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This day (October 16, 1990), in New York City, New York, died Art Blakey, was an American jazz drummer. (more…)
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This day (October 16, 1990), in New York City, New York, died Art Blakey, was an American jazz drummer. (more…)
This day (October 16, 1973), in Yonkers, New York, died Gene Krupa, an American jazz and big band drummer. (more…)
Wayne Shorter‘s ‘The All Seeing Eye’ is his ninth album recorded on October 15, 1965 and released the same year by Blue Note.
Thelonious Monk Trio’ is Monk’s first studio album recorded on October 15 and December 18, 1952; September 22, 1954 and released the same year by Prestige.
Ella Fitzgerald‘s ‘Like Someone in Love’ is a studio album rrecorded on October 15 & 28, 1957 with a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol and released the same year by Verve.
This day (October 14, 1977), in La Moraleja, Alcobendas, died Bing Crosby, an American singer and actor. (more…)
Bill Frisell‘s ‘This Land’ is his fifth album recorded in October, 1992 with Billy Drewes, Curtis Fowlkes, Kermit Driscoll and Joey Baron and released In 1994 by Nonesuch.
This day (October 14, 1990), in New York City, New York, died Leonard Bernstein, American composer (of who composed the music for ‘West Side Story’ among others), pianist and conductor (more…)