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Main influences: Teddy Wilson, Mel Powell, Ellis Larkins, and Duke Ellington. Like a precocious 15-year-old, Gene DiNovi worked well in 1943 with bandleader Henry Jerome, who was simply in those days getting ready to convert his Hal Kemp-styled dance music group into a contemporary bop ensemble. DiNovi’s changeover from golf …

Rubén González was among the last of Cuba’s great Afro-Cuban piano players. Although he previously played and documented with the music group led by Enrique Jorrín, the originator from the cha-cha, for 25 % of a hundred years, he previously retired from music with the middle-’80s. Things begun to transformation …

Songwriter Cy Coben penned a few of the most popular and enduring nation hits from the honky tonk period, including Hank Snow’s “Nobody’s Kid” and Eddy Arnold’s “I wish to Play Home with You.” Blessed in Jersey Town, NJ, in 1918, Coben examined trumpet as a kid and gigged with …

Streetwise R&B balladeer Jaheim Hoagland comes from Fresh Brunswick, NJ, where he was raised in the 176 Memorial Parkway Homes public casing project. Misfortune strike early: his dad passed away in 1981, when he was just two years previous. From the musical family members helped him get over the tragedy …

Somewhat, the recordings and concert events of Kristina Olsen will be the consequence of her childhood in the musically fertile SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA from the 1960s, where she was subjected to blues, psychedelic rock and roll, folk, and a number of other styles. She actually is as more comfortable …

The favorite TV/radio host released several comedy recordings in the first ’60s, a lot of it predicated on his Home Party show. Following the drug-related loss of life of little girl Diane, his recordings transformed from humor to spoken phrase, generally revolving throughout the evil of medications.

Ziggy Elman (given birth to Harry Finkelman) had an impact about both big music group, golf swing, jazz, and klezmer music. His interpretation from the klezmer tune “Fralich in Golf swing,” documented in 1939 with vocalist Martha Tilton as “As well as the Angels Sing,” became a significant hit but …

Though technically not really a blues performer, Mamie Smith notched her put in place American music because the 1st black feminine singer to record a vocal blues. That record was “Crazy Blues” (documented August 10, 1920), which offered a million copies in its 1st half a year and produced record …

George Morrow will be best known to be the bassist within the Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet from 1954-56. An excellent swinging accompanist rather than main soloist, Morrow hardly ever became as well well-known. He began on violin, turned to cello when he was 13 and some years later completely turned …

Furthermore to launching a string of effective information between 1912 and 1949, Al Jolson achieved pre-eminent stardom on Broadway, hosted many radio series, and became the very first important figure from the sound-era of movies. His performing design was brash and extroverted; he billed himself as “the world’s ideal entertainer,” …