In the ’60s, when John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman were defining the idea of a jazz avant-garde, few knowledgeable observers could have guessed that in another 30 years the music’s mainstream would virtually bypass their innovations, and only the hard bop style that free jazz had apparently supplanted. Since it …

Sunny Clapp, sometimes referred to as Sonny Clapp, was created in Galesburg IL, the birthplace of poet Carl Sandburg. An achieved bandleader, composer, arranger, trombonist, clarinetist, and alto saxophonist, he’s mainly appreciated for having created “Female of My Dreams,” a special waltz that was initially documented by Blue Steele & …

The Orb virtually invented the electronic genre referred to as ambient home, resurrecting slower, more soulful rhythms and providing a soundtrack for morning hours ravers after the clubs closed their doorways. The group popularized the genre aswell by appearing for the United kingdom chart show The surface of the Pops …

Ray Anderson is a full time income embodiment from the uninhibited and sometimes rambunctious method of individualized expression that is clearly a vital component dating back again to the origins of jazz through Lester Bowie, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, and Roy Eldridge to Excess fat Waller, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Move …

b. 7 Feb 1925, Lynbrook, Long Isle, USA, d. 9 June 2002, New Hyde Recreation area, NY, USA. Born right into a musical environment (his mom was a concert pianist), Alexander started playing piano as an extremely small kid. At college, he produced a harmonica music group then planned to …

Since his emergence in the mid-’80s, Randy Sandke continues to be among the top swing-oriented trumpeters in jazz. His old sibling Jordan (himself an excellent trumpeter) released Randy to the countless varieties of jazz. In 1968 he shaped a rock-band with Michael Brecker that presented a horn section plus they …

Gecko Turner was raised in Spain, learning British in the blues performers he loved. After an extended musical trip, he began composing in a method that mixed jazz, blues, samba, reggae, hip-hop, Arab music, and even more into something all his very own. Journalists in Spain dubbed it Afromeño (tough …

Jazz pianist and composer Mary Louise Knutson offers played alongside a number of the genre’s biggest titles, furthermore to pursuing a single career on her behalf own by the first 21st century. Over time, the Minneapolis, MN-based musician offers performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby McFerrin, Dianne Reeves, Smokey Robinson, the …

During the period of their decades-long existence, Roomful of Blues successfully became a franchise unto themselves, built even more on the brand-name collective identity than in the voices from the myriad individual users who kept the band a smoothly humming machine. Explaining Roomful of Blues that method, however, gives brief …

The Detroit Grand Pubahs, combine silly lyrics and minimal production to make a signature sound. Frequently tagged a novelty work, the Pubahs are Detroit natives, Dr. Toefinger (Andy Toth) and Paris the Dark Fu (Mack Goudy, Jr.) They may be mostly connected with their 1st single, “Sandwiches”, that was transported …