The brothers on the front cover of the February/March 2006 issue of Wax Poetics
(photo by Danny Bolling)

Rodney, Fonce and Larry (from left to right) - picture taken at the Red Bull Music Academy in Melbourne, Australia, on October 23, 2006
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)

I met Larry at the 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival.

Larry at Gilles Peterson's Worldwide Music Awards in London on December 12, 2005...

...where the Mizell Brothers were awarded for their lifetime achievement.

standing: Larry Mizell, Deke Richards
sitting: Fonce Mizell, Freddie Perren
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)

The Vanlords (1960s)
from left to right: Larry Mizell, John Butler, Freddie Perren, Fonce Mizell
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)

Gary Bartz, recording/mixing engineer Jim Nipar and Larry Mizell (from left to right) at Sound Factory West, Hollywood, CA, working on Gary Bartz's album "Music Is My Sanctuary"
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)

Rodney Mizell
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)

Freddie Perren, Edwin Starr and Fonce Mizell (from left to right) at the Motown Recording Studio, Hollywood, California, working on the soundtrack to the Samuel Z. Arkoff motion picture "Hell Up In Harlem" (late 1973, early 1974)
(taken from the album "Hell Up In Harlem")

from left to right: Fonce Mizell, Edwin Starr, Freddie Perren
(taken from the album "Hell Up In Harlem")

cover illustration by Graham Marsh from the compilation "Sky High - The Mizell Brothers" (EMI 1998)

original rhythm chart
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)

another one
(courtesy of Larry Mizell)