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Duke Jethro
Duke's real name is Jethro Pollard (* 1936 in Meridian, MS). He had college degrees
in music and electrical engineering. He was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, a pilot.
When B.B. King discovered him playing in a club in Los Angeles, Duke was working as a
musician at night, and engineer by day. He was King's organ player from 1963 to 1968.
He played up to 300 shows a year, recorded half a dozen albums.
After 5 years, Duke found the road too much. After leaving King's band, he formed his own but gave up music in 1970 and moved to the Bay Area. He worked at Philco, Lockheed, IBM and others as an electrical engineer. Around 1991, he met John DeFrancesco and became interested in playing again. The two played some gigs together and Duke continued to play through 2005. But in 2015, John DeFrancesco, who is a great blues guitar player and singer in his own right, was in Oakland, CA, for a Hammond organ event and he ran into Duke. He convinced Duke that they should record a tribute album to honor B.B. from abc30.com and album notes |
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Blues Is King Bluesway BL-6001 released 1967 recorded in Chicago, IL/USA |
B.B. King, guitar, vocals Bobby Forte, tenor sax Kenneth Sands, trumpet Duke Jethro, organ Louis Satterfield, bass Sonny Freeman, drums |
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His Best (The Electric B.B. King) Bluesway BLS-6022 released 1968 |
B.B. King, guitar, vocals Lawrence Burdine, alto sax Johnny Board, tenor sax Bobby Forte, tenor sax Vernon Slater, tenor sax Barney Hubert, baritone sax Pluma Davis, trombone Carl Adams, trumpet Henry Boozier, trumpet John Browning, trumpet Hobart Dotson, trumpet McKinley Johnson, trumpet Billy Butler, guitar Duke Jethro, organ Leo Lauchie, bass Louis Satterfield, bass Sonny Freeman, drums Maya Angelou, vocals |
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Back In The Alley BluesWay BLS-6050 released 1973 compilation |
B.B. King, guitar, piano, vocals Johnny Pate, conductor Johnny Board, tenor sax Bobby Forte, tenor sax Kenny Sands, trumpet Irving Ashby, guitar Maxwell Davis, organ Lloyd Glenn, piano Duke Jethro, organ, piano David "Leather Sax" Allen jr., bass Leo Lauchie, bass Louis Satterfield, bass Sonny Freeman, drums Jesse Sailes, drums |
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King Of The Blues MCA Records MCAD4 10677 released 1992 recorded May 1949 through December 1991 |
B.B. King, guitar, vocals Dave Crawford, conductor, keyboards Maxwell Davis, conductor, tenor sax, organ Jimmie Haskell, conductor Quincy Jones, conductor Johnny Pate, conductor Leon Russell, conductor, piano Lawrence Burdine, alto sax George Coleman, alto sax Hank Crawford, alto sax Jewell L. Grant, alto sax William Green, alto sax Howard E. Johnson, alto sax David Sanborn, alto sax Earl Turbinton, alto sax Cato Walker, alto sax Ernie Watts, alto sax Johnny Board, tenor sax Arnett Cobb, tenor sax Adolph Duncan, tenor sax Wilton Felder, tenor sax Jimmy Forrest, tenor sax Bobby Forte, tenor sax, baritone sax Herb Hardesty, tenor sax, trumpet Bill Harvey, tenor sax Bill Havey, tenor sax Red Holloway, tenor sax Louis Hubert, tenor sax, baritone sax Fred Jackson jr., tenor sax, flute Hilton Joseph, tenor sax David "Fathead" Newman, tenor sax Richard Sanders, tenor sax Vernon Slater, tenor sax Ronnie Cuber, baritone sax Barney Hubert, baritone sax Kim Hutchcroft, baritone sax Eddie Saxman Synigal, baritone sax Floyd Turnham, baritone sax James Walker, baritone sax Harold Austin, sax Ben Branch, sax Mahlon Clark, sax Quitman Dennis, sax Brother Gene Dinwiddie, sax Fred Ford, sax Lee Gatling, sax Bill Hood, sax Bobby Keys, sax Trevor Lawrence, sax Dave McMurray, sax Bumps Myers, sax Ben Webster, sax Don Wilkerson, sax Larry Williams, sax George Bohannon, horn Martin Drover, horn Chuck Finley, horn Gary Herbig, horn Wayne Jackson, horn Andrew Love, horn Steve Madaio, horn, trumpet Kurt McGettrick, horn Frank Mead, horn The Memphis Horns, horn Nicky Payne, horn Nick Pentelow, horn Garnett Brown, trombone Joseph Burton, trombone Pluma Davis, trombone Charles Fendley, trombone Jimmy Henderson, trombone Sammie Jett, trombone Tom "Bones" Malone, trombone Dick Noel, trombone Tommy Pederson, trombone