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A figure in jazz history, Paul Mertz performed with many magical titles in the 1920s. Mertz started playing expertly in 1918 as an adolescent, operating locally. He toured using the Dorsey Brothers’ Crazy Canaries in 1922, performed and organized for Jean Goldkette’s numerous orchestra from 1923-27, published for Crimson Nichols, …

Along with wife Gwen McCrae, Miami, Florida-based artist George McCrae was a prime mover about the first disco front along with his personal R&B chart-topper “Rock and roll YOUR CHILD” in 1974. Created in 1944 in Western Palm Seaside, he created his personal vocal group in the first ’60s, which …

Occasionally called “the Woody Allen” of France, Agnes Jaoui is most beneficial known on her behalf acting (in El Atmosphere de Famille, Le Rôle de Sa Vie) aswell for her composing and directing (her debut being a movie director, The Flavor of Others, or Le Moveût des Autres, was nominated …

b. Charles Coleridge Richards, 19 Oct 1912, Brooklyn, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 12 March 1998, NEW YORK, NY, USA. After playing traditional piano as a kid, Richards was relocated to carefully turn to jazz after hearing Fat Waller. He performed around the town of his delivery for quite some …

Pop singer Noel Harrison is well known best in music circles for credit scoring popular in 1969 with “Windmills of YOUR BRAIN,” a tune compiled by Michel Legrand. The haunting one had received a lift when it had been highlighted prominently in the Steve McQueen film The Thomas Crown Affair …

Masabumi “Poo” Kikuchi was a Japan jazz pianist of legendary stature using a huge discography that ran the gamut from straight-up post-bop and vanguard classical to fusion recordings, single synthesizer schedules, as well as digital dub. He toured and documented with performers as different as Sonny Rollins, Lionel Hampton, Terumasa …

Ideal remembered for his 1976 nation radio hit “Honky Tonk Ladies Love Redneck Guys,” singer/guitarist Jerry Jaye was created Gerald Hatley in Manila, AK, on Oct 19, 1937; after a small number of indie recordings, he surfaced on Hello there Information in 1967 using the rockabilly-influenced My Female Josephine, achieving …

b. Ollie Marie Givens, 19 Oct 1925, Linden, Tx, USA. Known affectionately as ‘Television Mama’ (the main one using the big, wide display) by her co-workers in the Johnny Otis music group, vocalist Marie Adams started her recording profession in Houston, Tx, for the neighborhood Peacock label in 1952, followed …

Given birth to in 1940 in Englewood, NJ, John Bergamo utilized a range of unusual devices, African and Asian rhythms, and textures that will be the staple of contemporary percussionists. His function dropped into both globe and new groups, and his single percussion launch on CMP offers something for each …

Move queen and cult-movie superstar Divine, given birth to Harris Glenn Milstead, attained immortality using the outrageously raunchy cult common Green Flamingos, but can forever be appreciated in homosexual discos for the string of campy and fun dance strikes. In 1979, Divine released the “Blessed to become Cheap” one on …