Rubén González was among the last of Cuba’s great Afro-Cuban piano players. Although he previously played and documented with the music group led by Enrique Jorrín, the originator from the cha-cha, for 25 % of a hundred years, he previously retired from music with the middle-’80s. Things begun to transformation …

An Icelandic singer/songwriter whose music embraces components of folk, electronica, pop/rock and roll, and trip-hop, Emilíana Torrini has earned beneficial evaluations to such vocally gifted performers as Beth Hirsch, Kirsty Hawkshaw, and Björk. Torrini grew up in Kópavogur, where she worked well at her father’s Italian cafe and went to …

Pianist Ben Sidran was raised in Racine, WI. In the first ’60s, he used Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs inside a music group known as the Ardells in the University or college of Wisconsin. After Miller relocated to SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA and guaranteed a recording agreement, he known as …

The saxophone continues to be associated so strongly with jazz for so very long that it’s probably hard to trust that there is a time ahead of 1920 when the instrument had actually yet to create its appearance on the jazz record. That’s where Benny Krueger will come in. Of …

Often set alongside the famous Serge Gainsbourg, singer/songwriter/arranger Benjamin Biolay is less likely to ask some lovely like Brigitte Bardot or Françoise Hardy to sing his songs when he may get it done equally well himself — although Gainsbourg did frequently duet along with his protégées, especially Jane Birkin around …

The Parisian post-rock/experimental quartet Cyann & Ben came jointly in 2001. Cyann (vocals/keyboards), Ben (electric guitar), Loïc (electric guitar/keyboards), and Charlie (percussion/examples) create a romantic soundscape that’s both cinematic and lush with differing ambient designs and analogical noises. Within a calendar year, the group self-released their initial album, and then …

The trombone was an especially effective musical gadget in swing music, and not just because of its slurs, slides, growls, and groans. Benny Morton was known for his gorgeous tone, advanced usage of chromatics beyond the key personal, and tasteful understatement. He required part in a lot of the fundamental …

Although not thought to be among the celebrity conductors of his age, Wyn Morris attained the gratitude of musicians and audiences as well for his pioneering work in the Mahler oeuvre. Although his recordings will have competing, and frequently excellent alternatives, they stay in the catalog for research and enjoyment. …

Ana Torroja launched her profession because the lead vocalist of Mecano, among Spain’s most successful pop rings, through the ’80s and early ’90s. Produced through the early years from the Spanish changeover to democracy, Mecano marketed over 25 million albums world-wide, with a lot of the band’s reputation focused in …

Benni Hemm Hemm, the Icelandic indie pop music group fronted by Benedikt H. Hermannsson, initial began to consider main when Hermannsson, following a limited discharge of his single SummerPlate EP in 2003, shifted to Italy for a couple months and begun to write a fresh batch of tracks. With a …