Tag Archives: 1950s – 1990s

It was installing that Lin Halliday’s initial record like a innovator was called Delayed Publicity, for the talented tenor had been 55. Elevated in Small Rock and roll, AR, Halliday is a professional since graduating senior high school. He spent amount of time in LA, playing at classes under the …

Before he passed on at age 64 from pneumonia, drummer Denis Charles enjoyed a diverse and nomadic career. Blessed in St. Croix, Charles started his professional musical profession at age seven playing bongos with an area band. Charles transferred to NY in 1945. Enamored deeply with Artwork Blakey’s physical design, …

Guitarist/vocalist Johnny Albino was created Juan Antonio Albino in Dec 19, 1917, in Guayama, Puerto Rico. It had been throughout a stint using the U.S. Military in World Battle II that Albino begun to go after music, developing a quartet and performing U.S.O.-sponsored events for fellow servicemen. With the past …

Johnny Alf is usually a genuine genius, unfortunately he’s also highly underestimated. He launched Brazil to a fresh way of performing, playing, and composing many years prior to the term “bossa nova” was coined. Tom Jobim, Leny Andrade, Luís Eça, Carlos Lyra, and those who arrived after experienced some Alf …

b. Maude Runnels, 17 November 1934, Natchez, Mississippi, USA, d. 22 July 2002, Bray, Berkshire, Britain. Montgomery quit college to sing on tv in Atlanta, Georgia. After employed in marketing and publishing, executing in has and performing in strip joint parts and jazz night clubs, she became a recognised cabaret …

Walter Norris was an excellent pianist, a virtuoso whose improvisations could possibly be both highly complex harmonically yet often remain melodic. He’d have already been better known within the U.S. if he previously not spent therefore enough time in Germany. Norris caused Howard Williams in Arkansas (1944-1950) as an adolescent, …

Though he was certainly with the capacity of brilliantly fronting a band, remarkably versatile guitarist/harpist Louis Myers will forever be recognized first of all like a top-drawer sideman and founding person in the Aces — the band that backed harmonica wizard Little Walter on his immortal early Checker waxings. Together …

John Patton, generally known as Big John Patton, was among Blue Note’s busiest soul-jazz organists through the golden age of the Hammond B-3s. Between 1963 and 1970 Patton prepared up 11 albums’ worthy of of material being a head and sat along with a dizzying procession of competent improvisers, and …

John Gilmore’s decision to try out almost exclusively inside the world of Sunlight Ra’s Arkestra lengthy frustrated jazz observers who felt that he might have made a larger impact if he previously had a single career. Gilmore was raised in Chicago and following a stint within the Military (1948-1952), he …

b. Jeffrey Ovid Clyne, 29 January 1937, London, Britain. An admirer of Scott La Faro, Eddie Gomez, Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke, Clyne is really a versatile performer for the electrical and regular basses and was very much in demand through the entire 60s and 70s for his capability to …