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Maker and engineer Henry Lewy remains to be inextricably from the vocalist/songwriter renaissance from the past due ’60s and early ’70s, helming vintage folk-rock LPs for performers including Joni Mitchell, Neil Adolescent, and Crosby, Stills & Nash. Created in Magdeburg, Germany, in 1926, Lewy immigrated to the U.S. at age …

The given name of Daddy Stovepipe was Johnny Watson; among additional aliases he worked well under during his extended life had been “Jimmy Watson” as well as the “Rev. Alfred Pitts.” Given birth to in Mobile phone, Alabama in 1867, Daddy Stovepipe may have already been the earliest-born blues performer …

Conductor Alberto Erede was popular for his opera shows in Europe as well as the United Sates, especially through the 1930s before 1960s. He started his musical research for the piano and cello. He researched composition in the Milan Conservatory before making a decision to spend his energies to performing. …

“Music Makin’ Mama” Ann Rabson played a significant role in assisting to regenerate acoustic blues in the post-Stevie Ray Vaughan era, both being a single artist and with Saffire — the Uppity Blues Females, the group she co-founded in 1988. Although she’s most widely known being a boogie-woogie pianist, Rabson …

Best known while a member from the rap/reggae/pop group 311, vocalist and guitarist Nick Hexum can be a laid-back jazz- and soul-influenced single artist who also performs along with his sibling, guitarist Zack Hexum, in the Nick Hexum Quintet. Given birth to in Wisconsin in 1970, Hexum was raised in …

Ronald Stein was never a significant name in the fraternity of soundtrack composers in the way of Bernard Herrmann or Alfred Newman; certainly, Stein spent the majority of his profession writing ratings for films whose entire costs were scarcely bigger than the amount of money allocated simply for music of …

Among the youngest from the so-called Teen Lions, Ryan Kisor initial gained interest when he won the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz’s initial trumpet competition in 1990 in age 17. He previously earlier examined trumpet along with his dad, played with an area music group when he was ten, and …

Grammy-nominated, Pennsylvania-based singer/songwriter Jonathan Sprout dabbled in mainstream modern folk and rock music before moving his focus to children’s music. Equipped with a mindset level from Bucknell University or college, Sprout eventually exchanged in the pubs and skiing resorts of his early twenties for primary college classrooms, where he started …

b. Douglas Brian Riley, 12 Apr 1945, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, d. 27 August 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Riley performed piano from early youth, then examined in Toronto on the Royal Conservatory of Music with the town’s school. Among his passions was the music from the First Countries, notably that of …

West Coastline jazz arranger and composer Russ Garcia was created Apr 12, 1916, in Oakland, CA. Something of SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA State University or college, he later analyzed structure under Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco before mounting a specialist profession as an arranger, collaborating with bandleaders Horace Heidt and Al Donahue. After …