Topic: Musicians/Artists

  • July 5, 2025
    Jaime Royal Robertson OC (July 5, 1943 – August 9, 2023) was a Canadian musician of Indigenous and Jewish ancestry.…
  • July 5, 2025
    Overton Amos Lemons (July 5, 1913 – October 7, 1966),[1] known as Smiley Lewis, was an American New Orleans rhythm…
  • July 5, 2025
    Inayat Khan Rehmat Khan (Urdu: عنایت خان رحمت خان; 5 July 1882 – 5 February 1927), was an Indian professor…
  • July 5, 2025
    Arthur Murray Blythe (July 5, 1940 – March 27, 2017) was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer. He was…
  • July 4, 2025
    Shabbat service with Alex Bonoff, Jayson Rodovsky, Jeff Bailey, Pete Whitman and mick laBriola. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR6Yi5swbNY&list=PL9xUMSeYVxQBf753I7Gm4106RQyr3fKcT
  • July 4, 2025
    Peter Rowan (born July 4, 1942 Wayland, Massachusetts) is an American bluegrass musician and composer. He plays guitar, fiddle, dobro,…
  • July 4, 2025
    Fred Wesley (born July 4, 1943 Columbus, Georgia) is an American trombonist who worked with James Brown in the 1960s…
  • July 4, 2025
    William Harrison Withers Jr. (July 4, 1938 – March 30, 2020 Slab Fork, West Virginia) was an American singer and…
  • July 4, 2025
    Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 – January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American…
  • July 4, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHZg2R0PzGE&list=PL9g8AMv7aqcGh6bEQL1lZdZp-LpGUAjuH&index=16
  • July 4, 2025
    The underlying compás for siguiriyas is a 12 count pattern with beats grouped as 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, and…
  • July 3, 2025
    John Coles (July 3, 1926 – December 21, 1997) was an American jazz trumpeter. Coles was born in Trenton, New…
  • July 3, 2025
    Thomas Joseph Tedesco (July 3, 1930 – November 10, 1997) was an American guitarist and studio musician in Los Angeles…
  • July 3, 2025
    Lonnie Smith (July 3, 1942 – September 28, 2021 Lackawanna, New York), styled Dr. Lonnie Smith, was an American jazz…
  • July 3, 2025
    Rhoda Scott (born July 3, 1938 Weymouth Township, New Jersey) is an American soul jazz organist and singer. She is…
  • July 3, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2f1ZrOhK08&list=OLAK5uy_lXJWyoV_1h5TarIXBuamtHueeoSRPOz-Q&index=5
  • July 2, 2025
    Born Angelo Chambers, 2 July 1924, Denton, Texas, USA, d. 7 June 1993, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. While living in…
  • July 2, 2025
    Joe English (born July 2, 1949 NY) is an American musician, vocalist and songwriter who, during the 1970s, played drums…
  • July 2, 2025
    Imam Mohammad Ahmad Eissa (Arabic: إمام محمد أحمد عيسى) or El Sheikh Emam (Arabic: الشيخ إمام; July 2, 1918 –…
  • July 2, 2025
    Ahmad Jamal (born Frederick Russell Jones; July 2, 1930 – April 16, 2023 Pittsburg) was an American jazz pianist, composer,…
  • June 30, 2025
    Apostolos Nikolaidis (Greek: Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης) (30 June 1938 – 22 April 1999) was a Greek singer whose career spanned four decades. He…
  • June 30, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_Cqy3uxRXc&t=3s David Kenneth Ritz Van Ronk (June 30, 1936 – February 10, 2002) was an American folk singer. An important figure in the American…
  • June 30, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy3vqxY97tY Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 – April 20, 2007 Chicago) was an American jazzpianist and composer. Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a…
  • June 30, 2025
    Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951 Philadelphia) is an American bassist, composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one…
  • June 29, 2025
    Elmer "Mousey" Alexander (June 19, 1922 – October 9, 1988) was an American jazz drummer. Alexander was born in Gary,…
  • June 29, 2025
    Alexandre Lagoya (29 June 1929 – 24 August 1999) was a French classical guitarist and composer. His early career included…
  • June 29, 2025
    Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by her stage name Little Eva, was an American…
  • June 29, 2025
    Frank Henry Loesser (June 29, 1910 – July 28, 1969) was an American songwriter who wrote the music and lyrics…
  • June 29, 2025
    Julian Priester (born June 29, 1935 Chicago) is an American jazz trombonist and occasional euphoniumist. He is sometimes credited "Julian…
  • June 28, 2025
    David Howard Lanz (born June 28, 1950, in Seattle, Washington) is an American pianist and composer. His album Cristofori's Dream…
  • June 28, 2025
    Anthony John Medeski (born June 28, 1965) is an American jazz keyboard player and composer. Medeski is a veteran of…
  • June 28, 2025
    David "Honeyboy" Edwards (June 28, 1915 – August 29, 2011) was an American delta blues guitarist and singer from Mississippi.
