February 13, 2024
Biography
This artist played both slide and valve trombone in some historic early jazz orchestras active in New Orleans first from the 20th century. Joseph Petit got a strong impact for the cornet participant known as Pal Petit — which had not been only a matter of stylistic attributes. When the …
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February 12, 2024
Biography
Like a musician, Pete Briggs had a objective to provide underneath end, but ultimately left everything behind to plow underneath 40. Before ditching the music business to become farmer, Briggs was from the New Orleans jazz picture — especially Louis Armstrong, with whom he lower enough edges to partly obscure …
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February 12, 2024
Biography
Created Aloisius Ludwig Minkus to Czech parents in Vienna and spending the majority of his profession as the utmost essential ballet composer in Russia before Tchaikovsky, Léon Minkus returned to Vienna to pass away in obscurity. The same destiny may have befallen his music; some of his ratings survive only …
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February 11, 2024
Biography
A pioneering figure in the wonderful world of modern jazz because of his fusion of pop, spirit, electro, hip-hop, and People from france chansons using the music of his Lebanese origins, Ibrahim Maalouf is widely thought to be probably one of the most gifted trumpeters of his generation. Created in …
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February 10, 2024
Biography
Ragtime composer Scott Hayden was created to Marion and Julia Hayden in March 30, 1882, in 133 Western world Cooper Road in Sedalia, MO. A schoolmate of Arthur Marshall, he fulfilled Scott Joplin while still enrolled at Lincoln SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, that he graduated in 1900. Both teenagers had been …
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February 9, 2024
Biography
Known for his comic sketches and poetry, Birmingham-born John Dowie provides sparked laughter in one of the most stoic Englishman or girl. His repertoire contains such off-the-wall singles as “Pimples, Idiot, Hitler’s Liver organ” and “It’s Hard to become Egg.” Having produced his debut being a single vocalist/songwriter at a …
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February 8, 2024
Biography
b. Lawrence Arthur Webb, 18 July 1906, Peru, Indiana, USA, d. 4 November 1994. As a kid he learned to try out both violin and mellophone but ultimately used the drums as his primary device. After playing locally for a short while, he analyzed embalming, intent on the career like …
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February 7, 2024
Biography
Gene Terry was created Terry Gene DeRouen in Lafayette, LA, but raised in Interface Arthur, TX, where his primary musical influence developing up was his dad and grandfather executing Cajun music. He produced his first music group, the Kool Kats, in the middle-’50s, doing nation & western music — they …
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February 5, 2024
Biography
Les Chadwick was the bassist for Gerry & the Pacemakers. Blessed John Leslie Chadwick in Liverpool in 1943, he reached his teenagers amid the skiffle increase. He was a boyhood friend of George Harrison — both had been guitar aficionados. Chadwick eventually connected up with Gerry Marsden and Freddie Marsden …
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February 5, 2024
Biography
A composer of complicated music, at onetime referred to as “abstract expressionist,” Ralph Shapey can be a noted conductor, violinist, and teacher. His preliminary studies from the violin at age group seven had been later continuing with Emanuel Zeitlin; Shapey was regarded as a kid prodigy on that device. His …
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