James Andrew Rushing (August 26, 1901 – June 8, 1972) was an American blues and jazz singer, and pianist from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, best known as the featured vocalist of Count Basie‘s Orchestra from 1935 to 1948. Rushing was known as “Mr. Five by Five” and was the subject of an eponymous 1942 popular song…
Pulsars are superdense, rapidly spinning neutron stars left behind when a massive star explodes. Their rotational periods ranging from more than 10 seconds to just a few milliseconds. Since their discovery in 1967, various surveys have discovered over 2,600 pulsars. PSR J0002+6216 was discovered in 2017 by a citizen-science project called Einstein@Home. Located about 6,500 light-years away…
Pat Martino (born August 25, 1944) is a jazz guitarist and composer. Martino was born Pat Azzara in South Philadelphia. He began playing professionally at the age of 15 after moving to New York City. He lived for a period with Les Paul and began playing at jazz clubs such as Smalls Paradise. He later moved…
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for Art Blakey‘s Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis‘s Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz…
Leonard Bernstein (/ˈbɜːrnstaɪn/ BURN-styne; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the US to receive worldwide acclaim. According to music critic Donal Henahan, he was “one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American…
NGC 3169 is located approximately 76 million light-years away in the constellation of Sextans.Also known as LEDA 29855 or UGC 5525, the spiral galaxy was discovered by the German-born British astronomer William Herschel in 1783.NGC 3169 is a member of the Leo I Group of galaxies, which is part of a larger galactic congregation known…
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