Self-proclaimed pioneers of “chav” culture, ten-piece pop/rap act Blazin’ Squad scored an extraordinary six consecutive TOP hits in only two years. Associates Flava, Plat’num, Strider, Freek, Krazy, Tommy-B, Melo-D, Spike-E, Reepa, and Kenzie all fulfilled at Higham Recreation area College in Chingford, London where they bonded more than a like …

b. 2 Might 1920, Glasgow, Scotland, d. 4 Might 1980, London, Britain. A pianist and composer, Henderson shaped his own music group to try out at college dances before turning professional at age 13. In the first 50s he offered as accompanist for previous child celebrity and vocalist Petula Clark, …

Started soon after bassist/leader Charles Mingus’ death in 1979, Mingus Dynasty provides featured a lot of his best alumni in spirited concerts and recordings. Not absolutely all from the records appear to the amount of Mingus’ greatest shows (the bassist is actually skipped), but many recapture his heart. The group …

Although he didn’t record under his own name until 1998, Olu Dara enjoyed a reputation among the jazz avant-garde’s leading trumpeters in the mid-’70s on. Early-’80s information and performances using the David Murray Octet as well as the Henry Threadgill Sextet uncovered Dara to be always a daring, roots-bound soloist, …

Also in the frequently strange and incestuous background of New Zealand rock and roll, few bands enjoyed a far more bizarre career than Mi-Sex; led by onetime cabaret vocalist Steve Gilpin, the group surfaced from art-rock origins to afterwards reinvent themselves in the design of the new influx. The Mi-Sex …

Ray Anderson is a full time income embodiment from the uninhibited and sometimes rambunctious method of individualized expression that is clearly a vital component dating back again to the origins of jazz through Lester Bowie, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, and Roy Eldridge to Excess fat Waller, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Move …

In the mid-’90s, James Dalton, who had performed in various origins rock and roll and pop/rock and roll bands, installed with bass player Tyson Murray within Shaken Martinis, a golf swing group located in Denver, CO. When the golf swing fad become extinct, the duo converted its focus on nation. …

The introducing pad for comedians from John Belushi and Chevy Run after to Costs Murray and Richard Belzer, the Country wide Lampoon performing troupe emerged in the pages from the Country wide Lampoon magazine in 1972. The publication itself debuted in Apr 1970 beneath the auspices of authors Michael O’Donoghue …

b. 2 Dec 1924, London, Britain. A composer, arranger and conductor for the theater and movies, Ornadel researched piano, dual bass, and structure in the Royal University of Music. He was with ENSA for some time, and later on toured European countries with the favorite vocalist Dorothy Carless. He led …

The early-’60s bluegrass group the Scottsville Squirrel Barkers are most known for including teenage mandolinist Chris Hillman, who join the Byrds a 12 months following the band split up. While these were jointly, they documented an record of traditional bluegrass that proclaimed the first documenting not merely by Hillman, but …