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Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet. (1987) Endlessly. (1988) Oop-Pop-A-Da. (1988) Endlessly is an album by the American trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, released in 1988. [1] [2] Gillespie supported the album with a North American tour. [3] Endlessly peaked in the top ten of Billboard' s Jazz Albums chart.
The Los Angeles Times called trumpeter Brian Lynch "a splendid writer and soloist." [4] Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated: "The final recording by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers found the 70-year old drummer (just months before his death) doing what he loved best, leading a group of young players through hard-swinging and generally new music in the ...
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]
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 ...
Education and career. Born in Los Angeles on May 9, 1968, Wilson received his degree in music composition from Bennington College. He counts Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Wes Montgomery, Ry Cooder, and T-Bone Walker among his influences. [1] His first album Anthony Wilson was nominated for a Grammy Award and his second album, Goat Hill Junket ...
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 ...
Carlos Vega (December 7, 1956 – April 7, 1998) was a Cuban-born Los Angeles-based session drummer best known for his performances with James Taylor.As a part of the L.A. studio scene from the late 1970s through the 1990s, Vega contributed to a wide variety of music during the rise and popularity of the California singer-songwriter movement.
Eliza Ann Otis (great-grandmother) Marian Otis Chandler (grandmother) Otis Chandler (November 23, 1927 – February 27, 2006) was the publisher of the Los Angeles Times between 1960 and 1980, leading a large expansion of the newspaper and its ambitions. He was the fourth and final member of the Chandler family to hold the paper's top position.