Blog
Daily Roots with the Gladiators
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbbMiH-c8s&list=PLEB3LPVcGcWZ0hsQ5_jgSMhawAnDzy1io&index=3&t=0s
The Cosmos with N11
Massive stars, abrasive winds, mountains of dust, and energetic light sculpt one of the largest and most picturesque regions of star formation in the Local Group of Galaxies. Known as N11, the region is visible on the upper right of many images of its home galaxy, the Milky Way neighbor known as the Large Magellanic…
Ray Barretto Day
Ray Barretto (April 29, 1929 – February 17, 2006) was a Puerto Rican conga drummer and bandleader born in New York. Throughout his career as a percussionist, he played a wide variety of Latin music styles, as well as Latin jazz. His first hit, “El Watusi”, was recorded by his Charanga Moderna in 1962, becoming…
Toots Thielemans Day
Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans, was a Belgian jazz musician. He was known for his harmonica playing, as well as his guitar, whistling skills, and composing. According to jazz historian Ted Gioia, his most important contribution was in “championing the humble harmonica”, which…
Duke Ellington Day
Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974 Washington, DC) was an American composer, pianist, and leader of a jazz orchestra, which he led from 1923 until his death over a career spanning more than fifty years. Born in Washington, D.C., Ellington was based in New York City from the mid-1920s onward…
Dumbeck-Riqq Teaching Collection
Dumbeck teaching arsenal! Cleaned, greased, 2 reheaded & ready to go! Including Riqq’s.
The Cosmos with M96
“One of the lesser appreciated treasures in the Messier catalogue is the spiral galaxy M96. Its spiral arms are punctuated with the red glow of hydrogen gas concentrated in emission nebulae and HII regions, the birthplaces of new stars. Many dust lanes swirl around its core with the distribution of its gas and dust being…
End of content
End of content