An Italian composer and theorist, Jacopo da Bologna exerted a serious influence within the main figures of fourteenth century Italian music (referred to as Trecento music). Thirty-four vocal compositions could be securely related to him, like the earliest-known three-part, non-canonic Italian madrigals. His madrigal Non al suo amante may be …

Tony Osborne reigned among the most in-demand arrangers in postwar Uk pop, enjoying his best achievement in tandem with some divas that spanned from Shirley Bassey to Eartha Kitt to Judy Garland. Given birth to Edward Benjamin Osborne beyond Cambridge on June 29, 1922, as a teenager he won many …

Miami-based session musician and arranger Andy Goldman started playing as a teenager, when he received his initial guitar as something special from his brother; his debut open public performances emerged as an associate of his family members group, the Display Stoppers. After senior high school, he shaped the music group …

The patriarch of the brand new Orleans Assunto clan, Jacob “Papa Jac” Assunto presided over a family group of music artists who in a few ways would help develop a less serious image for the city’s jazz community of Italian descent. The Dixieland association with ridiculous striped fits and corny …

The Rome, Italy-based Lifend is a rarity: a death steel/black metal group that includes a lady lead vocalist and features her prominently. As the the greater part of loss of life steel and dark steel bands are completely male, lead vocalist Sara Moriconi continues to be a fundamental element of …

b. 30 August 1899, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, d. 25 Feb 1968, NEW YORK, NY, USA. The boy of actor-director George F. Marion, he was informed in Switzerland with Harvard. In the 20s he had written silent film game titles, finding a 1929 Oscar nomination. For early talkies he wrote music …

Called for his concern with the ocean, Wavves, the skuzzy task of NORTH PARK slacker Nathan Williams, is definitely a mixture of distorted no-fi and processed sunshiny melodies. Charmingly messy, the majority of his lyrics, while hard to decipher, generally revolve round the topics of weed, boredom, as well as …

This three-part female, one-part male rock-band from Prague, Czech Republic, strives to talk about the same vision of heavy music like a playground for a variety of musical, stylistic and spiritual experimentation that unify many great rock bands such as for example Faith FORGET ABOUT, Jane’s Addiction, Deftones and Tool. …

Ricky Gene Hall was created in Pikeville, KY in 1958. Hall’s dad worked well in the coal mines, and his relatives and buddies urged him to escape the mines before they wiped out him. He going north, considering a job on the Detroit auto set up line, but discovered a …

Shaped in 1968 in Birmingham, England, Shakey Vick was a short-lived blues group fronted by Graham Vickery (vocals, harmonica). Bruce Langman (electric guitar), Nigel Tickler (bass) and Ned Balen (drums) finished the line-up. The group was agreed upon by Pye Information in 1969 as the label embraced modern music so …