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Among the founding people from the Wu-Tang Clan, who have recorded a few of the most influential hip-hop from the ’90s, Ol’ Dirty Bastard was the loose cannon of the group, both on record and off. Delivering his outrageously profane, free-associative rhymes in a unique half-rapped, half-sung design, ODB found …

A seminal shape in the evolution of Western Coastline pop, singer/songwriter P.F. Sloan made up and produced a few of the most long lasting records from the 1960s. While his single efforts stay folk-rock cult classics, these were hardly advertised by longtime label Dunhill, and his following exit from the …

Neil Swainson worked for just two years in Victoria with Paul Horn. He used Woody Shaw often within the 1980s and in addition gigged with Adam Moody, George Coleman, and Zoot Sims. An associate of Moe Koffman’s quintet during 1978-1982, Swainson obtained his greatest popularity when he began dealing with …

A longtime staple from the Memphis music picture, maker Jim Dickinson helmed classes for successive generations of cult heroes spanning from Screamin’ Jay Hawkins to Big Celebrity to the Substitutes, additionally financing his keyboard skills to recordings from Ry Cooder, the Rolling Rocks, Aretha Franklin, among others. Dickinson started his …

Probably the most commercially successful female singer in British chart history, Petula Clark was created November 15, 1932 in Epsom, England. Educated to sing by her soprano mom, Clark embarked on a stage profession at age seven; shortly she was a fixture in British radio applications, and started hosting her …

b. Peter J. Welding, 15 November 1935, Philadelphia, Pa, USA, d. 17 November 1995, Alta Loma, California, USA. From the first 60s, Welding wrote for DownBeat, contributing over time hundreds of record testimonials on folk, rock and roll and blues produces, in addition to testimonials of books, concerts and membership …

Composer Saul Chaplin was dynamic from your mid-’30s with the 1960s, composing many famous pop strikes and film ratings, frequently with collaborator and influential lyricist Sammy Cahn. Given birth to in Brooklyn, NY, in 1912, Chaplin went to NYU and performed in dance rings. During the middle-’30s, Chaplin co-led a …

Jerome Richardson was always a talented jazz improviser appearing out of the bop custom, displaying personality on each of his reeds. But because he spent the majority of his profession as a studio room musician, he frequently maintained a minimal profile within the jazz globe. Richardson began on alto when …

He hardly ever received the accolades directed at famous brands Sam Cooke, Clyde McPhatter, and Adam Brown, but Small Willie John rates as you of R&B’s most influential performers. His muscular high timbre and tremendous technical and psychological range belied his early age (his initial hit emerged when he was …

Fritz Reiner was a star among conductors. Universally respected for his music-making, broadly disliked for his intense and exacting character, and survived by way of a legacy of definitive documented shows, he was generally in charge of the creative ascendancy from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and exerted significant impact on …