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b. Wayne Richard Skidmore, 8 Feb 1916, London, Britain, d. 22 Apr 1998, Welwyn, Hertfordshire, Britain. After teaching himself to try out tenor saxophone when he was 20, Skidmore used Harry Parry, George Shearing as well as others, getting especially mixed up in years rigtht after World Battle II. He …

Jeremy Jackman offers carried on 3 distinctly different functions in his colorful music profession, those of countertenor, choral conductor, and composer/arranger. He sang for ten years as countertenor using the King’s Performers vocal ensemble. From 1990 he spent some time working mostly like a choral conductor for such organizations as …

Ethel Smyth struggled the expectations enforced by culture to pursue her dreams and ambitions. She regarded as herself a significant composer and was named such by Brahms, Grieg, Clara Schumann, and Tchaikovsky. A author of chamber, orchestral, vocal functions, and operas, Smyth’s function is eclectic however you like, apparently never …

Author of the favorite Symphonie espagnole for violin and orchestra, a function which captivates the listener using its melodic attraction and great interest, Lalo was a significant author of orchestral and chamber music at the same time when French music artists were dominated by an impulse to compose for the …

b. 22 Apr 1913, Kinston, NEW YORK, USA, d. 2 Might 1971, Albany, NY, USA. Moore started playing electric guitar about 1930, and in 1934 gained a talent competition arranged by J.B. Long. It’s been speculated that Moore documented as Boll Weenie Costs for ARC, but this today seems improbable. …

The drummer Buzzy Drootin — whose nickname created out of a combined mix of a loose snare drum tuning and energetic personal vibrations — was actually born in the Ukraine. He was whisked off to Boston at age five; three out of four brothers with this family members became music …

b. Duckworth Bruce Andrew Donald, 18 August 1951, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, d. 22 Apr 1984, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. A talented musician who trained himself to try out acoustic guitar, mandolin, dulcimer, harmonica and Jew’s Harp but to never go through music. He also published tunes and poetry and discovered himself …

b. Earl Kenneth Hines, 28 Dec 1903, Dusquesne, Pa, USA, d. 22 Apr 1983, Oakland, California, USA. A superb musician and a significant body in the progression of jazz piano playing, Hines started his professional profession in 1918. By that point he had currently performed cornet in brass rings in …

Despite a prolific documenting job as both a leader so that as a sideman, alto saxophonist Arnie Lawrence produced his most long lasting contributions to jazz as an educator, founding the jazz plan at NY City’s New College University and afterwards starting the Jerusalem-based International Center for Creative Music, an …

The brother of the fantastic Nat “Ruler” Cole, Ike Cole was a respected jazz pianist and composer. Delivered on July 13, 1927, in Chicago, IL, Ike started his musical profession by playing the bass drum within an Military music group, and by 1957, got shaped the Ike Cole Trio in …