Trey ‘N’ The Diamonds

Notes from Carl Contrino ...

The band was pretty popular. We were a big band and therefor kinda limited to where we could play. We played the Lyric Theater quite a bit, mostly with Motown acts. We were the lead-in act for the Temptations, Martha & the Vandellas, Jackie Wilson, Stevie Wonder, The Toys, Sir Walter Jackson, and others. We got a lot of our gigs from Smiley Wiley Daniels at WWIN radio.

A young Toni Braxton was in our back-up vocal group, and vocalist Jazz was a former member of James Brown's original Famous Flames.

Band members indluded:

• Carl Contrino - trumpet & trombone
• Tommy Martin - bari sax
• Don Chapman - tenor sax
• Angelo Contrino - drums
• Barry Stevens - keyboard
• Steve Chesson - guitar
• Bob Brown - bass
• Leon Parker - alto sax
• Trey Johnson - vocals
• Moony Day - vocals
• Jazz - vocals
• Bob Dungess - trumpet