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Billy Wayne, an writer of rock biographies and a musician in his own best, reassembled great musicians from your psychedelic era in his own Ant-Bee project. Offering contributions from your Moms of Invention, the Alice Cooper Group, and Captain Beefheart, Ant-Bee offers recorded many albums of materials that gather the …

b. 8 Oct 1898, Tbilisi, Georgia, Russia, d. 4 Dec 1987, LA, California, USA. A recognized stage and film movie director whose name is specially connected with two masterpieces from the American musical theatre – Porgy And Bess and Oklahoma! – and a renowned Hollywood movie, Appreciate Me Tonight. Mamoulian …

b. 8 Might 1925, Lachute, Louisiana, USA, d. 23 November 1987, LA, California, USA. Another of Lightnin’ Hopkins’ protégés, Kilometers got a fitful documenting career. His preliminary motivation was John Lee ‘Sonny Boy’ Williamson, although he had not been thinking about the harmonica. He shifted to Houston, Tx, in 1952, …

Victor Feldman was a kid prodigy who was simply a specialist from age seven and sat in on drums with Glenn Miller’s Military Air Force Music group in 1944 when he was 10. He was energetic in his indigenous Britain through the bebop years (mainly on drums), debuting like a …

A fine golf swing clarinetist, an altoist whose sound was influenced by Johnny Hodges, an excellent soprano saxophonist, and a spirited blues vocalist, Woody Herman’s greatest significance to jazz was mainly because the first choice of an extended type of big rings. He always urged young skill and, a lot …

Rock outfit Nitro boasted “the fastest, loudest, highest sound around” — frontman Jim Gillette’s key state to fame was his capability to achieve a scream so high-pitched and piercing it literally shattered the brought in crystal wines goblets he carried on-stage for every performance. Gillette initial fulfilled guitarist Michael Angelo …

b. Margaret Valliquietto, 22 January 1913, LA, California, USA, d. 16 June 1987, LA, California, USA. In 1932 Knight was on Broadway in Florenz Ziegfeld’s Hot-Cha! (offering Eleanor Powell), and HAVE A Opportunity. This display, which ran in the Apollo Theater for 243 shows, experienced music by Nacio Plant Dark …

Los Angeles’ Deliverance is a Christian (or white) steel band, rather than to become confused using their a lot more sinful U.K. namesakes. Founded in the past due ’80s by vocalist, guitarist, and de facto primary man Jimmy Dark brown II, the group provides featured over twelve short-term music artists …

Dancer, acting professional, and vocalist Fred Astaire worked steadily in a variety of entertainment press during nine years from the 20th hundred years. One of the most celebrated dancer in the annals of film, with performances in 31 film musicals between 1933 and 1968 (and a particular Academy Award in …

Raised in LA as the youngest person in a music-filled household, indie folk singer/songwriter Robert Francis benefited from a diverse musical climate because of his pianist/producer pops, his songwriting sister Juliette Commagere, and his Mexican mother, who sang native ranchera songs throughout the house. Family members friend and acclaimed stringmaster …