This list has the best jazz trombonists to ever pick up the instrument. These best jazz trombone players in history are from different eras but are all extremely talented jazz musicians. The great trombonists on this list have the ability to create flawless music whether its a rehea...
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Peter Tosh,UB40, or Shaggy, you will find something to enjoy in this list of reggae gems. So sit back, relax, and get ready to groove to the best reggae songs ever.
He was heavily influenced by Texas blues musicians such as T-Bone Walker and Albert Kingbut developed a style that blended elements of traditional blues with rock and roll. Vaughan's career took off in the early 1980s, and he went on to become one of themost renowned guitar players of hi...
Born in Chicago in 1909 Goodman grew up in an era marked by an ever-changing definition of what it meant to be an American. He received invaluable early musical experience at the Hull House, a settlement house that was a haven for poor youth of all races and religions. Its founder, Jane...
Elgar's First Symphony, meanwhile, is one of the most profoundly optimistic things that has ever been written. It’s a work that goes back to Brahms, or probably pre-Brahms, and has that wonderful combination of lyricism on the one hand and real emotional striving on the other. Where to...
Co-founder of The Rolling Stones (Stewart was the first to respond to Brian Jones's advertisement in Jazz News seeking musicians to form a rhythm & blues group). Stewart was dismissed from the line-up by the band's manager, Andrew Loog Oldham, in May 1963 but remained as road manager ...
A couple of years later, he laid down an epic, soaring guitar solo on their masterpiece “Firth of Fifth,” one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever to appear on a prog-rock album. He left the group in 1977 to pursue a solo career that continues to this day. “I’m very ...
When Kathleen Hanna went to a workshop held by playwright/novelist Kathy Acker, she declared that she wanted to be a writer because she had so many things to say, but no one ever listened to her. You should be in a band then, the author told her — so Hanna took her advice, starte...