Joel Roberts writes about all sorts of music from jazz to blues to nation for several online and printing publications including ABOUT Jazz, Jazz Right now, CD Now, no Major depression. He lives in Brooklyn, NY. Specialties: jazz, blues, alt.nation. Desert Isle Picks Kilometers Davis Sort of Blue (Columbia) John …

The talented Jasper “Jap” Allen began on violin, switching to tuba in senior high school and eventually taking on string bass. He led a music group that was regarded as among the best territorial bands from the ’30s; gave tenor saxophone great Ben Webster an early on job being a …

Larry Calland infectious Afro-Cuban jazz disputes the impression that this Midwestern USA is culturally close minded rather than receptive to out-of-the-mainstream music ideas. Functioning deep in America’s heartland, Calland offers put together an organization specialized in and focusing on Afro-Cuban jazz. Along with his desire for this jazz type starting …

The names of old-time string bands that recorded in the ’20s and ’30s have a tendency to be pretty ridiculous, a few of them composed by corny disc jockeys or promoters. This group may possess the most severe name from the bunch, predicated on both surname and elevation of bandleader …

Tx tenorman Jesse Powell was created Feb 2, 1924. There is quite little biographical information regarding his early years, apart from his dealing with Sizzling Lips Web page, Louis Armstrong, and Luis Russell. He became a member of Count Basie’s Music group in 1946, changing the fantastic sax participant Illinois …

Frank Tiberi offers spent so enough time being a sideman and finally the leader from the Woody Herman Orchestra that it’s often forgotten that he previously a lengthy profession a long time before joining Herman. Tiberi 1st began playing locally as a kid in 1936 and he was a part …

The person who whoops it through to trombone on Fats Waller’s classic recording of “The Joint Is Jumpin'” had an extended, productive career in music from the times of minstrel shows and medication shows. His glory times had been certainly the ’30s and ’40s, where wonderful collaborations occurred with Waller, …

French-Canadian fiddle tale Jean Carignan was raised with traditional violinists as his idols, and often regretted under no circumstances having got “correct” violin schooling. With such schooling, he felt he could have become among the world’s great violinists. He has already established to be happy with his placement among the …

Scott Morgan is among the major and long lasting figures over the Michigan rock and roll picture, forming his initial music group prior to the Uk Invasion helped sparked the ’60s garage area rock and roll explosion but still performing tough, soulful rock and roll & roll almost 50 years …

Created in 1954 in the Servicemen’s Middle in Seattle, Washington, USA, the Signatures presented Cathi Hayes (lead), Lee Humes (tenor), Ruth Alcivar (alto), Jerry Hayes (baritone) and Bob Alcivar (bass). Their design, as well to be made significant by the current presence of two feminine singers, was recognized with a …