Tag Archives: 1940s – 1990s

Known for his perfect and tasteful taking part in, Tommy Flanagan received lengthy overdue acknowledgement for his skills within the 1980s. He performed clarinet when he was six and turned to piano five years later on. Flanagan was a significant area of the fertile Detroit jazz picture (apart from 1951-1953 …

Most famous simply because a normal performer and assistant conductor over the Lawrence Welk Show, Myron Floren was also among polka’s best accordion players. Floren was created of Norwegian parentage on November 5, 1919, in Roslyn, SD; even though some resources list close by Webster rather, Floren’s family in fact …

Pianist and composer Aldemaro Romero is widely cited because the innovator at the rear of his local Venezuela’s onda nueva (we.e., “brand-new influx”), which up to date the original joropo design via rhythms motivated by bossa nova. Delivered in Valencia on March 12, 1928, Romero started his musical schooling under …

Noted for his rich, resonant strengthen and metronomic precision, Al McKibbon was among the leading bassists of the first bebop era, assisting giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk furthermore to collaborating with percussionist Chano Pozo to forge the appear of Afro-Cuban jazz. Given birth to January 1, …

b. 26 March 1916, Johannesburg, South Africa. Qualified as a traditional pianist, Rabinowitz was informed at Athlone SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL and Witwatersrand University or college and produced his first radio broadcast in 1933. After services using the South African Military, he studied structure and performing, and relocated to London in …

Although singer Anne Shelton issued many recordings throughout her career, she actually is best-known for generously touring Military, Navy, and Air flow Force bases. Given birth to in Dulwich, London, Britain, on November 10, 1923, Shelton started singing at age 13, and by 15 experienced her own documenting contract like …

Exhibiting truly amazing longevity which was commensurate along with his powerful, imposing physical build, Sunnyland Slim’s status like a beloved Chicago piano patriarch endured lengthy after the majority of his peers experienced perished. For a lot more than 50 years, the towering Slim experienced rumbled the ivories round the Windy …

Before Milt Jackson, there have been just two major vibraphonists: Lionel Hampton and Crimson Norvo. Jackson shortly surpassed both of these in significance and, regardless of the rise of various other players (including Bobby Hutcherson and Gary Burton), still earned the reputation polls through the entire years. Jackson (or “Luggage” …

It often seemed strange that Remo Palmieri, who gained some interest in the first times of bop, under no circumstances became a larger name, particularly since he was dynamic for such an extended time frame. Palmieri originally hoped to become an musician and he performed guitar with regional groups to …

On the height of his career, Norman Granz was one of the most powerful nonmusicians in jazz. He generally fought for the music he thought in (getting a like for freewheeling jam periods), for his performers (whom he accurately regarded as among the best on earth), and against racism, forcing …