Tag Archives: 1950s – 2000s

Nigerian-born drummer Michael Babatunde Olatunji grew to worldwide fame from the past due ’50s along with his groundbreaking 1959 Capitol Information debut Drums of Interest. The record was a big success, remaining on the net for many years and standing among the first types of the American record-buying open public …

Universally hailed among the finest & most influential vocal groups in pop music history, the Flamingos defined doo wop at its most elegant and sophisticated, their matchless harmonies profoundly impacting the Motown Sound from the 1960s as well as the Philly soul of the next decade. The root base from …

The dog owner and president from the Del-Fi label, producer Bob Keane was a traveling force behind the first rise of rock & roll, starting the careers of acts including Ritchie Valens as well as the Bobby Fuller 4. After founding the Los Angeles-based Del-Fi in 1957, a season later …

Songwriter, singer, key pad participant, arranger, and maker Bob Gaudio is most closely from the 4 Months, the group that he was a executing member between 1962 and 1972, and he mainly retired from stage function while continuing to create and arrange their music and to make and perform on …

Beryl Marriott is really a folk musician who ought to be far better known, only if for the amount of well-known music artists who she’s brought in to the field and mentored, beginning with an era where — even in Britain — British folk music was considered the world of …

Bob Brookmeyer was lengthy considered among the best valve trombonists in jazz and an extremely advanced arranger whose composing was influenced by contemporary classical music. He began being a pianist in dance rings but performed valve trombone with Stan Getz (1953). He obtained fame as an associate from the Gerry …

Greatly influenced simply by Sonny Rollins, Bernt Rosengren continues to be among Sweden’s esteemed tenor saxmen because the 1950s. The big-toned, hard-blowing improviser was 19 when he began to create a name for himself in Scandinavia as an associate from the quintet Jazz Golf club 57, with 21, he was …

Rightly revered for the storming protest classic “War,” Edwin Starr didn’t actually need another hit to accomplish legendary status in soul circles, therefore electrifying was that single performance. Starr 1st produced his name as “Agent Double-O-Soul,” so when his agreement was used in Motown, he immediately became among the roughest, …

Sonny Burgess is among the wildest rockers to record for the renowned Sunlight label in Memphis. He and his music group the Pacers arrived of Newport, AR, using a hard-rocking design that, unlike that of all rockabillies, owed small to nothing in the form of a stylistic debts to nation …

It is extremely difficult to assume where contemporary Jamaican music may be without the existence of isle jazz pioneer Sonny Bradshaw. An experienced trumpeter (he also takes on piano, flügelhorn, clarinet, trombone, and saxophone), Bradshaw offers recognized himself in an extended six-decade profession (he was created in 1926) like a …