Tx songster Henry Thomas remains to be a member of family stranger who made some very nice recordings, then returned to obscurity. Proof suggests he was an itinerant road musician, a musical hobo who rode the rails across Tx and possibly towards the World’s Fairs in St. Louis and Chicago …

Margie Singleton was created into a music family members, with her sister Pauline performing piano and her older sibling Charlie Creath a favorite cornetist and bandleader. She got piano lessons and demonstrated remarkable aptitude both in classical and well-known forms. (She’d later declare that she under no circumstances particularly wished …

If Stephen Foster refined the so-called 19th hundred years “Ethiopian” slave-derived melody into a type of high artwork, then Daniel Decatur Emmett was the primary consultant of its low-brow, populist ethos. Emmett broke into present business by signing up for a circus in Cincinnati being a banjoist and fiddler in …

The jazz avant-garde has produced a large number of notable improvisers (and in addition, since improvisation is arguably the music’s defining element) but relatively few great composers. Henry Threadgill is certainly a member of this exclusive club. Along with his fellow Chicagoans Anthony Braxton and Muhal Richard Abrams, he’s perhaps …

Jazz pianist Marcus Roberts’ concentrate on traditional designs and his determination to speak sometimes disdainfully of music of more sophisticated vintage is not well accepted in a few circles, and for a while he begun to engender the sort of attacks more regularly reserved for Wynton Marsalis among others thought …

Acting professional/singer Mandy Patinkin carved out a varied profession on-stage, in movies, in the saving studio room, and on tv. Though he was possessed of the flexible tenor tone of voice with a variety and was known for his bravura executing style, handful of his film performances used his musical …

Because of his extremely early existence in the saving market, F. Henri Klickmann may also be recognised incorrectly as a pre-technology human being version from the “click monitor.” Sometimes acknowledged with the entire Frank Henri Klickmann, this designer took treatment of the entire package, not only the tempo. He composed, …

When comes up pre-bop banjoists, it really is of solely rhythmic players whose chordal solos differ small from what they play during ensembles. Harry Reser nevertheless was a lot different, a superb virtuoso who was simply arguably the best possible banjoist from the 1920’s. Much less an improviser when compared …

Hale Smith was among the first BLACK composers to abandon dark folk music and, in the 1950s, turn into a mainstream modernist. As an achieved jazz pianist and arranger, though, he insinuated components of intensifying jazz into his mainly serial music inside a fusion that usually seemed entirely organic. Smith’s …

b. Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor, 30 August 1925, Chicago, Illinois, USA, d. 27 Sept 2003, Calabasas, California, USA. Probably one of the most likeable and nimble of most Hollywood’s song-and-dance-men, who maintained his youthful appears and casual elegance throughout a profession spanning more than 50 years. O’Connor was the …