Tag Archives: 1920s – 1960s

b. 14 June 1902, London, Britain, d. 23 Might 1973, Chertsey, Surrey, Britain. Deeply mixed up in music business from child years, Phillips performed clarinet in a variety of rings, including one led by his brothers, and in addition worked well in music posting as well as for record businesses. …

Sonny Young man Williamson was, in lots of ways, the best blues legend. By enough time of his loss of life in 1965, he previously been around very long enough to get used Robert Johnson in the beginning of his profession and Eric Clapton, Jimmy Web page and Robbie Robertson …

A guitarist and singer of old-time cowboy tunes, Thin Critchlow became referred to as a performer in the first ’30s, when he sang on radio and became a pal of folklorist John A. Lomax. Critchlow, in his early twenties, was operating as a nationwide recreation area ranger in Utah when …

A unique trumpeter who match both New Orleans jazz and golf swing configurations, Sidney DeParis was particularly professional with mutes. He caused Charlie Johnson’s Heaven Ten (1926-1931), Don Redman (1932-1936 and 1939), Zutty Singleton (1939-1941), Benny Carter (1940-41), and Artwork Hodes (1941) and documented on the famous Panassie periods (1938) …

Perhaps one of the most popular and influential Cuban sets of the ’20s and ’30s, Trio Matamoros was formed in 1925 by Miguel Matamoros, alongside percussionist Siro Rodriguez and guitarist Rafael Cueto. The music group performed from 1925 until it disbanded in 1969, striking several innovative peaks on the way. …

Big Expenses Broonzy called John Estes’ design of singing “crying” the blues due to its overt psychological quality. In fact, his vocal design harks back again to his tenure like a work-gang innovator to get a railroad maintenance team, where his vocal improvisations and enthusiastic, cutting voice arranged the speed …

Although outspoken in his support from the post-World War I Parisian avant-garde during his youth, British composer Arthur Bliss finished his lengthy career being a devoted proponent of a far more conventional, neo-Romantic musical visual. Educated at Pembroke University, Cambridge with the Royal University of Music (where he discovered his …

Among the initial & most influential Delta bluesmen to record, Omit James was the best-known proponent of the so-called Bentonia school of blues players, a genre stress invested with just as much fanciful scholarly “study” as any. Coupling an oddball electric guitar tuning established against eerie, falsetto vocals, Adam’ early …

Pianist Speckled Crimson (given birth to Rufus Perryman) was created in Monroe, Louisiana, but he made his status within the St. Louis and Memphis blues moments from the ’20s and ’30s. Crimson was equally experienced in early jazz and boogie-woogie — his design was much like Roosevelt Sykes and Small …

Although identified most carefully using the People from france repertory, conductor/composer Albert Wolff was of Dutch parentage. The majority of his profession was spent in Western locations, although his 2 yrs in the Metropolitan Opera had been acclaimed by critics for the design and fine detail he taken to his …