"_Diva of the Diode_ and _America's first female synth hero. Italian American, born in Quincy, went to Wellsley and later, taking a class at MIT, she first learned about music technology. She cites German photographer Ilse Bing as an important influence along with classical music composers and pianist Glenn Gould. Moved to NYC in 1974 where she stayed for 16 years. She once accepted a concert performance at the Lincoln Center in Manhattan, but when she was denied a four-speaker quadraphonic sound setup, she refused to perform. For a time she says she was _homeless and happy_, taking up residence for a time on the floor of Phillip Glass' basement recording studio. -- wiki"
"Michael White on violin. Bass, Ray Drummond, Percussion: Kenneth Nash, Piano: Ed Kelly. White born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was six years old. His initial career break occurred in 1965, when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and subsequently recorded three albums with Handy. White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and in the late 1960s became one of the first jazz violinists to play jazz rock fusion (with his band The Fourth Way)."
(see details above) Among her more unusual endeavors was composing the sound for a pinball machine. She composed music to accompany the "moves" of the machine, and when Xenon spoke, we hear Ciani's own voice (in distortion).
Gracie (Minnie) Gadson is on vocals w/the Charleston String Quartet joining in eventually. She lives on St. Helen Island and among those known as the Voices of Gullah Singers.
"Hodges was born in Cambridgeport, MA in 1907. His family eventually moved to Hammond Street in the South End where he began his musical explorations with another Bostonian reed player who'd make their way to Ellington, Harry Carney. His sister took him to hear Sidney Bechet at Jimmy Cooper's Black and White Revue in a Boston burlesque hall. He was 14. His sister got Johnny to play for Bechet, who was impressed...encouraging, and also gave him some lessons -- wiki"
aka Thoguluva Meenatchi Iyengar Soundararajan (24 March 1923 – 25 May 2013), popularly known as TMS, was an Indian Carnatic musician and a playback singer in Tamil cinema for over six and a half decades. He sang over 10,138 songs from 3,162 films, including devotional, semi-classical, Carnatic, classical and light music songs. He gave classical concerts starting in 1943 - wiki
"Ishikawa (1934-2002) was a Japanese drummer and band leader who, from the sound of his music, had far-ranging musical curiosities, particularly with East Africa, and also elements of American jazz and funk. There's not a lot of information available about him (that I've been able to find). "
Enrico Sbriccoli aka Jimmy Fontana (1934-2013) was an Italian actor, singer, and song writer. This tune was one of his biggest hits in Italy…arranged by film composer Ennio Morricone. One of Fontana's big heroes was clarinetist Jimmy Guiffre, which is why he chose his particular stage name
aka Maria Rosa Canelas was a Brazilian composer, arranger and musician (1941-2004). She is considered one of the best acoustic guitarists in Brazilian music and played with many famous artists, including Baden Powell, Sérgio Mendes, Sylvia Telles and Sivuca. Calença's musical career was ended prematurely due to health problems: she suffered brain damage due to a heart attack. She died of respiratory failure in 2004, in her hometown, after 12 years in a vegetative state -wiki
"Sam & Sam both went to LA to go to college @ USC for jazz, and that's where they met. Fast forward 15-ish years, they're both fixtures in the music scene there. Gendel plays Alto Saxophone & Electronics. Wilkes ison bass guitar & electronics. Daniel Aged played additional bass. The seven tracks are excerpts from a series of ad-hoc performances at two Los Angeles restaurants, one in Laurel Canyon and one on Sunset Boulevard, in Silver Lake (New Yorker)"
"Nadia Reiseberg (her sister) on the piano in a recording made in 1975. According to the label, Rockmore was _long regarded as _The Queen of the Theremin._ "
"First Lady of Jazz in her hometown of Baltimore. She was invited to sing the national anthem at Richard Nixon's 2nd inauguration. She was a Democrat, and wrestled with the prospect. Her friends told her "just sing for the people....you are singing for the people." She declined the offer to perform with the Marine Band, saying she was fine doing it herself, so she sang a cappella. At the time, she took what was considered an unconventional approach.
Word is that Mills College is closing down its music school…prompting me to go in search of something. Original slated for the _Echoes_ ITMOTO, it made its way into today's program instead.
"Morman sextet formed 18 years ago singing a tune made famous by The Pretenders in 1986. It was written by Chrissie Hynde's high school friend, Meg Keene. I wonder what happened to Meg. I hope she made some good money on royalties. As far as I can tell, its the only song she ever wrote. "
"Blind, Japanese born Koto player. Eto moved to the United States in the 1950s intending to popularize the koto in the Western world. By the mid-1960s, he became a well-known figure in United States music recitals and concerts. He worked most notably with the American composer Henry Cowell on his Concerto for Koto and Orchestra, on which Eto was a soloist playing alongside the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski at the Philadelphia Academy of Music in December 1964. - wiki"
From his debut release, XXXTentacion aka Jahseh Dwayne Ricardo Onfroy (January 23, 1998 — June 18 2018) was an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Born in Plantation, Florida, Onfroy spent most of his childhood in Lauderhill. He began writing music after being released from a juvenile detention center and started his music career in SoundCloud rap, a trap scene that takes elements of lo-fi music and harsh 808s. On June 18, 2018, Onfroy was fatally shot at the age of 20, in a robbery at a motorcycle dealership in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The attackers fled the scene in an SUV after stealing a Louis Vuitton bag containing $50,000 from Onfroy; four suspects were arrested and are currently awaiting trial. - discogs
She is South African, and co-founder of the BBC’s incalculably influential Radiophonic Workshop, the first woman to set up her own independent electronic music studio and now one of the worthy focal points of Lisa Rovner’s bewitching new documentary “Sisters With Transistors: Electronic Music’s Unsung Heroines.” (see link) Born in 1925, Oram was an accomplished pianist who had been offered admission to the Royal Academy of Music. But she turned it down, having recently read a book that predicted, as she puts it in the film with a palpable sense of wonder, that “composers of the future would compose directly into sound rather than using orchestral instruments.”
"The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio composed of Maurice Louca (Alif, Bikya), Sam Shalabi (Land of Kush, Shalabi Effect) and Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls, The Invisible Hands, Alvarius B.). Hailing from Cairo formed in 2012 while living in the same apartment building in Cairo's Agouza district. The trio soon set out on crafting their sound built on instrumental improvisational loops of percussion as well as taking influence from Krautrock and free jazz among other sounds. - discogs"
