A trombonist and arranger best remembered for stints to get Chico Hamilton and Duke Ellington, Jimmy Cheatham was also a jazz educator and bandleader, with wife Jeannie helming the Special Baby Blues Music group for near half a hundred years. Blessed in Birmingham, AL, on June 18, 1924, Cheatham is …

Phil Kraus was by far among the busiest & most prolific NEW YORK studio room percussionists from the postwar period, appearing on periods headlined by Percy Beliefs, Hugo Winterhalter, André Kostelanetz, and just about any other large of easy hearing and lounge music. Kraus was created in NY in 1918, …

On the commercial height of her job within the ’60s, actress/singer Julie Andrews could claim to be the principal performer from the longest-running music in Broadway history, the highest-grossing Hollywood film available, as well as the biggest-selling album ever. Each of these accomplishments was surpassed by others ultimately, needless to …

Big-band songbird “Liltin'” Martha Tilton enjoyed her greatest renown during her two-year stint using the Benny Goodman Orchestra. Featured on Goodman’s smash rendition from the swing-era traditional “As well as the Angels Sing,” she was also the very first nonclassical vocalist to execute at Carnegie Hall. Delivered November 14, 1915, …

Jazz vocalist Margie Baker pursued her music career part-time for quite some time even though maintaining a full-time work in the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA college district and bringing up a family group. She was created in Middle, TX, in about 1937. During Globe Battle II, she shifted with her …

Most widely known for trading barbs with headliner Jack port Paar throughout a five-year stint while bandleader of NBC’s The Tonight Display, pianist/arranger Jose Melis also lower some Latin-influenced easy hearing recordings. Created Jose Melis Guiu in Havana, Cuba, on Feb 27, 1920, he researched in the Havana Conservatory of …

The pastoral pop music group Crazy Carnation was an outgrowth from the legendary Feelies. The group was led by vocalist/bassist Brenda Sauter, a longtime fixture from the Hoboken, NJ music picture whose tenures in regional outfits just like the Trypes as well as the Willies led to an offer to …

Cornetist Johnny Wiggs was created John Wigginton Hyman about July 25, 1899, in New Orleans, LA. He started his music profession playing the violin, but he discovered the cornet and relocated to NEW YORK to try his fortune in their regional scene. He relocated back again to Louisiana in the …

Dr. Samuel J. Hoffman was probably the most popular and important exponent from the theremin, the eerily bewitching digital device that ushered well-known music in to the space age group. Born in NEW YORK on July 23, 1903, Hoffman analyzed violin under Ovide Musin with 14 was the youngest musician …

Wayne Fontana as well as the Mindbenders initial emerged away from apprentice phone engineer Glyn Geoffrey Ellis’ daydreams to become an effective pop performer. Rechristening himself Wayne Fontana after Elvis Presley’s drummer, DJ Fontana, Fontana’s first music group was the Jets, a staple around the Manchester circuit through 1961-1962, but …