Tag Archives: 1956 in Los Angeles

Emigrating along with his family members at age 13, Jean Schwartz was raised in NEW YORK where he discovered to try out the piano and finally found himself employment demonstrating music within a department shop to aid in the peddling of sheet music. His first proper inroad to Tin Skillet …

Drummer and percussionist Alex Cline continues to be active in Western Coastline jazz and songs scenes because the past due ’70s. Cline and his twin sibling, guitarist Nels Cline, had been born and elevated in LA, where they started making music collectively at a reasonably young age. Maybe among their …

Up to the mid-2000s, guitarist Nels Cline was probably most widely known for his function in the group Quartet Music (with sibling Alex Cline, bassist Eric Von Essen, and violinist Jeff Gauthier) and also other tasks in the jazz, rock and roll, and avant-garde idioms, as well as for his …

The Six Teens’ name produced from the common age of the six members divided by six; Ed Wells was the oldest at 17, and Trudy Williams the youngest at 12. Like the majority of teenage sets of that period, they were influenced by Frankie Lymon & the Teens. Originally the …

One of the brothers who also all abandoned the surname Gumm and only the classier sounding Von Tilzer, Albert followed carefully — and creatively — in his older sibling Harry’s footsteps. After employed in Chicago in a music posting establishment that was a local store for the company of Shapiro, …

b. 18 January 1896, USA, d. 3 Feb 1965, LA, California, USA. Kassel shaped his initial dance music group in 1924 for an appearance in the Midway Landscapes in Chicago, Illinois, USA. His full-scale orchestra included, at numerous times, sidemen Jack port Davis, Ponzi Crunz, Ralph Morris, D. Johnson, Floyd …

Artwork Tatum was being among the most extraordinary of most jazz music artists, a pianist with wondrous technique who cannot just play ridiculously quick lines with both of your hands (his 1933 single edition of “Tiger Rag” noises as if there have been 3 pianists jamming collectively) but was harmonically …

Born in LA in 1956, guitarist Raoul Björkenheim moved backwards and forwards between Finland as well as the U.S. for 25 years. After graduating from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass., Björkenheim transferred to Helsinki, Finland and integrated his curiosity about ethnic and digital musics into his use …

b. Elsie Bierbower, 16 March 1889, Columbus, Ohio, USA, d. 26 Feb 1956, LA, California, USA. In NY Janis is at When We Had been Forty-One (1905), The Vanderbilt Glass (1906), The Hoyden (1907), The Good Co-Ed (1908), THE GIRL FROM THE Slipper (1912) and Miss Info (1915). The second …

The Coasters were mostly of the artists in rock history to successfully straddle the series between music and comedy. Their undeniably funny lyrics and on-stage antics may have suggested a straightforward troupe of clowns, but Coasters information were no simple novelties — their materials, given by the renowned group of …