Tag Archives: 1950s – 1990s

Sal Nistico’s explosive tenor solos with Woody Herman within the middle-’60s helped help to make that release of Herman’s Herd right into a success. Originally an altoist, Nistico turned to tenor in 1956 and used R&B rings for 3 years. He gigged with and produced his documenting debut in 1959-1960 …

Author of bossa nova classics like “Lobo Bobo” and “Saudade Fez Um Samba” (with Carlos Lyra), Ronaldo Bôscoli was a prominent body of that motion, serving seeing that an articulator and manufacturer aswell. His function was also documented by João Gilberto on his Compact disc, Chega de Saudade (1959), including …

A talented pianist who made a direct effect at a age group, Ronnel Bright has already established compositions recorded by Sarah Vaughan, Cal Tjader, Horace Sterling silver and Blue Mitchell, and collaborated with lyricist Johnny Mercer. He gained a piano competition at nine and used The Chicago Youngsters Piano Symphony …

You can find few Italian film composers who is able to boast the prolificacy of Peiro Piccioni. Because the early ’50s Piccioni is a really innovative author of music for film and it has been justly set alongside the wants of Ennio Morricone and Bruno Nicola. In the 1950s he …

b. 26 Sept 1927, Carpena, Forlì, Italy, d. 3 Feb 2006, Rome, Italy. The 3rd and youngest boy from the fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, who was simply performed by partisans by the end of Globe Battle II, he performed piano under a pseudonym (Romano Total) in his early years. By …

Among the many talented Detroit pianists from the 1950s (although among the lesser-known players), the Bud Powell-inspired Hugh Lawson initial gained reputation for his use Yusef Lateef through the past due ’50s. He documented with Harry “Sweets” Edison (1962), Roy Brooks, and Lateef on many events in the 1960s. In …

With her expressive vocals, Lola Beltrán brought ranchera or mariachi music from your barrios of Mexico towards the international stage. Through the four years that she was energetic, Beltrán recorded a lot more than 70 music with many attaining gold record position. Her strikes included such traditional music as “Huapango …

b. Mary Ann Ward, 4 July 1935, Birmingham, Alabama, USA, d. 19 Dec 1999, Madison, Tennessee, USA. Ward discovered to try out piano as a kid (afterwards adding electric guitar) and after primarily starting nursing schooling, made a decision to pursue a performing career. She initial sang with her sister, …

An extremely respected instructor, theorist, and writer, Jerry Coker’s early profession was spent taking part in in such big rings as Woody Herman’s. He interrupted his research at Indiana University or college to become listed on Herman in past due 1953, after that toured with him before summertime of 1954. …

Jerome Richardson was always a talented jazz improviser appearing out of the bop custom, displaying personality on each of his reeds. But because he spent the majority of his profession as a studio room musician, he frequently maintained a minimal profile within the jazz globe. Richardson began on alto when …