Author: mick
Happy National Daughters Day 2024
Happy National Daughters Day 2024 So thankful for my beautiful daughter Maya. Can’t imagine life without her!
Shadow Wilson
Rossiere “Shadow” Wilson (September 25, 1919 – July 11, 1959) was an American jazz drummer. Much of Wilson’s early work was with swing jazz orchestras. He played with Frankie Fairfax’s Campus Club Orchestra in 1936, with Lucky Millinder in 1939, and following this, with Benny Carter, Tiny Bradshaw, Lionel Hampton, Earl Hines, Count Basie, and…
Cosmos Comet C/2023 A3
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) briefly becoming easily visible to the unaided eye — although the future brightness of comets are notoriously hard to predict, and this comet may even break up in warming sunlight. What is certain is that the comet is now unexpectedly bright and is on track to pass its closest to the…
Erik Darling
Erik Darling (September 25, 1933 – August 3, 2008 Baltimore, MD) was an American singer-songwriter and a folk music artist. He was an important influence on the folk scene in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Booba Barnes
Roosevelt Melvin “Booba” Barnes (September 25, 1936 – April 2, 1996) was an American Delta blues guitar player and vocalist. One commentator noted that Barnes, R. L. Burnside, Big Jack Johnson, Paul “Wine” Jones and James “Super Chikan” Johnson were “present-day exponents of an edgier, electrified version of the raw, uncut Delta blues sound.” Born…
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September [O.S. 12 September] 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostakovich achieved early fame in the Soviet Union, but had a complex relationship with its government. His…
Sam Rivers
Samuel Carthorne Rivers (September 25, 1923 – December 26, 2011 El Reno, OK) was an American jazz musician and composer. Though most famously a tenor saxophonist, he also performed on soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, flute, harmonica, piano and viola. Active in jazz since the early 1950s, he earned wider attention during the mid-1960s spread of…
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