Armando Peraza was very long considered among popular music’s best percussionists — a expert of both conga and bongos. Not only is it a long-standing person in Santana, Peraza guested on several recordings by additional popular recording performers. Created in Havana, Cuba, on, may 30, 1924, Peraza dropped both parents …

Though he never really had many hits, Thomas Dolby became probably one of the most recognizable numbers from the synth pop motion of early-’80s new wave. This is largely because of his skillful advertising. Dolby advertised himself as some sort of mad scientist, an egghead who experienced successfully harnessed the …

The Barzin project may be the creation of singer-songwriter and keyboard player Barzin Hosseini (b. Canada). Hosseini have been dabbling in single work to discover the best part of ten years before inaugurating Barzin in the beginning of the fresh millennium. Walter Kofman (keyboards), Brett Higgins (dual bass), Sam Cino …

b. Stefano Fontana, Milan, Italy. Fontana’s musical profession began as an electro and hip-hop DJ in Italy through the 80s. Finding film soundtracks in his dad’s record collection and affected by jazz pioneer Herbie Hancock and digital godfathers Kraftwerk, he started producing his personal music. In 1987, he became citizen …

Formed in the first ’80s in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mint Condition started as lead vocalist Stokley Williams, guitarist Homer O’Dell, keyboardist Larry Waddell, keyboardist/saxophonist Jeff Allen, keyboardist/guitarist Keri Lewis, and guitarist/bassist Rick Kinchen. The six talented music artists combined a number of affects and encounters to form their personal sound. Williams …

b. USA. LA, California-based vocalist McLollie was among several leap blues artists to take pleasure from a limited period of popularity in the middle-50s in tandem using the introduction of rock and roll ‘n’ roll. Supported by his combo the Honey Jumpers, he documented several minor strikes for Modern Information …

This fictitious studio group was masterminded by Richard A. Hewson (b. 17 November 1943, Stockton-on-Tees, Teesside, Britain). In the past due 60s arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist Hewson caused Adam Taylor and Herbie Hancock and organized hits like the Beatles ‘The Long And Winding Street’ and Mary Hopkin’s ‘Those Had been …

Drummer Mike Clark established fact seeing that the drummer for Herbie Hancock’s funk-jazz clothing the Headhunters, and headed in the group after Hancock still left to pursue various other tasks. But Clark will go considerably beyond playing basic R&B rhythms, getting one of the most astute modern jazz drummers who …

The SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Area-based Penguin Jazz Quartet began like a trio in 1994. The trio, which contains guitarist Pat Smith, drummer Russ St. John, and bassist Sumit Das, had been soon became a member of by pianist Expenses Walker. Based on the quartet, they garner motivation from …

Born Sept 22, 1934, to a Milanese family, Italian singer Ornella Vanoni spent the majority of her twenties alternating between theater (her debut is at 1957 with Federico Zardi’s We Giacobini) and music. She began by performing “le canzoni della mala,” or music about the underworld, but after conference Gino …