Jamaaladeen Tacuma (born Rudy McDaniel; June 11, 1956) is an American free jazz bassist born in Hempstead, New York. He was a bandleader on the Gramavision label and worked with Ornette Colemanduring the 1970s and 1980s, mostly in Coleman’s Prime Time band. Tacuma showcased a unique style of avant-garde jazz on Coleman’s 1982 album Of…
Bernard Lee “Pretty” Purdie (born June 11, 1939) is an American drummer, and an influential R&B, soul and funk musician. He is known for his precise musical time keeping and his signature use of triplets against a half-time backbeat: the “Purdie Shuffle.”He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2013. Purdie recorded…
Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a Trinidad-born American jazz and classicalpianist and singer. She was an outspoken critic of racial discrimination and segregation. She used her influence to improve the representation of Black Americans in film. Born in Port of Spain, Scott moved to New York City with her…
Sheldon “Shelly” Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984) was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde jazz, and later fusion. He also contributed to the musical background of hundreds…
Mars and brilliant Venus are the prominent celestial beacons in planet Earth’s western skies after sunset. Wandering through the constellation Cancer the Crab, the Red Planet was captured here on the evening of June 3 near the stars of open cluster Messier 44. Recognized since antiquity this nearby, naked-eye star cluster is also known as…
Gary Thomas (born June 10, 1961) is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist, born in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a member of Jack DeJohnette‘s Special Edition band and has worked with John McLaughlin, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Jim Hall, Dave Holland, Greg Osby, Wayne Shorter, Ravi Coltrane, Cassandra Wilson, Wallace Roney, Steve Coleman,…
Born: June 10, 1954, San Francisco, CA Died: November 1, 2015, San Francisco, CA Nationality: American Songwriting partners: Carlos Santana, Karl Perazzo,MORE Music groups: Malo (1972 – 1972), Santana (1976 – 2013), R.O.A.R. Except for a two-year hiatus at the end of the ‘80s, Raul Rekow has been an integral part of the Santana Band…
João Gilberto (born João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira – ; 10 June 1931 – 6 July 2019) was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was often called “father of bossa nova”; in his native Brazil,…
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