Topic: Musicians

  • July 30, 2025
    David William Sanborn (July 30, 1945 – May 12, 2024) was an American alto saxophonist. He worked in many musical…
  • July 30, 2025
    James Chambers, OM (born 30 July 1944), known professionally as Jimmy Cliff, is a Jamaican ska, rocksteady, reggae and soul…
  • July 30, 2025
    George "Buddy" Guy (born July 30, 1936) is an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago…
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    Vernel Anthony Fournier (July 30, 1928 – November 4, 2000), known from 1975 as Amir Rushdan, was an American jazz…
  • July 30, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2LfRPvQMhc
  • July 29, 2025
    Ellyn Rucker (born July 29, 1937  died 2022) is a bop pianist and singer. Rucker was over 40 years old…
  • July 29, 2025
    Joe Beck (July 29, 1945 – July 22, 2008) was an American jazz guitarist who was active for over 40…
  • July 29, 2025
    Charles Henry Christian (July 29, 1916 – March 2, 1942) was an American swing and jazz guitarist. He was among…
  • July 29, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSf1hwjrQHA
  • July 28, 2025
    Delfeayo Marsalis (born July 28, 1965 NOLA) is an American jazz trombonist, record producer and educator. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFiPPlGA7_I
  • July 28, 2025
    Michael Bernard Bloomfield (July 28, 1943 – February 15, 1981) was an American blues guitarist and composer. Born in Chicago,…
  • July 28, 2025
    David "Junior" Kimbrough (July 28, 1930 – January 17, 1998 Hudsonville, MS) was an American blues musician. His best-known works…
  • July 28, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr2sx-HHTBw&t=79s
  • July 27, 2025
    Jean Toussaint (born July 27, 1960) is an American jazz tenor and soprano saxophonist. Toussaint was born in Aruba, Dutch…
  • July 27, 2025
    Moses Rascoe July 27th 1917-1994. Got his first guitar in North Carolina at the age of 13 and turned professional…
  • July 27, 2025
    Carl Gordon Grubbs (July 27, 1944 in Philadelphia; January 5, 2024 in Baltimore) was an American jazz musician (saxophone, composition).…
  • July 27, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tryG_mbqOjM
  • July 26, 2025
    Patti Bown (July 26, 1931, Seattle, Washington – March 21, 2008, Media, Pennsylvania) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and…
  • July 26, 2025
    Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician. He is known as the lead singer and…
  • July 26, 2025
    Joanne Brackeen (born Joanne Grogan; July 26, 1938) is an American jazz pianist and music educator. She performed with Chick…
  • July 26, 2025
    Charles Lawrence Persip (July 26, 1929 – August 23, 2020), known as Charli Persip and formerly as Charlie Persip (he…
  • July 26, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpAWkguuNbY
  • July 25, 2025
    Steven Benjamin Goodman (July 25, 1948 – September 20, 1984) was an American folk and country singer-songwriter from Chicago. He…
  • July 25, 2025
    James Stanley McCarty (born 25 July 1943) is an English musician, best known as the drummer for the Yardbirds and…
  • July 25, 2025
    William "Benny" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 – April 20, 1969 Birmingham, AL), nicknamed Papa Zita, was an American musician, most…
  • July 25, 2025
    Semmangudi Radhakrishna Srinivasa Iyer (25 July 1908 – 31 October 2003) was an Indian Carnatic vocalist. He was the youngest recipient…
  • July 25, 2025
    Donald Johnson Ellis (July 25, 1934 – December 17, 1978 LA,CA) was an American jazz trumpeter, drummer, composer, and bandleader.…
  • July 25, 2025
    Johnny Hodges (July 25, 1907 – May 11, 1970 Cambridge, MA) was an American alto saxophonist, best known for solo…
  • July 25, 2025
    Key Characteristics of Tientos: Tempo: Slow, four-count rhythm, often described as a "tango tiento".  Structure: Follows a typical flamenco structure…
  • July 24, 2025
    Graham Lear (born July 24, 1949) is a Canadian rock drummer, best known for his time with Gino Vannelli, Santana…
  • July 24, 2025
