January 28, 2024
Biography
Most widely known for his off-and-on association over time with Dave Brubeck, clarinetist Costs Smith and pianist John Eaton teamed up in 1960 with a set of talented Italians — bassist Erich Peter and drummer Pierre Favre — to create the American Jazz Outfit. Their music appeared towards swing specifications, …
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January 26, 2024
Biography
Kevin Ronkko, a indigenous of Maine, began playing drums at age ten. Strongly inspired by his junior senior high school music instructor, and inspired by rock and roll drummers such as for example Costs Bruford and Neil Peart, Ronkko finished eight many years of personal lessons with Dick Demers, a …
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January 24, 2024
Biography
Although they sport one particular old-school jazz combo names which makes them appear to be the type of fusty, hidebound corporation that underwrites political-affairs roundtables on PBS (“The program is manufactured possible with a grant from your Deardorf Peterson Group”), the Deardorf Peterson Group are in least as musically with …
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January 22, 2024
Biography
John E S Hinrichsen, a mathematics main and religious research small at Carnegie Mellon College or university, avoids hearing commercial radio, viewing MTV, and reading pop music mags no matter what. Rather he selects to depend on freeform university radio, live concerts, his personal 900-recording collection, and information and reviews …
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January 20, 2024
Biography
Lazaro Vega is a tone of voice on radio in Western Michigan. As jazz movie director at Blue Lake Open public Radio and Blue Lake Good Arts Camp in Twin Lake, MI, he’s designed and hosted 30 hours of jazz radio weekly since 1983. Since 1986, Vega offers contributed articles, …
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January 16, 2024
Biography
Char Ham is a journalist whose freelance items have already been published in Blues Gain access to and Southland Blues. She actually is currently a normal contributor for the Blues Internet as well as the Southern California correspondent for the Delta Snake Daily Information. Experience as a brief history main, …
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January 14, 2024
Biography
Most widely known for his association using the past due trumpet grasp Howard McGhee, Jim Roberts is an extremely lyrical and melodic pianist that has named Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, Expenses Evans and Herbie Hancock while main affects. Roberts was created in Melrose Recreation area, IL., a Chicago suburb, and …
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January 11, 2024
Biography
Ted Mills is certainly a freelance writer and critic and a filmmaker (so he loves to put his money where his mouth area is certainly). From 1994 to 1996 he resided, taught, and wrote in Tsuchiura, Japan, where he completely created his obsession for Japanese indie music, specially the motion …
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January 4, 2024
Biography
Although he has often earned a full time income from film, movie theater, and television function, John Serry can be an expressive and versatile jazz improviser/composer who’s as comfortable using straight-ahead acoustic post-bop as he’s playing electric powered fusion. Actually, a few of his music offers blurred the collection between …
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January 1, 2024
Biography
Mort Sahl was arguably one of the most influential comedian from the postwar period; a provocative politics satirist, he singlehandedly revolutionized the humor medium to make an art with a range and impact considerably beyond simple slapstick and gags. Sahl’s conversational, free-associative design — an amalgam of anecdotes, one-liners, and …
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