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Ben F. Branch (January 8, 1928 – August 27, 1987) [1] [2] was an American entrepreneur, jazz tenor saxophonist, and bandleader. Although known as the last person Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to moments before his assassination in 1968, [ 3 ] Branch had been a jazz bandleader for many years.
King's last words before his assassination was a request for musician Ben Branch to play it at a service he was due to attend that night. King's exact last words were "Ben, make sure you play 'Take My Hand, Precious Lord' in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty."
The story of Tennessee's contribution to American music is essentially the story of ... Hank Crawford, Charles Lloyd, Ben Branch, Ben Smith, Garnett Brown, Frank ...
The group also included Willie Mitchell and Ben Branch. The group was the house band at the Plantation Inn Club in West Memphis, Arkansas, from 1947 until 1951. The group recorded as B. B. King's band on his first recordings in 1949, and also the Sun Records sessions in 1950. [3]
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Richard "Tuff" Green (born July 23, 1911, Greenville, MS) was an American jazz and R&B bassist and bandleader. [1]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, [2] saxophonist Irvin Reason, trumpeter Gene "Bowlegs" Miller ...
Ben Katzman calls himself a real-life Dewey Finn (and, ironically, got into Survivor when School of Rock writer Mike White was on the show). And indeed, talking with the guitar player turned music ...
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