Led by vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Jay Farrar, Son Volt became among the leading rings in the choice country community, getting critical compliment and an audience which was loyal if not necessarily large. Jay Farrar initial made the feeling on music supporters because the co-founder, with Jeff Tweedy, of seminal …

Stan Lewis are the owners of the seminal blues/R&B/gospel/rock and roll label Jewel-Paula-Ronn-Records. In 1948, Lewis opened up a record shop, Stan’s Record Store, on Texas Road in Shreveport, LA. A regular customer was a performer on “The Louisiana Hayride” radio system, Elvis Presley. Lewis became a one-stop operator (additional …

Donna Byrne hasn’t strayed definately not her birthplace as she pursues her performing profession in New Britain. Aside from hearing big rings on the air as a kid, her first proper jazz experience emerged when she uncovered some Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald information at an uncle’s home. A long …

b. 27 November 1910, LA, California, USA, d. 17 January 1989, Phoenix, Az, USA. Shaped in LA, California, USA, in 1935, the Ray Herbeck Orchestra shortly relocated to Chicago to go after the profitable Midwest one-nighter circuit. Making use of their theme track, ‘Love’, Herbeck’s was probably one of the …

Among the “big 3” lately 20th and early 21st hundred years jazz guitarists (alongside Pat Metheny and Expenses Frisell), John Scofield’s impact grew within the ’90s and continued in to the 21st hundred years. Possessor of an extremely unique rock-oriented sound that’s often a little bit distorted, Scofield is really …

An unsung participant, Haywood Henry was among the finest baritone saxophonists from the golf swing era; so excellent, actually, that he sometimes substituted for Harry Carney with Duke Ellington’s Orchestra. Henry began on clarinet (which he continuing using being a increase throughout his profession) and tenor before concentrating on the …

Vibraphonist and marimba participant David Friedman offers recorded and played extensively because the early ’70s. He analyzed drums within the middle-’50s, and marimba and xylophone within the ’60s. Friedman went to Juilliard, with main focus on percussion. He was also tutored by Teddy Charles and Hall Overton. Friedman used the …

Sometimes known as “the Grand Dame of Detroit Blues,” vocalist Alberta Adams is convincing and forceful on her behalf Cannonball Information releases, 1999’s Given birth to Using the Blues and 2000’s Express Baby Express: Life’s Studies and Tribulations Based on Miss Alberta Adams. Both albums had been well received by …

b. 18 January 1896, USA, d. 3 Feb 1965, LA, California, USA. Kassel shaped his initial dance music group in 1924 for an appearance in the Midway Landscapes in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His full-scale orchestra included, at numerous times, sidemen Jack port Davis, Ponzi Crunz, Ralph Morris, D. Johnson, Floyd …

Plant Abramson was the 1st chief executive of pioneering jazz/R&B/pop label Atlantic Information. Created November 16, 1920, in Brooklyn, NY, Abramson, who was simply a blues, jazz. and gospel music fanatic, began collecting information in his teenagers. Achieving fellow jazz record enthusiasts brothers Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun in Washington, D.C., …