Ahmed Abdullah (born Leroy Bland; May 10, 1947) is a jazz trumpeter who was a prominent member of Sun Ra‘s band. Leroy Bland began performing at age 13 in his native New York City. By the 1970s he was performing in New York’s loft scene, and joined the Sun Ra Arkestra in 1976, working there…
Mel Lewis (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990) was an American jazz drummer, session musician, professor, and author. He received fourteen Grammy Award nominations. Lewis was born Melvin Sokoloff in Buffalo, New York, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents Samuel and Mildred Sokoloff. He started playing professionally as a teen, eventually joining Stan Kenton in 1954. His…
Orlando “Puntilla” Rios was born December 26, 1947 in Havana, Cuba. He was a master batá drummer. Orlando “Puntilla” Rios formed the group Nueva Generación shortly after his arrival in New York in 1981. He did this in order to preserve and present the sacred music and dance of santería and the various secular forms…
Termination Dub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPlrhgPSrC0
The Red Rectangle Nebula (HD 44179), so called because of its red color and unique rectangular shape, is a bipolar protoplanetary nebula, located about 2,300 light-years away toward the constellation Monoceros. Protoplanetary nebula are formed by old stars, on their way to becoming planetary nebulae. In a few thousand years, once the expulsion of mass…
Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959), is an American drummer. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2001. Chambers began drumming at the age of four years, and was gigging in Baltimore-area nightclubs by the age of six. He was recruited in 1981 by the Sugar Hill Label to be…
Paul Richard “Richie” Furay (born May 9, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter, and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member who is best known for forming the bands Buffalo Springfield with Stephen Stills, Neil Young, Bruce Palmer, and Dewey Martin, and Poco with Jim Messina, Rusty Young, George Grantham and Randy Meisner. His best…
Richard Edwin Morrissey (9 May 1940 – 8 November 2000) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute. Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain’s pre-eminent sax player at the time. Self-taught, he started playing clarinet in his school band,…
Francisco Hernández Mora, better known as Pancho Quinto, was born on April 23, 1933. He was a Cuban rumba percussionist, teacher and founder of Yoruba Andabo.
Heavyweight Dub Champion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4XHAZ9hPcs
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