Benny Powell, trombone Jim Price, trombone, trumpet, piano Jack Redmond, trombone Steve Sherard, trombone Juan Tizol, trombone Lloyd Ulyate, trombone Al Aarons, trumpet Carl Adams, trumpet James Bolden, trumpet Henry Boozier, trumpet Tom Branch, trumpet Oscar Brashear, trumpet John Browning, trumpet Bobby Bryant, trumpet Conte Candoli, trumpet John Willie Cook, trumpet Hobart Dotson, trumpet Gary Grant, trumpet Jerry Hey, trumpet Lonny Lalanne, trumpet Ray Linn, trumpet Charlie Miller, trumpet Calvin Owens, trumpet Roy Poper, trumpet Al Porcino, trumpet Jake "Vernon" Porter, trumpet Waymon Reed, trumpet Edward Rowe, trumpet Ernie Royal, trumpet Ken Sands, trumpet Woody Shaw, trumpet Patrick Williams, trumpet Snooky Young, trumpet Arthur Adams, guitar Irving Ashby, guitar Roland Bautista, guitar Billy Butler, guitar Bobby Cadwell, guitar Roland Chambers, guitar Jesse Daniels, guitar Jesse Ed Davis, guitar Cornell Dupree, guitar Thek Edge, guitar Julio Ferrer, guitar Leonard Gill, guitar Norman Harris, guitar Al Hendrickson, guitar Michael Hill, guitar Milton Hopkins, guitar Randy Jacobs, guitar Johnny Jones, guitar Michael Landau, guitar Hugh McCracken, guitar Calvin Newborn, guitar Ray Parker jr., guitar Dean Parks, guitar Mac Rebennack, guitar Jerome Richardson, guitar David Spinozza, guitar Eli Tartarsky, guitar Jon Tiven, guitar Sally Tiven, guitar John Uribe, guitar Joe Walsh, guitar Steve Watson, guitar Johnny Ace, piano Robert Anderson, piano Ronnie Barron, organ Phil Blackman, keyboards Charles Bowles, organ Charles Brooks, piano Sonny Burke, piano Jim Cook, synthesizer Lawrence Dermer, synthesizer Dr. John, keyboards Tommy Eyre, keyboards Lloyd Glenn, piano Paul Griffin, keyboards Paul Harris, organ, piano John Hobbs, piano, synthesizer Duke Jethro, organ Randy Kerber, synthesizer Carole King, piano Al Kooper, piano Ron Kersey, keyboards Neil Larsen, keyboards Millard Lee, piano Ron Levy, piano Charles Mann, keyboards Phineas Newborn jr., piano, drums Frank Owens, piano Doctor Ragavoy, piano Jimmy Rowles, piano Joe Sample, piano Willie Smith, organ, piano James Toney, organ Dan Willard, piano Stevie Wonder, keyboards Gary Wright, piano Joe Zagarino, piano Warren Chiasson, vibes Paul Mullen, vibes Rudy Aikels, bass Ron Baker, bass David "Leather Sax" Allen jr., bass Wilbur Bascomb jr., bass Red Callender, bass Adam Clayton, bass Bob Daisley, bass Victor Feldman, bass Wilbert Freeman, bass Bryan Garofalo, bass Johnny B. Gayton, bass Tuff Green, bass Ralph Hamilton, bass Major Holley, bass James B. Hutchenson, bass Russell Jackson, bass Gerald Jemmott, bass Leo Lauchie, bass Will Lee, bass Val Patillo, bass Robert "Pops" Popwell, bass Louis Satterfield, bass Neil Stubenhaus, bass Big Joe Turner, bass Louis Villery, bass Klaus Voormann, bass "Ready" Freddie Washington, bass Kenny Aronoff, drums Will Calhoun, drums Ted Curry, drums Luther Dixon, drums Calep Emphrey, drums Anton Fig, drums Earl Forest, drums Sonny Freeman, drums James Gadson, drums Jim Gordon, drums Ed Greene, drums Stix Hooper, drums, percussion Oliver Jackson, drums Jim Keltner, drums Russ Kunkel, drums Herb Lovelle, drums Jackie Mills, drums Bob Morin, drums Larry Mullen jr., drums Harold Potier, drums Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, drums Jesse Sailes, drums John Starks, drums Ringo Starr, drums Graham Walker, drums Earl Young, drums Marcus Barnett, percussion Lenny Castro, percussion Eddie "Bongo" Brown, congas Paulinho Da Costa, percussion Debra Dobkin, percussion Earl Nash, congas Naná Vasconcelos, percussion Larry Washington, congas Bobby "Blue" Bland, vocals Bono, vocals Gary Moore, vocals Bonnie Raitt, vocals Duke Ellington Orchestra |
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Another Generation Of The Blues Silvertone Records 74321 13949 2 released 1993 recorded in Belmont, CA/USA |
Zakiya Hooker, vocals Bill Ortiz, horn Marty Wehner, horn Lloyd Gregory, guitar Duke Jethro, organ Ollan Christopher, bass Kevin Williams, drums Randie McBride, percussion John Lee Hooker, vocals |
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Tribute to B. B. King's Live At The Regal no label recorded live at the Regal in Chicago, IL/USA |
Johnny DeFrancesco, guitar, vocals Duke Jethro, Hammond B-3 organ |
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