Biz Markie’s inclination toward juvenile laughter and his fondness for goofy, tuneless, half-sung choruses camouflaged his true abilities being a freestyle rhymer. The Biz might not have been in a position to convert his outrageous rhyming abilities to tape, but what he do record was worth it in its way. …

The premier jazz vocal act ever, Lambert, Hendricks & Ross revolutionized vocal music through the past due ’50s and early ’60s by turning from the increasingly crossover slant from the pop world to embrace the sheer musicianship inherent in vocal jazz. Applying the ideas of bop harmonies to swinging vocal …

b. 20 March 1922, New London, Connecticut, USA. An alto saxophonist, within the middle-40s he performed in Bobby Byrne’s commercially unsuccessful music group. It had been while on the Byrne music group that he fulfilled arranger Charlie Albertine, whose composing style he enjoyed and whom he bore at heart when …

NEW YORK ska-punks Choking Sufferer, whose members resided together out of varied squats on Manhattan’s Decrease East Part, comprised singer/guitarist Scott Stergin (aka Stza or Sturgeon), bassist Alec, and drummer Skwert, although music group also included guitarist Ezra, bassists Sascha Scatter and Shayne, and drummer John Dolan, amongst others, during …

Vocalist/songwriter/keyboardist Kim Fox improvements the female vocalist/songwriter archetype of the first ’70s (think that Carole Ruler and, especially, Laura Nyro) in quite similar way because the indie-piano trio Suddenly, Tammy! — whom she credits with uplifting her move from opera and traditional music into pop — and her previous Bloomington, …

Christopher Little composed film ratings for more than 50 films from 1980, including Hellraiser (1987), The Five Heartbeats (1991), Murder within the Initial (1995), and Question Boys (2000); in addition to scores for Television films such as for example Vietnam War Tale: THE FINAL Days (1989), Maximum and Helen (1990), …

b. NEW YORK, NY, USA. Azucena went to Performing Arts SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL, Manhattan, majoring in performing. Leaning towards traditional music, she examined European art music and performed at the institution in opera. After graduation, she continuing her vocal research while focusing on many sessions being a back-up vocalist for …

Initially embraced simply because “the Southern Strokes” because of their resurrection and reinvention of Dixie-styled rock & roll, Kings of Leon progressively morphed into an experimental rock outfit through the 2000s. The Tennessee-bred quartet debuted in 2003 using the Holy Roller Novocaine EP, whose mixture of fresh, unpolished boogie rock …

Most widely known for helming the Claudia Quintet and John Hollenbeck Huge Ensemble, in addition to his sideman efforts to the task of numerous various other performers, John Hollenbeck shows himself to become an intuitive and far-reaching drummer, percussionist, composer, and group head. Delivered in Binghamton, NY and a citizen …

“The tiny Napoleon of showmanship,” Billy Rose was probably one of the most popular and feared show-biz impresarios of the first 20th hundred years; the diminutive lyricist behind a large number of pop chestnuts (including several strikes for first wife Fanny Brice), he also created some hit musicals and also …