The daughter of the teacher, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf begun to study voice in 1934 on the Berliner Musikhochschule with Lula Mysz-Gmeiner with Maria Ivogun. She also researched lieder interpretation with Michael Raucheisen, Ivogun’s hubby. In 1938, Schwarzkopf debuted in Berlin being a Bloom Maid in Parsifal. She continued to be in …

b. Clarence Patrick O’Connor, 1 July 1899, Eire, d. 11 January 1997, London, Britain. An immensely well-known singer in the united kingdom from your 30s to the 60s, with an excellent, lilting tenor tone of voice. O’Connor’s family relocated to Nottingham, Britain soon after he was created and his Irish …

Los Angeles-based performer Sara Gazarek can be an acclaimed vocalist and educator known for sophisticated jazz and standards-based design. A indigenous of Seattle, Gazarek found out the pleasure of jazz vocals in senior high school and credits her senior high school music group movie director with having an enormous effect …

Given birth to John Donald Abney in Baltimore, the pianist Don Abney certainly still left his fingerprints around jazz background, or in least around the ivories of varied pianos utilized to accompany performers such as for example Louis Armstrong and Benny Carter or the fantastic jazz performers Ella Fitzgerald, Carmen …

One of many Brazilian arrangers, having renovated the country’s harmonic vocabulary within the ’50s, the underrated Moacir Santos had nevertheless an extremely influential role seeing that he had seeing that his pupils, within the ’60s: Paulo Moura, Oscar Castro-Neves, Baden Powell, Maurício Einhorn, Geraldo Vespar, Bola Sete, Sérgio Mendes, Dom …

Harold Rome wrote the tunes for some stage musicals from your 1930s towards the 1970s, his biggest successes arriving with the displays Pins and Fine needles, Call Me personally Mister, and Fanny. Like his modern, Marc Blitzstein, Rome tended to create topical ointment material having a left-wing politics bent through …

A favorite act in London’s pub and golf club circuit through the early 70s, this quintet comprised former Heron member Gerald ‘GT’ Moore (b. Gerald Thomas Moore, 2 Might 1949, Reading, Berkshire, Britain; acoustic guitar/vocals), Martin Hayward (acoustic guitar), Tim Jones (keyboards), Tom Whyte (bass), Tony Hannaford, Tom Robinson, and …

Perhaps aside from moving guys or gymnasts, simply no segment of the populace complains just as much approximately back again problems simply because musicians. Jazz guitarist Lou Mecca has already been somewhat before a lot of his peers as a new player, but as a liscensed chiropractor, he’s way ahead …

Known for his perfect and tasteful taking part in, Tommy Flanagan received lengthy overdue acknowledgement for his skills within the 1980s. He performed clarinet when he was six and turned to piano five years later on. Flanagan was a significant area of the fertile Detroit jazz picture (apart from 1951-1953 …

Noted for his rich, resonant strengthen and metronomic precision, Al McKibbon was among the leading bassists of the first bebop era, assisting giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk furthermore to collaborating with percussionist Chano Pozo to forge the appear of Afro-Cuban jazz. Given birth to January 1, …