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Stan Getz (Filadelfia, 2 febbraio 1927 – Malibu, 6 giugno 1991) è stato un sassofonista statunitense di musica jazz: il suo sassofono tenore ha brillato particolarmente nel fortunato periodo del cool jazz, per il suo lirismo e lo straordinario calore del suo suono. Il suo vero nome era Stanley Gayetsky. Getz nacque da genitori ebrei di origine ucraina e cominciò a suonare giovanissimo. Già a sedici anni suonava professionalmente per Jack Teagarden (trombonista dei Louis Armstrong All Stars). Nei primi anni di carriera militò nelle principali orchestre del tempo; quella di Stan Kenton nel '44, nella formazione di Jimmy Dorsey...

A "visual-kei" rock band from Osaka, Japan. Years active: 1994 - 1999 "STELLA MARIA" had a lot of member changes in their activity. The band released two mini-albums, two maxi-singles, and a few demo-tapes/live-distributed CDs over the years, they also participated on various compilation albums. Final line-up: Vocal: Tsurugi (DEATH TRASH → 魂爵惑 → D.I.S.C → Lúcide → STELLA MARIA) Programming/Synth Guitar/Electric Guitar: #4 (STELLA MARIA → 廃人黒薔薇族 → STELLA MARIA → LU-C SORT DRIVE → Captain Double Lynch → 雲の旅団 → Skunk Works) Acoustic Guitar/Bass: naoya (STELLA MARIA → CRUNCH) Drums/Percussion: Takashi Ex-members: Bass: Ma～Na (Stella Maria → Snow)...

Stella Rambisai Chiweshe is one of the few women playing the male-dominated mbira-based music of the Shona people. Born in the late 1940s, Chiweshe grew up in Zimbabwe's forest region of Mhondoro, about 45 miles from the capital city, Harare. Chiwese began learning to play the mbira dza vadzimu in 1964. It was very unusual for a girl to play mbira at that time and Chiweshe had to face the dissaproval of her community, where woman performers were often treated as "loose women." Chiweshe perservered to become perhaps the best known player of the instrument outside Zimbabwe. The mbira dza...

stellastarr* is an American New Wave/punk band based in New York City. It is composed of Shawn Christensen (vocals, rhythm guitar), Amanda Tannen (bass, vocals), Arthur Kremer (drums, percussion, keyboards), and Michael Jurin (lead guitar, vocals). The band formed in March 2000 from the ashes of a previous musical effort (Ghistor), formed while studying art and design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. A few years later, after a chance meeting with Michael, who had recently relocated to Brooklyn and had left his former band (Charlotte's Funeral) behind in his hometown of Philadelphia, the former classmates reunited, this time with...