Second up on The Daily Music Break’s random Independence Day list of great American musicians and bands is Dr. John. Malcolm John Rebennack was born in New...
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In the video above, Herbie Hancock explains to the audience and a rapt Elvis Costello the story behind the song “Watermelon Man,” which was a hit for him and...
Tenor sax player Stanley Turrentine, a native of Pittsburgh, lived from 1934 to 2000. Wikipedia’s profile notes that his career began in what it terms...
Sometimes, lesser known musicians are responsible for direction that music takes. Anderson Meade Lewis – better known as Meade Lux Lewis (the “Lux” is a...
The Red Hot Jazz Archive – the place to go for information about old jazz – says that Fletcher Henderson ran the most successful African-American jazz band of...
Jazz/blues organist Jimmy Smith was born in Norristown, PA, in 1925 or 1928 — there is some uncertainty on the date. He was able to put instrumental...
A life well played and, by all accounts, well lived. There is a tremendous amount of great video of Clark Terry on YouTube. Please check it out. Above is...
This is the beginning of the profile of the great tenor saxophone player Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins from his website: Theodore Walter Rollins...
Let me say this as delicately as possible: Conceptually and objectively, I understand that tastes are different. One man’s meat is another man’s...
The remarkable ability of New Orleans to produce trumpet (and cornet) players — which began with Buddy Bolden and reached its zenith with Louis Armstrong...
