- Million Dollar Quartet
"Million Dollar Quartet" is the name given to recordings made on Tuesday December 4 1956 in the Sun Record Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The recordings were of an impromptu jam session between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. - Tim Amann Quartet
Tim Amann is a well-renowned British jazz musician. He began playing jazz at the age of fifteen, and was a regular player at The Cannonball in Digbeth. Between 1992 and 1994 he led a successful quartet with saxophonist "Ian Ellis". In 1995 he founded the Tim Amann Quartet, and enjoyed a number of successes, including the production of two albums, "Xtet" and "The Scarecrows". Amann currently works as the Head of Government and Politics, … - Palmetto State Quartet
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- Eyvind Kang
Eyvind Kang (b. Corvallis, Oregon, United States, around 1972 (Enotes Biography)) is an American composer, violinist, tuba, and erhu player. He was raised in Canada and the United States, and has since lived and worked in countries ranging from Italy to Iceland. Kang's work is difficult to classify, but can broadly be seen as a classical approach to jazz music with punk, ambient, and traditional folk influences. - George Adams
George Rufus Adams (29 April, 1940 Covington, Georgia - 14 November, 1992 New York City, New York) was an American jazz musician who played tenor saxophone, flute and bass clarinet. He was also known for his idiosyncratic singing. He is best known for his work with Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Roy Haynes and in the quartet he co-led with pianist Don Pullen, featuring bassist Cameron Brown and drummer Dannie Richmond. - Boyz N da Hood
Boyz n da Hood is an American Southern hardcore rap quartet from Atlanta, Georgia. Current members of the group are Lee "Duke" Dixon, Miguel "Big Gee" Scott, Jacoby "Jody Breeze" White, and Gorilla Zoe. They are currently signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records. American rapper Young Jeezy was formerly in the group, and left to pursue his solo career on Def Jam. Rappers Lil' Wayne, Rick Ross, and T.I. were rumored as the members that were to replace Young Jeezy, … - Paul Paray
Paul Paray was a French conductor, organist and composer. He is best remembered in the United States for being the resident conductor of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for more than a decade. His father, Auguste, was a sculptor and organist at St. Jacques church, and leader of an amateur musical society. He put young Paul in the society's orchestra as a drummer. Later, Paul Paray went to Rouen to study music with the abbots Bourgeois and Bourdon, and organ with Haelling. - Palle Danielsson
Palle Danielsson (born October 15, 1946) is a Swedish jazz double bassist born in Stockholm, Sweden, perhaps most notable for his work done with Keith Jarrett from 1974 to 1979, becoming a member of his European quartet for that period. Danielsson's childhood was an especially musical one, his first instrument was the harmonica which he started playing at the age of two. By age eight he was playing violin, which he continued to play and study for roughly five years. - Joel Krosnick
Joel Krosnick (born 1941) is an American soloist, cellist, recitalist, and chamber musician who has performed all over the world for over thirty-five years. As a member of the Juilliard String Quartet since 1974, he has performed the great quartet literature throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. - George Younce
George Younce was an American singer, known for performing with Southern Gospel quartets. At the age of 15 in his hometown, George received his first taste of Southern Gospel music. One afternoon in 1946, George heard a radio program featuring the “Blue Ridge Quartet” and that day changed his life forever. When he was in sixth grade, he earned a prize for the highest voice in school. At age 16 he joined his first quartet, … - Nathalie Loriers
Nathalie Loriers (born October 27, 1966 in Namur) is a Belgian jazz pianist and composer. In 1991 Loriers formed her own quartet with Kurt Van Herck (saxophone), Philippe Aerts (double bass) and Mimi Verderame (drums). She also has her own trio with Salvatore La Rocca (double bass) and Hans Van Oosterhout (drums). She won the 1999 Golden Django for best French-speaking artist. - Paul Jeffrey
Paul Jeffrey (born April 8, 1933) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger born in New York City, perhaps best-known for playing with the Thelonious Monk quartet from 1970-1972. Jeffrey also conducted and arranged some of the last albums recorded by Charles Mingus. From the late 1950s to 1960 Jeffrey worked with several R&B singers, including B.B. King, Wynonie Harris and Big Maybelle. - Roger Bennett
Roger Bennett (March 10, 1959 - March 17 2007) was a legendary Missionary Baptist Gospel pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-founder of the award winning Southern Gospel Quartet Legacy Five. Prior to forming Legacy Five, he served nearly 20 years as pianist for The Cathedrals. In 1995, Bennett was diagnosed with leukemia and has spent some time off the road while the rest of the group continued touring. - Philippe Aerts
