Author: mick

Avalon Theater Tuesday February 5th 630pm 2019 Prior to HOBT Community Meeting

Dark nebulae like Barnard 344 look much more interesting when silhouetted against such colorful clouds, the effect of the filters this imager used and the colors he assigned to them. B344 resides in the constellation Cygnus the Swan near the star Sadr (Gamma Cygni). (5.2-inch Thomas M. Back TMB-130 refractor, Apogee U8300 CCD camera, Hydrogen-alpha/Oxygen-III/Sulfur-II…

Al Kooper (born Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, February 5, 1944) is an American songwriter, record producer and musician, known for organizing Blood, Sweat & Tears (although he did not stay with the group long enough to share its popularity), providing studio support for Bob Dylan when he went electric in 1965, and bringing together guitarists Mike…

Vincent Peter Colaiuta (born February 5, 1956) is an American drummer who has worked as a session musician in many genres. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 1996, and the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2014.Of Italian descent, Colaiuta was given his first drum kit when he was seven….

Big Bill Bissonnette (February 5, 1937 – June 26, 2018) was an American jazz trombonist, drummer, and record producer. He was a strong advocate of New Orleans jazz as played by veteran African-American musicians. In the 1960s, he led his own group, the Easy Riders Jazz Band, formed his own label, Jazz Crusade, and organized…