Harold Arnold was among the most-respected statistics in jazz; got he not selected to function nine to five and increase a family later in his music profession rather than gigging and saving, he would are actually greater than a footnote in the annals of jazz. He was raised in Cleveland, …

This UK pop trio comprised Sheila Jones (b. 21 Oct 1936, Lewisham, London, Britain), Shirley ‘Shan’ Palmer (b. 15 August 1938, Hull, Britain) and Carol Teen (b. Carol Mayall, 12 Apr 1930, Oldham, Lancashire, Britain, d. August 2006, Brighton, Sussex, Britain). Produced in 1954 by Carmen Kaye and originally referred …

The bassist Dean Reilly is something of the fixture within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA scene, a very tasty and unobtrusive player who’s apt to be found burning a number of the city’s better jazz vocalists, such as for example Weslia Whitfield or Sherri Roberts. From the past due ’50s, …

Should “caterer” end up being put into this man’s set of achievements? Because that’s what Ruler Jackson finished up performing after producing the barest darkness of the tag made by additional members from the nominal jazz royal family members such as Count number Basie or Duke Ellington. non-etheless, Jackson was …

François-André Danican Philidor was one particular rare performers known widely for just two professional pursuits: musical structure and chess. In the second option effort, he was thought to be the unofficial globe champion for some from the 50 years he was mixed up in video game. But he regarded as …

The professional career of the pianist and prolific recording artist began when he wandered in to the publishing offices of then-successful recording artist and composer Clarence Williams with hopes of selling and song or two. It had been the middle-’30s, and whatever tracks Erskine Butterfield experienced on tap in those …

b. 5 Sept 1897, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 3 Apr 1980, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Among Equipment’s first Broadway performances was the musical Appreciate O’ Mike (1917), reserve by Thomas Sydney, music by Jerome Kern, lyrics by Harry B. Smith. She is at a humor, The Silver Diggers (1919), …

George Mraz is a greatly in-demand bassist for straight-ahead times since he emigrated to america in 1968. After a short period playing violin and alto, Mraz analyzed bass in the Prague Conservatory and gigged at a golf club in Munich for any 12 months. In 1968, he went to Berklee …

Although he could generally play bop, Ray Bryant’s using combined jointly older elements (including blues, boogie-woogie, gospel, as well as stride) right into a distinctive, soulful, and swinging style; no-one performed “After Hours” that can compare with him. Younger sibling of bassist Tommy Bryant as well as the uncle of …

Much less well-known as a few of his Philadelphia-bred contemporaries (including drummer Philly Joe Jones, saxophonist John Coltrane, trumpeter Lee Morgan, as well as the Heath Brothers), Specs Wright however had a short but distinguished profession being a sideman, using a number of the top bop and really difficult bop …