Tag Archives: 1930s – 1950s

b. Lucius Venable Millinder, 8 August 1900, Anniston, Alabama, USA, d. 28 Sept 1966, NEW YORK, NY, USA. Developing up in Chicago, Millinder worked well in night clubs and theatres in the past due 20s like a dancer and get better at of ceremonies. His interesting personality led to his …

Hugh and Karl Farr were the main fiddle-and-guitar duo in the annals of nation & traditional western music, a group of sibling virtuosos who brought the vocabulary and dexterity of the greatest jazz in to the confines of nation and cowboy music for a lot more than 25 years. That …

Among the great golf swing trumpeters not only is it a talented blues vocalist, Hot Lip area Page’s premature passing still left a large opening in the jazz globe; virtually all music artists (regardless of their design) cherished him. Page obtained early encounter in the 1920s carrying out in Tx, …

The nickname of the trombonist, spun from his surname, makes him appear to be someone going to run amuck with a set of scissors. Cutty Cutshall was equipped with a trombone, nevertheless, and the primary cutting he do was either besting various other bonemen in jam periods or simply producing …

A masterful tempo guitarist, Skeeter Best was also an above average business lead participant, though he didn’t screen it frequently. He’d been affected from the duo of Charlie Religious and Freddie Green, and laid down slick, refined, and tempting riffs and assisting licks. His single strategy was a traditional single-string …

Her husky, surprisingly sensual tone of voice and exquisitely great readings of pop specifications distinguished her singing, but Lee Wiley earns see among the best early jazz singers by recognizing the superiority of American well-known tune and organizing a couple of tracks around a common composer or theme — afterwards …

While under no circumstances a modern superstar or latter-day tale on the par with a lot of his peers, vocalist/pianist Walter Davis was being among the most prolific blues performers to emerge through the pre-war St. Louis picture, slicing over 150 edges between 1930 and 1952. Created March 1, 1912 …

“The essential essentials of accurate dance music are melody, simplicity, and consistent tempo. Sign up for these three entities jointly and you possess music that’s fine to dance to and satisfying to hear,” noticed Victor Silvester — he do specifically that and marketed 75 million information over a documenting career …

b. Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks, 4 January 1914, St. Joseph, Missouri, USA, d. 10 Sept 2007, Rancho Mirage, California, USA. After faltering at her 1st attempt to break right into movies, Wyman ultimately became a music group singer. Another try in Hollywood brought moderate success with little roles in a …

Ferenc Fricsay’s profession lasted barely twenty years, but throughout that period, he became perhaps one of the most acclaimed conductors of his era and left out a body of recordings that remain admired. Fricsay researched on the Budapest Academy of Music under both Zoltán Kodály and Béla Bartók, whose music …