Present of Gab made his name seeing that the technically adept MC in the vaunted underground rap duo Blackalicious, together with manufacturer/DJ Key Xcel. Delivered Tim Parker, he was raised mainly in Pacoima, component of L.A.’s San Fernando Valley area, but attended senior high school in Sacramento. There he initial …

The effervescent club music of producer Mousse T (Mustafa Gündogdu) mixes disco and home along with taste and camp right into a sparkling blend which has spawned such hits as “Horny” and “Sex Bomb.” Created in Hagen, Germany of Turkish good, Mustafa relocated to Hanover in 1990 to become listed …

Tim Weisberg is a pop/jazz flautist whose profession has carried him across a brace of single albums and program use the Monkees, the Carpenters, Dave Mason, Kim Carnes, and David Benoit, also to collaborations with Herbie Hancock. His most significant achievement, & most familiar function before the open public, however, …

A mid-’60s sextet using a Latin advantage, the Afro-Blues Quintet + 1 featured a vibes/sax front series and a tempo section augmented by congas and timbales assisting the typical piano/bass/drums instrumentation. The group’s albums included politics and protest parts, originals, remakes of criteria like “Green Dolphin Road,” spiritual/spiritual numbers, spirit/jazz …

Among hard rock’s esteemed bassists remains to be Tim Bogert, because of his influential use such notable past due-’60s/early-’70s outfits seeing that Vanilla Fudge, Cactus, and Beck, Bogert & Appice. Delivered on August 27, 1944, in NEW YORK, Bogert developed a pastime in music young, taking on piano at age …

Among the odder music sub-trends in rock and roll background is how seemingly once ten years or so, there are a burst of performers directly inspired from the music from the 1930s and ’40s, want Harpers Bizarre or Spanky & Our Gang in the ’60s, Bette Midler and Dr. Buzzard’s …

Experimental pop outfit Moonshake was led by Dave Callahan, the one-time frontman from the C-86 group the Wolfhounds; after many years from the music picture, he resurfaced in early 1991, putting an advertisement in Melody Manufacturer phoning for bandmates. Among those that responded had been vocalist Margaret Fiedler, bassist John …

Aretha Franklin is among the giants of spirit music, and even of American pop all together. More than every other performer, she epitomized spirit at its most gospel-charged. Her amazing run of past due-’60s strikes with Atlantic Information — “Respect,” “I Hardly ever Loved a guy,” “String of Fools,” “Baby …

Monolake were being among the most acclaimed and enduring performers to arise through the Berlin-based Basic Route/Chain Response label group, work by Moritz “Maurizio” von Oswald and house to such champions of minimalist dub-techno austerity seeing that Vainqueur, Material, and Porter Ricks. Monolake in the beginning contains Robert Henke and …

The death of Thomas Chapin from leukemia at age 40 was one particular extremely cruel twists of fate that periodically mark the annals of jazz. Unlike the countless great players to expire of self-abuse before their period — Charlie Parker and Bix Beiderbecke one thinks of — Chapin resided that …