Although Seattle pop quartet the Crystal Skulls have impeccable indie credentials — they record for the faultlessly hip indie Suicide Press Information and singer Christian Wargo is a previous member of both Danielson Famile and Pedro the Lion — the main of their sound is a resolutely unfashionable strain of …

Produced in the planting season of 1980 by Costs Zorn (b. 18 Might 1948, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA; banjo/vocals), Phil Beverage (b. 12 Might 1953, Exminster, Devon, Britain; electric guitar, mandolin, fiddle, vocals), Paul Downes (b. 2 August 1953, Exeter, Devon, Britain; electric guitar, mando-cello, vocals) and John Vickers, though Vickers …

Dick Meldonian is an excellent swing-based soloist who hasn’t gained very much popularity but offers always impressed his fellow music artists. He began playing clarinet when he was eight and tenor at 11. Meldonian led his 1st group in 1944 and officially became a specialist in 1949. Early organizations included …

Somewhat forgotten in america, Jon Eardley is definitely active in Europe. He started playing trumpet when he was 11. After employed in an Air flow Force music group (1946-1949), he performed locally (1950-1953) and worked in NY with Phil Woods (1954). Eardley obtained some presence playing on / off with …

b. Patrick John Michael O’Hara Scott, 1 November 1930, Bristol, Britain. After being extremely mixed up in 60s pop picture, Scott is rolling out into a well known film music composer, today surviving in London and Hollywood. During his early profession he acted as personnel arranger using the Ted Heath …

Audio engineer John R.T. Davies was among the world’s leading specialists in repairing and remastering traditional jazz recordings. John Ross Twiston Davies was created March 20, 1927 in Sussex, Britain — the child of a skin doctor, he started playing piano at age four, later on learning the drums aswell. …

Mike Gibbins spent ten years, from 1965 through 1975, as the drummer for the Iveys and their better-known successor group, Badfinger — that alone made him one of the most visible music artists to emerge from what may be called the Uk Invasion’s “third influx,” from the orbit from the …

b. John Payne Guerin, 31 Oct 1939, Hawaii, USA, d. 5 January 2004, Western world Hillsides, California, USA. Guerin grew up in NORTH PARK, California, where he trained himself to try out drums and produced an effective jazz group while still in his teenagers. In the first and middle-60s he …

Though that they had a couple of hits over the 1960s, Jay & the Americans were a throwback to a previous era within their doo wop-influenced vocals, neatly groomed, short-haired appearance, and mixture of pop/rock and roll with operatic schmaltz. Constructed round the neck-bulging upper-register vocals of David Blatt aka …

Vikki Clayton appeared to be targeting a musical profession from an early on age group. Born in Britain in the early/middle-1950’s, she spent her early youth absorbing the noises of trad-jazz information, thanks to her parents and, by her very own account, later found like the music of Rodgers and …