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Singer/songwriter Fishing rod MacDonald was a big area of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Community night clubs. After graduating from Columbia Laws School and signing up for the personnel of Newsweek, MacDonald elected to become folksinger in the 1970s. Via the Fast Folk Music Cooperative, MacDonald among others like …

Both an excellent vocalist and good bassist, Leroy Sibbles initially gained fame because the lead singer for the Heptones. The trio started at Caltone, after that became stars if they relocated to Studio room One in 1966. These were achieved at both rocksteady and reggae, and Sibbles’ wondrously soulful prospects …

While his gravelly baritone and omnipresent fedora, dark glasses, and Groucho Marx mustache produced him one of the most distinct and recognizable characters in popular music, little is well known concerning the neo-vaudeville crooner Leon Redbone. Throughout his profession, he steadfastly refused to divulge any information regarding his history or …

Blessed in 1949, NY City-based acoustic pianist Denman Maroney noticed the innovators of bop, but was more attracted to 20th hundred years composers, creative improvisers, and normal urban and rural noises. His formal music research after senior high school took place in the Bennington University in Vermont (1969-1971), Williams University …

A poetic lyricism is wedded to hard-edged arrangements by Long Island-born, Paris-based singer/songwriter Elliott Murphy. Although non-e of his music have reached the very best 40, Murphy’s impact is reflected with the music of Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, and Speaking Minds. Guests on Murphy’s albums possess included …

Songwriter Eddie Schwartz played acoustic guitar for Charity Brown’s support band within the mid-’70s and signed with Infinity Information for a single agreement in 1979. Though his single albums of the first ’80s (including Schwartz, No Refuge and General public Existence) weren’t effective, he accomplished second-hand popularity when Pat Benatar …

The Firehouse Five As well as Two began as an amateur Dixieland band mostly made up of cartoon animators through the Disney Studios. Their spontaneous periods (led by trombonist Ward Kimball) had been so successful which they began recording once and for all Period Jazz in 1949 and quickly became …

A jazz saxophonist using a bent toward progressive jazz, avant-garde music and spirit, Larry Stabbins was created in Bristol, Britain, in 1949. He started playing saxophone at age group 11 and by his teenagers had already started executing in a variety of R&B-influenced rings including dealing with pianist Keith Tippett …

The story from the Dukes of Dixieland is, actually, a chapter within the broader saga of 1 of New Orleans’ many music dynasties, that of the Assunto family, that may boast a minimum of three generations of music artists to its credit. Jac Assunto was among the 1st jazzmen to …

British baritone Paul Hillier is among the leading figures, both being a singer and conductor, in the first music movement and today makes his residential in america, where he shows increasing fascination with new music. Being a youngster he was a chorister at St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. This placement …