Chubby Checker (born Ernest Evans; October 3, 1941) is an American singer and dancer. He is widely known for popularizing many dance styles, including the Twist dance style, with his 1960 hit cover of Hank Ballard & The Midnighters‘ R&B song “The Twist“, and the pony dance style with the 1961 cover of the song…
Earle Lavon “Von” Freeman Sr. (October 3, 1923 – August 11, 2012) was an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist. Born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents George Freeman and Earle née Granberry Freeman, he was exposed as a young child to jazz. His father, George, a city policeman, was a close friend of Louis Armstrong…
Stephen Ray Vaughan (also known as SRV; October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990) was an American musician, best known as the guitarist and frontman of the blues rock trio Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble. Although his mainstream career spanned only seven years, he is regarded as one of the most influential musicians in…
Rhythm Roots Workshop @ St Therese Senior Communities October 2nd, 2023 fourth in a series of nine Monday workshops. Teaching a Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency at two locations; St Therese New Hope and Oxbow Lake Senior Living (https://www.sainttherese.org/) on Mondays 10am & 1pm September 11th thru November 6th 2023. Celebrating world rhythms and cultures for…
There are two different types of nebulae brought to you in this Picture of the Week. Each appears with a distinct colour in the visible sky and are captured here using the wide-field camera OmegaCAM on the VLT Survey Telescope (VST), hosted at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in the Chilean desert. The large, bright emission nebula…
1966 Kenny Rittenhouse received a Bachelor’s Degree in music from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1988 and a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of Maryland in 2006. He also did graduate work on trumpet and in jazz at the Eastman School of Music, and at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA where…
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner CBE (born 2 October 1951), known as Sting, is an English musician and actor. He was the frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police from 1977 until their breakup in 1986. He launched a solo career in 1985 and has included elements of rock, jazz, reggae, classical, new-age,…
Howard Mancel Roberts (October 2, 1929 – June 28, 1992) was an American jazz guitarist, educator, and session musician. Roberts was born in Phoenix, Arizona to Damon and Vesta Roberts, and began playing guitar at the age of 8 – a Gibson manufactured $18 Kalamazoo student model acoustic given to him by his parents at…
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