In Balkan folklore he’d be referred to as “the person who has noticed the bear” — the individual whose presence is both historic and shadowy, usually there at important moments in every the key places, undeniably an integral part of landmark events yet abandoning less personal residue when compared to …

A well lit, energetic, and unusual skill in early bluegrass who doubled about upright bass and bass vocals, Estil Stewart’s attempts like a bandleader proved that the thing he wasn’t extremely proficient at was simple mathematics. His significant bluegrass outfit through the ’50s, the 7 Toned Mountain Boys, never really …

Lots of the sidemen from the start of Jimmie Lunceford vanished with out a trace, as though that they had wandered in to the wrong corridor of Kansas City’s meat-packing sector. Reed participant George Clarke can be an exemption; his wonderful tenor saxophone and flute playing are a number of …

Saxophonist Andy Anderson is a veteran from the Cleveland jazz picture who was even now executing in his early nineties, but he’s definitely not the just musician with this name. Due to the fact almost anyone called Anderson winds up obtaining called “Andy”, the true surprise is definitely that there …

Come up with by Blowzabella’s Jo Freya (b. Jo-Anne Rachel Newmarch Fraser, 4 Dec 1960, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, Britain; saxophone/clarinet), this pan-European and all-female folk group originally comprised Freya, Gabriele Meyer (b. Germany; violin/vocals), Bélen De Benito (b. Spain; acoustic guitar/vocals), Anne-Lise Foy (b. France; hurdy gurdy/vocals), Eva Vavrinecz (b. …

Probably setting the stage for actor Russell Crowe’s band Seven Odd Feet of Grunts, or possibly influenced by the sooner old-time outfit Seven Feet Dilly & the Hot Pickles, this historic Kentucky bluegrass outfit’s name immediately provokes questions when photographs of the group are shown or the names from the …

If bottled, the way to obtain music artists named Jimmy Harris seems enough to share a liquor shop, not a poor image considering just how many of the players have already been mixed up in booze-friendly R&B genre. Bandleader Roy Dark brown, regarded an innovator in the creation of rock …

It seems sensible a blues singer named Bessie Mae Smith would like to find another name to record in. It is kind of the same as being a vocalist/songwriter called “Bob McDylan.” Bessie Mae Smith transported what to extremes, nevertheless, recording not merely as Blue Belle but under a number …

Johann Stamitz was a significant composer of the first Classical period, significant as the principle person in the so-called Mannheim College. His enhancements in the introduction of the symphony obviously place him in the pioneering rates of his period. Stamitz was the initial major composer to be identified by using …

This group was one of the important string bands which were based from the Danville, VA, area in the ’20s. Another was Charley LaPrade and Blue Ridge Highballers. Two brothers constructed the larger half from the Four Virginians. Richard Larger was created in 1908 Pittsylvania State. One could state he …