Scotland has produced two world-renowned percussionists, Evelyn Glennie and Colin Currie. Newer within the picture, Currie is definitely a veteran, however, having drawn worldwide notice from across the turn from the hundred years. Besides regular orchestral percussion tools, Currie takes on marimba, vibraphone, bongo drums, glockenspiel, brake drum, waterphone, real …

b. 1910, South Africa, d. Sept 1975, Britain. A songwriter, pianist and vocalist, Roberts’ early education occurred in Britain. He subsequently went to college or university in South Africa before becoming a member of a legislation practice. Intention on learning to be a songwriter, he came back to the united …

An excellent Dixieland trombonist (although hardly ever a major participant), Big Key Russell Moore had an extended and busy profession. A member from the American Indian Pima tribe, Moore transferred to Blue Isle, IL in 1924 and examined music along with his uncle, playing trumpet, piano, drums and french horn …

Anyone who views the name The Wild Number and thinks to begin the 1999 Dark Oak Arkansas reunion record, rather than of the fantastic Sam Peckinpah Western, really must get a lifestyle. Such a person would, nevertheless, immediately acknowledge Jimmy Henderson to be a substitute business lead guitarist deep in …

A swinging and supportive drummer who’s also a personable singer, Dottie Dodgion has were able to have an effective career as a lady jazz musician, which will need to have been a hard profession choice in the 1950’s! In early stages she sang with Charles Mingus and started playing drums …

There’s a wide range of performers named Bobby Martin with whom an Ohio rocker from your past due ’50s could conceivably be confusing with. Furthermore, among this performers’ most broadly distributed tracks — if such a explanation could be doled out to materials obscure as this — can be entitled …

Orazio Vecchi is really as interesting as he’s obscure. Because his result consisted mainly of “entertainment music,” and because he made up around enough time when the Italian madrigal was learning to be a virtuosic effort and the tests from the Florentines had been planting the seed products of opera, …

A fantastic tenor soloist using a booting audio and a hard-driving design, Boomie Richman was most widely known for his association with Tommy Dorsey. Richman started his profession playing locally in Boston. He transferred to NY in 1942, freelanced, acquired stints with Jerry Wald (1942), Muggsy Spanier (1944) and George …

b. 14 November 1889, Pittsburgh, Pa, USA, d. 2 June 1961, NY, USA. For a guy who was likely to hate music and musicals with significant fervour, George S. Kaufman produced significant contributions being a librettist and movie director to a number of productions in the American musical theater in …

This versatile Kentucky musician was a founding person in the Prairie Ramblers, a band that arrived of old-time Appalachian mountain music but had become known for a remarkably versatile repertoire. The group also became quite famous for its lead vocalist, Patsy Montana, whose true name was Ruby Blevens. Using the …