by Bman | Jan 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Harold "Geezil" Minerve (January 3, 1922 - June 4, 1992) was a Cuban-born jazz alto saxophonist and flautist. Minerve was raised in Florida and began playing music at age 12. He played with Ida Cox early in his career, then worked as a freelance musician in New...
by Bman | Jan 2, 2013 | Uncategorized
Chick Churchill (born Michael George Churchill, 2 January 1946, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England) is the keyboard player of the British late 1960s to 70s rock band, Ten Years After. Churchill began playing the piano at the age of six and studied classical music until he...
by Bman | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ron began playing guitar at seven, was gigging by the time he was 10 and never really wanted to do anything else. Taking the rocky road from Hank Marvin to Robert Johnson and stopping off pretty much everywhere in-between!! He became pretty well qualified in music,...
by Bman | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Alexis Korner (19 April 1928 — 1 January 1984) was a blues musician and radio broadcaster, who has sometimes been referred to as "a Founding Father of British Blues". A major influence on the sound of the British music scene in the 1960s, Korner was instrumental in...
by Bman | Jan 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
Bulee "Slim" Gaillard (January 4, 1916 – February 26, 1991) was an American jazz singer, songwriter, pianist, and guitarist, noted for his vocalese singing and word play in a language he called "Vout". (In addition to speaking 8 other languages, Gaillard wrote a...
