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b. Granville Mortlock Edwards, 3 Feb 1921, St. Anne’s Parish, Brownstone, Jamaica, d. 7 August 2004, Manchester, Britain. Edwards’ dad was a bandmaster so that as a son he performed trumpet under his tutelage. A lip damage prompted a big change to reed tools and he ultimately settled using the …

Among the busiest studio and session music artists active, having appeared on numerous jazz and pop recordings. A clean, fluid audio and the flexibility to play in virtually any establishing possess led George Bohannon to focus on dealing with others, but he’s produced several albums like a innovator also. His …

The music from the world converged through the productions and remixes of Algeria-born, San Francisco-based DJ Cheb i Sabbah. The manufacturer/promoter of a global music series, 1002 Evenings, Sabbah provided a different cast of music artists, which range from Pakistani qawwali vocalist Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to London-based bhangra designer …

At the top of his career, the Rev. Julius Cheeks was the definitive hard gospel vocalist, famed to get a gritty, effective baritone which inspired not only another era of gospel performers but also secular superstars including James Dark brown and Wilson Pickett. Delivered into abject poverty on August 7, …

Arguably one of the most exciting saxophone soloist in jazz history, Kirk was a post-modernist just before that term also existed. Kirk performed the continuum of jazz custom as a musical instrument unto itself; he sensed small compunction about blending and matching components in the music’s background, and his concoctions …

British isles film music composer Roy Budd was created in London in March 14, 1947; a kid prodigy, he trained himself to try out piano by hearing, afterwards understanding the Wurlitzer body organ as well. Producing his London Coliseum debut at age six, by 12 Budd was frequently appearing on …

As the storyplot goes, Ron Holden got his break right into the music business when, after becoming arrested on charges of cannabis and alcohol possession, a officer in the train station heard him singing and told Holden to contact him after he premiered. That officer was Larry Nelson, who was …

This Dallas native and Austin fixture was co-lead guitarist in the Cobras with Stevie Vaughan, before joining Angela Strehli (cutting two solo LPs during his stint using the songstress), adding to Big Guitars from Texas, and recording with Lou Ann Barton. Even more first and out-on-a-limb than most textbook-blues players, …

Wade Curtiss may possibly not be the first rock and roll & move hero on everybody’s lip area as it pertains time for you to granting lip program towards the music’s early pioneers. But he personified the D.We.Y. spirit from the music much better than most who emerged in his …

A timid, introspective, persona is balanced with a sharp love of life, small-town knowledge and love of traditional folk and jazz simply by Radio Hall of Popularity member Garrison Keillor. The sponsor of the favorite live radio display A Prairie House Companion, Keillor is certainly heard every week on a …