The musical traditions of West Africa are combined with folk music of Norway by Setesdal, Norway-based quartet, Fra Senegal Til Setesdal. Using the vocals and Jew’s harp playing of Norwegian natives Kirsten Braten Berg and Bjergulu Straume established to the melodic strings of Senegal-born Single Cisokho’s kora as well as …

With origins in both folk and jazz music world, in 1983 Jane Miller began focusing on jazz. Furthermore to her acoustic guitar skills, Miller is rolling out into a author of some take note. Her song composing activity started at age seven when she began penning songs utilizing a ukulele. …

Reco’s band have got the distinction to be the first performers to hit the united kingdom charts using a ska record. In March 1964 their infectious rework of Jimmy CIiff’s “Ruler Of Kings”, fronted with the band’s vocalist Boysie Offer, reached the very best 50 seven days before Millie pierced …

Misha Keylin is among a select band of violinists today to have successfully made the changeover from kid prodigy to seasoned virtuoso. He debuted at Carnegie Hall at age 11, already students from the renowned Juilliard instructor Dorothy Hold off. He continued to win a string of awards at major …

The sibling duo of Larry and Alphonso “Fonce” Mizell revolutionized the sound and form of jazz-funk–fusing the commercial sensibilities of Motown using the virtuoso musicianship from the Blue Note stable, the brothers (collaborating under their Sky High Productions aegis) produced some now-classic LPs of uncommon beauty and elegance, seen as …

As either David Dark or Dave Dark, this drummer was most widely known for a link with Duke Ellington that lasted between 1953 and 1955. Ahead of that, he rode his cymbals for most a soloist as the home drummer in the Blue Notice golf club in Philadelphia, burning Charlie …

Leonid Utyosov was the creator and longtime (1929-1982) singer and director of an extremely well-known Soviet Union jazz orchestra. He became a tale and the satisfaction of Soviet tradition. No matter his insufficient musical history, he became typically the most popular vocalist of his period. In a nation where jazz …

The hypnotic, undulating cadence from the Theremin has graced the soundtrack of several horror film soundtracks — with least one classic rock & roll tune, the Seaside Children’ “Great Vibrations”). However the device has not motivated a big contingent of full-time adherents; they have mostly been utilized as a way …

Daughters of army men — a single British as well as the other American — Ginny Clee and Barbara Marsh joined together to create the folk duo Dear Wayne. Using their dark alto vocals uplifting comparisons with English folksingers, including Sandy Denny and June Tabor, both women combine to make …

Examined with John Downey, Thom Mason, Robert Wykes. Pianist, synthesizer. Movie director of Electronic Music/Documenting Studio room at Washington School, 1971-80. Sound and music movie director at Innervision, St. Louis, MO. Manufacturer “Cool in the Tone” series, NYC. Collaborated using the past due professional photographer Ernst Haas (1983). Live show …