Sam Flanagan | pt
Dupla de ‘music hall comedians’ que geralmente apresentava espetáculos envolvendo comédia e música, o que acarretou numa carreira musical de sucesso para a dupla, assim como em diversas participações em filmes e na televisão. Um pouco antes, e durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial eles apareceram em diversos filmes de Marcel Varnel e John Baxter. Flanagan and Allen também foram membros da The Crazy Gang, trabalhando com esse time por diversos anos, mas mantendo a carreira como dupla de forma paralela.
As músicas de Flanagan and Allen apresentam de maneira recorrente temas leves e engraçados, os mesmos pelos quais a dupla...
The Tommy Flanagan Trio (with bassist Wilbur Little and drummer Elvin Jones) released their first album, Tommy Flanagan Trio Overseas, in 1957. As an accompanist, Flanagan worked with Ella Fitzgerald from 1963 to 1965 and 1968 to 1978. Beginning in 1975, Flanagan began once again to perform and record as a leader. He continued to work with other players, however, forming a trio with Tal Farlow and Red Mitchell, among other projects.
Flanagan's style was both modest and exceptionally musical. He embodied many of the most important qualities associated with jazz: swing, harmonic sophistication, melodic invention, bluesy feel and humour....
O pianista Tommy Flanagan nasceu em 16 de Março de 1930, em Detroit, no Michigan, tendo iniciado a sua carreira aos 15 anos ao lado de músicos que se haviam de transformar em grandes figuras do jazz, como o vibrafonista Milt Jackson ou o baterista Elvin Jones.
Chegado a Nova Iorque em 1956, Flanagan foi, rapidamente, actuar e gravar com as grandes figuras do be-bop: os saxofonistas Sonny Rollins e John Coltrane, contrabaixista Charlie Mingus e o trompetista Miles Davis.
Tommy Flanagan participou em mais de uma centane de discos entre 1956 e 1968, ano em que passou a ser...
Mash-up, Bootleg, Bastard Pop Producer and DJ
Sam Flanagan has been DJing since the age of sixteen and at present holds no less than 5 residencies. Obtaining a degree in Commercial Music Production means that Sam also compiles his own bootlegs, remixes and mash- ups many of which have been played on the radio around the world, Last FM (London), Oui FM 102.3FM (Paris), WFMU 91.1FM (US), 97.4 Rock FM (UK), The Bee FM (UK), Sixx Mixx Live 105FM (US), 94/7FM Alternative Portland (US) and also on Chicago 101FM (US) to name a few. The Bristish National press recently described...
Bud Flanagan (14 October 1896 – 20 October 1968) was a popular English music hall and vaudeville entertainer from the 1930s until the 1960s, born in Whitechapel, London, United Kingdom. Flanagan (who's real name was Chaim Reuben Weintrop) was famous as a wartime entertainer and his achievements were recognized when he was awarded the O.B.E. in 1960.
Bud Flanagan is best remembered as part of a double act with Chesney Allen, Flanagan and Allen. They had first met on active service in Flanders, but did not work together until 1926, touring with a Florrie Forde show. They established a reputation...
