Jay Clifford | pt
Mesmo tendo morrido tão novo, aos 25 anos, Clifford Brown figura entre os maiores nomes do trompete e do jazz, ao lado de Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis. Clifford começou a tocar trompete aos 13 anos, quando ganhou um de presente de seu pai. Logo começou a tocar na banda da escola e a se apresentar em pequenos espetáculos em sua cidade natal. Aos dezoito anos parte para a vizinha Filadélfia, onde toca ao lado de músicos que dispensam qualquer apresentação, tais como Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, J. J. Johnson e Fats Navarro, seu grande entusiasta e...
Linda Clifford (born 14 June 1948, New York City, New York) is an American R&B, Disco and House music singer and actress who scored hits in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s into the new millennium.
Clifford is also a former Miss New York State, and fronted a jazz music trio before switching to R&B. After winning her title, Clifford started working as an actress, receiving minor roles in major films like The Boston Strangler with Tony Curtis and Henry Ford, Coogan's Bluff with Clint Eastwood and Sweet Charity with Shirley MacLaine.
Unsatisfied with her roles, Clifford decided to concentrate on her...
Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931, Chicago - March 27, 1993, Manhattan) was a jazz saxophone player.
Jordan had his own sound on tenor saxophone almost from the start. He gigged around Chicago with Max Roach, Sonny Stitt, and some R&B groups before moving to New York in 1957. Jordan immediately made a strong impression, leading three albums for Blue Note (including a meeting with fellow tenor John Gilmore) and touring with Horace Silver (1957-1958), J.J. Johnson (1959-1960), Kenny Dorham (1961-1962), and Max Roach (1962-1964). Jordan also recorded with these musicians.
After performing in Europe with Eric Dolphy and in...
Taken from the interview on Soul-Cal Records:
3. How did you first become interested in music?
There was always music on in my house when I was growing up. My mother loved ALL music, but I really have to thank my older brother Chuck for turning me on to such a variety of musicians. Count Basie to The Cream, Spike Jones to Tony Bennett, Muddy Waters to Led Zeppelin, The Beach Boys to Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin to Mountain. My sister Jill did as well in the early 70’s with James Taylor, Crosby Stills, Nash and Young and Jethro Tull....
Clifford Gilberto, the unknown lovechild of Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz, was born 28 years ago in the middle of nowhere...
When he was only 9 years old, his parents moved from the middle of nowhere to Germany, where he lived until he was 16. He moved to the U.S. to go to high-school and worked on a junkyard and a farm until he had enough money to buy a beat-up GrandAm (pictured on his debut album) and went on a half year trip across the U.S.
When he was 19, he moved back to Germany to study product design...
