Regardless of the fortunes implied in his surname, which ultimately shows up spelled both “lucky” and Luckey, this tenor saxophonist appears to have been denied recognition in at least two genres where he excelled. Like a jazzman, Warren Luckey arrived up in the place music group of Ernie Areas in …

Even though big trophies in the jazz tournament usually appear to be won by the fantastic soloists and bandleaders, there are a variety of players who don’t lead bands and didn’t appear to take many solos, possibly. Yet musicians such as for example Gus Aiken, an early on jazz trumpeter …

Bobby Graham may possibly not be as well-known as Ringo Starr, or as familiar a name among program men as, say, Jimmy Web page or Big Jim Sullivan — but between 1960 and 1965, he was among the busiest program drummers in Britain, was on a whole lot of information …

The tough, dashingly handsome Robert Redford was among the largest movie stars from the 1970s; while an extremely rare on-screen existence in following years, he continued to be a powerful film industry drive as an Academy Award-winning movie director and a extremely visible champ of American unbiased filmmaking. Given birth …

This drummer was a childhood friend of trumpeter Fats Navarro in Key West, FL, shedding immediate light on Al Dreares’ kind of jazz: superior, straight-ahead hard bop without either pretension or commercial gloss. Dreares’ name isn’t in the pantheon of best drummers in his genre: despite his organizations with Charles …

One Night time Only came collectively in 2003, initially performing an array of addresses and originals before morphing right into a gold-selling Uk rock band. People Tag Hayton (guitars, vocals), Daniel Parkin (bass), Sam Ford (drums), and business lead guitarist Kai Smith managed with out a vocalist until they discovered …

A mediocre singer-songwriter, who recorded three forgettable albums in the early-1970s, Barry Drake has found his true getting in touch with being a lecturer on the annals of stone. Called “Campus lecturer of the entire year”, with the Natrional Association for Campus Actions, in 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000, …

Multi-instrumentalist Gabby Glaser initial won the interest of music fans as the guitarist, keyboard participant, and singer with Luscious Jackson, with whom she documented 3 full-length albums and an EP. NY native Glaser used your guitar when she was 13 years of age; throughout a sojourn in SAN FRANCISCO BAY …

Hong Kong actor and singer Leon Lai is usually a Cantopop icon and among the “4 Heavenly Kings” who dominated the Chinese-language marketplace in the 1990s. Given birth to Lai Chit in Beijing, China, he later on transformed his name to Lai Ming, the stage moniker that he is most …

In the 1970s, country music was hijacked by rebel artists who decided it had been time to accomplish things their own way. “Damn the establishment” was the fight cry for men like Waylon Jennings and Hank Williams, Jr.. For these performers, music was greater than a item, more than simply …