Tag Archives: 1930s – 1960s

He was a jazz trumpeter deeply in love with a method of music that reached its creative top even though he was even now in diapers. Wynton Marsalis? No…Lu Watters, among the leading New Orleans revivalists from the 1940s. Watters was a die-hard enthusiast of Ruler Oliver’s First Creole Jazz …

Respectfully referred to as “Manos Brujas” (spellbinding hands), Rodolfo Biagi was among Argentina’s most influential piano players. An associate of Juan D’Arienzo’s music group from 1935 to 1938, and head of his very own music group afterward, Biagily helped to place the foundations for the tango. A indigenous of Buenos …

b. Juan Raul Davis Rodriguez, 10 Dec 1951, Sabinal, Tx, USA. Rodriguez was raised with a big family surviving in a shanty city 90 miles in the Mexican boundary. He was presented with a electric guitar when he was seven and, as an adolescent, he sang using a defeat group. …

A thick-toned tenor saxophonist whose spirited and enthusiastic solos helped compensate for his weak music-reading abilities, Vido Musso was popular for an interval within the 1940s. His family members moved to america in 1920, settling in Detroit. Musso initial performed clarinet before switching to tenor. He shifted to LA in …

It really is well-documented that browse guitarist Dick Dale’s profession was revitalized from the inclusion of his 1962 saving of “Misirlou” in Quentin Tarantino’s blockbuster film Pulp Fiction; what’s less known would be that the music was originally a significant hit to get a slim, elegant pianist from NY, who …

Mezzo-soprano Risë Stevens was perhaps one of the most prominent American opera superstars during World Battle II and for pretty much two decades soon after. She was of Norwegian descent; her primary name was Risë Steenberg. She demonstrated early promise being a vocalist and studied using a instructor called Orry …

Johnny Desmond’s ultra-smooth vocals received him the nickname of “The Creamer.” He appreciated achievement in Detroit through the 1930s before developing a foursome referred to as the Downbeats, which became a member of Bob Crosby’s music group, the Bob-O-Links. Desmond became a member of Gene Krupa’s music group as a …

Leonel Azevedo had prominence being a author of classics disputed by among the better interpreters of the Golden Age group of Brazilian music. Since his early youth, Azevedo showed curiosity for music, and a lady cousin presented him towards the piano. At 16 he examined the first quality of theory, …

b. 17 November 1911, Pasadena, California, USA, d. 13 August 1982, Malibu, California, USA. A recognized choreographer and movie director for a few of the traditional film musicals from your 40s to 60s; his function is usually well-known, but his name isn’t so familiar. Walters analyzed at the University or …

The Maddox Brothers (Cliff, Cal, Fred, Don, and “friendly Henry, the working girl’s friend”) and their sister Rose called themselves “America’s Most Colorful Hillbilly Music group.” They weren’t kidding. It wasn’t only a matter of hillbilly couture — though making use of their coordinating Turk fits and spangles the family …