Terri Lyne Carrington is a favorite drummer, percussionist, composer, and bandleader. Her personal funky drumming design has been put on many different configurations, from jazz and spirit to rock and roll, blues, and also crossover traditional music. She actually is among the 1st significant feminine drummers in jazz. Carrington was …

The premier Uk jazz trombonist from the postwar era, Don Lusher first vaulted to international notoriety as an associate from the Ted Heath Big Music group. Following Heath’s loss of life, he assumed command from the orchestra and continued to be the facial skin of traditional golf swing through the …

Simply because important an arranger simply because he was a tenor-saxophonist, Teddy McRae made important, behind-the-scenes efforts to several rings, especially Chick Webb’s. After using local groupings, including a family group band, McRae caused June Clark in 1926 and in 1927 shifted to NY where he primarily led his very …

Los Angeles vocalist Alfie Silas’ highest charting one was “There We Move,” a 1982 Best 30 R&B strike. Silas was raised singing in cathedral and afterwards sang in the gospel group We while participating in Los Angeles Town College. She started singing history vocals for Gino Vanelli, Toto, and Martha …

The Medici Quartet is well known both because of its critically acclaimed performances from the Beethoven quartets as well as for various functions by British composers, specifically Elgar, Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi, Michael Tippett, and John Tavener. But there is a third element towards the group’s popularity, one distributed by …

After two decades teaching in the Chicago school system, Sandi Rossi followed her heart’s desire by entering jazz regular. The teaching profession’s reduction and jazz’s gain. Rossi had been performing at the first age group of 16 when she was using a teenaged group carrying out show music and other …

Among the post-Gerald Moore, post-Geoffrey Parsons accompanists, Hartmut Höll has attracted attention like a collaborator along with his own ideas about singer/accompanist partnerships. Along with his wife, mezzo soprano Mitsuko Shirai, and with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau through the final many years of the baritone’s very long career, Höll offers demonstrated an …

A significant artist with a stylish bass-baritone instrument, Stephen Roberts has succeeded within the opera stage aswell as the concert system. His capability to expert the music of several styles and several periods allowed him to attract the interest of many prominent conductors whose curiosity helped foster his profession. Furthermore …

b. Gerald John Granelli, 30 Dec 1940, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California, USA. Granelli started playing drums as a little child, later learning formally and acquiring tuition from Joe Morello. In the first and middle-60s he used many music artists including Vince Guaraldi, Denny Zeitlin, Jon Hendricks, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, …