie Lunceford in Memphis, in the late 1940s he led the Rocketeers, which featured, among others, Phineas Newborn, Sr., Ben Branch, Leonard “Doughbelly” Campbell, Willie Mitchell, Hank Crawford,〔(DeCosta-Willis, Miriam (2008) ''Notable Black Memphians'', p. 40. Cambria Press ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕 saxophonist Irvin Reason, trumpeter Gene "Bowlegs" Miller, trombonist Walter "Tang" Smith, saxophonist James Luper, and pianist Harry Gibson〔(706 Union Avenue Memphis, Tennessee: 706 Union Avenue Sessions ) Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕〔(DeCosta-Willis, Miriam (2008) ''Notable Black Memphians'', p. 100. Cambria Press ) Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕
As an established bandleader in Memphis, in 1952 he later put together the pickup band for BB King’s first hit, “Three O’Clock Blues”,〔(Lauterbach, Preston (2011) ''The Chitlin' Circuit: And the Road to Rock 'n' Roll'' pp. 188-213. W. W. Norton & Company. ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕 Ben Branch and Phineas Newborn, Sr., along with Newborn's sons, Phineas Jr. and Calvin, together with Ben Branch’s brother Thomas, and Sammie Jett〔(Danchin, Sebastian (1998) ''Blues Boy: The Life and Music of B.B. King'', p. 27. Univ. Press of Mississippi ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕 and which was recorded in Green’s sitting room.〔(Farley, Charles (2011) ''Soul of the Man: Bobby "Blue" Bland'', p. 37. Univ. Press of Mississippi ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕 A previous version of the song had been recorded in September 1951 with King backed by Richard Sanders and Adolph "Billy" Duncan on tenor saxes, Johnny Ace, Green, and Earl Forest on drums.〔("The songs and the artists" ) PBS. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕
Bobby Bland’s first recording was also made in Green’s sitting room,〔 and featured Green, Johnny Ace, Earl Forest, M.T. (Matthew) Murphy, Little Junior Parker, Ike Turner,〔(African Americans in Memphis (TN) ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕 and Rosco Gordon,〔(Guralnick, Peter and Robert Santelli, Holly George-Warren (2013) ''Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: A Musical Journey''. HarperCollins ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕 whose "No More Doggin'", also recorded at Green's home, was a #3 R&B hit.〔(Walker, Steve. Biography of Rosco Gordon ) Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕
Mose Allison, having heard them in 1947, has credited Tuff Green and His Rocketeers with playing the first “rock and roll”.〔(Jones, Patti (1995) ''One Man's Blues: The Life and Music of Mose Allison'', p. 27. Quartet Books ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕〔(Coleman, Christopher Kiernan (2011) ''Ghosts and Haunts of Tennessee'', p. 161. John F. Blair ) At Google Books. Retrieved 2 July 2013.〕
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