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Floyd Dixon

Pianist and singer Floyd Dixon was a key link from the big band and swing sounds of the early twentieth century to the gospel-influenced R&B and soul that was to follow, perhaps best embodied by the story that Dixon encouraged a young Ray Charles to blend the sacred and the profane in his own music. Born in Marshall, Texas, on February 8, 1929, Dixon moved to Los Angeles with his family as a teenager and had signed his first record deal by the time he was 20. He quickly began cutting jump blues singles as the Floyd Dixon Trio, and also as a member of Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers ...