Vernel Anthony Fournier (July 30, 1928 – November 4, 2000) and, from 1975, known as Amir Rushdan, was a jazz drummer probably best known for his work with Ahmad Jamal from 1956 to 1962. Fournier was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, into a Creole family. He left college to join a big band led by…
Fakhriddin Umarov, the son of Aslpulat (September 1, 1926, Kibray) is a musician, composer, poet. People’s Chamber of Uzbekistan. He learned music from his father, then secretly from Askar Ubaydullayev, Akmalhon and Bobokhan Sufikhanov. Studied at the Tashkent Conservatoire (1950-53). The soloist of the Uzbek Radio Committee (1946-61), the Uzbek State Philharmonic (1961-86). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeMwzdcolkc&list=PLC8B72D05D28C6949
BEAU KOO JACKS Mardi Gras Music Sunday July29th 10pm-midnight Palmers Bar on the West Bank with Van Nixon, Jamie Carter, Todd Matheson, Paul Strickland, Art Haynes with special guest David Hamilton and da file gumbo gris gris holder mick laBriola.
Riding high in the constellation of Auriga, beautiful, blue vdB 31 is the 31st object in Sidney van den Bergh’s 1966 catalog of reflection nebulae. It shares this well-composed celestial still life with dark, obscuring clouds recorded in Edward E. Barnard’s 1919 catalog of dark markings in the sky. All are interstellar dust clouds, blocking…
Cass Elliot (born Ellen Naomi Cohen; September 19, 1941 – July 29, 1974), also known as Mama Cass, was an American singer and actress, best known as a member of the Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, she released five solo albums. In 1998 she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and…
Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American jazz musician, arranger, bandleader, and composer. Redman was born in Piedmont, Mineral County, West Virginia. His father was a music teacher, his mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of three, joined his first band at the…
Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist. Christian was an important early performer on the electric guitar and a key figure in the development of bebop and cool jazz. He gained national exposure as a member of the Benny Goodman Sextet and Orchestra from August…
Ulla Pirttijärvi is a Sami joik singer from the village of Angeli (Sami: Aŋŋel), Finland. She began her career with the music group Angelin Tytöt, but left soon after to pursue a solo career. She performs traditional joik music with Western arrangements of contemporary instruments. Ulla Pirttijärvi was raised with joik music and chanting. As…
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