M100 is appropriately known as a grand design spiral galaxy. The large galaxy of over 100 billion stars has well-defined spiral arms, similar to our own Milky Way. One of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100, also known as NGC 4321 is 56 million light-years distant toward the well-groomed constellation Coma…
May 2nd 1941 Kingston, Jamaica. Percussionist, conga drummer, singer and music historian. Devon worked with Bob Marley touring in the late 70’s and recorded on Bob Marleys Confrontation album. Now living in Rogers, MN. Devon currently lectures and tours throughout the USA.
May 2nd 1977 People come to websites, reading bios, trying to figure out who someone else is. Said website owner makes a bio, tries to put impressive things there, drop names, list accomplishments. Then perhaps judgements are formed, opinons made and such by you, the reader. Well, I don’t like those bios really…it has never…
Richard Arnold “Groove” Holmes (May 2, 1931 – June 29, 1991) was an American jazz organist who performed in the hard bop and soul jazz genre. He is best known for his 1965 recording of “Misty“. Holmes’s first album, on Pacific Jazz with guest Ben Webster, was recorded in March 1961. He recorded many albums…
Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency Ecumen Lakeview Commons in Maplewood Wednesday May 1st, 2024 The third in a series of teaching nine sessions of Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency at Ecumen Lakeview Commons Assisted Living and Memory Care in Maplewood on Wednesdays April 17th thru June 12th 2024 1-230pm. Celebrating world cultures through drumming and chanting. https://www.ecumenlakeviewcommons.org/
This colorful cosmic portrait really features glowing gas and obscuring dust clouds in IC 1795, a star forming region in the northern constellation Cassiopeia. The nebula’s colors were created by adopting the Hubble color palette for mapping narrowband emissions from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur atoms to blue, green and red colors, and further blending the…
Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 Seattle, WA) is an American singer-songwriter and musician with a career spanning seven decades. An Academy Award-nominated documentary director and a Grammy Award-winning recording artist, she is known for her eclectic tastes in the material she records (which has included folk music, country, show tunes, pop music, rock…
Shirley Valerie Horn (May 1, 1934 – October 20, 2005) was an American jazz singer and pianist. She collaborated with many jazz musicians including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Toots Thielemans, Ron Carter, Carmen McRae, Wynton Marsalis and others. She was most noted for her ability to accompany herself with nearly incomparable independence and ability on…
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