by Britt Ryan | Sep 28, 2020 | Building, Music
What’s that sound? It’s our L-Acoustics A Series A10 Speakers that will be installed at Jimmy’s On Congress. We received an exciting update about these speakers from Jason Raboin of Klondike Sound LLC last week. Jason is our Event Audio and Lighting...
by Britt Ryan | Sep 28, 2020 | Today in Music History
Ben E. King (aka Benjamin Earl Nelson, 1938–2015), born in Henderson, North Carolina, on this day in 1938, saw his iconic 1961 hit song made even more famous by another King — horror author Steven King, whose novella was adapted into a hit 1986 film. Here’s Ben E....
by Britt Ryan | Sep 27, 2020 | Today in Music History
Miles Davis is said to have called him “the best there was of all the bebop piano players.” A protégé of Thelonius Monk and another jazz great who died too young, Bud Powell (1924-1966) was born on this day in Harlem. He is regarded as one of the most important...
by Britt Ryan | Sep 26, 2020 | Today in Music History
“Summertime.” The incomparable George Gershwin created it. Here are a few of the stars who have covered it. Billie Holiday. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong. Willie Nelson. Janis Joplin. Johann Sebastian Bach. Not really, but check Billy Preston’s version at about...
by Britt Ryan | Sep 25, 2020 | Today in Music History
“Samuel Carthorne Rivers Jr. creates scenes, has done everywhere he’s parked himself during a 50-year-plus career in music devoted to embracing the unknown.” That’s how a DownBeat writer described Sam Rivers (1923-2011), the jazz innovator born in El Reno, Oklahoma,...
