Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (Russian: Модест Петрович Мусоргский Modest Petrovich Musorgsky, IPA: [mɐˈdɛst pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈmusərkskʲɪj] 21 March [9 March] 1839 – 28 March 16 March] 1881) was a Russian composer, one of the group known as “The Five“. He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian…
Otis Spann (March 21, 1924 or 1930 – April 24, 1970) was an American blues musician, whom many consider to be the leading postwar Chicago blues pianist. Sources differ over Spann’s early years. Some state that he was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1930,but researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc concluded on the basis of census…
Edward James “Son” House Jr. (March 21, 1902 – October 19, 1988) was an American Delta bluessinger and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing. After years of hostility to secular music, as a preacher and for a few years also working as a church pastor, he turned to…
Across the heart of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster lies a string of galaxies known as Markarian’s Chain. Prominent in Markarian’s Chain are these two interacting galaxies, NGC 4438 (left) and NGC 4435 – also known as The Eyes. About 50 million light-years away, the two galaxies appear to be about 100,000 light-years apart in this…
Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer (born 20 March 1950) is an English drummer best known as a founding member of the supergroups Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Asia. He has toured with his own bands since 2001, including Palmer, the Carl Palmer Band, and currently, Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy. He previously was a touring drummer for…
Harold Mabern Jr. (March 20, 1936 – September 17, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields. He is described in The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings as “one of the great post-bop pianists”. Mabern was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 20, 1936. He…
Margaret Marian McPartland OBE Turner; 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011. After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945, she resided in the United States when not…
Sister Rosetta Tharpe (born Rosetta Nubin, March 20, 1915 – October 9, 1973) was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. She gained popularity in the 1930s and 1940s with her gospel recordings, characterized by a unique mixture of spiritual lyrics and electric guitar. She was the first great recording star of gospel music, and was…
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