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David Hallyday was seemingly predestined for any profession in music; his parents had been French rock story Johnny Hallyday and pop chanteuse Sylvie Vartan, France’s “it” few through the swinging ’60s. Hallyday was created David Smet (his father’s actual name) on August 14, 1966, in Boulogne-Billancourt. From age four, he …

Although renowned among the world’s great practical jokers (he once called a few dozen bass players with an alleged gig and asked them showing up making use of their instruments in a occupied street corner simply therefore he could view the resulting chaos), Joe Venuti’s true importance to jazz is …

Following the demise of his previous band, Snug, British songwriter Ed Harcourt released a short-lived career being a chef while continuing to create his own songs. A enthusiast of Tom Waits and Jeff Buckley, he quickly empty the kitchen and only a single songwriting career, one which discovered him progressing …

Levant wore many hats — most famously being a concert pianist from 1932 until 1958 — within a bizarre profession that began being a Broadway musician within the mid-1920s, segued to Hollywood in 1929, and ended in self-deprecating, chain-smoking eccentricity in radio and Television. The kid of Ukrainian-Jewish blue-collar parents, …

Famed for his lush, sweeping results for motion pictures including Braveheart, Apollo 13, and Titanic, the prolific composer Wayne Horner was created in LA on August 14, 1953. Educated at London’s Royal University of Music in addition to local colleges USC and UCLA, he got his first film assignments through …

By 1957 Erick Friedman was thought to be perhaps one of the most promising and talented youthful American violinists, the musician who might just become the following Heifetz. Rather, he became students of Heifetz and place his burgeoning profession on keep for 3 years. While he appreciated great achievement in …

An underground tale in Chicago, Don Bennett hasn’t gotten the reputation he deserves like a pianist along with a skill scout. He began piano lessons when he was four and was area of the Chicago jazz picture by the past due ’50s, influenced by Ahmad Jamal, whom he utilized to …

Graham Central Train station was a display for the brand new pop-and-slap bass acoustic guitar of Larry Graham, an alumnus of Sly & the Family members Stone largely in charge of originating the percussive groove which typified the progressive funk audio from the ’70s. Given birth to August 14, 1946 …

b. Jacob Landers, 14 August 1938, Lawrence State, Alabama, USA. Landers is normally well reputed in bluegrass music not merely being a performer but additionally being a songwriter. He discovered guitar and through the 60s, alongside Herschel Sizemore and Rual Yarbrough, he performed for quite some time as an associate …

When the bass participant may be the foundation of an ensemble, jazz grasp Chester Zardis was created for the work, both in stature and viewpoint. He was a brief, stocky man, who was simply nicknamed “Small Carry” by bandleader Fat Pichon if they performed music within the 1930s around the …