Here is the beginning of the bio of flugelhornist and trumpeter Clark Terry: Clark Terry’s career in jazz spans more than seventy years. He is a world-class...
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It seemed like a good idea to feature one of the bands that played in last night’s Sandy-a-thon at Madison Square Garden, so here is the beginning of...
Here is The New York Times obituary and a nice piece at NPR about Ravi Shankar, who died today at age 92. A previous post containing a clip of Shankar on The...
Here is the beginning of the band’s Wikipedia profile: Gladys Knight & The Pips were an R&B/soul family musical act from Atlanta, Georgia...
The jazz pianist turns 74 today. Above is Monk’s Dream. Avery Sharpe is on bass and Aaron Scott is on drums.
Merle Travis is one of the great country guitar players of the middle part of the 20th century. He also is noteworthy for writing Sixteen Tons, which was a big...
This Day in Music says that the CBGBs opened on the lower east side of Manhattan on this day in 1971. The item reports that CBGBs stands for “country...
This is what Digital Dream Door — a great site for music lovers, by the way — wrote about Lee Dorsey: One of the most underrated and overlooked...
Here is the beginning of Sinatra’s story at A&E’s bio.: Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on December 12, 1915, Frank Sinatra rose to fame singing...
Here is Verdi’s bio: Giuseppe Verdi was to opera in the Italian tradition what Beethoven was to the symphony. When he arrived on the scene some had...
