JEWBALAYA performing this Sunday at Lake Harriet bandshell, Sunday August 13th 2023 @ 530pm featuring Dan Perelstein Jason Swalley Erin Baldinger Rabbi Marcus Rubenstein Lea Kalisch Bob Barnes Tobias Moss and our guest drummer the groovin’ Mick LaBriola Or said by their instrument names: Clarinet, Tuba, Trombone, Trumpet, Vocals, Accordion, Tenor Banjo, and Funky drummer….
Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. The dark band ofdust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in optical light actually glows brightly in infrared light. The featured image, digitally sharpened, shows the infrared glow, recently recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, superposed in false-color…
Frank “Son” Seals (August 13, 1942 – December 20, 2004) was an American electric blues guitarist and singer. In 2009, Seals was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Seals was born in Osceola, Arkansas, where his father, Jim “Son” Seals, owned a small juke joint, called the Dipsy Doodle Club. He began performing professionally…
Sir George Albert Shearing, OBE (13 August 1919 – 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. Shearing was the composer of over 300 titles, including the jazz standards “Lullaby of Birdland” and “Conception“, and had multiple…
Anna Mae Winburn (née Darden; August 13, 1913 – September 30, 1999) was an influential Americanvocalist and jazz bandleader who flourished beginning in the mid-1930s. An African American, she is best known for having directed the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, an all-female big band that was perhaps one of the few – and one of…
“Big Chief” Russell Moore (August 13, 1912 – December 15, 1983) was an American jazz trombonist.Moore, a Pima tribe member, grew up on a Native American reservation before moving to Chicago and then Los Angeles where he learned to play various instruments, eventually settling on trombone. Throughout his career, Moore worked with an array of…
A crowded field of galaxies fills this image from the James Webb Space Telescope, alongside a few bright stars crowned with Webb’s signature six-pointed diffraction spikes. The large spiral galaxy at the base of this image is accompanied by a menagerie of smaller, more distant galaxies, which range from fully fledged spirals to mere bright…
Percy Mayfield (August 12, 1920 – August 11, 1984) was an American rhythm and blues singer with a smooth vocal style. He was also a songwriter, known for the songs “Please Send Me Someone to Love” and “Hit the Road Jack“, the latter being a song first recorded by Ray Charles. Mayfield was born in Minden,…
Alvis Edgar “Buck” Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, and band leader. He was the lead singer for Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named…
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