As America's 39th President, Carter's accomplishments included a landmark peace accord between Israel and Egypt; improved relations with China; the SALT II nuclear treaty with the Soviet Union; the return of the Panama Canal to Panama; an expansion of the national park system; deregulation of ...
David Mason (2 April 1926 – 29 April 2011) was an English orchestral, solo and session trumpet player. He played the flugelhorn for the premiere of Ralph Vaughan Williams's ninth symphony and the piccolo trumpet solo on the Beatles' song "Penny Lane". ...
The tempo quickens to a Crescent City bounce on the biting “Pray The Gay Away,” a mocking rebuke of gospel singer Kim Burrell’s 2016 homophobic rant. Underneath the Middle Eastern-Ùavored melody and Nicholas Payton’s lacerating trumpet solo, one hears the antidote—“pray the hate ...
which placed her birth date at October 21, 1925. A native of Havana, Cuba, she grew up in a household headed by her father, a railroad stoker. The family was of Afro–Cuban heritage, descendants of the Africans who were forcibly brought to the island nation to work in...
After beginning violin lessons in third grade, Lesh switched to trumpet, and earned a chair in the Oakland Symphony Orchestra while he was a teenager. But in 1965, while he was working as a radio station sound engineer, Lesh was asked by Jerry Garcia to join his rock band, The Warlocks....
After beginning violin lessons in third grade, Lesh switched to trumpet, and earned a chair in the Oakland Symphony Orchestra while he was a teenager. But in 1965, while he was working as a radio station sound engineer, Lesh was asked by Jerry Garcia to join his rock band, The Warlocks....
But after Jones' family moved to Seattle when he was 11, he started playing trumpet in the school band, and became friends with another young musician named Ray Charles. By 15, Jones was good enough to be hired by band leader Lionel Hampton. His first professional gig only lasted about fi...