Stanley William Turrentine (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000 Pittsburg. PA) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer. He began his career playing R&B for Earl Bostic and later soul jazzrecording for the Blue Note label from 1960, touching on jazz fusion during a stint on CTI in the 1970s.He was described…
The Passing of Bassist Nabil Totah… Nabil Marshall Totah, 5 April 1930-August 15th 2012, Ramallah, Jordan. As a child, ‘Nobby’ Totah played violin and piano. Relocating to the USA in 1944, he studied political science before deciding on a career in music. Taking up the bass in 1953, just as he engaged in military service,…
Billy Bland (April 5, 1932 – March 22, 2017) was an American R&B singer and songwriter. Bland, the youngest of 19 children, first sang professionally in 1947 in New York City, and sang with a group called The Bees in the 1950s on New Orleans‘s Imperial Records. In 1954, “Toy Bell” by the group caused…
Entrada: when the dancer comes on stage Llamada: from the verb “llamar,” to call. The dancer calls to the other people on stage that something is about to happen, for example a new verse or section of footwork Desplante: a “display,” a short section of footwork Letras: dance that traditionally accompanies passages of singing. Chord…
“In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.” John Lilly
In dark evening skies over June Lake, northern hemisphere, planet Earth, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks stood just above the western horizon on March 30. Its twisted turbulent ion tail and diffuse greenish coma are captured in this two degree wide telescopic field of view along with bright yellowish star Hamal also known as Alpha Arietis. Now Pons-Brooks…
Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 – August 18, 2004 NY, NY) was an American composer and conductor. In a career that spanned over five decades, he composed “some of the most recognizable and memorable themes in Hollywood history”, including over 150 original film scores, as well as scores for nearly 80 television productions. For his…
Hugh Ramapolo Masekela (4 April 1939 – 23 January 2018) was a South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, singer and composer who was described as “the father of South African jazz“. Masekela was known for his jazz compositions and for writing well-known anti-apartheid songs such as “Soweto Blues” and “Bring Him Back Home“. He also had…
McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913 – April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues singer and musician who was an important figure in the post-World War II blues scene, and is often cited as the “father of modern Chicago blues“. His style of playing has been described as “raining down Delta beatitude”….
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