Tag Archives: 1950s – 2010s

One of the primary teenager idols from the later ’50s, Paul Anka moved to the adult sphere many years afterwards and became an effective performer, songwriter, music businessman, and saving artist, remaining thus well in to the new millennium. Delivered in Ottawa, Ontario, in 1941 to parents of Lebanese Christian …

Pianist Paul Bley, whose first recordings appear to be Al Haig or Bud Powell, took the designs and techniques connected with Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly and Expenses Evans to fresh degrees of creative experimentation, becoming an essential force in contemporary music by merging the best components in bop and early …

Possibly the most widely used TV and musical cartoon ever, Alvin & the Chipmunks enjoyed several periods of prosperity — you start with ’60s-era adolescent SENIORS, cresting within the ’80s, once the Boomers’ children were we were young, and riding the wave very clear into the fresh millennium. The person …

The sweet melodies of tin whistle and uilleann pipe player Paddy Moloney is a vital component of the Chieftains’ sound for pretty much four decades. His exclusive playing and imaginative compositions possess led the group towards the higher echelon of tradition-rooted Celtic music. Furthermore to his use the Chieftains, he’s …

b. 4 Apr 1928, Ranchuelo, Santa Clara, Todas las Villas Province, Cuba, d. 6 January 2016, Mohegan Lake, NY, USA. Virtuoso trumpeter Armenteros – he also performed flügelhorn, composed, organized and created – worked within the gamut of horn-led Latin ensembles and idioms: which range from normal Cuban septetos and …

Perhaps one of the most valued of most hard bop accompanists, Cedar Walton was a versatile pianist whose funky contact and cogent melodic feeling graced the recordings of several of jazz’s greatest players. He was also among the music’s even more underrated composers; although he was generally a first-rate interpreter …

Although given birth to in Perth, Australia, singer/songwriter Michael Johns pursued a music career after moving to America, where he trim his teeth as an Atlanta-based solo artist before piecing a music group together in LA. Johns dealt with vocals and songwriting responsibilities for the Increasing, who authorized with Maverick …

Stephen Sondheim was probably the most respectable composer/lyricist for the music theater in his generation. Having his initial musical created on Broadway in 1957 and his 14th in 1994, he straddled two eras. The broadly well-known musical movie theater of his early years steadily became a far more insular talent, …

Before he emerged among the foremost American filmmakers from the 20th century, Woody Allen was a standup comic. Although his tenure being a executing comedian was fairly short-lived, its importance towards the advancement of his afterwards function was pivotal; on-stage and on record, Allen honed to excellence the exclusively neurotic …

Delivered June 3, 1921, within the Bronx, NY, Henry Rock began performing the trumpet in his teenagers, motivated by jazz great Louis Armstrong. Afterwards at a armed forces camp in NJ, he performed in rings. After getting discharged in 1946, he started offering information from the back again of his …