Pianist/composer Michael Jefry Stevens is really a musician on the forefront of both contemporary mainstream jazz and creative improvised musics. Blessed March 13, 1951, in NEW YORK, he had taken early piano research at five years, moved along with his family members to Florida at age group eight, and after …

Alongside Gary Moore, Michael Schenker by no means quite reached exactly the same degree of acclaim stateside as he did in Europe (and other areas of the world), despite possessing outstanding, and quite important, six-string skills. Michael Schenker was created on January 10, 1955 in Sarstedt, Western Germany, and it …

Michael Franks occupied a uniquely popular market in the wonderful world of soft jazz and pop music in the 1970s; he was one particular crossover performers who defied easy category on the air (which produced him perfect for Radio of the time), and discovered an audience mainly among university students. …

Almost four decades after his death, the legacy of Albert Ayler is simply — various reed-biting aural contortionists bent in exploiting the saxophone’s propensity to make sounds that resemble a human scream. Many such players, struggling to play anything resembling a coherent melody, rely rather on the severe manifestations from …

The aptly named Denner/Shermann may be the creation of seasoned Danish guitarists Michael Denner and Hank Shermann, both of whom were traveling forces behind dark metallic legends Mercyful Destiny. The music group also features the skills of bassist Marc Grabowski (Problem, Demonica), drummer Snowy Shaw (Mercyful Destiny, King Diamond, Desire …

b. Samuel Medoff, 12 June 1912, Gomel, Russia, d. 11 Apr 1991, Marietta, Georgia, USA. A favorite songwriter through the past due 40s and 50s, who occasionally had written both music and lyrics, and was most likely best-known for hi novelty tracks. Born right into a theatrical family members, Manning …

Multi-instrumentalist Gebhard Ullmann (given birth to about November 2, 1957) was raised close to Bonn, studied medicine and music in Hamburg beginning 1976, and moved to Berlin in 1983 to reside as a specialist musician. Twelve months later on, the 27-year-old was leading (and co-leading) his personal bands, liberating his …

The idiosyncratic but rewarding Barbara Manning is a touch too spiky and odd to match comfortably within the Lilith Good crowd, but her best work outshines those of her bigger-selling peers. Manning’s creative restlessness and her inclination to leap in and from bands and documenting situations helps it be difficult …

Chicago British horn player Kyle Bruckmann focuses on a method of music that in some way manages to mix classical with components of punk and Dada, sketching inspiration from such acclaimed artists as George Crumb, Guillermo Gregorio, and John Cage. Bruckmann provides performed alongside a bunch of others (including Michael …

b. Manny Levin, 1 Feb 1926, Philadelphia, Pa, USA. An extremely completed, but underrated ballad vocalist, whose career provides probably experienced because his tone of voice bore an uncanny similarity compared to that from the popular Dick Haymes. Inspired by the performers and bands from the ‘Golf swing Period’, Manning …