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Though it took him some time before he made a decision to dedicate himself to using jazz, T.S. Monk (Thelonious Monk, Jr.) has recently accomplished a whole lot. He began playing trumpet and piano before switching to drums when he was 13, acquiring some lessons from Potential Roach. His initial …

Gertrude Lawrence was among Great Britain’s brightest theatrical celebrities during the 1st fifty percent of the 20th hundred years. A lifelong friend and colleague of Noel Coward, Lawrence’s forte was advanced musical humor, where she exuded a energetic, charismatic stage existence that quickly overcame her shortcomings like a vocalist. She …

Drummer Allan Ganley continues to be busy over the Uk jazz scene because the early ’50s, his curiosity about syncopated, swinging music creating a 10 years earlier when he was a kid. He started playing drums at 16, became a member of the Royal Surroundings Force a couple of years …

Guitarist Offer Geissman is a respected jazz, fusion, and instrumental pop musician who all first found the public’s interest in the 1970s seeing that an associate of flügelhornist Chuck Mangione’s music group. Delivered in Berkeley, California in 1953, Geissman was raised within the San Jose region, where he became thinking …

b. 5 March 1950, Watford, Hertfordshire, Britain. Gibson started her display business career like a vocalist and dancer, carrying out in lots of of the very best nightspots in London’s Western End. These included the Chat Of THE CITY, where she headlined and was noticed by way of a BBC …

Jack Gibbons continues to be called “the Gershwin pianist in our period,” and rightfully thus. On four exceptional CDs documented for the Uk ASV label, he reconstructed and documented practically all of George Gershwin’s piano improvisations (extracted from the composer’s recordings from the 1920’s and 30’s) and agreements for piano. …

b. 16 November 1940, Pontiac, Michigan, USA. A superb dancer, vocalist, and celebrity, McKechnie was raised in Detroit and made the decision she wished to be considered a dancer after viewing the traditional 1948 English film The Crimson Sneakers. Her parents had been opposed to the concept, however when she …

Yul Brynner will forever be connected with his Oscar-winning function in The Ruler and We in 1956, a job he previously created in Broadway five years previous and which also brought him a Tony Award. He started his professional profession within a French circus, where he sailed with the air …

Stephen Sondheim was probably the most respectable composer/lyricist for the music theater in his generation. Having his initial musical created on Broadway in 1957 and his 14th in 1994, he straddled two eras. The broadly well-known musical movie theater of his early years steadily became a far more insular talent, …

Composer, librettist, and record manufacturer Claude-Michel Schönberg is half of popular songwriting group, with lyricist Alain Boublil, that’s in charge of the movie theater smash successes Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. The duo initial teamed up in 1973 to create Boublil’s initial musical, La Trend Française, where Schönberg performed the …