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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 ...
Chuck Niles was a DJ for KKJZ from 1990 until his death in Santa Monica in 2004. [ 2][ 3] Horace Silver ("The Hippest Cat in Hollywood'), Louie Bellson ("Niles Blues"), and Bob Florence ("Bebop Charlie", "Nilestones"), and others have written tunes for "Carlitos Niles". He also appeared in small parts in several films.
Dave Brubeck. David Warren Brubeck (/ ˈbruːbɛk /; December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded as a foremost exponent of cool jazz, Brubeck's work is characterized by unusual time signatures and superimposing contrasting rhythms, meters, tonalities, and combining different styles and genres ...
www .judychamberlain .com. Judy Chamberlain (born September 26, 1944 in New York City) is an American jazz singer, bandleader and journalist known for her extensive repertoire, estimated at four thousand songs from the Great American Songbook. [1] The Los Angeles Times jazz critic Don Heckman has called Judy, "remarkably eclectic and versatile ...
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 ...
Ralph Joseph Gleason (March 1, 1917 – June 3, 1975) was an American music critic and columnist. He contributed for many years to the San Francisco Chronicle, was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival. [1] A pioneering jazz and rock critic, he helped the San Francisco Chronicle transition into ...
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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 ...