Nothing at all upsets preconceived thoughts like a person who successfully crosses to another genre after he continues to be thoroughly pigeonholed by experts inside a previous one. Such was Hank Garland, Nashville’s busiest nation acoustic guitar picker who, with small warning, made an excellent jazz recording in mid-career and …

Fans of Uk rock & move have tended to think about Mike Sheridan and his music group Mike Sheridan & the Nightriders like a footnote within the music’s background, as the music group that brought Roy Real wood into the saving studio for the very first time. They — and …

George Morrow will be best known to be the bassist within the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet from 1954-56. An excellent swinging accompanist rather than main soloist, Morrow hardly ever became as well well-known. He began on violin, turned to cello when he was 13 and some years later completely turned …

Through the 1970s there is a resurgence appealing in the original music of rural America which has become known generically as “old-time” music, particularly within the generating, rhythmic string group sound from the southern Appalachian and Blue Ridge mountains. Like many individuals who uncovered this music throughout their senior high …

An excellent singer having a warm, expressive tone of voice, Helen Merrill’s infrequent recordings have a tendency to end up being quite particular with a lot of surprises and chance-taking. She began singing in public areas in 1944 and was using the Reggie Childs Orchestra during 1946-1947. Merrill, who was …

This reed player — covering a variety of clarinets, saxophones, and flute — had not been only a busy fellow on the height from the big group era. Following Globe Battle II, he was an employee musician for MGM, playing on countless soundtracks and periods, and afterwards became a well-known …

Darrell Scott became one of the most successful nation songwriters from the past due ’90s and early 2000s, placing tunes with the largest names in nation music, including many main chart strikes. Garth Brooks, the Dixie Chicks, Tim McGraw, Trust Hill, and many more documented his work. At exactly the …

Though she didn’t call it third stream, and it wasn’t from the genre, Hazel Scott was another musician who found an effective method to blend jazz and classical influences. Scott took traditional choices and improvised in it, a practice dating back again to the ragtime period. Such figures as “Hungarian …

b. George Wietz, 1890, NY, USA, d. 11 Oct 1968, Hollywood, California, USA. A maker, director, writer, dancer, and acting professional, White’s 1st flavor of showbusiness arrived in his teenagers when he created a burlesque dance group with Ben (or Benny) Ryan. Later on, he previously generally modest single roles …

Arnold Ross will be best-remembered for the excellent chorus he took within the Jazz in the Philharmonic version of “Woman Be Great” that directly preceded Charlie Parker’s traditional single in 1946. Ross has already established a strangely episodic profession, sounding at his greatest in swing-to-bop transitional configurations. In early stages, …