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Ray Brown was born on October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and took piano lessons as a child. [1] After noticing how many pianists attended his high school, he thought of taking up the trombone, but his father was unable to afford one. [1] [2] With a vacancy in the high school jazz orchestra, he took up the upright bass instead. [1]
Relax Records released Hyman's solo piano versions of "All the Things You Are" and "You Couldn't Be Cuter" around 1950. [13] He recorded two honky-tonk piano albums under the pseudonym "Knuckles O'Toole" (including two original compositions), [ 14 ] and recorded more as "Willie the Rock Knox" and "Slugger Ryan".
Hamer Guitars (/ ˈ h eɪ m ər / HAY-mər) was an American electric guitar manufacturer founded in 1973, in Wilmette, Illinois, by vintage guitar shop owners Paul Hamer and Jol Dantzig. The company's early instruments featured guitar designs based on the Gibson Explorer (The Standard) and Gibson Flying V (Vector), before adding more ...
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (/ ˈ k l aɪ b ɜːr n /; July 12, 1934 – February 27, 2013) [1] was an American pianist. At the age of 23, Cliburn achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold War.
Remington was born in Mishawaka, Indiana, a suburb of South Bend; his mother taught him piano until he was about eight years old. [3] He learned to play a conventional guitar in the finger-picking style of Merle Travis. He had lessons from door-to-door instrument salesmen and mail-order lessons at $1.25 per week.
Piano Duo Liva-Stregapede: They play unusual repertoire such as Saint-Saëns' 2-piano arrangement of Liszt's Sonata in B minor, and Shostakovich's arrangement of Honegger's Symphony No. 3; performed world premieres of works by Ástor Piazzolla, unpublished versions for 2 pianos and a version for piano duo by Casella of Beethoven's 9 symphonies ...
This is a List of Epiphone players (musicians) who have made notable use of Epiphone Guitar models in live performances or studio recordings.Because of the great popularity of these models, musicians are listed here only if their use of these instruments was especially significant – that is, they are musicians with long careers who have a history of faithful Epiphone use, or the particular ...
Earl Kenneth Hines, also known as Earl "Fatha" [nb 1] Hines (December 28, 1903 [nb 2] – April 22, 1983), was an American jazz pianist and bandleader.He was one of the most influential figures in the development of jazz piano and, according to one source, "one of a small number of pianists whose playing shaped the history of jazz".