Through the latter half of the 1970s, John Travolta was the largest star in Hollywood; following a string of strikes in movies, on tv, and on the air, he had surfaced as a genuine cultural trend, defining preferences in music and style while dominating countless column ins in newspapers, publications, …

A purveyor of digital manipulations of existing music, Ekkehard Ehlers released his debut, Betrieb, in 2000. The record significantly manipulates examples from such early 20th hundred years composers as Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, Ehlers viewing each piece like a shut program with which to test. He spent some time …

A soulful, good tenor and alto saxophonist within an R&B, bebop, and really difficult bop mode, the former Curtis Porter had a limited period within the limelight mainly using Charles Mingus in the later ’50s. His shiny, spirited solos, which mixed bebop and blues affects, were highlighted on such Mingus …

There has been considerable discussion about whether Bobby Darin ought to be classified being a rock and roll & move singer, a Vegas hipster cat, an interpreter of popular criteria, or perhaps a folk-rocker. He was many of these and nothing of the. Throughout his profession he made a spot …