Tag Archives: 1960s – 2000s

Borge Fredriksson was an underexposed tenor saxophonist who was simply dynamic in Sweden in the ’50s and ’60s. Although his complicated, abstract design of post-bop didn’t provide him much industrial achievement during his life time, Fredriksson’s music stayed uncovered by Scandinavian jazz players lengthy after his loss of life. Fredriksson …

Awarded musician, actor, playwright, and dancer, Antônio Nóbrega has already established worldwide acclaim as an erudite creator deeply bent more than Brazilian folklore root base. He started his music research in the Escola de Belas Artes de Recife. In the past due ’60s he was an associate from the Orquestra …

Uruguayan folk singer/songwriter Conábor started learning music at age 6. After he graduated from Montevideo’s Shubert Conservatory, where in fact the artist learned how exactly to play electric guitar, piano, and accordion, Yábor got mixed up in local picture and was captivated by traditional music. In 1968, the folklorist participated …

North soul perennial Cody Dark was created in Cincinnati in 1939 — based on the profile at www.soulfuldetroit.com, he was raised just blocks in the headquarters of Ruler Information, and by his teenagers was a reliable existence in the label’s offices. In early 1956 Dark joined the neighborhood R&B group …

Salsa and Afro-Cuban rhythms were fused using the music customs of Senegal by Magay Niang and his sibling Prosper. Developing a music group, Xalam, called after a Senegalese lute, in 1969, both brothers centered on the funk and jazz-influenced aspect of their repertoire. Relocating to Paris in 1973, the group …

Percussionist Bob Houston, who have performed and recorded with contemporary jazz bandleader Stan Kenton, isn’t the same Bob Houston who have sang with big rings in the ’40s. In 1976 the percussionist released an instructive tome using the self-explanatory name of The usage of Percussion Musical instruments in the Functions …

Gothóni can be an authentic music polymath who’s active being a concert and single pianist noted for his profound and private interpretations, so that as a Lied accompanist, composer, conductor, instructor, and writer (he published a provocative assortment of essays entitled The Creative Minute). His early formal musical education was …

b. 4 July 1943, Leixlip, State Kildare, Eire. Before taking on music in 1966, vocalist Giltrap have been an enthusiastic soccer and Gaelic footballer. He began singing with an area group, the Rye Folk, before signing up for top documenting folk music group the Broadsiders. Then left them to become …