Created in the ’40s in Buenos Aires, Juan Carlos Caceres became intimately associated with the existentialist motion that thrived in the town during the many years of his youngsters. Caceres was an achieved jazz trombonist by his mid-twenties, and even though he studied great arts on the university instead of …

The original music from the former Soviet Union was preserved through the efforts of vocalist and ethnomusicologist Vyacheslav Shchurov. As students of important folk music researcher Anna Rudneva, Shchurov was therefore transferred by field research conducted along with his instructor, that in 1958 he produced a trio to execute the …

In its most prominent incarnation, the free-improv noise duo Ascension was an offshoot from the Skullflower/Ramleh family tree, a loose collective of noise-rock bands with ties to psychedelia and early industrial music. Originally produced in 1992 by drummer/guitarist Tony Irving and bassist Russell Hedges, Ascension released several cassette-only produces before …

The tradition of “brother” duets is famous in American old-time and bluegrass music, but here’s a good example of a brother duet from another pasture entirely. The musically wealthy boundary territories of Moravia and Slovakia created the performing Holy Brothers. Lubos was created on Oct 21, 1930, and Dusan on …

Austin-based singer/songwriter Dustin Welch grew up in Nashville, Tennessee inside a community composed of people associated with various areas of the music business. Welch was playing music and composing songs from an early on age, starting rings like a youngsters with other kids of music artists, including Steve Earle’s child …

The main pianist/organist from the Jovem Guarda, Lafayette had huge hits in the past due ’60s, having recorded around 30 LPs in his 15 years with CBS; he also received a platinum record and was granted using the Chico Viola trophy. He were only available in music as well as …

b. 26 January 1955, London, Britain. Given birth to in London of Jamaican parents, and nephew from the unjustly-neglected guitarist Ernest Ranglin, Crosby was (plus a few others, just like the good tenor saxophonist Ray Carless) among the pioneer dark British jazz skills, making his status before the picture blossomed …

During his lifetime, Enrico Toselli’s fame produced mainly from a scandalous affair and marriage to Archduchess Luise of Austria-Tuscany. For a while the press and community overlooked the actual fact that he was an excellent concert pianist and effective composer generally of light traditional music. Toselli himself in fact capitalized …

Although French-born Don Cavalli have been in a variety of rockabilly and country groups (the Blue Cats, both Timers) because the 1980s, impressing a little but dedicated following along with his impassioned Johnny Cash-meets-Charlie Feathers vocals, as well as releasing a solo album (2002’s Odd and Mystic), it wasn’t until …

As very much a folklorist and community historian like a performer, Sparky Rucker (Knoxville, TN) offers combined his like for blues and tunes from the Dark ballad tradition having a wish to both educate and entertain. Rucker can be closely from the folk legacy from the Appalachians. His recordings and …