The music of Joey DeFrancesco — a significant force within the revival from the Hammond B-3 organ being a jazz instrument, and a trumpeter and vocalist — runs the gamut from soul-jazz and bluesy grooves ? la Jimmy Smith to hard bop towards the more complex modal design of Coltrane …

Francesca Cezan is among Latin music’s most promising little vocalists. With manufacturer/composer Jorge Luis Piloto overseeing her within the studio room, Cezan surfaced with a robust Latin pop-rock record, Alma en Libertad, in 2000. The little girl of Dominican immigrants, Cezan was created in NY and her abilities being a …

b. 21 November 1957, Vincenza, Italy. Although delivered in Italy Tanksley was raised in Munich, Germany, where she examined music from age seven. She visited Boston when she was 16 to review piano and structure at Berklee University Of Music; after that two years afterwards she came back to Munich. …

Blessed in 1951 in Rome, vocalist/songwriter Francesco De Gregori was raised hearing and getting inspired by American music artists Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen in addition to Italian musician Fabrizio De André. It had been the last mentioned who noticed De Gregori documenting songs in a well-known studio room in …

Vocalist Frances Wayne recorded using the rings of Charlie Barnet and Woody Herman before signing up for a music group formed by her hubby, Neal Hefti (another Herman alum), from the mid-’40s. Delivered in 1924, Wayne shifted to NY as an adolescent and sang with an organization led by her …

A pure vocal firmness and a lively, pop-minded delivery has produced Frances Dark among Ireland’s best vocalists. In 1995 and 1997, Dark was called Ireland’s Best Feminine Artist with the Irish Record Sector Honours (IRMA) . She also received typically the most popular Artist award on the Country wide Awards …

Though indeed of Italian background, violinist Zino Francescatti was a Frenchman, blessed in Marseilles in 1902. His genuine name was René-Charles Francescatti. Both his parents performed the violin, and his dad René have been students of Paganini. Younger Francescatti performed the Paganini Violin Concerto No. 1 at his formal Paris …

Francesco Guccini is among the most admired from the Italian cantautori from the 1970s, section of a era that changed the facial skin and concepts of Italian popular music. Among peers such as for example Fabrizio de André, Francesco De Gregori, Lucio Dalla, or Paolo Conte, Guccini sticks out for …

Composer Francesco De Masi, who scored more than 200 movies during his profession within the film sector, was created in Rome on January 11, 1930. De Masi’s dad was energetic in politics and offered as Italy’s ambassador to Romania, but De Masi demonstrated a skill for music in his youngsters, …

Fans of woman vocalists from the ’50s inevitably bemoan having less respect directed at among the true greats. Frances Faye, like Peggy Lee, was a dishy, relatively off-kilter blonde who could scribble out a imply tune once the feeling strike her. She was in fact a recording existence in the …