A sophisticated drummer and an OK singer, O’Neill Spencer is most well-known for his account in the basic John Kirby Sextet. After using local rings in Ohio, Spencer’s initial important work was with Al Sears in 1930; he found more important knowledge with the Mills Blue Tempo Band (1931-1936). Spencer …

Acquiring their name from Marty McFly’s mother in the trunk to the near future movies, Lorraine certainly are a trio from Bergen, Norway, who explain their music as a combined mix of days gone by and the near future. Used, that roughly means sounding like music which was forward-looking twenty …

Vocalist Dr. Robert, usually referred to as Robert Howard, carved a fleeting however memorable image within the U.S. using the video for the Blow Monkeys’ “Digging Your Picture,” a clip highlighted by Robert’s flamboyant character and dapper apparel. The tune itself was much better than a lot of the United …

The music and storytelling traditions of Scotland’s Travellers, nomadic craftsmen whose descendants produced weapons and ornamentation for the ancient clans from the Highlands, could have been dropped forever minus the efforts from the Stewart Family members, who passed them down orally through several centuries. The very first family to become …

Thomas “Papa Mutt” Carey was an old-fashioned trumpeter who spoke of Friend Bolden with reverence, made a spot of honoring Freddie Keppard, and named Joe Oliver as a significant inspiration, specifically in the usage of mutes. A longtime cohort of Child Ory, he embodied the initial stylistic manifestations from the …

A master from the chromatic harmonica and blues harp, New Zealand-born and London-based Brendan Power has proven equally adept at performing pop, classical, rock and roll, and traditional Irish music. Furthermore to playing on albums by such Celtic rings as Altan and Arcadia and Irish vocalists, including Paul Brady, Arty …

Ambient pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist, technical innovator, worldbeat proponent, and self-described nonmusician — during the period of his lengthy, prolific, and immensely important career, Brian Eno was many of these things and far, much more. Identifying his innovative pathways using a deck of instructional, Tarot-like credit cards …

Among the great rock and roll vocalists from the 1960s, Tim Buckley drew from folk, psychedelic rock and roll, and progressive jazz to make a considerable body of adventurous function in his short life time. His multi-octave range was with the capacity of not just amazing power, but great psychological …

For over 15 years, from 1948 and long lasting in to the early ’60s, Mitch Miller was a significant force within the saving sector. He had not been only one of the very most effective men within the music business for a lot of that period, as the mind of …

The literate and dramatic New Zealand guitar pop music group the Verlaines formed in 1981; led by vocalist/guitarist Graeme Downes, the group’s initial roster also included guitarist Craig Easton, keyboardist Anita Pillai, bassist Philip Higham, and drummer Greg Kerr. Both Easton and Pillai quickly exited, as well as the Verlaines …