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The Hot Club of San Francisco is an American gypsy jazz band. [1] [2] Led by guitarist, songwriter, and arranger Paul 'Pazzo' Mehling, the group uses the instrumentation of violin, bass, and guitars from Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli’s Quintette du Hot Club de France and performs arrangements of gypsy jazz standards, pop songs, and original compositions by Mehling.
Before Jerry Garcia's death, "Box of Rain" was the last song ever performed live at a Grateful Dead concert, during the final encore at Soldier Field in Chicago on July 9, 1995. It was the first song played at the first Fare Thee Well show at Soldier Field on July 3, 2015.
This is a list of bands from the San Francisco Bay Area, music groups founded in the San Francisco Bay Area or were closely associated with the region for a significant part of the group's active existence. Individual musicians who formed bands under their own name there are included, but not if they were primarily solo artists.
The "Texas Tommy Swing" was composed by Sid Brown, with lyrics by Val Harris, and was published by the World's Fair Publishing Company in San Francisco in January or February 1911. The sheet music cover was designed in the form of the front page of a newspaper, with the headline reading "The Dance That Makes the Whole World Stare."
Playing a wide range of music genres including jazz, blues, tango, swing, funk, and pop, [1] the group challenges the traditional classical music foundation of the string quartet. Quartet San Francisco won a tango music competition in New York in 2004, [ 2 ] and their albums have been nominated five times for Grammy Awards: three in the Best ...
Grimes Poznikov (August 5, 1946 – October 27, 2005), known as "The Human Jukebox," was an American musician and entertainer, a fixture of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf in the 1970s and 1980s. He was a street performer , who would wait in a decorated cardboard refrigerator box until a passerby offered him a donation and requested a song.
Ramon Sender 2011 Morton Subotnick 2012. The San Francisco Tape Music Center, or SFTMC, was founded in the summer of 1962 [1] by composers Ramon Sender and Morton Subotnick as a collaborative, "non profit corporation developed and maintained" by local composers working with tape recorders and other novel compositional technologies, which functioned both as an electronic music studio and ...
Chart performance for Live in San Francisco; Chart (2001–06) Peak position Argentine Music DVD [3] 11 Australian Music DVD [4] 9 French Albums [5] 69 New Zealand Music DVD [6] 5 Swedish Music DVD (Sverigetopplistan) [7] 13 US Top Music Videos [8] 10