    Bobby Matos (July 24, 1941 – November 11, 2017) was an American Latin jazz percussionist. Bobby Matos was born in…
  • July 24, 2025
    Billy Taylor (July 24, 1921 – December 28, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, composer, broadcaster and educator. He was…
  • July 24, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRglRF_DOWI
  • July 23, 2025
    Dr. Subramaniam Lakshminarayana (born 23 July 1947) is an Indian violinist, composer and conductor, trained in the classical Carnatic music…
  • July 23, 2025
    Amy Winehouse Memorial 2025 July 23, 2011 died (age 27 years), Camden Town, London, United Kingdom. Enamored by Jewish Female…
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    Carei Thomas (*July 23, 1938 in Pittsburgh; † May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis) Carei and I had many great conversations;…
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    Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox,was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best…
  • July 23, 2025
    Montez Elliot Coleman (July 23, 1973 in St. Louis, Missouri; January 14, 2022 in St. Louis, Missouri) was an American…
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    Steve Lacy (born Steven Norman Lackritz; July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer…
  • July 23, 2025
    William James Edwards Lee III (July 23, 1928 – May 24, 2023) was an American jazz bassist and composer, known…
  • July 23, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luiYI15Jaxg
  • July 22, 2025
    Donald Hugh Henley (born July 22, 1947) is an American musician who is a founding member of the rock band…
  • July 22, 2025
    George Edward Clinton (born July 22, 1941) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and bandleader. His Parliament-Funkadelic collective (which…
  • July 22, 2025
    Albert Laurence Di Meola (born July 22, 1954) is an American guitarist. Known for his work in jazz fusion and…
  • July 22, 2025
    Don Patterson (July 22, 1936 – February 10, 1988) was an American jazz organist. Patterson played piano from childhood and…
  • July 22, 2025
    Herman "Junior" Cook (July 22, 1934 – February 3, 1992) was an American hard bop tenor saxophone player. Cook was…
  • July 22, 2025
    July 22ne 1924 - 2003 Bill Perkins was essentially a West Coast jazz musician, but in his varied career worked…
  • July 22, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1qaUALAVjc
  • July 21, 2025
    Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou; 21 July 1948), commonly known by his stage names Cat Stevens, Yusuf, and Yusuf…
  • July 21, 2025
    Born July 21st 1915, Died July 22nd 1995. Floyd McDaniel, a Black blues singer and musician, was born. Born in…
  • July 21, 2025
    Conrad Yeatis "Sonny" Clark (July 21, 1931 – January 13, 1963) was an American jazz pianist and composer who mainly…
  • July 21, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8uBRli_rDw
  • July 20, 2025
    Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán ( born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist, best known as a founding member of the…
  • July 20, 2025
    Tony Oladipo Allen (20 July 1940 – 30 April 2020) was a Nigerian/Ghanaian drummer, composer, and songwriter who lived and…
  • July 20, 2025
    Ernest Brooks Wilkins Jr. (July 20, 1922 – June 5, 1999) was an American jazz saxophonist, conductor and arranger who…
  • July 20, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfgsoKRlzpg
  • July 19, 2025
    Keith Richard Godchaux (July 19, 1948 – July 23, 1980) was an American pianist best known for his tenure in the…
  • July 19, 2025
    George Frayne IV, alias Commander Cody (born July 19, 1944, in Boise, Idaho; died September 26, 2021, in Saratoga Springs,…
  • July 19, 2025
    Phillip Upchurch (born July 19, 1941) is an American soul music, R&B, jazz and blues guitarist and bassist. Upchurch started…
  • July 19, 2025
    Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American jazz trumpet player. Jones was born in Kansas…