Pianist Paul Bley, whose first recordings appear to be Al Haig or Bud Powell, took the designs and techniques connected with Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Expenses Evans to fresh degrees of creative experimentation, becoming an essential force in contemporary music by merging the best components in bop and early …

Indie pop singer/songwriter Nick Rudd 1st emerged because the frontman from the music group Turning Curious (later on referred to as the B-Lovers), debuting in 1983 using the Mitch Easter-produced Spirit Light Time of year. A stint in Big Probably (with potential Velvet Crush users Ric Menck and Paul Chastain) …

Canadian-born “jazz poet” Paul Haines is most beneficial recognized to jazz fans for his are a lyricist with composer Carla Bley, specifically the hugely ambitious concept album Escalator On the Hill (1971) and its own follow-up, Tropic Appetites (1973). Haines’ librettos for all those works shown his penchant for surrealism …

Ola Podrida, the brainchild of David Wingo, was created in early 2005, after Wingo had returned to his local Texas from NY. Although he previously played equipment throughout senior high school and university and even constructed the ratings for friend David Gordon Green’s films George Washington, All of the Real …

To prepare a set of fried eggs for every one of the jazz musicians in recordings named Costs Graham would require a whole dozen. Of the crowd set up for breakfast, just the pianist Costs Graham — who performs on only 1 record in 1948 — appears more obscure compared …

Before Velvet Crush, Ric Menck and Paul Chastian teamed with singer, songwriter and guitarist Nick Rudd in Big Probably. Rudd proceeded to go onto perform being a solo artist.

The UK’s entrants in the 1995 Eurovision Melody Competition, dance/rap collective Like Town Groove originally entered your competition ‘for a tiny have fun’. Certainly their stylised but effusive distillation from the Stereo system MC’s formula demonstrated an unexpected strike in the qualifying levels. Led by Beanz (b. Stephen Rudden), with …

Fans of Japan free jazz might think that they’ve come upon one particular marquees where they ran out of words, as well as the brass appeal is actually Toshinori Kondo. Well, yes sensai, gleam trombonist with the name of Masahiko Kono using a wayback connection: that flashy superstar of japan …

b. 8 August 1953, Australia. A talented guitarist, Gaze’s wide-ranging musical passions allow him to try out in blues, rock and roll and fusion rings. In the past due 60s and to the first 80s he was associated with several rings, including Stonehenge, which he created at age group 14, …

The UK’s entrants in the 1995 Eurovision Track Competition, dance/rap collective Like Town Groove originally entered your competition ‘for a tiny giggle’. Certainly their stylised but effusive distillation from the Stereo system MC’s formula demonstrated an unexpected strike in the qualifying phases. Led by Beanz (b. Stephen Rudden), with fellow …