Of all Australian rock sets of the ’60s, there’s non-e that lives on as brightly in the remembrances of these who found them or heard them as the FAMILY MEMBERS. That they had “it,” that unquantifiable quality that transcends the styles of your day, that “something” that’s greater than a …

Jethro Tull were a distinctive sensation in popular music background. Their mixture of hard rock and roll, folk melodies, blues licks, surreal, impossibly thick lyrics, and general profundity defied easy evaluation, but that didn’t dissuade enthusiasts from providing them with 11 precious metal and five platinum albums. At exactly the …

Exciting jazz bassist and composer Mario Pavone became increasingly energetic in NY jazz for a number of decades beginning in the 1970s. Pavone could very well be most widely known for his tenure as bassist in the Thomas Chapin Trio, and a regular collaborator of Anthony Braxton’s, aswell for his …

A versatile bassist with a specific flair for the avant-garde, Tag Helias can be an underappreciated composer, no slouch having a funk groove either. Helias was created in Brunswick, N.J., in 1950, and didn’t start playing bass until age group 20; nevertheless, he finished up learning music at Yale, graduating …

There may possibly not be another performer that can compare with keyboardist Pete Levin, who hasn’t only played an array of sounds in and away of popular music, but made his tag as a considerable jazz participant. Levin was created Dec 20, 1942, in Boston, and his parents weren’t musicians …

Among Sweden’s finest trumpeters, Rolf Ericson played within the U.S. frequently enough to get a strong popularity. He began on trumpet when he was eight and, after hearing Louis Armstrong enjoy in Stockholm in 1933, he turned to jazz. Ericson documented in Sweden with Alice Babs among others beginning in …

b. 23 August 1901, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 15 Dec 1966, NY, USA. Aside from creating famous cartoon personas such as for example Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy and Pluto, the Walt Disney Studio room was in charge of some phenomenally effective full-length cartoon feature movies, the to …

Born in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA in 1958, Michael Formanek offers proven that he is able to do everything: bassist, composer, improviser, bandleader, collaborator, educator, and first-call sideman to numerous of the very most highly regarded performers in creative jazz. He is a main presence on the brand new York …

Johnny Theakstone may be the ignored man of early Uk rock & move. Numerous others vie for the name, but none of these even arrive close. Deceased before his 17th birthday, unidentified and for that reason publicly unmourned, Theakstone would even so go on when his group, Shane Fenton & …

b. 13 June 1948, Forest Grove, Oregon, USA. Elevated in an exceedingly musical family members, Dunlap performed baritone horn in the institution band, even though still in senior high school performed piano with an area dance music group, the Dell Herreid Orchestra. At Lewis and Clark University in Portland, Oregon, …