Topic: Musicians/Artists

  • August 7, 2025
    Charles Luckyth Roberts (August 7, 1887 – February 5, 1968 Philadelphia), better known as Luckey Roberts, was an American composer…
  • August 6, 2025
    Ravi Coltrane (born August 6, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist. Co-owner of the record label RKM Music, he has…
  • August 6, 2025
    Regina Carter (born August 6, 1966 Detroit) is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of jazz saxophonist James…
  • August 6, 2025
    Anna Marie Wooldridge (August 6, 1930 – August 14, 2010 Chicago), known professionally as Abbey Lincoln, was an American jazz…
  • August 6, 2025
    Charles Edward Haden (August 6, 1937 – July 11, 2014 Shenandoah, Iowa) was an American jazz double bass player, bandleader,…
  • August 5, 2025
    Guillaume Du Fay (Dufay, Du Fayt; 5 August 1397 – 27 November 1474) was a composer and music theorist of…
  • August 5, 2025
    Leonard Harold Breau (August 5, 1941 – August 12, 1984) was an American-Canadian guitarist. He blended many styles of music,…
  • August 5, 2025
    Airto Guimorvan Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer, composer and percussionist. He is married to jazz…
  • August 4, 2025
    Terri Lyne Carrington (born August 4, 1965) is an American jazz drummer, composer, producer, and educator. She has played with…
  • August 4, 2025
    Mitchell Herbert Ellis (August 4, 1921 – March 28, 2010) was an American jazzguitarist. During the 1950s, he was in…
  • August 4, 2025
    Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist.…
  • August 3, 2025
    Lucky Philip Dube ( 3 August 1964 – 18 October 2007) was a South African reggae musician and Rastafarian. His…
  • August 3, 2025
    Roscoe Mitchell (born August 3, 1940) is an American composer, jazzinstrumentalist, and educator, known for being "a technically superb –…
  • August 3, 2025
    Hamid Drake (born August 3, 1955) is an American jazz drummer and percussionist. By the close of the 1990s, Hamid…
  • August 3, 2025
    Anthony Dominick Benedetto (August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023), known professionally as Tony Bennett, was an American jazz and…
  • August 3, 2025
    Eddie Jefferson (August 3, 1918 – May 9, 1979) was an American jazz vocalist and lyricist. He is credited as…
  • August 2, 2025
    "Fat" Larry James (August 2, 1949 - December 5, 1987) James died from a heart attack, at the age of…
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    Nicola James Capaldi (2 August 1944 – 28 January 2005) was an English singer-songwriter and drummer. His musical career spanned…
  • August 2, 2025
    José Ángel Lamas (August 2, 1775 – December 10, 1814) was a Venezuelan classical musician and composer born in Caracas.…
  • August 2, 2025
    Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist…
  • August 1, 2025
    Thomas Richard Bolin (August 1, 1951 – December 4, 1976) was an American rockguitarist who played with Zephyr (from 1969…
  • August 1, 2025
    Paddy Moloney (Irish: Pádraig Ó Maoldomhnaigh; 1 August 1938 – 12 October 2021) was an Irish musician, composer, and record…
  • August 1, 2025
    Ramblin' Jack Elliott (born Elliott Charles Adnopoz; August 1, 1931 NY) is an American folk singer, songwriter and story teller.…
  • August 1, 2025
    Jerome John Garcia (August 1, 1942 – August 9, 1995) was an American musician who was the lead guitarist and a…
  • August 1, 2025
    Alegrías Baile Entrada - Entrance, often performed to a guitar falseta or to the singer’s entrance (salida) ti ri ti tran, tran...…
  • July 31, 2025
    Dafnis Prieto (born July 31, 1974) is a Cuban-American drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. In his home town of Santa…
  • July 31, 2025
    Stanley Jordan (born July 31, 1959 Chicago) is an American jazz guitarist noted for his playing technique, which involves tapping…
  • July 31, 2025
    Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931 Detroit) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top…
  • July 31, 2025
    Henry Jones Jr. (July 31, 1918 – May 16, 2010) was an American jazz pianist, bandleader, arranger, and composer. Critics…
  • 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…
  • July 30, 2025
    Vernel Anthony Fournier (July 30, 1928 – November 4, 2000), known from 1975 as Amir Rushdan, was an American jazz…
  • 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 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 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 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 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 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…
  • July 23, 2025
    Carei Thomas (*July 23, 1938 in Pittsburgh; † May 28, 2020 in Minneapolis) Carei and I had many great conversations;…
  • July 23, 2025
    Tony Joe White (July 23, 1943 – October 24, 2018), nicknamed the Swamp Fox,was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist, best…