Tag Archives: Jayne County & the Electric Chairs

Based on who you speak to, the irrepressible Jools Holland is most beneficial referred to as a blisteringly energetic, piano-pounding performer of boogie-woogie, jazz, and R&B; or because the keyboard-wizard sideman to 1 of the fantastic new influx pop bands from the ’70s and ’80s; or among the U.K.’s most …

Primarily making his name being a prominent scenester through the heady days of the early-’70s NY punk club scene, Wayne County afterwards gained additional renown simply because rock’s first prominent transsexual performer, billing herself simply because Jayne County following her go back to the U.S. from Berlin in 1980. Delivered …

Regarded as by many to become the best possible jazz trombonist ever, J.J. Johnson somehow moved the improvements of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie to his even more awkward instrument, using such velocity and deceptive simplicity that at once some listeners assumed he was playing valve (instead of slip) trombone. …