Danish modernists Philip Owusu and Robin Hannibal are among a small number of artists — Jamie Lidell, Eric Lau, Sa-Ra Innovative Partners, and Henrik Schwarz are many others — attempting to discover a way ahead for soul music and R&B in the 21st century by blending it with home, broken …

Electrical bass player extraordinaire Bernard Reed is usually among music’s unsung heroes, a gladiator that has survived a lot more than 35 years inside a cutthroat business. He was created in Chicago and elevated on the western part by his grandparents, who required a liking towards the deep-voiced, brown-skinned baby …

Quazar was a ten-piece funk music group in the Plainsfield, NJ, region developed by Kevin Goins, the sibling of Parliament/Funkadelic business lead vocalist and guitarist Glen Goins. Originally referred to as Eclipse, the music group woodshedded for six years before reducing their first in support of recording, Quazar, released Sept …

b. Robert L. Talley, 1920, Small Rock and roll, Arkansas, USA, d. 1 August 1995. A Memphis pianist employed in both blues and jazz idioms, Talley was also a composer and adept at a variety of instruments furthermore to keyboards. He 1st found Memphis aged 16 using the communicate desire …

Proponents from the much-maligned big-beat design of dance music (we.e. the Chemical substance Brothers), the Propellerheads — keyboardist/bassist/DJ Alex Gifford and drummer/DJ Will White colored — sprang from Bath, Britain in 1996 to accomplish almost overnight achievement within the U.K. making use of their make of unabashed party techno, which …

b. Lincoln Thompson, d. 14 January 1999, London, Britain. Vocalist, songwriter and arranger Lincoln Thompson’s profession began at Studio room One, where he produced three singles in the first 70s that didn’t make any influence, but set up his name using the dedicated pursuing for ‘root base’ music. He previously …

Ahead of Nirvana, substitute music was consigned to specialty parts of record shops, and main labels taken into consideration it to become, at the most, a taxes write-off. Following the band’s second recording, 1991’s Nevermind, nothing at all was ever quite exactly the same, for better as well as for …

Because the mid- to early ’80s, maker/engineer Richard Bosworth spent some time working with a few of rock’s most-renowned acts. Bosworth discovered from the very best, as he was qualified by such notables as Val Garay (who worked well as an engineer on produces by Linda Ronstadt and Wayne Taylor), …

The huge and comfortable sound of Ray Brown’s bass was a welcome feature on bop-oriented sessions for over a half-century. He performed locally in his indigenous Pittsburgh in his start. Arriving in NY in 1945, on his initial day around Brown fulfilled and used Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Bud …

Composer, conductor, and orchestrator Ray Heindorf worked prolifically in Hollywood right away from the audio era of the films in the later ’20s to the finish from the studio room program in the later ’50s. Because the head from the music section at Warner Bros. Images for greater than a …