Category: Blog

  • December 6, 2025
    Today’s rather aquatic-themed NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy Messier 77, also known as…
  • December 6, 2025
    Miroslav Ladislav Vitouš (born 6 December 1947) is a Czech jazz bassist. He is known as a founding member of…
  • December 6, 2025
    Francis Dunlop (December 6, 1928 – July 7, 2014) was an American jazz drummer. Dunlop, born in Buffalo, New York,…
  • December 6, 2025
    Joseph Francis Lamb (December 6, 1887 – September 3, 1960 Montclair, NJ) was an American composer of ragtimemusic. Lamb, of…
  • December 6, 2025
    David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as…
  • December 6, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4m9QPg9fRQ
  • December 6, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo3FrZfevNU
  • December 5, 2025
    Arthur David Davis (December 5, 1934 – July 29, 2007) was a double-bassist, known for his work with Thelonious Monk,…
  • December 5, 2025
    Willie Earl Walker (December 23, 1941  – November 19, 2019), also known as Wee Willie Walker, was an American soul…
  • December 5, 2025
    The second in a series of first Friday Shabbat services called Starry Starry Shabbat focusing on children and families. Music…
  • December 5, 2025
    Blasting outward from variable star KX Andromedae, these stunning bipolar jets are 19 light-years long. Recently discovered, they are revealed…
  • December 5, 2025
    John William Pate (born December 5, 1923) is an American former musician, a jazz bassist who became a producer, arranger,…
  • December 5, 2025
    John Weldon "JJ" Cale (December 5, 1938 – July 26, 2013) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Though he…
  • December 5, 2025
    Richard Wayne Penniman (December 5, 1932 – May 9, 2020), better known by his stage name Little Richard, was an…
  • December 5, 2025
    Alex or Aleck Miller (originally Ford, possibly December 5, 1912 – May 24, 1965), known later in his career as Sonny Boy…
  • December 5, 2025
    Egberto Amin Gismonti (born 5 December 1947) is a Brazilian composer, guitarist and pianist. Gismonti is a self-taught guitarist. After…
  • December 5, 2025
    José Monje Cruz (5 December 1950 – 2 July 1992), better known by his stage name Camarón de la Isla,…
  • December 5, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQD4J6a1CEA
  • December 4, 2025
  • December 4, 2025
    “Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul” Plato
  • December 4, 2025
    NGC 6888, also known as the Crescent Nebula, is a about 25 light-years across, a cosmic bubble blown by winds…
  • December 4, 2025
    Larry Davis (December 4, 1936 – April 19, 1994) was an American electric Texas blues and soul blues musician. He…
  • December 4, 2025
    Lynford "Hux" Brown (4 December 1944 – 18 June 2020) was a Jamaican guitarist who featured on many successful rocksteady…
  • December 4, 2025
    Christopher Hillman (born December 4, 1944 LA) is an American musician. He was the original bassist of the Byrds. With…
  • December 4, 2025
    James Stanley Hall (December 4, 1930 – December 10, 2013 Buffalo, NY) was an American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.…
  • December 4, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ryv6Fx7Fq0
  • December 4, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfmjovmqO4U
  • December 3, 2025
  • December 3, 2025
    Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 1055 is a dominant member of a small galaxy group a mere 60 million light-years…
  • December 3, 2025
    John "Mickey" Michael Thomas (born December 3, 1949) is an American rock singer. He is best known as one of…
  • December 3, 2025
    Melbourne Robert Cranshaw (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016) was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday…
  • December 3, 2025
    Frank Grillo (born Francisco Raúl Gutiérrez Grillo; December 3, 1909 – April 15, 1984) known professionally as Machito (previously as…
  • December 3, 2025
    Kanaka Dasa (1509–1606) also known as Daasashreshta Kanakadasa (ದಾಸಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ಕನಕದಾಸ), was a Haridasa saint and philosopher of Dvaita Vedanta, from…
  • December 3, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBR6AejWI70
  • December 3, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIdTTKMRTLA
  • December 2, 2025
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  • December 2, 2025
    The subject of the latest Hubble Picture of the Week is a stormy and highly active spiral galaxy named NGC…
  • December 2, 2025
    Ronald Mathews (December 2, 1935, in New York City – June 28, 2008, in Brooklyn) was an American jazz pianist…
  • December 2, 2025
    Tal Wilkenfeld (born 2 December 1986) is an Australian bassist, singer and songwriter. She has performed with artists including Chick…
  • December 2, 2025
    Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo; December 2, 1916 – January 17, 1992) was an American tenor saxophonist and bandleader from…
  • December 2, 2025
    Wynton Charles Kelly (December 2, 1931 – April 12, 1971) was an American jazzpianist and composer. He is known for…
  • December 2, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7afW9zE2ww
  • December 2, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-xmijuuqzc
  • December 1, 2025
    Globular cluster M15. The central ball of over 100,000 stars is a relic from the early years of our Galaxy,…
  • December 1, 2025
    John Paul Densmore (born December 1, 1944) is an American musician. He is best known as the drummer of the…
  • December 1, 2025
    Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945 Honolulu) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and author. Throughout her six-decade career Midler…
  • December 1, 2025
    Sander Lloyd Nelson (December 1, 1938 – February 14, 2022) was an American drummer. Nelson, one of the best-known rock…
  • December 1, 2025
    Ike Isaacs (December 1, 1919, Rangoon, Burma – January 11, 1996, Sydney, Australia) was a Burmese-English jazz guitarist, best known…
  • December 1, 2025
    John Francis Anthony Pastorius III, also known as Jaco Pastorius ( December 1, 1951 – September 21, 1987), was an…
  • December 1, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36btz_a3EA
  • December 1, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EesGX1M_QUM
  • November 30, 2025
  • November 30, 2025
    FEEDING THE HUNGRY Thanksgiving could be a daily process of reflection for life, a daily mantra perhaps, not a once…
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  • November 30, 2025
    Johnny Mbizo Dyani (30 November 1945 – 24 October 1986) was a South African jazzdouble bassist, vocalist and pianist, who,…
  • November 30, 2025
    US Route 163 and iconic buttes on the Navajo National Reservationpopulate the horizon. The band of Milky Way Galaxy stretches…
  • November 30, 2025
    Johnny Shuggie Otis (born Johnny Alexander Veliotes Jr.; November 30, 1953 LA,CA) is an American singer-songwriter, recording artist, and multi-instrumentalist.…
  • November 30, 2025
    Ruby Starr, born Constance Henrietta Mierzwiak (November 30, 1949 – January 14, 1995 Toledo, OH), was an American rock singer…