Tag Archives: November 21

David Porter is certainly most well-known as the songwriting partner of Isaac Hayes through the 1960s. Working as home composers for Stax, they penned the majority of Sam & Dave’s strikes, including such classics simply because “Spirit Man” and “HANG ON! I’m Arriving”; in addition they wrote materials for other …

b. Vivian Stapleton, 21 November 1921, Newark, NJ, USA, d. 9 Dec 1995, NEW YORK, NY, USA. A vivacious celebrity and vocalist, Vivian Blaine developed among the American musical theater’s best-loved heroes, Miss Adelaide, in Frank Loesser’s Men And Dolls. She made an appearance on stage at her regional theater, …

Best known seeing that the touring keyboardist for the Who because the later ’70s, John “Rabbit” Bundrick in addition has issued countless single releases, furthermore to session function for other performers. Delivered on November 21, 1948, in Houston, TX, Bundrick originated from an extremely musical family members (his mother performed …

Geoff Keezer was only 17 when he became the final pianist in Artwork Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (1988-1990), an ideal gig for the talented hard bop musician who suit right along with the custom of Horace Sterling silver, Bobby Timmons, Cedar Walton, Adam Williams, and Benny Green. Since Blakey’s loss of …

Coleman Hawkins was the initial important tenor saxophonist and he remains to be one of the biggest ever. A consistently contemporary improviser whose understanding of chords and harmonies was encyclopedic, Hawkins acquired a 40-calendar year best (1925-1965) where he could keep his very own with any competition. Coleman Hawkins began …

Björk first found prominence among the business lead vocalists from the avant pop Icelandic sextet the Sugarcubes, however when she launched a single career following the group’s 1992 demise, she quickly eclipsed her outdated band’s popularity. Rather than pursuing in the Sugarcubes’ arty electric guitar rock and roll pretensions, Björk …

Never achieving the same glistening degree of popularity that fellow NY sax blasters Sam “THE PERSON” Taylor and Ruler Curtis enjoyed, Big John Greer however blew strong and sang very long on a good group of waxings for RCA Victor and its own Groove subsidiary from 1949 to 1955. Greer …

U.K. composer and sound developer Simon Fisher Turner could very well be most widely known for his film ratings of independent movies, including several Derek Jarman’s and his Oscar-nominated rating for Anna Campion’s Packed. In his youngsters, he was a kid television acting professional who documented a pop LP plus …

A solid golf swing drummer, Alvin Burroughs was considered a very important sideman through the big music group era. He was raised in Pittsburgh and during 1928-29 was an associate of Walter Page’s Blue Devils in Kansas Town. He also caused Alphonse Trent before settling in Chicago. At organizations that …

Having a sound that recalls Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combined with the cynicism of grunge and punk, no one could believe wry singer/songwriter Willy Mason was only 19 when he appeared around the indie scene. Given birth to and elevated on Martha’s Vineyard, Mason was raised along with his …