Tag Archives: 1950s – 2000s

Among Britian’s better bebop trumpeters, Jimmy Deuchar played in London’s Membership Eleven within the Royal Surroundings Power, then joined the Johnny Dankworth Seven in 1950. He afterwards used Geraldo and Oscar Rabin and Ronnie Scott’s sextet in Paris in 1951. There have been recording periods with Jack port Parnell and …

A superb, mainly self-taught drummer, Jimmy Cobb is a dominant accompanist and outstanding soloist. He methods the drum package both in a melodic and percussive style, never playing excessively very long or rambling solos. He’s known for operating slightly prior to the beat, and it has anchored many good sessions …

Perhaps one of the most important statistics in 1950s and early-’60s rock and roll & move to emerge from NY, Richard Barrett continues to be badly served by background with regards to the recognition he’s due. A vocalist/songwriter turned maker, he became an important section of George Goldner’s Rama, End, …

Jimmy Amadie was a scorching jazz pianist in the 1950s. He performed for such notables as Mel Tormé and Woody Herman. His profession was apparently on the fast monitor until 1960 whenever a case of serious tendinitis place the brakes onto it. In the middle-’90s he underwent many surgeries and …

A singer/songwriter categorised as “the Perry Como of nation music,” Roy Drusky enjoyed achievement through the entire 1960s being a performer within the Nashville audio vein. Blessed June 22, 1930, in Atlanta, GA, Drusky’s mom, a cathedral organist, tried for a long time to curiosity her kid in music, but …

Brooks started being a humor article writer on Sid Caesar’s Your Displays of Shows back television’s infancy. What began as a working gag between himself and co-writer/performer Carl Reiner became the foundation for the extremely successful 2000-Year-Old Guy assortment of albums. Brooks, needless to say, has since end up being …

America’s premier get better at impressionist, Little provides captivated viewers for over 2 decades with dead-on impersonations of everybody from famous celebrities to Presidents of america. His impressions possess personality and depth, and Small is nothing at all else but exhaustive in his analysis in getting in the personality and …

Among the best Western straight-ahead jazz music artists from 1970 onward, Danish reedman Jesper Thilo offers appeared on many information with American performers furthermore to recording along with his fellow countrymen. His tenor audio is similar to Zoot Sims. Thilo, who in addition has occasionally performed alto and clarinet, initial …

While Ray Barretto’s congas have graced even more recording classes than just about any additional conguero of his period, he in addition has led some refreshingly progressive Latin jazz rings over the years. His records frequently have a more anxious, even more adventurously eclectic advantage than those of all conventional …

A longtime staple from the Memphis music picture, maker Jim Dickinson helmed classes for successive generations of cult heroes spanning from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to Big Celebrity to the Substitutes, additionally financing his keyboard skills to recordings from Ry Cooder, the Rolling Rocks, Aretha Franklin, among others. Dickinson started his …