The life from the supermodel-turned-teenage-pop-star daughter from the Mamas & the Papas’ John Phillips continues to be widely speculated upon and discussed in respectable memoirs (her father’s Papa John) in addition to supermarket tabloids. Bijou continues to be characterized as “riotous,” “outrageous,” and “uncontrollable” although she’s contested such remarks by …

Guitarist Billy Bauer was a crucial force behind jazz’s development from golf swing to bebop, his precise, progressive fretwork foreshadowing the introduction of great jazz and also the avant-garde. Given birth to in NEW YORK on November 14, 1915, Bauer performed banjo as a kid but relocated to acoustic guitar …

B.J. Sharp’s design of blues is related to a prize-winning chili formula. Ingredients such as for example humorous styles and the capability to state boldly what nearly all women are afraid to state, spiced with a distinctive perspective on topics of discomfort and like, make her a standout. At age …

A virtuoso pianist, Victor Arden was a significant artist from the initial times of recordings, beginning his NY career because the originator of both piano rolls and piano transcriptions. Delivered John Fuiks, a name almost anyone would like to transformation on general process, he earned a qualification in music in …

Folksinger and labor activist Expenses Friedland was created in Staten Isle, NY, in 1923. The child of Russian immigrants mixed up in Jewish labor business the Workmen’s Group, he discovered himself drawn to Trotskyism while students at Wagner University, and for that reason of his developing proletarian leanings he approved …

Following a dissolution of his successful dance-pop duo Modern Speaking, composer and producer Dieter Bohlen flipped his focus on a new single task which he dubbed Blue System; also presuming vocal tasks, he debuted in 1987 using the solitary “Sorry Small Sarah,” quickly accompanied by the full-length Strolling on a …

Her mountainous stature matching the sheer soulful power of her substantial vocal skill, Big Maybelle was among the leading R&B chanteuses from the 1950s. Her deep, gravelly tone of voice was as singular as her documented result for Okeh and Savoy, which ranged from down-in-the-alley blues to pop-slanted ballads. In …

Big Walter Horton, sometimes referred to as Shakey Walter Horton, is among the most influential blues harmonica players ever, and a specific pioneer in neuro-scientific amplified harmonica. He isn’t as well known as his fellow Chicago blues pioneers Small Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson II, credited mostly to the actual …

The Flops aren’t children name, however they ought to be. Why? The just brilliant ideas that may get this to group an instantaneous failure will be the same ideas that could make theirs an effective mission statement. It really is difficult for the Flops never to flop in a single …

Guitarist, writer, and educator Bruce Arnold grew up in South Dakota, where his initial contact with music as a kid was included with accordion lessons. When he noticed the Beatles in the Ed Sullivan Present at age seven, nevertheless, he developed a pastime in your guitar and eventually started playing …