The "soul patch"

[Mullins, Bill]

>From Factiva:

"Traveling Tore gives the blues a worldwide whirl " MARTY RACINE, 5 April 1986, Houston Chronicle 

"He's a throwback to some early species of hipster. 

``Yeah, man,'' Walter ``H.K.'' Tore is fond of saying, with his nifty little soul-patch and goatee and slicked-back hair. "

If only _Down Beat_ was on line . . . . 



>Nexis takes it back to 1993.  A 1995 Boston Globe article on the soul
>patch mentions the "Imperial", but says it was so named because "Little
>Anthony of Little Anthony and the Imperials rose to fame wearing one."
>The article also mentions the "jazz dab", which I would guess dates back
>to Dizzy Gillespie's time.

>--Ben Zimmer