The Leake State Revelers was perhaps one of the most popular old-time string bands in Mississippi in the later ’20s. The group was also among among the first groupings to make information in that condition, striking the jackpot with among the initial edges cut, the wonderful “Thursday Evening Waltz.” Like …

Pianist, composer, maker, and bandleader Claude Bolling enjoyed his 1st successes like a kingpin in the mainland Western trad jazz motion from the 1950s and ’60s. An experienced pianist who was simply greatly influenced by Duke Ellington, Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, and Artwork Tatum, he also persisted in carrying out …

b. Wayne Francis Cagney, 17 July 1899, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 30 March 1986, Stanfordville, NY, USA. Among Hollywood’s all-time great celebrities, Cagney was a flexible actor having a tough-guy picture – he was especially renowned for his gangster films – who made an appearance in several extremely entertaining …

Chris Forsyth specializes in droning psychedelic acoustic guitar compositions. After he co-founded the choice folk take action Peeesseye in 2002, he began using Phantom Limb & Bison and adding to the task of experimental performers, often carrying out improvisational cameos around Brooklyn. The lengthy list of performers he provides collaborated …

Described in THE BRAND NEW York Situations as “the best possible clarinetist playing today” in the 1990s, that high compliment wasn’t remote the mark, since it put on Kenny Davern in the autumn of his life, on the top of his power. Contact him a jazz purist, a good snob, …

From Fats Waller and “yo’ feet’s too large” to nation blues and you’re “standin’ in the crossroads” wasn’t really such an excellent range, at least if one was to guage from a number of the character types who were area of the inner workings from the engine. Journeyman guitarist Bobby …

An unusual footnote towards the Uk Invasion, British singer and pianist Ian Whitcomb formed his R&B group Bluesville in Dublin, Ireland. He never really had popular in the U.K. and wasn’t everything wild about rock and roll & roll to begin with, preferring traditional types of blues, ragtime, and Tin …

Multi-instrumentalist, historian, and educator Bob Brozman was created in NY about March 8, 1954. His uncle, Barney Josephson, was a prominent golf club owner who went Cafe Culture in Greenwich Town, among the 1st places in NY, or anywhere, where dark and white music artists played on-stage collectively. Brozman researched …

Very little is well known about the life span or career of Blind Leroy Garnett, in addition to the supposition that he originated from the Fort Worthy of section of Texas. A pianist whose design encompassed boogie-woogie and ragtime, he documented eight edges between 1929 and 1930, offering vocals by …

Blind Blake is really a figure of tremendous importance in American music. Not merely was he one of the biggest blues guitarists of all-time, Blake appears to have been the principal builder of “finger-style” ragtime on your guitar, the six-string equal to playing ragtime over the piano. Blake learned this …