Monday April 22nd 2024 third Class. Teaching a Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency. At Ecumen North Branch Senior Living twice a week Mondays & Thursdays 1-230pm starting Monday April 15th 2024 thru May 13th. Celebrating world cultures through drumming and chanting.
This Hubble Picture of the Week depicts the spiral galaxy ESO 422-41, which lies about 34 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba. The patchy, star-filled structure of the galaxy’s spiral arms and the glow from its dense core are laid out in intricate detail here by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. Images of…
Cándido Camero Guerra (22 April 1921 – 7 November 2020), known simply as Cándido, was a Cuban conga and bongo player. He is considered a pioneer of Afro-Cuban jazz and an innovator in conga drumming. He was responsible for the embracing of the tuneable conga drum, the first to play multiple congas developing the techniques that all players…
Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was an American jazz double bassist. A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, he has become one of the most widely-known jazz bassists of the hard bop era. He was also known for his bowed solos. Chambers recorded about a…
Charles Mingus Jr. (April 22, 1922 – January 5, 1979) was an American jazz upright bassist, composer, bandleader, pianist, and author. A major proponent of collective improvisation, he is considered to be one of the greatest jazz musicians and composers in history,[1] with a career spanning three decades and collaborations with other jazz greats such…
The Little Ghost Nebula (NGC 6369) is a relatively faint planetary nebula that lies between 2,000 and 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Ophiuchus (the Serpent-bearer). Its doughnut-shaped blue-green ring is about a light-year across, while the fainter outer regions cover about twice that distance. The nebula is expanding at roughly 24…
James Newell Osterberg (born April 21, 1947), known professionally as Iggy Pop, is an American singer, musician, songwriter, actor, and radio broadcaster. He was the vocalist and lyricist of proto-punk band The Stooges, who were formed in 1967 and have disbanded and reunited many times since. Often called the “Godfather of Punk“, he was named…
Doug MacLeod (born April 21, 1946) is an American storytelling blues musician and was the voice for the Blues Showcase of Continental Airlines.
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