The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a (M51a) or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus. It lies in the constellation Canes Venatici, and was the first galaxy to be classified as a spiral galaxy. It is between 23 and 31 million light-years away and 76,900 ly…
Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of his commercial success in the early 1970s. His work is characterised by pioneering vocal overdub experiments, returns to the Great American Songbook, and fusions of Caribbean sounds. A tenor with a…
Nasheet Waits is an American jazz drummer. Waits is a New York native who has been active on the jazz scene since early in his life. His father, percussionist Freddie Waits, died when Waits was 18. Before pursuing a music career, Waits studied psychology and history at Morehouse College in Atlanta. He also holds a…
Joji “George” Kawaguchi (川口譲二) (June 15, 1927, Fukakusa, Kyoto – November 1, 2003, Tokyo) was a Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader. Kawaguchi was raised in Dairen, Manchukuo, at that time a Japanese-occupied territory. He played in his father’s ensemble as a teenager, and after World War II moved back to Japan, where he embarked on a…
John Arthur “Jaki” Byard ( June 15, 1922 – February 11, 1999) was an American jazzmulti-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. Mainly a pianist, he also played tenor and alto saxophones, among several other instruments. He was known for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtimeand stride to free jazz. Byard played with trumpeter Maynard Ferguson in the late…
Erroll Louis Garner (June 15, 1921 – January 2, 1977) was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad “Misty“, his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971…
PERFORMANCE DAY featuring the REDEMPTION DREAMERS percussion ensemble with Valencia Barnes singing Rivers of Babylon dressed in blue. The last in a series of the Rhythm Roots Workshop Residency at Cerenity Humboldt Senior Care center in St Paul. (https://cerenityseniorcare.org/cerenity-senior-care…/). 9th and FINAL in a series of 9 workshops exploring cultural rhythms from an array of…
the Shark nebula. This predator apparition poses us no danger as it is composed only of interstellar gas and dust. Dark dust like that featured here is somewhat like cigarette smoke and created in the cool atmospheres of giant stars. After being expelled with gas and gravitationally recondensing, massive stars may carve intricate structures into…
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