Tag Archives: 1940s – 2000s

Although he began as an extremely promising concert pianist within a grand design (a few of his most prominent concerts included concertos by Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, and Brahms), George Walker was writing substantial music from his mid-twenties. By enough time he was 40, he previously solidly set up himself being a …

Clora Bryant remains to be a sadly under-recognized music pioneer. The lone feminine trumpeter to collaborate with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, she performed a critical function in carving a location for females instrumentalists in the male-dominated globe of jazz, during the period of her decades-long profession proving herself not …

b. 24 Apr 1923, Vienna, Austria. The music posting branch of well-known music is frequently criticized by the artists the web publishers represent. This isn’t the situation for Freddy Bienstock, that has managed respect and trustworthiness for over six years in shark-infested waters. A Ray Davies, who authorized with Bienstock’s …

In the first 21st century, living links towards the immortal Robert Johnson were few. Following the passage of Robert Jr. Lockwood in 2006, David “Honeyboy” Edwards was generally thought to be the last from the Delta bluesmen who got actually performed and journeyed with Johnson himself, and with Edwards’ loss …

Given birth to Gisele Lafleche in Winnipeg, Canada, Gisele MacKenzie was known on her behalf pop/rock strikes “Hard to Get” and “Pepper-Hot Baby.” She was a normal vocalist on your own Strike Parade from 1953-57. Her musical and performing career required her from documenting studios, to r / c, to …

Hank Thompson was possibly the most popular American swing musician from the ’50s and ’60s, keeping the design alive using a top-notch music group, tremendous showmanship, and a flexibility that allowed him to expand his repertoire into intimate ballads and hardcore honky tonk quantities. Born Sept 3, 1925, in Waco, …

Alan Dale (given birth to Aldo Sigismondi) was once among America’s biggest performing superstars. His baritone was noticed on Pérez Prado’s million-selling 1955 strike, “Cherry Red and Apple Blossom White colored,” while his tune “Nice and Mild” launched the cha-cha to THE UNITED STATES. He positioned second after Frank Sinatra …

A trusted guitarist having a interesting shade, a hard-swinging design, and strong complex abilities, Al Viola have been a secured asset to every program that he made an appearance on, and there were many. Viola performed inside a jazz music group within the Military (1942-45), where he fulfilled Page Cavanaugh. …

Despite a prolific documenting job as both a leader so that as a sideman, alto saxophonist Arnie Lawrence produced his most long lasting contributions to jazz as an educator, founding the jazz plan at NY City’s New College University and afterwards starting the Jerusalem-based International Center for Creative Music, an …

Considered perhaps one of the most gorgeous voices of Rádio Nacional in its heyday, Zezé Gonzaga, known specifically for her two strikes “Canção de Dalila” (Victor Youthful/ Clímaco César) and “Óculos Escuros” (Valzinho/Orestes Barbosa), participated regularly for the radio’s excellent time, accompanied with the orchestras carried out by Radamés Gnattali, …