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  • June 7, 2025
    Nii Moi ‘Speedy’ Acquaye was born on 07 June 1931(died 9-15-1993) in Accra, Ghana, then known as the Gold Coast.…
  • June 7, 2025
    Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks (June 7, 1932 – August 13, 1974) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and composer best…
  • June 7, 2025
    Talmage Holt Farlow (June 7, 1921 – July 25, 1998) was an American jazzguitarist. He was nicknamed "Octopus" because of…
  • June 7, 2025
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  • June 7, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPd_MnKgSxQ
  • June 6, 2025
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    Erev Shabbat Service welcoming the new Cantor Alex Bonoff. Music with Jayson Rodovsky, Jeff Bailey, Pete Whitman and mick laBriola.…
  • June 6, 2025
    The bright clusters and nebulae of planet Earth's night sky are often given the names of flowers or insects, and…
  • June 6, 2025
    Steven Siro Vai born June 6, 1960) is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and…
  • June 6, 2025
    Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander OJ CD (born 6 June 1944) is a JamaicanAmerican jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean…
  • June 6, 2025
    Grant Green (June 6, 1935 – January 31, 1979) was an American jazz guitarist and composer. Green has been called…
  • June 6, 2025
    The basic compás for Farruca is a bar of E7 with a distinctive melody (b-c#-d- b) on the second string…
  • June 6, 2025
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  • June 5, 2025
    On June 2nd of 2002 Diego LaBriola was struck by a vehicle in front of 3932 Cedar Ave in south…
  • June 5, 2025
    Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies…
  • June 5, 2025
    Laura Phillips "Laurie" Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is an American avant-gardeartist, musician and filmmaker whose work encompasses performance art,…
  • June 5, 2025
    Gordon "Specs" Powell (June 5, 1922 – September 15, 2007) was an American jazz drummer who began performing in the swingera.…
  • June 5, 2025
    Peter Erskine (born June 5, 1954) is an American jazz drummer. He was a member of the jazz fusiongroups Weather…
  • June 5, 2025
    Jerry González (June 5, 1949 – October 1, 2018) was an American bandleader, trumpeter and percussionist. He was of Puerto…
  • June 5, 2025
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  • June 4, 2025
    The USA's NSF and DOE commissioned the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Cerro Pachón, Chile. In final testing before routine…
  • June 4, 2025
    Michael George Campbell (4 June 1954 – 15 March 2008), better known as Mikey Dread, was a Jamaican singer, producer,…
  • June 4, 2025
    Holly Michelle Phillips (Gilliam; born June 4, 1944) is an American singer, songwriter and actress. Described by Time magazine as…
  • June 4, 2025
    Francisco de Jesús Rivera Figueras (born 4 June 1948), known as Paquito D'Rivera, is a Cuban-American alto saxophonist, clarinetist and…
  • June 4, 2025
    Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best…
  • June 4, 2025
    Oliver Edward Nelson (June 4, 1932 – October 28, 1975) was an American jazzsaxophonist, clarinetist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. His…
  • June 4, 2025
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  • June 3, 2025
    Jay or James Arthur "Jimmy" Rogers (June 3, 1924 – December 19, 1997) was an American Chicago blues singer, guitarist and…
  • June 3, 2025
    About 7,000 years ago that star exploded in a supernova, leaving the Veil Nebula. At the time, the expanding cloud…
  • June 3, 2025
    Curtis Lee Mayfield (June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. Dubbed the…
  • June 3, 2025
    Grachan Moncur III (June 3, 1937 – June 3, 2022) was an American jazztrombonist. He was the son of jazz…
  • June 3, 2025
    Freda Josephine Baker (McDonald; June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975), naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer,…
  • June 3, 2025
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  • June 3, 2025
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  • June 2, 2025
    A galaxy ablaze with young stars is the subject of today’s NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week. This…
  • June 2, 2025
    Ilaiyaraaja (born Gnanathesigan) June 3 1943 is an Indian musician, composer, arranger, conductor, orchestrator, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and playback singer popular for…
  • June 2, 2025
    Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who was the drummer of the…
  • June 2, 2025
    Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet, OM, GCVO (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many…
  • June 2, 2025
    Valaida Snow (June 2, 1904 – May 30, 1956) was an American jazz musician and entertainer who performed internationally. She was…
  • June 2, 2025
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  • June 1, 2025
  • June 1, 2025
    "We live in a culture that values people for their products, achievements and ability to consume. Instead of cultivating the…
  • June 1, 2025
    The featured galaxy is labelled UGC 1810 by itself, but together with its collisional partner is known as Arp 273.…
  • June 1, 2025
    Ronald David Wood (born 1 June 1947) is an English rock musician, best known as a member of the Rolling…
  • June 1, 2025
    Nelson Smock Riddle Jr. (June 1, 1921 – October 6, 1985) was an American arranger, composer, bandleader and orchestrator whose…
  • June 1, 2025
    Herbert Edward Lovelle (June 1, 1924 – April 8, 2009) was an American drummer, who played jazz, R&B, rock, and…
  • June 1, 2025
    Lafayette Leake (June 1, 1919 – August 14, 1990) was an American blues and jazz pianist, organist, vocalist and composer…
  • June 1, 2025
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  • May 31, 2025
    Stop using Native Names for sports teams or anything without permission. I never use DRUM CIRCLE because Dakota Medicine Man…
  • May 31, 2025
    Elsewhere in the 60s and 70s, the most notable rock bands were forming. Live sound wasn’t exactly the kind of…
  • May 31, 2025
    Music is a form of Healing and whatever we all do with our music as long as we keep sustaining…
  • May 31, 2025
    Performing with Ahmed Yusuf & Araa Ensemble warming up for Lisa Gutkin at Hook & Ladder 730 set. Trio version…
  • May 31, 2025
    NGC 5364 is a grand design spiral galaxy located 54.5 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is…
  • May 31, 2025
    John Henry Bonham (31 May 1948 – 25 September 1980) was an English musician who was the drummer of the…
  • May 31, 2025
    Emmanuel Tettey Mensah (31 May 1919– 19 July 1996), was a Ghanaianmusician who was regarded as the "King of Highlife"…
  • May 31, 2025
    Louis Hayes (born May 31, 1937) is an American jazz drummer and band leader.He was with McCoy Tyner's trio for…