  • June 27, 2025
    Joseph Edward Covington (born Joseph Edward Michno; June 27, 1945 – June 4, 2013) was an American drummer, best known…
  • June 27, 2025
    Jerome Solon Felder (June 27, 1925 – March 14, 1991), known professionally as Doc Pomus, was an American blues singer…
  • June 27, 2025
    Johnny "Big Moose" Walker (June 27, 1927 – November 27, 1999) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues pianist and…
  • June 27, 2025
    St. Elmo Sylvester Hope (June 27, 1923 – May 19, 1967) was an American jazzpianist, composer, and arranger, chiefly in…
  • June 27, 2025
    Local residents of the Spanish province called Almeria, nicknamed ‘tarantos,’ have given their name to a Flamenco cante and toque,…
  • June 26, 2025
    Zachary Charles Breaux (June 26, 1960 – February 20, 1997) was an American jazzguitarist who was influenced by George Benson…
  • June 26, 2025
    Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born 26 June 1942), is a Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician, known for both his musical innovation…
  • June 26, 2025
    Big Bill Broonzy (born Lee Conley Bradley; June 26, 1893 or 1903 – August 14, 1958 Lake Dick, Arkansas or…
  • June 26, 2025
    Reginald "Reggie" Workman (born June 26, 1937) is an American avant-garde jazzand hard bop double bassist, recognized for his work…
  • June 26, 2025
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-XgBJ74GSU&list=PL6ABE1DA0FE4E1ACD&index=22
  • June 25, 2025
    Ian Richard McDonald (25 June 1946 – 9 February 2022) was an English musician, composer and multi-instrumentalist, best known as…
  • June 25, 2025
    Carly Elisabeth Simon (born June 25, 1943) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and author. She rose to fame in…
  • June 25, 2025
    Eddie Lee Floyd (born June 25, 1937 Montgomery, AL) is an American R&B and soul singer and songwriter, best known…
  • June 25, 2025
    Clifton Chenier (June 25, 1925 – December 12, 1987), was an American musician known as a pioneer of zydeco, a…
  • June 25, 2025
    Joe Chambers (born June 25, 1942 Stoneacre, Virginia) is an American jazz drummer, pianist, vibraphonist and composer. In the 1960s…
  • June 25, 2025
    Johnny Henry Smith II (June 25, 1922 – June 11, 2013) was an American cool jazzand mainstream jazz guitarist. He…
  • June 24, 2025
    Derrick ‘Duckie’ Simpson June 24th 1950, the “Gong Gong Gullie” is the founder and leader for reggae’s BLACK UHURU. Although…
  • June 24, 2025
    Michael John Kells Fleetwood (born 24 June 1947) is a British musician, songwriter and actor. He is the drummer, co-founder,…
  • June 24, 2025
    Geoffrey Arnold Beck (24 June 1944 – 10 January 2023) was an English musician. He rose to prominence as the…
  • June 24, 2025
    Terrence Mitchell Riley (born June 24, 1935) is an American composer and performing musician best known as a pioneer of…
  • June 24, 2025
    Perumanoor Gopinathan Pillai, more popularly known as Guru Gopinath (24 June 1908 – 9 October 1987) was a well known…
  • June 23, 2025
    Robert C. Christie Hunter (born Robert Burns; June 23, 1941 – September 23, 2019) was an American lyricist, singer-songwriter, translator…
  • June 23, 2025
    Kevin Edward Locke (Lakota name: Tȟokéya Inážiŋ, meaning "The First to Arise"; June 23, 1954 – September 30, 2022 LA,CA)…
  • June 23, 2025
    Robert Louis Fosse (June 23, 1927 – September 23, 1987 Chicago) was an American choreographer, dancer, filmmaker, and stage director.…
  • June 23, 2025
    Helen Humes (June 23, 1913 – September 13, 1981 Louisville, Kentucky) was an American singer. She was a blues, R&B…
  • June 23, 2025
    Sahib Shihab (born Edmund Gregory; June 23, 1925 – October 24, 1989) was an American jazz and hard bop saxophonist…
  • June 23, 2025
    George Allen Russell (June 23, 1923 – July 27, 2009) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and theorist. He…
  • June 23, 2025
    Milton John Hinton (June 23, 1910 – December 19, 2000) was an American double bassist and photographer. Regarded as the…