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Stanley William Turrentine, also known as "Mr. T" or "The Sugar Man", (April 5, 1934 – September 12, 2000) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Turrentine was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District into a musical family. His father, Thomas Turrentine, Sr., was a saxophonist with Al Cooper's Savoy Sultans, his mother played stride piano, and his older brother Tommy Turrentine became a professional trumpet player. He began his prolific career with blues and rhythm and blues bands, and was at first greatly influenced by Illinois Jacquet. In the 1950s, he went on to play with the groups of Lowell Fulson,...

Stanley Cowell (born 1941 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American jazz pianist and founder of the Strata-East Records label. He played with Roland Kirk while studying at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and later with Marion Brown, Max Roach, Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land. Cowell played with trumpeter Charles Moore and others in the Detroit Artist's Workshop Jazz Ensemble in 1965-66. .

Kenshiro is deep, afloat and catchy. Kenshiro is a purely sudorific party. Kenshiro is sushi for the ears. This Drum’n'Bass formation from Aachen offers a repertoire rich in variation that exhausts the whole range of the breakbeat universe: Dark,vigorous Drum’n'Bass - patterns, shimmering sound particles, that can also float in more ambient fields, labyrinthic rhythm lines, but also very straight stressed tuneful sections with an auditory-current pinch of pop appeal - the Kenshiro sound spectrum has no fear of contact, rather more facets. Especially on stage: Powerful, well fed basses which allow higher hit for the heart and the controller...

Well known for his monologues before and during the 39-45 war, and on the Moss Empire circuit in variety for many years, he came to world wide attention as Julie Andrews father, the dustman in My Fair Lady on Broadway and Drury Lane, London, and reprised the part in the subsequent film. .

Since he was born in 1986, Hirotaka Shirotsubaki has been living in Kobe, Japan. After playing in various bands he started his solo carrier in 2008. Inspired mainly by landscapes, he often uses field recordings and samples for his music. /// Bandcamp - https://hshirptsubaki.bandcamp.com/music .