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Although underrated, Roseanna Vitro’s versatility, sense of swing, and highly appealing voice made her probably one of the most consistently interesting jazz singers from the 1990s and 2000s. She began her profession in Houston within the middle-’70s (originally performing blues and rock and roll) where she experienced a two-year engagement …

A fantastic bop-based guitarist, Tag Elf has generated a stir along with his personal small-group recordings. He went to Berklee (1969-1971), found experience using a who’s who of contemporary mainstream jazz (including Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Benny Golson, Al Gray, Branford Marsalis, and Slide Hampton), and …

Acting professional Robert Downey Jr. was created on Apr 4, 1965, in NEW YORK to underground filmmaker Robert Downey and Elsie Ford. Downey, Jr. 1st acted at age five like a pup in his father’s film Pound and would continue to do something in five of his father’s features. He …

A good singer who’s better at interpreting lyrics, provides soulful feeling to each tune, and improvises with subtlety, Lorez Alexandria was a favorite attraction for many years. She sang gospel music with her family members at churches beginning within the middle-’40s and proved helpful in Chicago nightclubs in the 1950s. …

The voice of jazz vocalist Phillip Manuel is referred to as smooth, soothing, sophisticated, and soulful. It really is all that and much more. The elegant design of Phillip Manuel ties in well using the locations where listeners have a tendency to discover him: classy resorts and night clubs in …

Among the great golf swing pianists, Jess Stacy is well known for his single on “Sing, Sing, Sing,” a single which was cut in the studio saving, but was finally captured on saving in Benny Goodman’s historic 1938 Carnegie Hall Concert and released for the very first time in 1950. …

Although she have been in jazz for a couple years, Angela DeNiro’s “break” came when she met her husband-to-be, Ron Aprea. Aprea, currently a veteran of such big rings as Woody Herman, Les Elgart, Tito Puente and Frank Foster, was executing using the Skitch Henderson Orchestra when he got a …

Drummer Joe Farnsworth offers earned the admiration of both his contemporaries and jazz veterans for his gleaming cymbal function and effervescent feeling of your time. Farnsworth was among five sons of trumpeter, music group movie director, and Stan Kenton lover Roger Farnsworth. He and his brothers had been all subjected …

Among the best up-and-coming jazz performers from the 1990s, the Montreal-based Jeri Dark brown originated from a music family members (her grandfather played sax and her uncle was a trumpeter). After we were young in St. Louis and graduating university, she toured European countries performing light opera and spirituals before …

Velma Middleton spent the majority of her profession as Louis Armstrong’s singer. She was originally a dancer and, although obese, she often do splits on stage including through the Armstrong years. Middleton experienced the average but fairly satisfying and good-humored tone of voice. After freelancing — including going to SOUTH …