Tag Archives: 1940s – 1990s

b. Jerome Rabinowitz, 11 Oct 1918, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 29 July 1998, NEW YORK, NY, USA. A significant movie director, choreographer and dancer, Robbins started his career using the celebrated Ballet Theater in NY, and subsequently made an appearance being a dancer on Broadway in displays such as …

The premier Uk jazz bassist from the postwar era, Jack port Fallon had a thick, rich tone that redefined the instrument for successive generations to check out. Created in London, Ontario, on Oct 13, 1915, Fallon 1st followed the violin before switching to bass at age group 20 — while …

Analyzed with Harvey Official, oboe with Joseph Marx, Ph.D. in Chemistry from Princeton, structure with Milton Babbitt, Roger Classes. Founded Experimental Music Studio room at Univ. of Illinois in past due ’50s. Slee Teacher of Structure at State University or college of NY at Buffalo. Collaborated on 1st significant pc …

b. Harvey Bates, 16 Oct 1937, Kirkland Lake, Ontario, Canada, d. 8 January 1997, Ontario, Canada. The youngest of 11 kids, Bates was raised in a family group where music performed a major component. His father performed fiddle and his mom piano at regional square dances and he started to …

The author of a lot more than 200 sambas, Zé Kéti was probably one of the most important sambistas ever. A unique shape to bridge the distance between your hill and the town, he was the only person to produce tracks with bossa nova composers like Carlos Lyra in the …

Willie Dixon’s existence and function was virtually an embodiment from the progress from the blues, from an accidental creation from the descendants of freed slaves to an established and vital component of America’s music traditions. That Dixon was among the initial professional blues songwriters to advantage in a significant, material …

Although not just a jazz singer, Herb Jeffries was the last surviving person in the 1940 Duke Ellington Orchestra and an excellent interpreter of swing tracks and ballads. He performed with Erskine Tate in the first ’30s, Earl Hines (1931-1934), and Blanche Calloway, before getting the first dark cowboy professional …

An professional, humanitarian, as well as the acknowledged “Ruler of Calypso,” Harry Belafonte ranked being among the most seminal performers from the postwar period. Perhaps one of the most effective African-American pop superstars ever sold, Belafonte’s staggering skill, visual appearance, and masterful assimilation of folk, jazz, and worldbeat rhythms allowed …

An accomplished actress and singer, with an excellent voice and design and a attractive personality, Gloria DeHaven appeared in a number of movie musicals in the ’40s and ’50s. Her parents had been the favorite stage entertainers the Carter DeHavens, and Gloria moved into display business while she was quite …

Equally in the home blowing scorching R&B or tasty jazz, Hal “Cornbread” Singer has played and recorded both more than a career spanning over fifty percent a century. Vocalist found his early knowledge being a hornman with several Southwestern territory rings, including the clothes of Ernie Areas, Lloyd Hunter, and …