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Jessica McClintock (1930–2021), fashion designer. [24] Levi Strauss (1829–1902), German-born American Gold Rush -era businessman who founded the first company to manufacture blue jeans, Levi Strauss & Co., headquartered in San Francisco [25] William Ware Theiss (1930–1992), costume designer.
AFL–CIO. Canadian Labour Congress. Website. afm.org. The American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada (AFM / AFofM) is a 501 (c) (5) [3] labor union representing professional instrumental musicians in the United States and Canada. The AFM, which has its headquarters in New York City, is led by president Tino Gagliardi.
Around the early 1900s, Los Angeles was primarily divided into two music unions: Local 47, a union for white musicians, and Local 767, a union for black musicians. [1] Buddy Collette and several other black musicians including Bill Green, Charles Mingus, Britt Woodman Milt Holland made concentrated efforts to merge the two unions to one, color ...
Beefy Red (based in Marin County, 1969–1972) Beulah. Big Brother and the Holding Company [1] Birdmonster. Blame Sally. Blaqk Audio. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. Blue Cheer. Bracket.
Cool jazz. West Coast jazz refers to styles of jazz that developed in Los Angeles and San Francisco during the 1950s. West Coast jazz is often seen as a subgenre of cool jazz, which consisted of a calmer style than bebop or hard bop. The music relied relatively more on composition and arrangement than on the individually improvised playing of ...
Musicians from Bakersfield, California (35 P) Musicians from Carmel-by-the-Sea, California (7 P) Musicians from Fresno, California (38 P) Musicians from Greater Los Angeles (3 C, 56 P) Musicians from Modesto, California (16 P) Musicians from Palm Springs, California (34 P) Musicians from Riverside, California (19 P)
Paul Hanson. Mickey Hart. Ragnar Hasselgren. Aidan Hawken. Bonnie Hayes. Warren Hellman. Eddie Henderson (musician) Her Space Holiday. Gary Hirsh.
Faith No More and Primus formed in San Francisco in the 80s. Los Angeles' Red Hot Chili Peppers steadily built up media attention with their first recordings in the mid-to-late-1980s, and went on to become one of the world's premier rock bands in the following decade. Santa Cruz spawned Camper Van Beethoven in the mid-1980s.