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Art Tatum. Arthur Tatum Jr. (/ ˈteɪtəm /, October 13, 1909 – November 5, 1956) was an American jazz pianist who is widely regarded as one of the greatest ever. [ 1 ][ 2 ] From early in his career, fellow musicians acclaimed Tatum's technical ability as extraordinary. Tatum also extended jazz piano's vocabulary and boundaries far beyond his ...
Cano was born in Los Angeles on June 6, 1927. [1] His mother was Mexican-American, [1] and his father, a bass guitarist, [2] was Mexican. [1] Cano's grandfather played with the Mexico City Symphony. [2] Cano had classical piano lessons from the age of five. [1] He also had training for the bass led by his grandfather and others, as well as ...
Occupation. Musician. Instrument (s) Bass, bassoon, saxophone, backing vocals. Formerly of. Elton John, Warpipes. Robert Wayne Birch (July 14, 1956 – August 15, 2012) was an American session musician, playing bass guitar as a sideman to a variety of notable artists.
Biography. John Pisano was born in Staten Island, New York, on February 6, 1931. Pisano worked with Herb Alpert, Billy Bean, Chico Hamilton, Peggy Lee, and Joe Pass. [1] He died in Los Angeles on May 2, 2024, at the age of 93. [2][3]
Biography. Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on September 10, 1949, [1] and raised in Romulus, Michigan, Barbara Morrison recorded her first appearance for radio in Detroit at the age of 10. In 1973 when she was 23, she moved to Los Angeles [2] and sang with Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson 's band. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, she recorded ...
Wayman Tisdale. Wayman Lawrence Tisdale (June 9, 1964 – May 15, 2009) [ 1 ] was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, [ 2 ] he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009.
A jazz funeral is a funeral procession accompanied by a brass band, in the tradition of New Orleans, Louisiana. Drummers at the funeral of jazz musician Danny Barker in 1994. They include Louis Cottrell, (great-grandson of New Orleans' innovative drumming pioneer, Louis Cottrell, Sr. and grandson of New Orleans clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr ...
Warren Wilson, the former KTLA broadcast journalist who spent four decades covering some of the biggest stories in Los Angeles’ history, died Friday at his home in Oxnard, Calif. He was 90. His ...