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Donald Fagen was among the two masterminds at the rear of Steely Dan, the seminal jazz-pop music group from the ’70s. Fagen’s single function is a continuation from the band’s function of the first ’80s — thoroughly constructed and organized, intricately comprehensive pop songs which are bigger than their stylish …

Eddie Safranski was most widely known for his gig because the bass anchor of the very most popular of Stan Kenton’s big rings (1945-1948). Who owns a solid, very clear, precisely articulated shade along with a sure order of the golf swing and bop idioms, Safranski was also fortunate to …

Besides Dark Flag’s Greg Ginn, the Meats Puppets’ Curt Kirkwood was among the best guitarists to emerge from the ’80s U.S. punk rock and roll movement. However in truth, Kirkwood’s playing and composing have little regarding punk (besides getting filled with punk’s energy and unpredictability) — he’s generally listed such …

Curly Ray Cline was one of the better fiddlers in bluegrass, gaining acclaim mainly because an associate of two famous bands, the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers and Ralph Stanley’s Clinch Hill Males. He also documented many instrumental albums offering his virtuoso fiddling and novelty vocals. Cline was created within an isolated …

b. Michael Alexander Byrne, 10 January 1943, Liverpool, Britain. Byrne, an apprentice tailor, spent his lunchtimes on the Cavern membership in Liverpool. He sang and performed bass in his first group, Mike AS WELL AS THE Thunderbirds, and worked with many 60s Liverpool rings like the Roadrunners. Probably the most …

A restless and incredibly unstable post-bop and avant-garde drummer, Jimmy Weinstein does not have any issue embracing airy, even lilting post-bop melodies about a minute and dissonant “outdoors” improvisation another. A few of his tunes have been fairly left of middle, while others have already been quite melodic, congenial and …

Guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Jimmy Vivino provides enjoyed a high-visibility gig lately within the Potential Weinberg Seven on TV’s NIGHT TIME with Conan O’Brien. Vivino started his musical education on trumpet, a musical instrument his dad Jerome also performed; his first musical recollections are of his dad rotating Louis Armstrong …

Joe Farrell’s CTI albums of 1970-1976, which combined jointly his hard bop design with some pop and fusion components, produced him briefly well-liked by listeners unfamiliar with his previous work. Farrell started playing clarinet when he was 11 and, after graduating from the School of Illinois in 1959, he transferred …

b. John Bernard McCauley, 10 January 1900, NY, USA, d. 13 June 1980, Menlo Recreation area, California, USA. As a kid actor McCauley made an appearance within the silent movies Hearts Of Guys (1915) as well as the Valley Of Dread (1916). On Broadway in the first 30s he was …

A Nigerian-born rocker heavily influenced by Jimi Hendrix and Fela Kuti, Keziah Jones gained reputation in Britain and France with singles like “Tempo Is Like” and “Beautiful Emile.” Jones was delivered to a boarding college in London when he was eight, and he began busking within the London Underground when …