Author: mick

Cosmos IC 63

Gamma Cassiopeiae shines high in northern autumn evening skies. It’s the brightest spiky star in this telescopic field of view toward the constellation Cassiopeia. Gamma Cas shares the ethereal-looking scene with ghostly interstellar clouds of gas and dust, IC 59 (top left) and IC 63. About 600 light-years distant, the clouds aren’t actually ghosts. They…

Richard Bona

Richard Bona

Richard Bona (born 28 October 1967) is a Cameroon-born American multi-instrumentalist and singer. Bona Penda Nya Yuma Elolo was born in Minta, Cameroon, into a family of musicians, which enabled him to start learning music from a young age. His grandfather was a griot – a West African singer of praise and storyteller – and…

Bob Andy

Bob Andy

Keith Anderson CD (28 October 1944 – 27 March 2020), better known by the stage name Bob Andy, was a Jamaican reggae vocalist and songwriter. He was widely regarded as one of reggae’s most influential songwriters. Anderson was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in October 1944, where his mother worked at Up-Park Camp.At the age of…

Glen Moore

Glen Moore

Glen Moore (born October 28, 1941) is an American jazz bassist, who occasionally performs on piano, flute and violin. Moore was born in Portland, Oregon, United States. His performing career began at age 14 with the Young Oregonians in Portland, where he met and played with Native American saxophonist, Jim Pepper. He graduated with a…

Cosmos 2P/Encke & IC 410

History’s second known periodic comet is Comet Encke (2P/Encke). As it swings through the inner Solar System, Encke’s orbit takes it from an aphelion, its greatest distance from the Sun, inside the orbit of Jupiter to a perihelion just inside the orbit of Mercury. Returning to its perihelion every 3.3 years, Encke has the shortest…

Carlo De Rosa

Carlo De Rosa

American jazz bassist, born 27 October 1970. Since moving to New York City in 1993, Carlo De Rosa has had the opportunity to work with many great artists in the Latin and Jazz World. work with a wide variety of artists such as Ray Barretto, Ravi Coltrane, William Cepeda, Vijay Iyer, Bruce Barth, Ed Thigpen.

George Wallington

George Wallington

George Wallington (October 27, 1924 – February 15, 1993) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Wallington was born Giacinto Figlia (some sources give “Giorgio”) in Sicily, and then moved to the United States (New York) with his family in 1925. His father sang opera and introduced his son to classical music, but Wallington listened…

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