Tony Curtis is the other comedic half in the 1959 hitSome Like it Hot. His character, Joe, dons many disguises throughout the film: man on the run, female saxophone player, and wealthy heir to the Shell Oil fortune. Despite all the complications, he finds love with the sweet Sugar Kane...
Also ranks #8 on Who Is The Most Famous Thomas In The World? 41 Gladys Knight 646 votes Beginning her career as the lead singer of Gladys Knight & The Pips, she went on to forge a successful solo career that saw her become one of the most respected figures in soul mus...
X-Ray Spex toed the line between punk and New Wave. Their saxophone player helped the latter, while singer Poly Styrene (who died of cancer in 2011) fed their punk urges. She was the genre's greatest female singer, and her gasoline-fueled vocals makeGermfree Adolescentsone of punk's best...
Later, this led me to emulate John Coltrane’s saxophone on ‘Eight Miles High.’ Without compression, I couldn’t have sustained the riff’s first note.”“I practiced eight hours a day on that ‘Rick,'” McGuinn said, “I really worked it. In those days, acoustic 12-strings had wid...
From the ecstatic flights of his playing, and the sometimes explicitly religious iconography he employed to contextualize it, it is clear that the something he sought had a spiritual dimension. But for all his yearning toward a higher plane, the giant of jazz saxophone—who died on Saturday at...
Born Farrell Sanders in Little Rock, Ark., Sanders began playing tenor saxophone in high school and after graduating started playing in clubs in Oakland, Calif., and later in New York City. In 1965, he released his first album, Pharoah's First, and also became a member of John Coltrane'...
a neighbor who played saxophone and went with me had talked our way into joining the band – minus Jason – for drinks at the hotel across the street. I soaked in the conversation and experiences until Ellis arrived. He started telling stories about when Charlie Parker was in Jay McShann’...
The guitar has been the doorway into music for me all my life and when I hear someone who has refined his craft into a fluent language like Martin then it is the greatest buzz on the planet. Martin’s interpretation of the music he plays reveals no demarcation lines or boundaries just an...
The rehearsals of your “Les noces de Prométhée” (Marriage of Prometheus) are proceeding well at Weimar and Jena; we shall pay particular attention to the 4 harps, the saxophones, etc. But what is of the greatest consequence is yourself. I have announced your coming at the Court and in...
“Tonight, with full but broken hearts, we must share the news of our father and brother Quincy Jones’ passing,” the family said in a statement. “And although this is an incredible loss for our family, we celebrate the great life that ...