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Jacques-Martin Hotteterre was an associate of an extended and recognized dynasty of Burgundian instrument-makers and performers, many generations which performed in the King’s courtroom. He was referred to as “Le Romain,” probably because, unlike others of his instant family, he previously went to Rome. He was mainly a training musician …

Microtonal composer Ivan Wyschnegradsky was a pioneer in quarter-tone music. He examined music under Nicolas Sokolov and ended studying laws around once he started composing. Although his initial compositions were created in the standard chromatic program, within 3 years he followed the quarter-tone program and was notating 1/12-shades in 1919. …

Historically, modern pop singers never have been the just musicians struggling to maintain their worldwide celebrity position after achieving it with an individual hit. Take for instance Tekla Badarzewska, who became well-known after she released her salon piece La prière d’une vierge (The Maiden’s Prayer), originally known as Modlitwa dziewicy. …

When Eric Gallo died in 1998, in age ninety-four, he previously spent six years mainly because the dean of South Africa’s saving industry. A enthusiast of music, Gallo was in charge of South Africa’s best record brands, including GRC, RPM, Trek, Unika, Meteor, Trutone and Teal. Gallo, who constructed the …

Harriet Elizabeth Real wood, better known professionally as Hally Real wood, was created in Washington, D.C., in 1922, the girl of the U.S. Military doctor whose postings got the family members around the united states, finally getting them in San Antonio, TX, where he retired (and passed away soon after …

If Frank “Franny” Beecher’s lifestyle had followed the profession arc that he’d expected in 1954, he’d oftimes be remembered today by a comparatively small coterie of Philadelphia music enthusiasts for his jazz using, rather than discussed except when he resulted in within a discography. Rather, he’s at night age group …

b. 18 March 1886, NEW YORK, NY, USA, d. 29 Sept 1970, Encino, California, USA. On stage from 1908, Horton made an appearance in Gilbert And Sullivan operas and was on Broadway within a helping function in Elevating A Hubby (1912); four years later he came back to superstar in …

Through the ’60s and ’70s, this pianist and vocalist’s far-flung touring activities in the Preservation Hall Jazz Band alongside her husband, trumpeter De De Pierce, produced her perhaps one of the most widely heard performers in the annals of New Orleans jazz. An study of her family members background also …

Florida vocalist Tommy Tate is a regular, if unspectacular, Southern spirit wailer. He debuted on Rise in 1964, and continuing documenting for Okeh, Verve, and Big Ten before becoming a member of the Nightingales at Stax in 1970. He came back to the single scene a year or two later, …

Among the true experts from the bop vocabulary, Phil Woods had his own audio from the mid-’50s and stuck to his music guns within a remarkably productive profession. There was by no means any doubt that he was among the best alto saxophonists in jazz, and he dropped neither his …