b. Iyael Constable, 14 March 1978, Hackney, London, Britain. Constable started his search for stardom in his formative years by imitating Michael Jackson’s dance techniques and emulating his performing style. He went to acting classes on the Anna Shears Play College where he guaranteed a job on the tv screen …

Among the Blue Notice label’s definitive hard bop performers, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley remains to be somewhat underappreciated for his straightforward, swinging design. Any characterization of Mobley invariably starts with critic Leonard Feather’s assertion that he was the “middleweight champ from the tenor saxophone,” and therefore his firmness wasn’t as …

Although jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver continues to be known in the Detroit area as an excellent musician and educator because the early ’90s, he had not been so well-known to listeners beyond the Midwest until an explosion of recordings released beginning in 1999 brought his effective and tasteful drumming towards …

Dave Weckl is normally among fusion’s most acclaimed drummers, building his name throughout a six-year-stint with Chick Corea. Weckl was created in St. Louis and was raised listening to spirit and jazz; he received his first drum place at age group eight and created his playing by hearing drummers like …

Four from the five founding users of Stockton’s Wing claimed the variation of winning person All-Ireland championships before they joined causes in 1977 to determine the progressive group in Ennis, Region Clare, Ireland. It wasn’t a long time before they received a skill competition. By the next 12 months Stockton’s …

Scottish singer/songwriter Al Stewart continues to be a wonderfully prolific and effective musician across 50 years, employed in a dizzying selection of stylistic settings and musical genres — quite simply, he’s had a genuine career, and did it without concerning himself an excessive amount of about trends and the general …

A well-respected business lead trumpeter in a position to hit high notes during his prime with a solid shade, Al Porcino was a very important asset to numerous bands over time. Beginning in 1943, Porcino used the big rings of Georgie Auld, Louis Prima, Jerry Wald, Tommy Dorsey, Gene Krupa, …

Among the finest trumpeters in New Orleans through the 1950s and 60s, Thomas Jefferson played drums and France horn briefly before buying trumpet. He caused Oscar Celestin’s Tuxedo Orchestra in 1936 and locally in New Orleans with Sidney Desvignes, Leap Jackson, among others. He documented in the 1950s with Johnny …

Todd Terje, blessed Terje Olsen, arrived over the Scandinavian dance picture in 2004 and, promptly, became among its prominent figures beside early supporter Prins Thomas and Hans-Peter Lindstrøm. Terje channeled a voracious urge for food for several varieties of music — including dub, disco, synth pop, home, and techno — …

The Picketts were Seattle’s only “grange rock” combo. Led by vocalist Christy McWilson, the music group also included drummer “Blackie” Rest, McWilson’s guitarist-husband Scott McCaughey, and tempo guitarist Jim Sangster. McWilson and McCaughey experienced met at SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA State. They relocated to Seattle in 1980, where McWilson began …