Jangle pop cult heroes the Siddeleys shaped in London in the springtime of 1986 following singer/guitarist Johnny Johnson gave a tape of her home-recorded tracks to fellow guitarist Allan Kingdom. After publishing flyers seeking tempo section recruits in the Tough Trade Store, the Ladbroke Grove membership Bay 63, and various …

Before moving to NY, jazz vocalist Amalia Grè attended Perugia’s Academy of Good Arts, where she earned a qualification in theatrical set design. After university she spent period surviving in Rome, where she uncovered her undernourished like for jazz. She examined there with regional jazz hero Riccardo Biseo, and started …

Valdir 7 Cordas, the famed seven-string guitarist, performed with Luíz Gonzaga, Elza Soares, Clara Nunes, Altamiro Carrilho, Nelson Gonçalves, Martinho da Vila, Abel Ferreira, Gonzaguinha, Ademilde Fonseca, and Trio Nordestino. Having caused the latter for quite some time, in 1977 Valdir founded the mentioned choro group Chapéu de Palha. Having …

There have been many sad reasons for having the death of Kenny Graham in 1997, among the minor tragedies being it ended his reports, previously issued at a clip of 1 per decade, in what “the millionaire Beatles” were up to. Graham’s caustic, alternately amusing and reactionary brief essays were …

Docenterna received quick fame in the first ’80s using their strikes “Solglasögon” and “Bensin i Blodet.” But despite having the discharge of several records and extreme touring through the middle-’80s, they hardly ever really got previous these two tracks and were quickly seen as primarily a cult music group. Initially …

German superstar entertainer Götz Alsmann enjoyed a successful solo recording profession being a throwback jazz singer/pianist, furthermore to his long haul being a radio and tv host on open public broadcasting place WDR. Occasionally known as “der Fritz Lang des Jazzschlagers” (i.e., the Fritz Lang of jazz performers), he’s widely …

This artist may be the only Eddie Johnson to create it into jazz critic John Chilton’s famed Encyclopedia of Swing, even throwing the complete thing out of alphabetical order because the letter “E” — as with Edward — must come before “G” — as with Gus — in the end. …

“By 1973 the group will be pared right down to a power trio of Lawton, Sullivan, and Jimmy Walker on drums,” writes rock and roll historian Joe Viglione inside a phrase that, in spite of its appearance in every Music Guide, will not introduce an essential instant in the genre’s …

Opera, want any other talent, has it is cult statistics, typically singers who all died teen and enacted tragedies, on stage or (sometimes “and”) within their own lives. While Maria Callas is just about the best known of the, Claudia Muzio offers her personal legion of devotees. Like Callas, her …

Western Virginian Cecil Surratt was nearly as crazy about his football bat seeing that his electric guitar when he was developing up. He performed semi-professional ball until getting into the provider, about ten years of electric guitar pickers on his father’s aspect searching on in disappointment. But, with the past …