Based on who you speak to, the irrepressible Jools Holland is most beneficial referred to as a blisteringly energetic, piano-pounding performer of boogie-woogie, jazz, and R&B; or because the keyboard-wizard sideman to 1 of the fantastic new influx pop bands from the ’70s and ’80s; or among the U.K.’s most …

The Scottish harp has provided the automobile for Savourna Stevenson’s musical message. Furthermore to recording some memorable single albums, Stevenson spent some time working with the top echelon of English and Celtic folk music. She collaborated with English vocalist June Tabor and dual bass participant Danny Thompson in 1995 on …

With her pre-bop piano style and cool but sensual singing, Diana Krall took the jazz world by storm in the late ’90s. With the change of the hundred years she was strongly established among the biggest retailers in jazz. Her 1996 recording, All for you personally, was a Nat Ruler …

Merle Travis was virtually without peer like a guitarist and songwriter. A distinctive stylist, he was well known and prominent plenty of with an instrumental design (“Travis choosing”) called after him, in support of Chet Atkins also comes near to the impact that Travis acquired along the way the guitar …

While his gravelly baritone and omnipresent fedora, dark glasses, and Groucho Marx mustache produced him one of the most distinct and recognizable characters in popular music, little is well known concerning the neo-vaudeville crooner Leon Redbone. Throughout his profession, he steadfastly refused to divulge any information regarding his history or …

A four-member sax ensemble who’ve recorded vintage pop, ragtime and early jazz amounts. They’ve released one album for the Musical Heritage Culture label in 1980, Performs Music of Wayne Eubie Blake.

Blues guitarist and vocalist Del Rey began her music trained in classical acoustic guitar at the sensitive age of 4. When she strike her teenagers and discovered blues music, the serene traditional numbers fell aside. Her music quickly rang using the spirit of blues, but jingled just a little, as …

Joseph Francis Lamb occupied a distinctive niche in the annals of jazz, among the 3 “fathers of ragtime,” alongside Scott Joplin and Adam Scott — but unlike another two, Lamb was white, and originated from the Northeast (Montclair, NJ, believe it or not), and appears to be an unlikely applicant …

John Gill is among the best stride and trad jazz pianists of his era. He started playing a little toy piano like a youngsters and became a lover of the English pop pianist Russ Conway. Apart from some classical teaching, Gill was mainly self-taught. He created a two piano duo …

b. Arthur Willard Pryor, 22 Sept 1870, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, d. 18 June 1942, Longer Branch, NJ, USA. Actively inspired by his dad, a specialist musician, to consider up music, in his early teenagers Pryor trained himself to try out the glide trombone. Ultimately he became an recognized get …