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Eli Bennett (born March 9, 1989) [1] is a Canadian Juno Award-nominated jazz saxophonist and Leo Award-winning film composer. [2] He has composed more than twenty film scores [3] and in 2018 received his first Leo Award for Best Musical Score in a Feature Length Documentary for the film Believe: The True Story of Real Bearded Santas. [4]
More than 200 firefighters responded to the massive blaze on West 145th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue just after 2:40 p.m. that left five civilians and four firefighters injured ...
William "Benny" Benjamin (July 25, 1925 – April 20, 1969), [1] [a] nicknamed Papa Zita, [4] was an American musician, most notable as the primary drummer for the Motown Records studio band The Funk Brothers. [5] He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and was named the eleventh best drummer of all time by Rolling Stone ...
Joseph "Amp" Fiddler, who played keyboard in Parliament-Funkadelic and mentored a young J Dilla, died Sunday of cancer at 65. Fiddler's family announced his death in an Instagram post Monday ...
Messina first played in jazz clubs in Detroit starting in the late 1940s. [2] By his mid-twenties, he was playing in the ABC Television studio band, accompanying such guests as Sonny Stitt, [5] Charlie Parker, [2] Stan Getz, [5] Jack Teagarden, Lee Konitz, [5] Jimmy Giuffre, Pepper Adams, [6] Donald Byrd, [5] Frank Rosolino, and Dizzy Gillespie. [2]
This includes artists who have either been very important to the funk genre or have had a considerable amount of exposure (such as in the case of one who has been on a major label). Bands are listed by the first letter in their name (not including the words "a", "an", or "the"), and individuals are listed by last name.
The Alarm played their first gig in the Victoria Hotel in Prestatyn on 10 June 1981. [3] "Shout to the Devil" was the first song to be played. Shout to the Devil" was the first song to be played. Peters wrote the song that day and as it suited the three acoustics and drumkit line-up, the band used to rehearse it during the soundcheck.
The band continued to play live, though most of the original members died through the years; Durham died in 1973, Webb died in 1982, Draffen died in 2002, Love died in 2014, [6] and McCormick followed in 2022. [11]