Hal Blaine is the accompanist to Phil Spector’s “Wall of Sound” and one of the most sought-after session drummers in L.A. He has played on forty Number One singles.Blaine, who was born Harold Simon Belsky in 1929, became a professional drummer in 1948. In 2000, Blaine...

All Federico Fellini feature films ranked in order of greatness. (Henri Matisse , music 1910)  

LARK, released in 1972, was Linda’s first with producer Jim Cregan.In recent years, samples from these tracks have appeared in singles by hip-hop artist  Common,introducing a new generation of listeners to Linda’s work.Gifted with an incredible 5 octave vocal range,...

We all know Vangelis' talent as a composer. Until 2003 only few people were aware of his work as a painter. Not surprisingly, as until then Vangelis considered painting a private matter  On June 5th of 2003 however that all changed when an public exhibition of...

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Trumpeter Clifford Brown, a brilliant improviser and a model for clean-living in jazz, was born  (October 3) in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1930.Brown was a pioneering trumpeter when it came to bebop and hard-bop, an artist whose effervescent personality, warm tone and...