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Tina Turner Day

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. Turner rose to international prominence as a featured singer with Ike Turner‘s Kings of Rhythm before recording hit singles both with Ike and as a solo performer. One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, she has…

Jim Mullen Day

Jim Mullen (born 26 November 1945) is a Glasgow-born jazz guitarist with a distinctive style, like Wes Montgomery before him, picking with the thumb rather than a plectrum. Jim Mullen was guitarist with Pete Brown & Piblokto! for two albums in 1970. He then played with Brian Auger‘s Oblivion Express, appearing on the band’s first…

Bobby Sharp Day

Robert “Bobby” Sharp (born November 26, 1924 in Topeka, Kansas, † January 28, 2013 in Alameda, California ) was an American musician (piano, vocals) and songwriter, who among other things, the song Unchain My Heart wrote. Sharp spent his childhood in Lawrence (Kansas) before moving to Los Angeles, where he lived with his grandparents during…

The Cosmos with NGC 5548

NGC 5548 is a Type I Seyfert galaxy with a bright, active nucleus. This activity is caused by matter flowing onto a 65 million solar mass (M☉) supermassive black hole at the core. Morphologically, this is an unbarred lenticular galaxy with tightly-wound spiral arms, while shell and tidal tail features suggest that it has undergone…

Nat Adderley Day

Nat Adderley (November 25, 1931 – January 2, 2000) was an American jazz trumpeter. He was the younger brother of saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, whom he remained very close to in his career but under whose shadow he lived for most of his life. Adderley’s “Work Song” is a jazz standard which also became a…

Paul Desmond Day

Paul Desmond (born Paul Emil Breitenfeld, November 25, 1924 – May 30, 1977) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer, best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and for composing that group’s biggest hit, “Take Five“. He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the cool jazz…

Willie “the Lion” Smith

William Henry Joseph Bonaparte Bertholoff Smith (November 25, 1897– April 18, 1973), also known as “The Lion“, was an American jazzpianist and one of the masters of the stride style, usually grouped with James P. Johnson and Thomas “Fats” Waller as the three greatest practitioners of the genre in its golden age, from about 1920…

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