Mary McCaslin and Jim Ringer, who have been married to one another, both had effective solo folk professions in the 1970s (see specific entries for every artist). In addition they toured jointly and, in 1978, produced an album being a duo, The Bramble & the Rose. This is not really …

This British composer studied music seriously only after 1873. He journeyed to Paris like a pupil of Durand. Between 1877 and 1880 Thomas could study in the Royal Academy of Music with Sullivan and Prout. Soon thereafter he previously orchestration lessons under Utmost Bruch. “The Light from the Harem” (1879) …

The Fitzwilliam Quartet first drew international acclaim because of its performances and recordings from the 15 string quartets of Shostakovich. Having fulfilled the composer in his last years, the Fitzwilliam players became instrumental in attaining money for the Shostakovich quartets, getting the first ever to record them full (in a …

When Dave Douglas first stepped away along with his own saving and performing projects in the first to mid-’90s, the Brooklyn-based trumpeter/composer/bandleader instantly demonstrated his mastery of Parallel Worlds in music. He created the Balkan-influenced Tiny Bell Trio with drummer Jim Dark and guitarist Brad Shepik (who utilized the surname …

Drummers, performers and trumpet players were among the celebrities that pianist Joe Springer accompanied throughout a lively profession that began in the first ’30s in various Coney Isle clubs. One of is own first companies was the single-winged Wingy Manone; so far as trumpeters move, the pianist also continued to …

Viv Corringham is a multifaceted overall performance designer and creative improvising vocalist, incorporating noises of character, technology, and existential artwork. Given birth to in 1951 in Scunthorpe, Lincs, Britain, she initially analyzed at Christ’s Medical center High School for women in Lincoln, U.K., and shifted to get her Bachelor of …

That is an artist whose name could easily be on the label of an old-fashioned 78 slab in a few dusty corner of the attic. Even simpler to find will be music that Bob Haring was involved with — probably being a bandleader, probably as an arranger, probably both — …

Flowering Inferno was the tropical-dub task, and among the many aliases, of multi-instrumentalist and producer William Holland. An evolutionary part of the producer’s oeuvre, Holland shaped the task after shifting to Cali, Colombia, having released several information under his Quantic and Quantic Spirit Orchestra aliases beforehand. The task has been …

Not to end up being confused using the jazz multi-instrumentalist from the same name, saxophonist Bob Harrington played in the music group of vocalist Jimmy Hurrying in the ’40s and in addition appeared on the few jazz classes early on within the next decade.

The Purcell String Quartet was known not merely among the more important Canadian string quartets in the latter half from the twentieth century, but as an ensemble wanting to both premiere and champion functions by contemporary Canadian composers. It presented such compositions as R. Murray Schafer’s Initial (1972), Second (1977), …