Tag Archives: 1950s – 1970s

Once referred to as “the P.T. Barnum of Nation Music,” Carlton Haney performed an important function in the popularization of bluegrass and nation through the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Elevated in the NEW YORK Piedmont, he generally prevented music until 1953, when he started dating Costs Monroe’s 16 year-old little …

Jazz trombonist Frank Rosolino matched the idiom’s giants in fluidity, technique, and creativity. He was a comic vocalist, but there is nothing at all funny about his solos. These were soft and dazzling, shipped easily and precision. Created in Detroit, Rosolino started like a guitarist at 10 and trombone later …

Led by velvety-voiced lead singer Stan Ziska, who later on transformed his name to Stan Sommers, the del Satins created a number of the sweetest harmonies from the doo wop era. Furthermore to recording some amazing singles — including “I’ll Pray for you personally,” “I RECALL the night time,” and …

When Don Butterfield puts straight down his tuba to tremble hands with an admirer, he understands he is conference someone who loves to browse the liner notes and credits about jazz albums. In any other case, nobody has heard about him. These people, a species occasionally referred to as “men …

For an extremely brief amount of time in 1964, it seemed that the largest challenger towards the Beatles’ trend was the Dave Clark Five. Through the Tottenham part of London, the quintet had the lot of money to knock “I wish to Hold Your Hands” off the very best of …

Folksinger and labor activist Joe Glazer was created in NEW YORK in 1918. As a kid he frequently sang in synagogues, and motivated by Hollywood’s performing cowboys he bought a electric guitar through the Sears Roebuck catalog, acquiring his 1st lesson through the Functions Progress Administration system. Though his Polish-born …

Experimental composer Basil Kirchin was created in the uk in 1927. He produced his professional debut in Dec 1941 at London’s Paramount, playing drums in his dad Ivor’s jazz music group, and continued to be a fixture of the group through the entire remainder of Globe Battle II, playing 14 …

Guitarist Jimmy Rogers was the last living link with the groundbreaking initial Chicago music group of Muddy Waters (informally dubbed “the Headhunters” because of their penchant of dropping by various other music artists’ gigs and “reducing their minds” with an excellent on-stage functionality). Rather than basking in world-wide veneration, he …

Jenning’s sound continues to be in comparison to Tiny Grimes using a hint of early Charlie Christian. A peer of Billy Butler, Jennings used Louis Jordan in the past due ’40s and early ’50s. He also documented R&B edges with Leo Parker and Costs Doggett.

Bobby Timmons became thus well-known for the gospel and funky blues clichés in his solos and compositions that his abilities like a Bud Powell-inspired bebop participant have been lengthy forgotten. After rising in the Philadelphia jazz picture, Timmons caused Kenny Dorham (1956), Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, as well as the …