Tag Archives: 1940s – 1950s

Alto saxophonist Rick Henderson became a disciple of bebop after his preliminary grounding in golf swing, a stylistic characteristic that could have produced him attractive to Duke Ellington once the last mentioned big-band head was struggling to convince bebop maestro Charlie Parker to become listed on his music group. It …

Small Miss Cornshucks, who’s remembered like a riveting live performer, could easily end up being labeled as one of the most influential singers ever sold; unfortunately, hers is really a legacy dropped towards the vagaries of your time, misfortune, and personal complications. (Critic Barry Mazor, composing in No Major depression …

Actress/vocalist Lisa Kirk enjoyed an extended career primarily like a nightclub entertainer, although she also created featured tasks in Broadway musicals, acted on tv shows, made some recordings, and also worked anonymously like a Hollywood “ghost vocalist,” updating the tone of voice of Rosalind Russell within the 1962 film Gypsy. …

Ross Russell was an archive shop owner (the Tempo Music Store) when he formed the Dial label in 1946 specifically to record Charlie Parker, who was simply staying in LA. Although Russell courted controversy by liberating Parker’s infamous “Enthusiast Man” program (sense during Bird’s producing convalescence in Camarillo Condition Hospital …

This Kentucky mandolinist is approximately the furthest away you can get from the idea of a “city slicker” bluegrass musician. Although he produced records which have been regarded as types of early bluegrass, like the amusing cotton-mill track “Lint Mind Stomp,” he offers spent the majority of his existence within …

b. 20 Feb 1918, Portland, Oregon, USA, d. 13 Might 1987, LA, California, USA. Learning music from age four, Moore became an achieved pianist and by enough time that he graduated from your University or college of Washington in Seattle experienced decided upon a profession in music. He used several …

Likened favorably to a lot more well-known musicians like Leadbelly and Jelly Move Morton, Vera Ward Hall was a talented Piedmont blues performer whose documented result was largely conserved via field recordings created by the Lomax pops and son group. Ten of these recordings show up on the Lomax collection …

b. 1929, Britain. A librettist and lyricist for a few of the very most effective British strike musical shows from the past due 50s, Even more became thinking about the theater while at Cambridge College or university. He was included like a performer and article writer in undergraduate revues, and …

With regards to the very best drummers, the tale of Denzil Best arrives much better than that of Pete Best, also called “I coulda been a Beatle.” Definately not languishing in obscurity, Denzil Best’s restrained but swinging playing design is constantly on the influence contemporary players such as for example …

Though small known beyond the Houston blues circuit where he made his real estate for many decades, vocalist/guitarist Lester Williams was an area phenomenon through the early ’50s whose success also resulted in an appearance at Carnegie Hall. Blessed in Groveton, Tx on June 24, 1920, he was raised infatuated …