Among the longest-tenured vocalists for Dark Sabbath, Tony Martin fronted the group during two split stints, the initial from 1987 through 1990, and the next from 1994 through 1995. Blessed Anthony Harford on Apr 19, 1957, Martin would hail in the same city as the initial members from the mighty …

Possessors of a fairly confusing background, Vow Wow originally got it is start while Bow Wow — a name under that your quartet of vocalist/guitarist Mitsuhiro Saito, business lead guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto, bassist Kenji Sano, and drummer Toshihiro Niimi blazed a legendary path seeing that Japan’s most exciting and successful …

A trumpeter who was simply categorised as the “feminine” Louis Armstrong, Ernestine “Tiny” Davis was an associate from the all-female International Sweethearts of Tempo, a favorite and innovatively interracial big music group that was formed in the later ’30s. She was the group’s greatest soloist, and was apparently offered ten …

This short-lived UK heavy rock supergroup project was assembled in 1987. Offering Tony MacAlpine (acoustic guitar), Tommy Aldridge (drums), Robert Rock and roll (vocals) and Rudi Sarzo (bass), their collective pedigrees guaranteed a lot more than they shipped. Made by Mike Varney, their only album could have been indistinguishable from …

This trumpeter, bandleader, disc jockey, and all-around champion of New Orleans jazz originates from the Italian side of this city’s musical equation. With a significant influx of Italian immigration in Louisiana happening between 1900 and 1920, the same 2 decades where the city’s jazz picture literally exploded, it really is …

Herivelto Martins was probably one of the most successful performers and composers of Brazilian Popular Music. His compositions became accurate classics: in 1936, “Acorda, Escola de Samba” (with Benedito Lacerda), documented by Sílvio Caldas for Odeon; “Duas Lágrimas” (with Benedito Lacerda), documented by Nestor Amaral for Odeon; “Se o Morro …

Of many British blues-rock bands to sprout in the later ’60s, the Aynsley Dunbar Retaliation was among the better known, though solid reception on travels did not result in heavy record product sales. Musically, the group recalled John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers through the 1966-1967 period that had created that group’s A …

A product from the folk-revival boom of the first 1960s, the Brandywine Performers were led by twin brothers Rick and Ron Shaw, who had been born and raised in New Hampshire. Inspired to pursue a profession in music by folkie Terry Gilkyson, the siblings created the group in 1962, and …

If one special discounts the pioneering but nonetheless largely formative efforts of early-‘70s proto-metal forces like mega-stoners Quickness, Glue & Shinki, acid-fueled anarchists Les Rallizes Denudes, as well as perhaps the country’s biggest prog-psych-metal warlords, Bloom Travellin’ Band, after that Bow Wow arguably carry the honor to be Japan’s first …

The collapse of Jagged Edge led Myke Gray (b. 12 Might 1968, Fulham, London, Britain; guitar) to create Taste with Jagged Edge bass participant Andy Robbins, ex-Kooga vocalist and guitarist Neville MacDonald (b. Ynysybwl, Pontypridd, Wales) and drummer Dicki Fliszar, previously with Bruce Dickinson’s live music group, in 1991. Rory …