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Blossom Dearie was a jazz pianist and vocalist with a style and technique which skilfully interwove her piano and voice as she accompanied herself. Her approach to piano was distinctive, using chord v...
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The legendary folk artist Judy Collins has been a respected personality on the music landscape for the last six decades, a singer, guitarist, songwriter and more recently a film director, who was a ke...
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Charlie Spivak was a trumpeter and bandleader of Ukrainian heritage, who played with a string of well-known bands during the 1920s and ‘30s, including those of Paul Specht, Ben Pollack, Tommy an...
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Alger “Texas” Alexander, born around 1900, was a blues singer, who played no musical instruments, but whose deep impressive voice and his highly personal way with blues songs encouraged ma...
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James Darren was an actor who got his first movie contract with Columbia when he was twenty years old in 1956, appearing in several films and TV series until making his first record in 1958, and scori...
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Dakota Staton was a jazz and R&B singer very much in the mould of Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington, whose style was sultry and sophisticated but who was extrovert and funky enough to share an... |
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Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross revolutionised the world of vocal jazz in the 1950s with their unique musical and lyrical techniques that combined bop harmonies with complex lyrical setting...
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Wayne King was a hugely successful bandleader, saxophonist, singer and composer whose orchestra played the “sweet” style of dance band and easy listening music which appealed to the broad ...
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Benny Goodman was often dubbed "The King of Swing", and there is no doubt that he was a key figure in the popularisation of jazz among the mass market during the 1930s.
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