Tag Archives: 1940s – 1990s

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

In 1948, the Reverend Milton Brunson organized a mass gospel choir at Chicago’s McKinley SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL; dubbed the Thompson Community Performers, the group — affectionately referred to as “the Tommies” — would emerge as the country’s oldest existing community choir, celebrating their fantastic anniversary using the discharge of 1998’s …

b. Charles Coleridge Richards, 19 Oct 1912, Brooklyn, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 12 March 1998, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After playing traditional piano as a kid, Richards was relocated to carefully turn to jazz after hearing Fat Waller. He performed around the town of his delivery for quite some …

Marvin “Doc” Holladay, was created January 30, 1929 in the Southeastern KS rural farming community of Chanute and raised there, near Kansas City and its own legendary early period jazz picture. He learned to try out clarinet in the 4th grade beneath the stewardship of Al Dark brown, and got …

Putte Wickman was created on Sept 10, 1924, in the Swedish city of Falun. He discovered the clarinet, and by enough time he still left college he was prepared for a specialist profession in Sweden. When he began, bebop was simply becoming the trend, and he modified very easily. He …

b. Anna Myrtle Swoyer, 10 Might 1922, Philadelphia, Pa, USA, d. 25 March 1992, Studio room City, LA, California, USA. Little in stature but with a robust stage existence and singing tone of voice, Walker made a significant tag on Broadway levels, and in addition impressed in the couple of …

Respected for his singing aswell as his performing, Luis Aguilar, aka el Gallo Giro, transpired in history among the great stars from the Golden Age group of Mexican Cinema. Aguilar wasn’t as prolific a documenting artist as a few of his followers would have loved; the majority of his performing …

Lucy Reed was an attractive but small known jazz vocalist who performed around Chicago in the ’50s. The cool-toned Reed, who valued cool school performers like Chris Connor and June Christy, resided in different elements of the Midwest — she was created in Marshfield, WI in 1924, visited senior high …

The contemporary blues boom resuscitated the career of several a veteran blues artist who was simply silent for a long time. Consider guitarist Peppermint Harris, who in 1951 topped the R&B graphs with his traditional booze ode “I ACQUIRED Loaded.” No one expected a fresh Peppermint Harris Compact disc in …

The patriarch of 1 of music’s most successful families, Roebuck “Pops” Staples caused everyone from Robert Johnson to Curtis Mayfield. Roebuck Staples was created Dec 28, 1914, in Winona, Mississippi; a good friend of Charley Patton, he performed not merely with Johnson but also with such legends as Kid Home …