Wardell Gray (February 13, 1921 – May 25, 1955) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist who straddled the swing and bebop periods. Wardell Gray was born in Oklahoma City, the youngest of four children. His early childhood years were spent in Oklahoma, before moving with his family to Detroit in 1929. In early 1935, Gray…
World Music with the Desperadoes At Panorama before Carnival in Trinidad 2018
Daily Roots with Black Slate 2-13-18
NGC 3344 is a relatively isolated barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away in the constellation Leo Minor. This galaxy belongs to the group known as the Leo spur, which is a branch of the Virgo Supercluster. NGC 3344 has the morphological classification(R)SAB(r)bc,which indicates it is a weakly barred spiral galaxy that exhibits…
Bill Laswell (born February 12, 1955, Salem, Illinois, and raised in Albion, Michigan) is an American bassist, producer and record label owner. Laswell has been involved in hundreds of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. Laswell’s music draws upon many different genres, most notably funk, various world music, jazz, dub and ambient…
Mel Powell (born Melvin Epstein) (February 12, 1923 – April 24, 1998) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer, and the founding dean of the music department at the California Institute of the Arts. He served as a music educator for over 40 years, first at Mannes College of Music and Queens College, then Yale University,…
Pinkney “Pink” Anderson (February 12, 1900 – October 12, 1974) was an American blues singer and guitarist. Anderson was born in Laurens, South Carolina, and raised in nearby Greenville and Spartanburg. He joined Dr. William R. Kerr of the Indian Remedy Company in 1914 to entertain the crowds while Kerr tried to sell a concoction…
World Music with Basudeb Das Baul performing Bengali Baul songs.
Daily Roots with the Wailing Souls 2-12-18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQ1hLme5XH4&index=10&list=PLEB3LPVcGcWZ0hsQ5_jgSMhawAnDzy1io
RS Puppis (or RS Pup) is a Cepheid variable star in the constellation of Puppis. It is one of the brightest known Cepheids in the Milky Way galaxyand has one of the longest periods for this class of star, of 41.4[8] days. Because it is located in a large nebula, astronomers using the ESO‘s New…
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