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The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Tobin, [1] she was born in Aubrey, Texas on November 11, 1918, [2] but moved with her family to Denton, Texas, after her father died. [2] When she was 12, she appeared on stage with the North Texas Stage Band. [3] Tobin began singing at Denton High School when she was 14 years old. [2]
A spasm band is a musical group that plays a variety of Dixieland, trad jazz, jug band, or skiffle music. The term "spasm" applied to any band (often made up of children) who made musical instruments out of objects not usually employed for such. The first spasm bands were formed on the streets of New Orleans in the late eighteen hundreds, [1 ...
Musician, artist, writer, educator. Instrument. Trumpet. Labels. daagnim, Clean Feed. Website. Dennis González on Bandcamp. Dennis González, often credited Dennis Gonzalez (August 15, 1954 – March 15, 2022), [1][2] was an American jazz trumpeter, artist, and educator from Texas. He hosted Miles Out on KERA-FM for over twenty years.
Texas's 15th congressional district - since January 3, 2023. Texas's 15th congressional district of the United States House of Representatives includes a thin section of the far south of the state of Texas. The district's current Representative is Republican Monica De La Cruz. Elected in 2022, de la Cruz is the first Republican and woman to ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
Michael White (violinist) Michael Walter White (24 May 1930 – 6 December 2016) was an American jazz violinist. [ 1][ 2] White was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was six years old. His initial career break occurred in 1965, when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz ...
In recent years, Gisbert has become an active and highly respected jazz educator, teaching at festivals and conducting clinics across the United States. He also had two stints on the Jazz faculty at the University of Miami in the 2000s. He has also branched out in producing; bringing the up-and-coming conductor and composer, Chie Imiazumi, to ...
McQueen was born in Ponder, Texas, and raised in Ardmore, Oklahoma. [1] His father left when he was a young boy and his mother died when he was 14 years old, after which he lived with his grandparents. [1] in part because of his cousin, Herschel Evans, a saxophonist with Count Basie during the 1930s. [2]