b. John Douglas Horler, 26 Feb 1947, Lymington, Hampshire, Britain. Horler started playing piano as an extremely small child, even though still a teenager he performed in a music group led by his trumpeter dad Ronnie Horler. In the middle-60s he analyzed piano and in addition clarinet at London’s Royal …

A ballad and blues singer with small recordings, Speed was overshadowed by Sinatra, but rivaled Johnny Desmond, Chet Baker, and Bobby Darin.

Merging a unique mix of genres, Mr. Hudson (aka Ben Hudson on vocals and acoustic guitar) used his like for Chet Baker and Cole Porter to his abilities in hip-hop creation. To try out his tunes live, he created the Library, made up of Maps Huxley (bass), Wilkie Wilkinson (drums), …

NEW YORK bassist and composer Scott Lee trim his teeth to get Chet Baker and Joe Lovano, also experiencing lengthy sideman stints with famous brands Tim Hagans, Morgana Ruler and Helen Merrill. He produced his single debut using the Calexico launch With Ease.

Cailornia-born guitarist Mike Deasy, Sr. is a favorably ubiquitous existence in rock and roll music — using a few side-trips into jazz — because the mid-1960’s. Certainly, between recording function and soundtrack performances, it is possible that he’s been noticed thousands of moments, even by informal music listeners and tv …

Bob Corwin’s 1st half-century of jazz piano starts with him furtively following a swaying hands of progressive bebop mastermind Lennie Tristano but winds up in a far more relaxed setting with Corwin seemingly taking it easy beneath the swaying trees and shrubs in Hand Springs. Biographers are keen on talking …

Vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Molly Marlette could possibly be termed a prodigy, but is even more an all natural musician and character. Delivered in 1978, she’s been playing since she was a kid, developing up in the LA area while studying music steadily through her early years, and graduating from Brea …

Component Kronos Quartet, component new Dutch golf swing, VogelKwartet techniques avant-garde music from both structure and improvisation territories. Allying a unique instrumentation (pairing strings and brass) and multiple affects which range from Bartok and Stravinsky to rock and roll and jazz idioms, the group offers produced a small number of …

Although they sport one particular old-school jazz combo names which makes them appear to be the type of fusty, hidebound corporation that underwrites political-affairs roundtables on PBS (“The program is manufactured possible with a grant from your Deardorf Peterson Group”), the Deardorf Peterson Group are in least as musically with …

There is one punishment ideal for the myriad journalists, discographers, editors and what-not who’ve were able to mangle the names of big band vocalist Chris Connor and jazz bassist Chris Conner above any simple type of corrective solution. They must be shackled and pressured to write a long review of …