Norwegian songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Alexander Von Mehren was created in 1984 and was raised studying traditional piano. By his teenage years he had been writing music and learning how exactly to play various equipment. While enrolled on the School of Bergen within a second-language linguistics plan, Von Mehren started …

Coming straight from the Tommy Dorsey design of straight-on swinging and pretty melodic lines, Robert Alexander became among the music industry’s best studio players, documenting frequently with performing stars such as for example Perry Como and Frank Sinatra. He hailed from New Britain, and started playing the horn in high-school …

Changing the dynamic Gene Krupa in the strap from the oppressively challenging Benny Goodman cannot have already been easy, specifically for a fellow diminutive enough to possess wound up using the nickname Mousie Alexander. This also turns up as Mousey Alexander, although a rodent is definitely a rodent regardless of …

Though definately not prolific like a composer — by day he was a scientist noted for his research about aldehydes — Alexander Borodin however earned a protected place in the annals of Russian music. Being a innovative heart, Borodin was the most achieved from the Russian nationalists composers. He previously …

Jazz flutist Alexander Zonjic is well known for his steady playing style, furthermore to composing and executing his own first songs on single albums because the mid-’80s. As a young child we were young in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, Zonjic was initially enraptured by acoustic guitar, as he performed professionally inside …

Monty Alexander way back when combined collectively the impact of Oscar Peterson using the spirit of Gene Harris and Nat “Ruler” Cole to create his own appealing and personable design. Long a little underrated (because of the darkness of Peterson), Alexander offers recorded greater than a rating of superb albums. …

Skilled saxophonist and flutist whose early and middle-’70s albums for Traveling Dutchman and Atlantic combined originals, spirit/jazz and R&B effectively. Alexander was a far more powerful soloist on flute; the 1971 discharge ARE YOU SET contained great remakes of “REARFOOT Sneakers” and “Watermelon Guy,” and was documented on the Montreux …

Alex Hill was, among a great many other points, an important area of the history scenery for Fat Waller, a pianist and vocalist whose skill was as huge as the crazy outdoors, not forgetting his physical girth. While Hill experienced a profession of his personal, leading a music group inside …

In some regions of the planet, not merely Scotland, traditional Scottish folk music is incredibly popular. A guy (Scottish folk performers generally being guys) within a kilt and complete Scottish regalia performing the songs which have been passed on from era to era reminds folks of a simpler period when …

Since his invitation, on the early age of 31, from Herbert von Karajan to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic, Alexander ‘Ali’ Rahbari has received conisistent acclaim for his energetic conducting, especially inside the operas of Verdi and Puccini. His substantial political outspokenness in addition has drawn significant focus on the plight …