Category: Blog

  • May 16, 2025
    Spiral galaxy M101 is one of the last entries in Charles Messier's famous catalog, but definitely not one of the…
  • May 16, 2025
    Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist,…
  • May 16, 2025
    Isaac "Redd" Holt (May 16, 1932 – May 23, 2023) was an American jazz and soul music drummer. He was…
  • May 16, 2025
    William Emanuel Cobham Jr. (born May 16, 1944) is a Panamanian–American jazzdrummer who came to prominence in the late 1960s…
  • May 16, 2025
    Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for…
  • May 16, 2025
    To start the Soleá, there is a “mother phrase,” which, in the context of traditional flamenco playing, is always in…
  • May 16, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u-Kdc2uTEc&list=PLEB3LPVcGcWZ0hsQ5_jgSMhawAnDzy1io
  • May 15, 2025
    The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51 (M51) or NGC 5194, is a grand-design spiral galaxy located 31 million…
  • May 15, 2025
    Michael Gordon Oldfield (born 15 May 1953) is an English retired musician, songwriter and producer best known for his debut…
  • May 15, 2025
    Bruce Duncan "Utah" Phillips (May 15, 1935 – May 23, 2008) was an American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet.…
  • May 15, 2025
    Brian Peter George Eno (born 15 May 1948), also mononymously known as Eno, is an English musician, songwriter, record producer,…
  • May 15, 2025
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  • May 15, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-fBIoQjFI
  • May 12, 2025
  • May 12, 2025
    Today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic…
  • May 12, 2025
    Gerald Foster Wiggins (May 12, 1922 – July 13, 2008) was an American jazz pianist and organist. Wiggins began as…
  • May 12, 2025
    Burt Freeman Bacharach (May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is…
  • May 12, 2025
    Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and…
  • May 12, 2025
    Gary George Peacock (May 12, 1935 – September 4, 2020) was an American jazzdouble bassist. He recorded a dozen albums under…
  • May 12, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFBJtuQ1Llc
  • May 12, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6raHi6gt25s
  • May 11, 2025
    Happy Mothers Day Mom My mom Jean had the most challenging life imaginable. And yet she persevered regardless of "against…
  • May 11, 2025
    The Heart Nebula (also known as the Running Dog Nebula, Sharpless 2-190) is an emission nebula, 7,500 light-years (2,300 pc) away…
  • May 11, 2025
    Eric Victor Burdon (born 11 May 1941) is an English singer and songwriter. He was previously the lead vocalist of…
  • May 11, 2025
    Irving Berlin (born Israel Isidore Beilin; May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989) was a Russian-born American composer and songwriter.…
  • May 11, 2025
    Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936 – October 17, 2023) was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist,…
  • May 11, 2025
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  • May 11, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP9v3s8U71M
  • May 10, 2025
  • May 10, 2025
    David Thomas Mason (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist from Worcester, who played with the rock…
  • May 10, 2025
    NGC 3184, the Little Pinwheel Galaxy, is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa…
  • May 10, 2025
    Lowell Fillmore "Sly" Dunbar (born 10 May 1952, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican drummer, best known as one half of…
  • May 10, 2025
    Donovan Phillips Leitch (born 10 May 1946), known mononymously as Donovan, is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. He…
  • May 10, 2025
    Jimmy Ponder (May 10, 1946 – September 16, 2013) was an American jazz guitarist. He learned the guitar solo from…
  • May 10, 2025
    Melvin Sokoloff (May 10, 1929 – February 2, 1990), known professionally as Mel Lewis, was an American jazz drummer, session musician,…
  • May 10, 2025
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  • May 10, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQBhn3fdPfc
  • May 9, 2025
    Nole Floyd "Nokie" Edwards (May 9, 1935 – March 12, 2018) was an American musician and member of the Rock and…
  • May 9, 2025
    NGC 4725 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy with a prominent ring structure, located in the northern constellation of Coma…
  • May 9, 2025
    Paul Richard Furay (born May 9, 1944) is an American musician and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member (with…
  • May 9, 2025
    Sonny Curtis (born May 9, 1937) is an American singer and songwriter. Known for his collaborations with Buddy Holly, he…
  • May 9, 2025
    Tania Maria (born May 9, 1948) is a Brazilian artist, singer, composer, bandleader and piano player, singing mostly in Portuguese…
  • May 9, 2025
    Dennis Milton Chambers (born May 9, 1959) is an American jazz fusion and funkdrummer. He was inducted into the Modern…
  • May 9, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZQVfvIZUFQ
  • May 9, 2025
    Rumba Flamenca may be the most widely known and least understood of the flamenco forms. Most of the world first heard…
  • May 8, 2025
  • May 8, 2025
    Cataloged as M1, the Crab Nebula is the first on Charles Messier's famous list of things which are not comets.…
  • May 8, 2025
    Mahmoud Ahmed (Amharic: ማሕሙድ አሕመድ; born 8 May 1941) is an Ethiopian singer. He gained great popularity in Ethiopia in…
  • May 8, 2025
    Keith Jarrett (born May 8, 1945) is an American pianist and composer. Jarrett started his career with Art Blakey and…
  • May 8, 2025
    Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger,…
  • May 8, 2025
    Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911 – August 16, 1938) was an American bluesmusician and songwriter. His singing, guitar playing and…
  • May 8, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNWVBxlN_Lo
  • May 8, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDF_Kr6kXC8
  • May 7, 2025
    "Each drum family, or orchestra, comes from a certain ancestral line, nation, or "tribe", and , as such, has its…
  • May 7, 2025
    Admirl Amos Easton (May 7, 1905 – June 8, 1968), better known by the stage name Bumble Bee Slim, was…
  • May 7, 2025
    KARIBUNI Wednesday May 7th 2pm Performing East African Rumba, Highlife, Mutuashi, Cha Ka Cha, Baksimba, Zouk etc.  Benedictine New Brighton…