In silhouette against a crowded star field along the tail of the arachnological constellation Scorpius, this dusty cosmic cloud evokes for some the image of an ominous dark tower. In fact, monstrous clumps of dust and molecular gas collapsing to form stars may well lurk within the dark nebula, a structure that spans almost 40…
Delmar Allen “Dale” Hawkins (August 22, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was a pioneer American rock singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist who was often called the architect of swamp rock boogie. He began recording in 1956. In 1957, Hawkins was playing at Shreveport, Louisianaclubs, and although his music was influenced by the new rock and…
Malachi Favors (August 22, 1927 – January 30, 2004) was an American jazz bassist who played with the Art Ensemble of Chicago. “Favors’s tendency to dissemble about his age was a well-known source of mirth to fellow musicians of his generation”. Most reference works give his year of birth of 1937, but, following his death,…
Sonny Thompson (probably August 23, 1916 – August 11, 1989), born Alfonso Thompson or Hezzie Tompson, was an American R&B bandleader and pianist, popular in the 1940s and 1950s. There is some uncertainty over Thompson’s origins, as well as his birth name. Researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc indicate that he was born in 1916…
John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917 – June 21, 2001 Clarksdale, MS) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist. The son of a sharecropper, he rose to prominence performing an electric guitar-style adaptation of Delta blues that he developed in Detroit. Hooker often incorporated other elements, including talking blues and early North…
(Achille) Claude Debussy ( 22 August 1862 – 25 March 1918) was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born to a family of modest means and little cultural…
Art HaynesMusicianMusical Director OCCUPATION: MUSIC PRODUCER, WRITER, ARRANGER, PRODUCTION, STUDIO MUSICIAN, LIVE PERFORMER, AND EDUCATOROMAHA NEBRASKA NATIVE ARTHUR HAYNES (ART) BRINGS MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST VERSATILITY TO ANY GENRE OF MUSIC, SPANNING FROM R&B, JAZZ, GOSPEL, ROCK, TO Multi-CULTURAL STYLES AS WELL.ART HAS AN INSTRUMENTAL BACKGROUND THAT INCLUDES: BASS, UPRIGHT BASS, DRUMS, KEYBOARDS, GUITAR, PERCUSSIONS AND MANY MORE.SINCE…
A supermoon occurred yesterday 8-19-24. And tonight’s moon should also look impressive. Supermoons appear slightly larger and brighter than most full moons because they reach their full phase when slightly nearer to the Earth — closer than 90 percent of all full moons. This supermoon was also a blue moon given the definition that it…
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