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This drummer began gigging professionally in the first ’40s, and may be thought to have provided rhythm to get a veritable Mt. Rushmore of jazz legends. Along with bassist Wendell Marshall, Butch Ballard developed among Duke Ellington’s greatest tempo section formations. The drummer, frequently acknowledged as George Ballard, offered an …

Balin started performing in Ohio pubs and schools, and has recorded gospel albums.

Canadian contemporary composer and performer Gayle Youthful is well known not just on her behalf compositions, also for her musical invention (the amaranth), on her behalf use of uncommon tunings, so that as the editor of Musicworks magazine. She’s created audio sculptures and music because the past due ’70s and, …

b. Edythe Payne, c.1890, Topeka, Kansas, USA, d. 1950. She initial performed piano as a little kid and before she reached her teenagers was associated a minstrel group in Spokane, Idaho, where her family members had transferred. She wedded in her past due teens and finally formed a family group …

Jim Staley occupies a distinctive placement among trombonists, crossing styles freely between post-modern classical music and avant-garde jazz. He offers spectacular technique, like the capability to spit forth clusters of records at rapid rate. Usually focusing in the mid-to-lower registers from the trombone, his big, gruff shade hearkens to a …

Guinga began his music studies like a self-taught violonista in 13. Later, he’d deepen his apprenticeship of traditional violão. At 16, he started to create his personal compositions and in 1967, he offered one of these at II FIC (Rede Globo, Rio). In 1973, MPB-4 documented two of his tunes …

Veteran singer/harmonica participant/guitarist Tom Ball is usually best-known for his longtime collaboration with Kenny Sultan, who’s also a guitarist. When Ball and Sultan are carrying out together like a blues-oriented acoustic duo — frequently without bass or drums — Ball’s main role is definitely that of a vocalist who takes …

The Brooklyn All-Stars are an internationally recognized man gospel group who’ve been performing since 1950. More than their long, successful careers, they possess won numerous honours and racked up two silver albums. Original associates are the group’s creator, Thomas J. Spann, Hardy Clifton, and Sam Thomas. They documented several slashes …

Brian McNeill was mixed up in Edinburgh folk picture in the ’70s when he shaped the Battlefield Music group with Alan Reid. Although he originally specific in the fiddle and continues to be a fiddle participant, he’s also a multi-instrumentalist of amazing breadth and a songwriter. His single functions, both …

The frontman for the folk group Tranquillity Bottom, Ian Thomas, still left that music group in 1971 to work for the Canadian Broadcasting Business being a producer. He released his initial single being a single work in 1973, “Coated Girls,” which obtained international reputation. His albums consist of Ian Thomas …