A hands injury ended the performance career of pianist/guitarist Jeff Danna, but his fantasy was held alive along with his transition to soundtrack composing. Using being a springboard a rating for the Warner Brothers tv revival of Kung Fu: The Tale Continues, which he constructed shortly after shifting to LA …

Mike Harney continues to be a devoted follower and booster of Progressive Bluegrass and its own wealthy cousin, New Acoustic Music, for over ten years. He listens to music at least 4 or 5 hours a trip to both his house and workplace in Massachusetts and attends concerts as much …

The most well-known jazz musician since 1980, Wynton Marsalis had a significant effect on jazz almost right away. In the first ’80s, it had been major news a young and incredibly talented dark musician would select to produce a living playing acoustic jazz instead of fusion, funk, or R&B. Marsalis’ …

Best-known for founding the brand new York non-et, Manhattan resident Jim Cifelli is usually a post-bop/hard bop trumpeter and flügelhornist that has substantial skills as an arranger, composer, bandleader, and producer. Cifelli’s NY Nonet is exactly what veteran hard bop alto saxophonist Phil Woods would explain like a “small big …

Among the great jazz trumpeters ever, Freddie Hubbard formed his audio from the Clifford Dark brown/Lee Morgan custom, and by the first ’70s was immediately distinctive as well as the pacesetter in jazz. Nevertheless, a string of blatantly industrial albums later on in the 10 years damaged his status and, …

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 …

b. 1893, d. 20 November 1952, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Created in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, through the early 20s, the Mal Hallett Orchestra included Toots Mondello, Andy Russo, Carl Swearingen, Expenses Carlin, Nelson Arguesso, Sam Sherman, Ollie Ahearn, Frank Guilfoyle, Larry de Laurence, Frank Frieselle, Brad Gowans, Chet Gonier, Joe Holmes, …

Vocalist, songwriter, and guitarist Bobby Pinson was created in Tulsa, but raised inside a string of little towns within the Tx Panhandle, the boy of the high-school football trainer and an elementary college instructor. Early in senior high school he started hearing gritty songwriters like Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle, …

Rita Reys was way back when billed as “Europe’s Initial Woman of Jazz.” A story abroad, Reys was among the best jazz performers in Europe from your mid-’50s towards the change of the millennium. Given birth to Maria Everdina Reys in Rotterdam, she started singing as an adolescent. Reys won …

Vocalist/songwriter Robin British was born right into a music family in Tx in 1971 and was raised in Arlington before moving to Nashville, TN, to pursue a profession in nation music. Like a great many other aspiring nation stars, she performed in local night clubs with her music group and …