Over 100K music fans have voted on the 1,150+ Greatest Musical Artists Of All Time, Ranked. Current Top 3: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The ...
Over 98K music fans have voted on the 1,150+ Greatest Musical Artists Of All Time, Ranked. Current Top 3: Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The ...
A talented multi-instrumentalist, Los Angeles-born Eric Dolphy was a bonafide musical triple-threat; a phenomenally talented master of the alto saxophone, bass clarinet and flute who combined technical dexterity with forward-thinking musical concepts. Starting out in drummer Chico Hamilton’s band in...
in the mid-40s. Parker’s influence was pervasive and his explorations helped to change the course of jazz, transforming it from dance music to art. In Parker’s wake came a raft of virtuoso jazz saxophonists during the 50s, including
As a jazz instrumentalist, Davis is noted for his use of space and cool use of the trumpet’s mid register, although some of his post-’50s work reveals a wilder side. While other jazz trumpeters could play higher and faster than Miles, his ability to put together fabulous bands and cre...
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Eiko Ishibashi’s lovely score washes its half-buried emotions in gentle percussion and piano. It’s a score that broadcaster, critic, writer and all-round cinephile superhero Mark Kermode has had on heavy rotation in his car since Hamaguchi’s meditative master...
Magazine photographer and novice documentarian Sam Jones stumbled on a powder keg of drama when he filmed Wilco as they recorded their fourth album: Singer Jeff Tweedy and multi-instrumentalist Jay Bennett clash. Reprise Records refuses to release the experimental but tunefulYankee Hotel Foxtrotand...
Performing internationally with many of the world's foremost conductors and instrumentalists, he is also founder and leader of the Classe d'Excellence de Violoncelle at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Recording exclusively for Erato (Warner Classics), Capuçon has won multiple awards and boas...
Enya (born Eithne Patricia Ní Bhraonáin on 17 May 1961), is an Irish singer, instrumentalist and composer. The media sometimes refer to her by the Anglicized name, Enya Brennan. She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad, before leaving to per...
Offering a rustic American (if 80 percent Canadian) corrective to the heady excesses of the Sixties,the Band's 1968 debut,Music From Big Pink, evolved naturally out of the group'sBasement Tapessessions withBob Dylan. Forget the future, these multi-instrumentalists seemed to argue; the past ...