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Inside a subject dominated by men, avant-garde and electronic composer Helga Pogatschar is among relatively few women who’ve gained success like a composer and interpreter in that wide variety of designs, from songs for piano and tone of voice, music for dance performances and video/computer graphic installations, a requiem, commercial …

A singer with an incredible four-octave range, Yma Sumac was thought to have already been a descendant of Inca kings, an Incan princess which was among the Golden Virgins. Her offbeat stylings became a sensation of early-’50s pop music. While her record covers took benefit of her unusual outfits and …

Among the initial and best “overall performance performers,” Meredith Monk’s function is a number of the least contrived & most convincing for the reason that amorphously defined genre. Though mainly and perhaps mainly a musician, Monk combines audio with choreography, picture, and object, creating a skill that defies category. Her …

Before he passed on at age 64 from pneumonia, drummer Denis Charles enjoyed a diverse and nomadic career. Blessed in St. Croix, Charles started his professional musical profession at age seven playing bongos with an area band. Charles transferred to NY in 1945. Enamored deeply with Artwork Blakey’s physical design, …

John McNeil was raised in Yreka, CA. The tiny town from I-5 wasn’t specifically filled with musical understanding, however the tenacious McNeil still trained himself trumpet and discovered to learn music by himself. By his past due teens the youthful trumpeter was playing in combos throughout North California; with the …

Bay region keyboard participant Graham Connah continues to be recording because the past due 80’s, but traces his music beginnings to being truly a Santana fanatic in 1970. After going to an experimental senior high school in Baltimore, Connah captured many great jazz presentations (Mingus. Sunlight Ra, Roland Kirk and …

The Clusone Trio (also called Trio Clusone and Clusone 3) was a creative, international band of skilled music artists who combined improvisation, original compositions and old jazz chestnuts right into a music that’s kooky and/or delicate, but always winning. Cellist Ernst Reijseger, alto saxophonist and clarinetist Michael Moore, and drummer …

Most widely known for helming the Claudia Quintet and John Hollenbeck Huge Ensemble, in addition to his sideman efforts to the task of numerous various other performers, John Hollenbeck shows himself to become an intuitive and far-reaching drummer, percussionist, composer, and group head. Delivered in Binghamton, NY and a citizen …

Shaped in Massachusetts in ’09 2009 beneath the direction of Brad Wells, Roomful of Tooth can be an a cappella octet focusing on contemporary compositions that bridge classical, world music, and pop at their most virtuosic. Using a founding account of Cameron Beauchamp, Dashon Burton, Martha Cluver, Eric Dudley, Esteli …