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Among the best drummers from the 1920s, Ruler was greatly popular for 15 years before alcoholism slowed up his profession. He transferred to NY in 1920 and produced many recordings using the California Ramblers (1922-1926). Ruler played and documented using the who’s-who of white big-band dance/jazz music including Roger Wolfe …

b. 19 November 1955, USA. The eclectic imagination of Cain’s music owes something to his blended background. Component Greek, component African-American, he was imbued using a love from the blues by his dad who was raised on Beale St. in Memphis. Hence inspired, Cain used your guitar at age eight. …

A longtime giant from the Western world Coast jazz landscaping, Bob Enevoldsen trailed just Bob Brookmeyer as his generation’s foremost practictioner from the valve trombone. Enevoldsen was created Sept 11, 1920, in Billings, MT. His Danish-born dad was a specialist violinist who executed the orchestra at their regional silent cinema, …

Since his death in 1976 at age 55, Géza Anda’s considerable reputation has faded somewhat from view. However in his heyday he was broadly seen as a transcendent pianist, possessed of an all natural technique that provided his performances a romantic quality, even though he was scaling the Himalayan levels …

Alto saxophonist William “Sonny” Criss was an anomaly from the jazz music artists who also came up through the bebop period. Criss relocated to LA from Memphis at age 15, with 19 performed in Howard McGhee’s music group with Charlie Parker and Teddy Edwards. As was typical for each and …

Franz Peter Schubert was one of the primary from the Romantics, as well as the composer who, a lot more than every other, brought the artwork melody (lied) to artistic maturity. During his brief but prolific profession, he created masterpieces in just about any genre, all seen as a wealthy …

b. Henry MacLeod Robertson, 19 November 1932, Elgin, Moray, Scotland, d. 17 January 1996, Wandsworth, London, Britain. Among titles Robertson found in his credits are Robertson H. McLeod, his genuine name, and, thoroughly, Harry Robinson. On tv in the past due 50s he was musical movie director from the pop …

Lyricist Bud Green was created in Austria in November 19, 1897; elevated primarily within the U.S., he have scored his first main strike in 1924 with “Alabamy Bound,” a cooperation with B.G. DeSylva and Ray Henderson. In 1928, Green started a hugely effective relationship with composer Sam Stept, inaugurated with …

While Baltsa’s tone of voice had its complex flaws, particularly a occasionally hollow middle register, she had a stage existence somewhat similar to Callas, a feeling of open fire and energy, that on her behalf admirers a lot more than made up for all those. While a von Karajan protégé, …

Dave Safeguard was a significant figure in the past due ’50s and early ’60s folk boom, principally as an associate from the Kingston Trio, as well as for a brief period because the central attraction in Dave Guard’s Whiskeyhill Performers. Safeguard, with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, was a genuine …