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Montana Sextet
12+ albums
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Vincent Montana, Jr. (February 12, 1928 - April 13, 2013), known as Vince Montana, was an American composer, arranger, and percussionist, best known as a member of MFSB and as the founder of the Salsoul Orchestra. He has been called "the Godfather of disco". Life and career: He was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and grew up in an Italian-American neighborhood. He began playing drums as a child and soon took up other percussion instruments including the glockenspiel and marimba. By the late 1940s, he regularly played in nightclubs with jazz musicians such as Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughan, Clifford Brown and Red Garland. He then spent some time as a musician in Las Vegas hotels, accompanying and arranging for Harry Belafonte, Louis Prima and others. He returned to Philadelphia in the late 1950s, and played vibraphone on Frankie Avalon's 1959 hit "Venus" as well as recordings by Chubby Checker, Bobby Rydell and others. Around the same time, he began to be featured regularly on the nationally syndicated TV talk show, The Mike Douglas Show. With Joseph Tarsia, he helped set up the Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia in 1967, and began working with record producers Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell. He formed and led MFSB, and recorded several albums with the orchestra as well as the international hit "TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)". He played on and arranged many tracks by The Intruders, The Delfonics, The Spinners, Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, The O'Jays, T
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