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John Philip Sousa (6 novembre 1854 – 6 mars 1932) était un compositeur américain. Il était également chef d'orchestre, composa de nombreuses et célèbres marches militaires (Stars and Stripes Forever, High School Cadets, Semper fidelis, The Washington Post March, King Cotton, El Capitan…). Son nom a été donné à une variété de tuba populaire dans les fanfares et le jazz Nouvelle-Orléans : le sousaphone, à grand pavillon dirigé vers l'avant et dominant l'orchestre. Sousa est le fils d'un émigrant portugais (mais avait aussi des ascendants espagnols et bavarois). Après avoir appris à jouer de tous les instruments à vent, il...

Band led by John Phillip Sousa starting in the 1890's. They had a number of successful early recordings. Sousa's Band was rather famous at the time. Some considered it the world's most famous band before Benny Goodman. After leaving the military, Sousa formed the band. They toured from approximately 1892-1935, and specialized in patriotic marches. .

Pianist and composer Tiago Sousa has become, in the last six or seven years, one of the most interesting and intriguing Portuguese musicians. Having been the main force behind pioneering local netlabel Merzbau, Tiago’s first solo release, Crepúsculo (2006) paved the way for an intuitive approach to composition whose evolution was dazzling: after Noite/Nuit (2007), a collaboration effort with French artist Sandra Reignoux, The Western Lands (2008), composed after William S. Burroughs’ homonymous novel, signaled Tiago’s first foray into a conceptual sphere that has been one of his trademarks ever-since. The Western Lands, released on the German label Resting Bell,...