Making use of their fusion of blues, rock and roll & move, and R&B, the Fabulous Thunderbirds helped popularize roadhouse Texas blues using a mass audience within the ’80s and, along the way, they helped kick-start a blues revival through the mid-’80s. Throughout their heyday in the first ’80s, these …

The Brooklyn-based Cooler Kids funneled home music and new wave influences right into a funky, volatile cocktail. Made up of Kaz Gamble (also called DJ Kazimir) and California indigenous Sisely Treasure, the group created when Gamble started collaborating with previous Luscious Jackson vocalist Jill Cunniff in the Pop Rox studio …

Duke Ellington was the main composer in the annals of jazz in addition to being truly a bandleader who have held his huge group together continuously for nearly 50 years. Both areas of his profession had been related; Ellington utilized his music group like a musical lab for his fresh …

Polish vocalist Basia Trzetrzelewska spent many years within the pop band Matt Bianco, an offshoot of Blue Rondo ? la Turk, before starting a single career in 1987. Using the musical assistance of Matt Bianco’s Danny White colored, she created a subtle cocktail jazz-pop first showcased on her behalf 1987 …

Before there is a Cocktail Country along with a mania for retro lounge music, Atlanta’s Jody Grind were turning out jazzy renditions of Gershwin, Bacharach and Dusty Springfield numbers, country & western standards and original rock songs that hybridized those forms with alternative music. Vocalist Kelly Hogan recognized the music …

How to proceed if you have been slogging apart in the rock and roll underground for ten years to small critical acclaim without building any appreciable artistic or business headway? Within the mildew of David Johansen/Buster Poindexter, the music group Christmas made a decision to retool themselves as lounge lizards. …

From Rochester, NY, USA, this eccentric outfit was led with the evidently talented but somewhat unhinged Colorblind James (b. Chuck Cuminale, 1952, Oswego, NY, USA, d. 10 July 2001, USA; vocals, vibraphone, electric guitar), with Phillip Marshall (business lead electric guitar, vocals), Bernie Heveron (bass, vocals) and Jim McAvaney (drums). …

“The tiny Napoleon of showmanship,” Billy Rose was probably one of the most popular and feared show-biz impresarios of the first 20th hundred years; the diminutive lyricist behind a large number of pop chestnuts (including several strikes for first wife Fanny Brice), he also created some hit musicals and also …

The Lawrence Hands met up in 1999 following the departure of Chicago pop-punkers the Broadways, Slapstick, Baxter, and Tricky Dick. The cooperation of Brendan Kelly (vocals/bass), Neil Hennessy (drums), and Chris McCaughan (electric guitar/vocals) created music within the same vein of the previous rings: smart — frequently politically motivated — …

The winner of Fox TV’s first American Idol competition through the summer of 2002, Kelly Clarkson went from an anonymous talent to some nationally known singer in just a matter of a few months, performing for an audience of millions. Among the show’s most normally gifted performers, the affable Texan …