Loose-knit folk-noir confederation the Willard Offer Conspiracy was shaped in Boston in 1995 by singer Robert Fisher and guitarist Paul Austin, longtime collaborators who previously teamed within the noise-rock outfit the Flower Tamers. Asked to test-drive a friend’s brand-new home recording studio room, the duo recruited guitarist Sean O’Brien and …

Splitting her childhood between England and Singapore, lead vocalist and songwriter Jessica Griffin would continue to create the Would-Be-Goods in the late ’80s following a chance ending up in the Monochrome Set’s Mike Alway. The achieving converted into Griffin composing songs and recording liner records on percentage for El Information. …

b. 24 Feb 1938, Edinburgh, Scotland. As a kid, Rae performed in brass rings and didn’t start playing bass until he was 20. Nevertheless, he was shortly playing this device professionally, employed in regional dance rings, at Butlins vacation camps and on ocean-going liners. Rae performed with jazz pianist Alex …

b. 6 Sept 1942, Athol, Massachusetts, USA. An essential component of a number of important jazz organizations, Dave Bargeron’s trombone offers made an appearance on recordings by Johnny Griffin (3 Dances Of Enthusiasm), Michel Camilo (YET ANOTHER Once), Gerry Mulligan (Re-Birth FROM THE Great) and Kilometers Davis / Quincy Jones …

Probably one of the most gifted and innovative jazz music artists of his era, trumpeter Woody Shaw navigated the rapidly fluctuating jazz picture from the ’70s and ’80s to make a enduring body of function that extends his impact good beyond his tragic loss of life at age group 44. …

Robert Scott Weinrich, better known by his nickname, Wino, is among the leading figures within the America’s underground rock movement. Despite the fact that none from the important bands Wino offers fronted — the Obsessed, Saint Vitus, Soul Caravan, etc. — ever accomplished mainstream success, they’re collectively viewed as essential …

Although hardly mainly because well-known as Friend High, the jazz drummer Roger Humphries began taking part in at just an early on age. Humphries originated from a family group of ten kids and, his uncles had been a set of professional horn players, Frank Humphries and Hildred Humphries. Roger Humphries’ …

Manchild paid their dues in neighborhood clubs for some of the first and mid-’70s, before these were signed with the Chi-Sound label in 1977. Their funk and spirit sound appeared to finally look for a niche, however they couldn’t pump their music with the din from the disco period, just …

Any sci-fi fan with an extended memory space probably remembers those 1970s’ DAW paperback editions of Michael Moorcock’s sword-and-sorcery novels, making use of their pictures of heavily armored, very muscular warriors carrying huge swords and standing up against eerie scenery and starscapes. Consider that imagery, toss in some brands and …

Essentially a Hawkwind spin-off band, the Hawklords’ run hardly lasted annually, but proved significant in convincing founder-guitarist Dave Brock to provide his parent band yet another shot. The original impetus grew from Hawkwind’s six-week support stint within the U.S. between Feb and Apr 1978. Brock apparently found the workout therefore …