Chicago-based reissue label Numero Group announced the June 20 release of their second San Antonio project, focusing on Chicano Soul outfit the Royal Jesters. Founded by Oscar Lawson and Henry ...

This year, June 23 will be an unofficial holiday for crate-diggers in San Antonio. Numero Group will reissue 28 tunes from the Royal Jesters, lifting the West Side icons out of the flea market and ...

Surviving members of the Royal Jesters, the legendary Chicano vocal group from Lanier High School who in the late 1950s,’60s and ’70s combined a love of doo-wop, rock ’n’ roll and Motown to create the ...

A marriage of doo-wop, pop and soul, the music of the Royal Jesters is the embodiment of the fabled San Antonio sound of the 1960s and early ’70s. At its heart, the vibrato tones of a Lowrey organ ...

Few names are as revered in San Antonio rock 'n' roll lore. Born in the hallways of Lanier High School in 1958, the Royal Jesters straddled the doo-wop era, the British Invasion and the birth of ...

From the early '60s until the mid '70s, a multi-cultural music scene thrived on the west side of San Antonio, Texas. Ed Ward looks at two releases on Numero that open a small window on this music.