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Artist: Scott Yanow
One does not set out to be a jazz writer like one would to be a doctor or a lawyer. It just seems to happen. I was born on October 4, 1954 in the Bronx, New York. From the time I was two until I was 11, I lived in Long Island, New York and then I spent the next five years living in the wastelands of Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park, 30-40 miles... [+] Read More
Artist: Dimitri Mitropoulos
Dimitri Mitropoulos is one of those conductors from the mid-20th century, like Hermann Abendroth, who is being rediscovered as the century draws to a close. A renowned interpreter of the works of Mahler, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, and other late Romantics, he was also one of the most controversial and tragic musical figures of his era, owing to... [+] Read More
Artist: Elizeth Cardoso
Elizete Cardoso, the singer whose album Chega de Saudade launched the bossa nova, was also the first popular singer to interpret Villa-Lobos at the Municipal Theaters of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and was considered by Almirante the best interpreter of Noel Rosa. Adored by Edith Piaf ("C'est merveilleuse! C'est merveilleuse!"), paid homage... [+] Read More
Artist: Riot Squad
At this late date, decades on from when the Riot Squad was an active group, people can be forgiven for not being familiar with them. In point of fact, the band went through so many lineup changes that even in 1967 anyone outside their immediate circle of friends might've been hard put to give a definitive description of the group. Part of their... [+] Read More
Artist: Country Joe & the Fish
If you mention the name Country Joe & the Fish to Americans born in 1955 or earlier, chances are that they'll know the band you're talking about, at least to the degree that they know their most widely played and quoted song, "I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag." The problem is, that particular song captured only the smallest sliver of who... [+] Read More
Artist: Lars Hollmer
In the years since Lars Hollmer first got together with his friends to play music in late-'60s Sweden, it seems unlikely that his primary goal has been rock stardom. For one thing, there is his choice of instruments, with the accordion looming large among them. Although certain accordionists have over the years acquired a hipster cachet, from... [+] Read More
Artist: Julie Andrews
At the commercial height of her career in the '60s, actress/singer Julie Andrews could claim to be the primary performer associated with the longest running musical in Broadway history, the highest grossing Hollywood film ever made, and the biggest-selling album of all time. Each of those achievements was surpassed by others eventually, of... [+] Read More
Artist: Manfred Mann
An R&B band that only played pop to get on the charts, Manfred Mann ranked among the most adept British Invasion acts in both styles. The fact that their range encompassed jazz as well as rhythm & blues, coupled with some elements of their appearance and presentation -- co-founder/keyboardist Manfred Mann's bearded, bespectacled presence -- also... [+] Read More
Artist: Tom Paxton
Tom Paxton proved to be one of the most durable of the singer/songwriters to emerge from the Greenwich Village folk revival scene of the early '60s. In some ways, he had more in common with the late-'50s generation of folksingers such as Dave Van Ronk (who was 16 months his senior) and even older performers than with the new crop of... [+] Read More
Artist: The Weavers
The Weavers had the most extraordinary musical pedigree and pre-history of any performing group in the history of folk or popular music. More than 50 years after their heyday, however, their origins, the level of their success, the forces that cut the group's future off in its prime, and the allure that keeps their music selling are all... [+] Read More
Artist: Graham Nash
Graham Nash is one of the most durable musical figures to have emerged from the 1960s, both as a supporting musician and a star in his own right, and a key figure in both the British Invasion and the '70s singer/songwriter era that followed. As a harmony singer and sometime lead singer with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, his voice... [+] Read More
Artist: The Kingston Trio
In the history of popular music, there are a relative handful of performers who have redefined the content of the music at critical points in history: Blind Lemon Jefferson, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra, the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin -- people whose music left the landscape, and definition of popular music, altered completely. The... [+] Read More
Artist: Jeanette MacDonald
Singer-actress Jeanette MacDonald is a perfect example of what, decades after her death, became known as a classical crossover" artist. In her films, radio and television appearances, concerts, and recordings, she sang opera, operetta, art songs, and show tunes, often with an eye toward popularizing classical music for the masses. This was a... [+] Read More
Artist: Richard Rodgers
Richard Rodgers was the most successful composer of popular music for the theater in the 20th century. Over the course of a 60-year career, he wrote the song scores for 42 musicals staged on Broadway or in the West End, as well as 11 movie musicals and two television musicals (not counting numerous film and TV adaptations of his stage... [+] Read More
Artist: Arturo Toscanini
One of the greatest opera and concert directors of all time, Arturo Toscanini was internationally known for his forcefulness and style of conducting, which led to near-perfection in his work. He was, from the opening years of the 20th century until his retirement in the 1950s, the most prominent orchestra conductor in the world, his only peer... [+] Read More
