Tag Archives: 1940s – 1990s

Lord Kitchener (given birth to Aldwyn Roberts) stocks with Mighty Sparrow the name from the world’s most widely known Calypso vocalist. He started his profession in Trinidad and gained his first Street March award for performing in 1946. In 1948, Kitch emigrated to Britain together with vocalist Lord Newbie and …

Dick Cary, best-known for his stint with Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars (1947-1948), was most crucial like a behind-the-scenes arranger and freelance musician in the trad jazz motion. He produced his documenting debut with Joe Marsala (1942), worked well like a soloist at Nick’s (1942-1943), and performed for short intervals using the …

The 1950s and 1960s were a unique time for tenors — similarly, Kraus, Gedda, and Bergonzi were faithful re-creators, over the other, there have been such individualists as Franco Corelli and Richard Tucker (1913-1975), who rejoiced within their vocal idiosyncrasies, and sang in a fashion that best displayed their vocal …

He was beloved worldwide seeing that the king from the endless boogie, an authentic blues superstar whose droning, hypnotic one-chord grooves were simultaneously both ultra-primitive and timeless. But John Lee Hooker documented in a great number of more designs than that more than a profession that extended across over fifty …

The post-war songwriter Jay Livingston earned three Academy Awards for Best Music through the 1940s and ’50s in tandem with Ray Evans. Created in Pa, Livingston studied traditional piano as a kid and while in the College or university of Pennsylvania, researched structure and orchestration. He led a dance music …

They called Atlantic Records “the home that Ruth built” through the 1950s, plus they weren’t discussing the Sultan of Swat. Ruth Brown’s regal hitmaking reign from 1949 towards the close from the ’50s helped immensely to establish the brand new York label’s predominance in the R&B field. Afterwards, the business …

Just how many blues artists continued to be in the absolute top of their video game after greater than a half-century of performing? One instantly leaps to brain: Charles Dark brown. His amazing piano abilities and laid-back vocal delivery continued to be just as mesmerizing by the end of his …

The probabilities are very good that if a country record got some distinctive guitar licks onto it, anytime from the first ’50s through the 1970s, these were played by Grady Martin. Along with Hank Garland and Chet Atkins — who, being a manufacturer, regularly utilized Martin — he was perhaps …

Eddie Duran have been lengthy identified using the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA jazz scene, support many regional and visiting celebrities along with his tasty bop and classical-inspired business lead and rhythm acoustic guitar work. He began on piano at age group seven, but turned to acoustic guitar at 12, which …

Nearly as well-known for his reluctance to try out for his excellent abilities, guitarist Tal Farlow didn’t take in the instrument until he had been 21, yet within a year was playing skillfully and in 1948 was with Marjorie Hyams’ band. While using the Crimson Norvo Trio (which originally included …