Tag Archives: 1950s – 2000s

With an unmistakable blues wail, filled with emotion and poignancy, altoist Hank Crawford bridges the gap between that tradition which of jazz more completely than every other living horn player. Delivered in Memphis, Crawford was steeped within the blues custom from an early on age. He started playing piano but …

Though he doesn’t have the same attention as other rock and roll & move pioneers, Hardrock Gunter was among the first country boogie artists to start out shifting the music into full-fledged rockabilly. A indigenous of Birmingham, AL, he was created Sidney Louis Gunter Jr. in 1925, and gained his …

A pianist having a brooding, rhythmic, introverted design, Mal Waldron’s taking part in is definitely flexible enough to match into both hard bop and freer configurations. Affected by Thelonious Monk’s usage of space, Waldron has already established his own unique chord voicings almost right away. In early stages, Waldron performed …

Gloria Lynne recorded many albums for Everest in her start, slipped away into obscurity, and within the 1990s enjoyed a resurgence. An excellent vocalist whose design falls between bop, 1950s middle-of-the-road pop, and early spirit, Lynne was generally capable of gaining a colorful present. Her mom was a gospel vocalist …

Acclaimed by peers and critics among the best possible baritone saxophonists from the bebop era, Cecil Payne continues to be best kept in mind for his three-year stint with Dizzy Gillespie’s seminal postwar big strap. Created in Brooklyn, NY, on Dec 14, 1922, Payne started playing saxophone at age group …

Maintaining a pastime in jazz (officially thought to be treason with the Nazi Get together) and keeping away from trouble symbolized strictly minor-league intrigues through the Further World War. non-etheless, it seems to become consistently worthy of noting that artist was mostly of the jazzmen of German or Austrian nationality …

b. 24 Sept 1936, Frenchburg, Kentucky, USA. Mullins became a nation fiddle participant and it had been like a performer of gospel music and gospel-tinged bluegrass that he became most widely known. He caused various bands, like the Stanley Brothers and was using the Young boys From Indiana from around …

Created in 1935, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya rose to prominence after taking part in within the Municipality Music group and, especially, the authorities Music group with the mid-’60s. His 1972 recording Negus of Ethiopian Sax (reissued within the Ethiopiques series) helped set up Mekurya like a perfect proponent of …

Once the history of the U.K. recording graphs is created, there will never be many performers who were able to best the graphs with their 1st three recording releases. Although a far more common event recently, within the initial 50 years there have been just nine serves who attained this …

Bassist and arranger Richard Evans has contributed agreements and played bass on many Chicago periods, notably by guitarist Phil Upchurch. He also released several instrumental pop albums.