The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has taken a picture of one of the strangest galaxies in the universe. The details of the Cartwheel galaxy are obscured by dust, which has made studying it difficult, but the new images from JWST peer through to reveal this weird galaxy in more detail than ever before. The…
Archie Lee Bell (born September 1, 1944) Henderson, TX is an American solo singer and former lead singer of Archie Bell & the Drells.
Gene Harris (born Eugene Haire, September 1, 1933 – January 16, 2000) Benton Harbor, MI was an American jazz pianist known for his warm sound and blues and gospelinfused style that is known as soul jazz.
Chembai Vaidyanatha Bhagavatar(born Vaidyanatha Iyer, 1 September 1896 – 16 October 1974) was an Indian Carnatic music singer from Palakkad. Known by his village name Chembai, or simply as Bhagavatar, he was born to Anantha Bhagavatar and Parvati Ammal in 1896, into a Tamil Brahmin family in Perakkool Madom (Parvati Ammal’s birth home), adjacent to…
Arthur Edward Pepper Jr.(September 1, 1925 – June 15, 1982) Gardena, CA was an American jazz musician, most known as an alto saxophonist. He occasionally performed and recorded on tenor saxophone, clarinet (his first instrument) and bass clarinet. Active primarily in West Coast jazz, Pepper first came to prominence in Stan Kenton‘s big band. He…
Tientos, a slow cante jondo music and dance in a four-count rhythm, was first developed by the singer Enrique el Mellizo (1848 -1906)as an expressive variation of the Tangos. Poet Federico García Lorca considered the Tientos to be almost liturgical in its solemnity. Traditional Tientos lyrics – letras – set a dark mood, and have…
The ghost of a long-dead star, the W63 supernova remnant shines like a faint cosmic smoke-ring along the plane of the Milky Way galaxy toward the northern constellation Cygnus the swan. Its wraithlike appearance is traced against the region’s rich complex of interstellar clouds and dust by an eerie blue glow. Spanning over four full…
Wilton Lewis Felder (August 31, 1940 – September 27, 2015) was an American saxophone and bassplayer, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5‘s hits “I Want You Back” and “ABC” and on Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On“….
Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. He is a pioneer of world music and earth music, which interweaves the voices of the wild with instrumental voices from classical, jazz and world music. The music is often improvised and recorded in nature to reflect the qualities brought into play…
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