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Aaron Neville Day

Aaron Joseph Neville (born January 24, 1941) is an American R&B and soul vocalist and musician. He has had four platinum albums and four Top 10 hits in the United States, including three that went to #1 on Billboard‘s Adult Contemporary chart. His debut single, from 1966, was #1 on the Soul chart for five…

Tuts Washington Day

Isidore “Tuts” Washington (January 24, 1907 – August 5, 1984) was an American blues pianist from New Orleans, Louisiana. He taught himself to play the piano at age 10 and studied with the New Orleans jazz pianist Joseph Louis “Red” Cayou. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a leading player for dance bands and…

Jimmy Forrest Day

James Robert Forrest Jr. (January 24, 1920 – August 26, 1980) was an American jazz musician, who played tenor saxophone throughout his career. Forrest is known for his first solo recording of “Night Train“. It reached No. 1 on the Billboard R&B chart in March 1952, and stayed at the top for seven weeks. “Hey…

Flamenco Fridays with  “Canela de San Roque” y “Niño Jero”

Flamenco Fridays with “Canela de San Roque” y “Niño Jero”

Soleá por bulerías The structure is similar to most Flamenco dances and can be broken down as follows: ENTRADA/SALIDA (ENTRANCE): The dancer enters the stage via marking steps (marcando) LLAMADA: This is the call for the singer to sing the first letra. FIRST LETRA: The singer sings 7-12 sets of 12 count phrases SECOND LETRA…

The Cosmos with NGC 6752

Some 13,000 light-years away toward the southern constellation Pavo, the globular star cluster NGC 6752 roams the halo of our Milky Way galaxy. Over 10 billion years old, NGC 6752 follows clustersOmega Centauri and 47 Tucanae as the third brightest globular in planet Earth’s night sky. It holds over 100 thousand stars in a sphere…

Gary Burton Day

Gary Burton (born January 23, 1943) is an American jazz vibraphonist, composer, and educator. Burton developed a pianistic style of four-mallet technique as an alternative to the prevailing two-mallet technique. This approach caused him to be heralded as an innovator, and his sound and technique are widely imitated. He is also known for pioneering fusion…

Curtis Counce Day

Curtis Counce (January 23, 1926 – July 31, 1963) was an American hard bop and West Coast jazz double bassist. Counce was born in Kansas City, Missouri and moved to California in 1945. He began recording in 1946 with Lester Young, and in the 1950s in Los Angeles with musicians such as Shorty Rogers, Stan…

Django Reinhardt Day

Jean Reinhardt (23 January 1910 – 16 May 1953), known by his stage name Django Reinhardt (French: [dʒãŋɡo ʁɛjnaʁt] or [dʒɑ̃ɡo ʁenɑʁt]), was a Belgian-born Romani-French jazz guitarist and composer, regarded as one of the greatest musicians of the twentieth century. He was the first jazz talent to emerge from Europe and remains the most significant. With…

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