Maurice John Vaughn is an American

United States

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 blues

Blues

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 musician

Musician

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 from Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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. He is a guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, saxophonist

Saxophone

The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

, keyboardist

Keyboardist

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 and singer.

Biography

Vaughn began playing professionally in 1968 as a saxophonist in Chicago R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 groups. He recorded

Sound recording and reproduction

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 with The Chosen Few in 1976, and played and recorded with Phil Guy

Phil Guy

Phil Guy was an American blues guitarist. He was the younger brother of Buddy Guy.-Biography:Born in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy played with the harmonica player Raful Neal for ten years in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area before relocating to Chicago in 1969 where he joined his brothers' band...

, went on tour in Canada

Canada

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 in 1979. He played as a sideman

Sideman

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 with Luther Allison

Luther Allison

Luther Allison was an American blues guitarist. He was born in Widener, Arkansas and moved with his family, at age twelve, to Chicago in 1951. He taught himself guitar and began listening to blues extensively. Three years later he began hanging outside blues nightclubs with the hopes of being...

, Son Seals

Son Seals

Frank "Son" Seals was an American electric blues guitarist and singer.-Career:He was born in Osceola, Arkansas where his father, Jim "Son" Seals, owned a small juke joint. He began performing professionally by the age of 13, first as a drummer with Robert Nighthawk, and later as a guitarist...

, Junior Wells

Junior Wells

Junior Wells , born Amos Wells Blakemore Jr., was an American Chicago blues vocalist, harmonica player, and recording artist...

, Valerie Wellington

Valerie Wellington

Valerie Wellington was an African American, Chicago blues and electric blues singer and actress. Her 1984 album, Million Dollar $ecret saw her work with Sunnyland Slim, Billy Branch, and Magic Slim. In her early years, Wellington also worked with Lee "Shot" Williams...

, and A.C. Reed

A.C. Reed

Aaron Corthen, better known as A.C. Reed was an American blues saxophonist, closely associated with the Chicago blues scene from the 1940s into the 2000s.- Biography :...

.

His debut solo

Solo (music)

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 record

Gramophone record

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 was 1984's Generic Blues Album, released in plain white packaging on his own Reecy Records record label

Record label

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; Alligator Records

Alligator Records

Alligator Records is a Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.Iglauer started the label with his own savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester of Delmark Records, declined to record...

 reissued it in 1987. In the 1990s, Vaughn played with Detroit Junior

Detroit Junior

Emery “Detroit Junior” Williams, Jr. was an American blues pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. He is known for songs such as "So Unhappy", "Call My Job", "If I Hadn't Been High", "Ella" and "Money Tree"...

, but spent much of his time working in A&R

A&R

Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label.- Finding talent :...

 for Appaloosa Records, and produced

Record producer

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 album

Album

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s by Shirley Johnson, Zoom, Maxine Carr, B.J. Emery, and Velvet McNair. Vaughn and his band backed up Detroit Junior on the latter's two releases on Blue Suit Records, "Turn Up The Heat" and "Take Out The Time." In 1994, his song "(Everything I Do) Got To Be Funky" was released on the soundtrack

Soundtrack

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 for the film

Film

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 Major League II

Major League II

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. The song was also a part of his 1993 release, In the Shadow of the City.

Discography

• Generic Blues Album (Reecy Records, 1984; reissued Alligator Records
  Alligator Records
  Alligator Records is a Chicago-based independent blues record label founded by Bruce Iglauer in 1971.Iglauer started the label with his own savings to record and produce his favorite band Hound Dog Taylor & The HouseRockers, whom his employer, Bob Koester of Delmark Records, declined to record...
  
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• In the Shadow of the City (Alligator, 1993)
• Dangerous Road (Blue Suit, 2001)

External links

• [ Maurice John Vaughn] at Allmusic