Richard Rodgers was the most effective composer of well-known music for the theater in the 20th century. During the period of a 60-yr career, he published the song ratings for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the Western End, aswell as 11 film musicals and two tv musicals (not …

Frank Sinatra was arguably the main popular music physique from the 20th hundred years, his only rivals for the name getting Bing Crosby, Elvis Presley, as well as the Beatles. In a specialist profession that lasted 60 years, he exhibited a remarkable capability to maintain his charm and pursue his …

George Martin was most widely known as the manufacturer of most from the Beatles’ recordings from 1962 through 1969. His real credits had been diverse, encompassing performers which range from 1950s jazz bandleader Humphrey Lyttleton towards the comic abilities of Peter Retailers and Michael Bentine, renowned vocalists like Ella Fitzgerald, …

Though a variety of bands have concerned themselves with the many intrigues and conspiracies that comprise the present day politics world, few ever nailed their colors so tightly towards the flagpole because the Wanderers. Vocalist Stiv Bators and bassist Dave Tregunna driven the Lords of the brand new Church through …

Known as “the queen from the dubbers” by musical theater historian Kurt Gänzl, soprano singer Marni Nixon liked a lengthy job in film, opera, television, recordings, as well as the legitimate stage, despite the fact that her tone of voice was a lot more familiar towards the mass audience than …

Among the unsung architects of funk, Phelps “Catfish” Collins was created in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1944. Collins started playing acoustic guitar when he was youthful, and he later on taught his young sibling William “Bootsy” Collins to try out bass, refitting a vintage acoustic guitar into Bootsy’s 1st four-string. In …

Trombonist Fred Wesley, saxophonist Maceo Parker, and trumpeters Richard “Kush” Griffith and Rick Gardner comprised Fred Wesley & the Horny Horns, among the many Parliament/Funkadelic spin-offs that George Clinton caused in the past due ’70s. In the past, the Horny Horns had been Parliament/Funkadelic’s horn section plus they also supported …

New Britain saxophonist Myanna Pontoppidan (who only uses her initial name professionally) has acquired a popularity for being among the edgier, more intense, and hard-blowing players within the pop-jazz/NAC field. Although Myanna (who has the tenor, alto, soprano, and baritone saxes) is normally definately not a bop purist, her melodic, …

The defining characteristic of any given jazz musician is generally his sound. The greater control a new player has on the nature of this sound, the much more likely he’s to project a unique musical personality. For instance, a saxophonist provides practically unlimited physical control of the audio that comes …

The long-reigning king of Hollywood horror, Boris Karloff was created William Henry Pratt on November 23, 1887 in South London. The youngest of nine kids, he was informed at London College or university in preparation to get a career like a diplomat. Nevertheless, in 1909 he emigrated to Canada to …