Wilson Pickett (March 18, 1941 – January 19, 2006 Prattville, AL) was an American singer and songwriter. A major figure in the development of soul music, Pickett recorded over 50 songs which made the US R&Bcharts, many of which crossed over to the Billboard Hot 100. Among his best-known hits are “In the Midnight Hour”…
Andy Narell (born March 18, 1954 NY,NY) is an American jazz steel pannist, composer and producer. Narell took up the steelpan at a young age in Queens, New York. His father, who was a social worker, had started a program of steelpan playing for at-risk youth at the Jewish philanthropic Education Alliance in Lower East…
William Richard Frisell (born March 18, 1951) is an American jazz guitarist. He first came to prominence at ECM Records in the 1980s, as both a session player and a leader. He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a participant in the Downtown Scene in New York City, where he…
NGC 7714, has been stretched and distorted by a recent collision with a neighboring galaxy. This smaller neighbor, NGC 7715, situated off to the left of the frame, is thought to have charged right through NGC 7714. Observations indicate that the golden ring pictured is composed of millions of older Sun-like stars that are likely…
Jessica Jennifer Williams (March 17, 1948 – March 10, 2022 Baltimore, MD) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Williams was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 17, 1948. She started playing the piano at age four, began music lessons with a private teacher at five, and at age seven was enrolled into the Peabody…
Paul Horn (March 17, 1930 – June 29, 2014) was an American flautist, saxophonist, composer and producer. He became a pioneer of world and new age music with his 1969 album Inside. He received five Grammy nominations between 1965 and 1999, including three nominations in 1965. Horn was born on March 17, 1930, in New…
Nathaniel Adams Coles (March 17, 1919 – February 15, 1965 Montgomery, AL), known professionally by his stage name Nat King Cole, was an American singer, jazz pianist, and actor. Cole’s career as a jazz and pop vocalist started in the late 1930s and spanned almost three decades where he found success and recorded over 100…
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