Even though big trophies in the jazz tournament usually appear to be won by the fantastic soloists and bandleaders, there are a variety of players who don’t lead bands and didn’t appear to take many solos, possibly. Yet musicians such as for example Gus Aiken, an early on jazz trumpeter …

An entire biography from the lives of Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller and their contribution to rock and roll & move could quickly take up a whole book. Very basically, Leiber & Stoller had been two of the very most essential songwriters of the first days of rock and roll …

Reinventing herself like a classical musician and a TV presenter following the sudden rise and fall of Hear’Say, Myleene Klass has truly gone to become among the U.K.’s many popular entertainment personalities. Created in Gorleston, Norfolk, in 1978 for an Austrian-English dad and Filipina mom, Klass was raised inside a …

Doug Yankus began using guitar at age eight, and by the first ’60s, beneath the short-lived stage name of Ritchie Dino (after hero Ritchie Valens), he began executing and learning music voraciously. Disinterested generally in organised music, Yankus was inspired in early stages by Bo Diddley and Pal Holly, but …

Lenny Hambro might have been among the music artists Charles Mingus had at heart when he wrote a music entitled “If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There Will be a GOOD DEAL of Deceased Copycats.” On the other hand, the Hambro sandwich in fact tastes very good, once provided a …

Just who have the heck is H.M. Barnes? Well, imagine if Elvis “The Ruler” Presley proceeded to go beneath the stage name of “the Colonel’s Elvis Presley.” Barnes was a ’20s promoter who strike the road establishing tour times for the old-timey string music group he fronted firmly like a …

Bavarian liedermacher Hans Söllner is really as notorious for his politics rebelliousness as he’s popular for his reggae-inflected folk music design. His popularity is normally arguably better in Austria, where his albums frequently graph, than it really is in his indigenous Germany, where his open public image is normally tarnished …

Illustrator Jim Flora created a few of the most memorable and innovative jazz LP addresses from the postwar period, honing a playful yet deeply idiosyncratic sensibility much imitated in the years to follow. Delivered July 25, 1914, in Bellefontaine, OH, Flora graduated through the Artwork Academy of Cincinnati in 1939. …

Harold Lee “Curly” Chalker is definitely a departed great from the pedal steel acoustic guitar, referred to as “Curls” to his friends and known surely by his sound, if not actually by his name, to mobs of nation music fans. Chalker reached an enormous audience playing metal acoustic guitar on …

During his heyday, Charlie Gore was referred to as “the tall handsome man from West Virginia.” Through the early ’50s, he was the celebrity of Midwestern Hayride on WLW radio and tv in Cincinnati. Gore was created in Chapmanville, Western Virginia and experienced extensive radio encounter before arriving at WLW. …