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Probably more than any other single creative and production source, the Motown operation, founded in Detroit by Berry Gordy Jr. as Tamla Records in January 1959, has made an extraordinarily powerful a...
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Along with Frankie Avalon and Freddy Cannon, Bobby Rydell was one of the Philadelphia-born Italian-American teen idol singers to burst onto the scene in the late rock ‘n’ roll era, taking...
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Pianist Floyd Cramer was one of the most influential musicians in country music during the late 1950s and early ‘60s, and is especially associated with his use of what was called the “slip...
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Little Jimmy Dickens was one of the most distinctive personalities on the country scene during the post-war era, famous not only for his short stature from which he derived his nickname, but for the n...
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Ornette Coleman was an innovative and pioneering jazz saxophonist, trumpeter, violinist and bandleader who was one of the prime movers in the "free jazz" movement, a term which was crystalli...
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James Brown was a singer songwriter and bandleader who was one of the primary originators of funk and souls music in the 1950s and '60s and became known as "The Godfather Of Soul", underlining his sta...
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Odetta Holmes, generally simply known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, songwriter, and a civil and human rights activist, who acquired a reputation as "The Voice of the Civi...
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This is the first in a new Acrobat series which will be devoted to the illustrious composers who made significant contributions to the Great American Songbook - the songs written during the half-centu...
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Carmen McRae was a close disciple of Billie Holiday, but she developed her own distinctive jazz vocal style as well as being an accomplished pianist, and enjoyed a long and successful career
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