Author: mick
Cosmos M31
A team of amateur astronomers led by Marcel Drechsler, Xavier Strottner and Yann Sainty made a surprising discovery to win the overall prize in the 2023 Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition. “Andromeda, Unexpected” shows a huge plasma arc next to the Andromeda Galaxy, the closest large spiral galaxy to our Milky Way. The Andromeda…
Earl May
Earl Charles Barrington May (September 17, 1927 – January 4, 2008) was an American jazz bassist. He was “one of the most prodigious and prolific bassists of the postwar era”. May was born in New York City on September 17, 1927. As a child, he played the drums, and changed to the acoustic bass at…
Lalgudi Jayaaraman
Lalgudi Gopala Jayaraman (17 September 1930 – 22 April 2013) was an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer. He is commonly grouped with M.S. Gopalakrishnan and T.N.Krishnan as part of the violin-trinity of Carnatic Music. He was awarded Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2001. His disciples included his two children Lalgudi G. J….
Jack McDuff
Eugene McDuff (September 17, 1926 – January 23, 2001), known professionally as “Brother” Jack McDuffor “Captain” Jack McDuff, was an American jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who was most prominent during the hard bop and soul jazz era of the 1960s, often performing with an organ trio. He is also credited with giving guitarist…
Hank Williams
Hiram “Hank” Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953 Butler County, AL) was an American singer-songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most significant and influential American singers and songwriters of the 20th century. Williams recorded 55 singles that reached the top 10 of the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart, five…
Cosmos M20
The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) is an H II region in the north-west of Sagittarius in a star-forming region in the Milky Way’s Scutum-Centaurus Arm. It was discovered by Charles Messier on June 5, 1764. Its name means ‘three-lobe’. The object is an unusual combination of an…
Leopoldo F. Fleming
Leopoldo F. Fleming (born September 16, 1939 in Puerta de Tierra, Puerto Rico) is an American jazz musician (percussion, composition, arrangement). Live and act Fleming, who came from a family of musicians, grew up first in Puerto Rico, from 1947 on Saint Thomas and from 1951 in New York City. He played congas as a…
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