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A fantastic bop-oriented flutist, Holly Hofmann began over the flute when she was five. She acquired extensive classical schooling and, in 1984, when she transferred to NORTH PARK, Hofmann started playing jazz full-time. She caused Adam Moody, Slide Hampton, and Mundell Lowe, amongst others, prior to making her documenting debut …

Suga Free’s profession got off to some slow begin despite a promising debut album, 1997’s Road Gospel. In 2000, he came back to the limelight with high-profile visitor performances on Xzibit’s Restless and Snoop Dogg’s Tha Last Food. In 2004, the rapper released his second record, THE BRAND NEW Testament, …

Rabindra Shankar Chowdery, aka Ravi Shankar, was created on Apr 7, 1920, in Varanasi, India, right into a well-off orthodox Brahmin family members. His father, TimidÆm Shankar, was utilized being a diwan (minister) with the Maharajah of Jhalawar. By age 13, Ravi Shankar was heading along on every tour of …

Portuguese experimental musician Rafael Toral 1st became known for producing guitar-based drone music, embracing components of ambient and minimalism while finding common floor with post-rock and shoegaze. Ultimately, he significantly shifted his strategy and began dealing with digital devices, including modular synthesizers, altered amplifiers, and electrode oscillators. Toral’s digital work …

After Genesis P-Orridge dissolved the seminal industrial rock and roll outfit Throbbing Gristle, he and Gristle cohort Peter Christopherson, plus Alternate TV’s Alex Fergusson, formed Psychic Television in 1981 as a way of continuing their confrontational, shock-oriented method of music and their multimedia live performances. Psychic Television draw a lot …

Kazumi Watanabe has for days gone by twenty years been among the best guitarists in fusion, a rock-oriented participant whose furious power will not cover up a creativity. Watanabe studied electric guitar at Tokyo’s Yamaha Music College and he was a documenting musician while still an adolescent. In 1979, he …

The all-star hip-hop collective/production team Ruff Ryders included CEOs Chivon, Dee, and Waah Dean, producers Swizz Beatz, DJ Shok, and PK, and gold- and platinum-selling rappers DMX, Eve, Drag On, as well as the LOX (Shawn “Sheek” Jacobs, Jayson Phillips, and David Styles). This incarnation from the Ruff Ryders crafted …

The huge and comfortable sound of Ray Brown’s bass was a welcome feature on bop-oriented sessions for over a half-century. He performed locally in his indigenous Pittsburgh in his start. Arriving in NY in 1945, on his initial day around Brown fulfilled and used Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Bud …

Within the mid-’50s, composer and pianist Martin Denny combined lounge jazz, Hawaiian music, Latin rhythms, bird calls, and then-exotic ethnic instruments like, koto, gamelans, and Burmese temple bells in to the sound referred to as exotica. Even though trend was short-lived, Denny documented several well-known instrumental albums and strike number …

The advent of Polwechsel within the middle- to past due ’90s helped coalesce an integral part of the Viennese experimental music scene (also to some degree the Western one too) around an esthetic of the post-minimalist seek out the inner information on sound. What will be known as “microsound” or …