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Paul Desmond (1924-1977) was a U.S jazz saxophonist. Desmond was born Paul Emil Breitenfeld in San Francisco, California on 25th November 1924. He came to prominence with the Dave Brubeck Quartet, which lasted from 1951 until 1967. Desmond wrote their biggest hit, "Take Five". Desmond's alto saxophone tone and technique owed nothing to the great alto player of the time, Charlie Parker; instead his was a clear, light, floating sound and highly melodic playing style. Much of the success of the classic Brubeck quartet was due to the superposition of his fragile, airy sound over Brubeck's sometimes relatively heavy, polytonal...

Creedence Clearwater Revival (sometimes shortened to Creedence or CCR) was an American rock band that gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various albums. The band consisted of lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and primary songwriter John Fogerty, his brother and rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. Their musical style encompassed country rock and swamp rock genres; it remains a staple of radio airplay worldwide. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993 and were ranked at 82 on Rolling Stone's...

Lou Reed (March 2, 1942 - October 27, 2013) was an American rock artist originally from Brooklyn, New York, USA. Especially while a member of the The Velvet Underground in the 1960s, Reed broke new ground for the rock genre in several important dimensions, introducing more mature and intellectual themes to what was then considered a largely simplistic genre of music. In 1964 Reed moved to New York City and began working as an in-house songwriter for Pickwick Records. In 1964 he scored a minor hit with the single "The Ostrich", a parody of popular dance songs of the time,...

There are more than one artist with this name: 1) Greedy is Sacramento, Ca rapper. 2) Greedy is also finnish rapper. 3) Greedy was a swedish pop punk band that released an album on Ultima Thule's label in 1997 and contributed to a handful of compilation albums up until 2001. .

Formerly cloaked in mystery, the duo Simon Noble & Rowan Blades, known as Breeder got their start creating peak-time tracks named after famous clubs like "Twilo Thunder" (for Twilo) and "Tyrantanic" (for Tyrant), and giving them directly to superstar DJ's Sasha and John Digweed and no one else. For over a year, Sasha and Digweed played out Breeder's work and the clamor grew for them to sign to a label and fully release tracks. Although they once refused adamantly to do so, the duo finally released "The Chain" to the public in 1998, followed by more singles on their new...