Tag Archives: 1930s – 1960s

Not to end up being confused with other performers with this name like the trashy alternate rock and roll bandleader, trumpeter Johnny Spencer originated from the same Cedarville, OH, family members mainly because the drummer and vocalist O’Neill Spencer. The trumpeter do some playing in jazz, doo wop, dance rings, …

Perhaps one of the most important German composers to emerge through the post-World Battle II period, Bernd Alois Zimmermann was created in the outskirts of Cologne in 1918. His schooling on the Cologne Musikhochschule was interrupted when he was drafted for armed forces service in the first days of the …

Founded in 1917 in Budapest, Hungary, the Budapest Quartet became probably the most internationally successful chamber ensemble of contemporary times. Across 50 years, and a repertory which range from Mozart to Bartók, the group brought chamber music of the composers to viewers on two continents, and additional popularized the music …

Cicero Nunes was an effective composer who also, in his best period, had popular each year. Nunes was documented by eminent performers such as for example Castro Barbosa, Carmen Miranda, Dircinha Batista, Barbosa Júnior, Patrício Teixeira, Araci de Almeida, Orlando Silva, Francisco Alves, Nelson Gonçalves, Isaurinha Garcia, Anísio Silva, Isaurinha …

Swinging jazz accordionists will always be a rarity but Erik Frank, who got popular in 1944 with “Novelty Accordion,” provides often stood in addition to the group. The accordion was an extremely popular device in Sweden through the initial half from the hundred years and Frank was mostly of the …

Through the 140 many years of its existence, the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris was the most steady and the very best orchestra in the town of Paris. Quickly before the Trend, the composer Gossec yet others founded the Ecole Royale de Chant (Royal Performing College) with fifteen …

Leon Scott was considered among the grand aged men of vintage jazz trumpet around the Chicago picture from your ’50s up through the ’70s, health issues finally forcing his lip area from an obviously beloved mouthpiece. Upon retiring, his total knowledge in years acquired handed down the half-century tag, his …

Comedian Doodles Weaver was an integral person in Spike Jones’ Town Slickers through the years subsequent World Battle II. Given birth to Winstead Sheffield Weaver in LA on, may 11, 1911, he gained the child years nickname “Doodlebug” from his mom in mention of his unusual, malleable appears. While going …

Initially thought to be a superb violinist who prolifically composed privately, Grazyna Bacewicz quit performing in middle age and had become considered as probably one of the most gifted of women composers, & most prominent of Polish composers, in the mid-twentieth century. Bacewicz was an exceedingly talented musician by any …

Pianist Cedric Haywood’s association with a number of the more hard traveling varieties of jazz may mask the flexibility he displayed throughout his profession. It is accurate that he appears connected in the sides with hard-driving tenor honkers, in fact playing in a higher school music group behind Arnett Cobb …