Best known through the entire Midwest for his long-running and much-celebrated syndicated radio display, Bob Braun also enjoyed a short moment of country wide achievement in 1962 when his lone pop strike, “Till Death Carry out Us Component,” entered the very best 40. Born Apr 20, 1929, in Ludlow, KY, …

Having a singing style that falls between jazz and cabaret, Sandy Stewart is wearing occasion gained items of fame in the music world, though her fame mainly rests with being the mom of pianist Bill Charlap as well as the wife from the songwriter Moose Charlap. Stewart sang when she …

Soft spoken and smart, Rita Rudner could not be called offensive. Her laughter is actually, extremely, extremely palatable. The majority of her humor revolves the “rectangular” persona she’s created for the stage. She’s offbeat and smart and concentrates the minutia of each day existence and like. She manages to become …

Despite a prolific documenting job as both a leader so that as a sideman, alto saxophonist Arnie Lawrence produced his most long lasting contributions to jazz as an educator, founding the jazz plan at NY City’s New College University and afterwards starting the Jerusalem-based International Center for Creative Music, an …

The King’s Performers are an entertaining six-man vocal ensemble that tours the world singing a number of repertory to appreciative listeners. The group was created in 1965 by some of the choral scholars from the Choir of King’s University, Cambridge. That they had made a decision to make an exclusive …

Dynamic since 1942 (having had twenty years of success in the prestigious Rádio Nacional) and singularized compared to additional vocal sets of enough time for the elaborated plans for 4 or 5 voices, the Operating-system Cariocas became probably the most representative vocal band of bossa nova following their 1957 recording …

Best-known to the general public for his one-time regular gig with Doc Severinsen’s Tonight Show band, Tompkins is normally a flexible, swinging pianist using a do-everything technique who’s much popular on the LA jazz scene. After their studies at the New Britain Conservatory, he transferred to NY, documenting with Kai …

b. 19 March 1933, Shirt City, NJ, USA. Among Newman’s early performances on Broadway had been Wish You Had been Right here (1952) and Bells Are Buzzing (1956), that she was Judy Holliday’s standby for the primary function of Ella Peterson. In 1958 she choreographed Nightcap, a revue on the …

Ron McCroby was a grasp from the rarely practiced artwork of jazz whistling, blessed with amazingly sure intonation and complex control that allowed him to mimic bebop players’ lines having a clearness that managed to get sound as if he were taking part in a piccolo. Actually, McCroby happy in …

Walter Ostanek is a full time income legend in the world of polka music. He’s recognized to many as Canada’s Polka Ruler — a name he provides well-earned. During a lot more than four longer decades as a specialist performer, he provides made someplace over 50 recordings, and gained several …