Philippe Aerts (born June 21, 1964) is a Belgian jazz double bassist. He is a member of Philip Catherine trio. He also has his own trio with John Ruocco (tenor saxophone and clarinet) and Tony Levin (drums) and quartet with on top Bert Joris (trumpet). He won the Belgian Golden Django in 2002 for best Belgian artist. - Miles Kington
Miles Kington (born 1941) is a British journalist, jazz musician and broadcaster. He was born in Northern Ireland (where his father, a soldier, was then posted), went to school at Trinity College, Glenalmond, a boys' independent boarding school in Glenalmond, Scotland. The school has since been renamed Glenalmond College. He then studied Modern Languages at Trinity College, Oxford. He began his career at the now defunct satirical magazine "Punch", … - Ronald Harwood
Ronald Harwood CBE (born November 9, 1934 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a playwright and writer. He moved to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit, one of the last great actor-managers in Great Britain. From 1953 to 1958, Harwood was Sir Donald's personal dresser. He would later draw on this experience when writing his play, … - Digby Fairweather
Digby Fairweather (b. Rochford, Essex, UK, April 25 1946) is a British jazz trumpeter and cornettist. Fairweather has been a professional jazz musician since January 1, 1977, but worked for seven years before this date with several local jazz bands in the Essex area and recorded his first album in 1975. When turning professional, Fairweather helped found the Keith Nichols Midnite Follies Orchestra, started recording solo albums, … - Kris Defoort
Kris Defoort is a Belgian avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. He was born in 1959 in Bruges. He is very active as both a musician and a composer. He also teaches at the Brussels conservatory. His brother is Bart Defoort (saxophonist and composer). He entered in 1978 the Antwerp conservatory to study ancient music and flute. He graduated 4 years later and he then decided to study contemporary music and jazz at the Liège conservatory. - Marty Balin
Marty Balin (born Martyn Jerel Buchwald, January 30 1942, in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American musician. He is best known as the lead singer and founder of Jefferson Airplane, the pioneering psychedelic rock band from San Francisco. Balin was a featured vocalist for Jefferson Airplane during the late 1960s, concurrent with the band's most popular era. He appeared with the group during their performance at Woodstock in 1969, … - Volker Kriegel
Volker Kriegel was a German jazz guitarist and composer born in Darmstadt, Germany, perhaps most noteworthy for his contributions to the European jazz rock genre and for his collaborations with the American vibraphonist Dave Pike. In 1975 he was a founding member of the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble. A self-taught guitarist, Kriegel began playing when he was fifteen and formed a trio three years later that won an award at a 1963 amateur jazz festival. - Bobby G
Bobby G (also known as Bobby Gee) (born Robert Alan Gubby, 23 August 1953, Epsom, Surrey, England) joined the British pop group Bucks Fizz in 1981. Aside from that quartet he has released a solo single "Big Deal" for BBC Records, although his album which was to be entitled "G" remains unreleased. Bobby G is still touring with his own version of Bucks Fizz, although other former original members have reformed without him for recent tours. - Lil' Fizz
Lil' Fizz (born Dreux Pierre Frédéric on November 26, 1985 in Louisiana is an American rapper and actor of African American and Native American descent. He is best known for being a member of the boy band quartet, B2K, along with Omarion, J-Boog, and Raz-B. He is the godfather of former band mate J-Boog's children Aniyah and Jarell Jr. In September of 2005, he began to appear in many episodes of "The War At Home", … - Terry Ellis
Terry Lynn Ellis (born September 5, 1966 in Houston, Texas, USA) is an African-American R&B singer. After receiving a degree in Marketing from Prairie View A & M University, she joined En Vogue. En Vogue was planned to be a trio (a 1990s version of the Supremes), but the producers were so impressed by her voice, they made the group a quartet. In 1995 Ellis took time during the group's hiatus to release her solo CD, "Southern Gal". - Sándor Végh
Sándor Végh was best known as one of the great chamber music violinists of the twentieth century. He began studying the piano at the age of six. He entered the Budapest Conservatory in 1924, taking violin studies with Jenő Hubay and composition with Zoltán Kodály. He began a career as a solo violinist and in 1927 played a Richard Strauss composition under the composer’s baton. - Alain Meunier
Alain Meunier (b. Paris, 1942) is a French cellist. Meunier was born the third child among four siblings. Starting the cello at the age of 13 and received premier prix in chamber music at 15 and in cello at 16. He suddenly quit musical activities at the age of 18 and studied musical aesthetics and musicology. However, he began cello again as 22 and played in front of Pablo Casals aiming at Prades Festival. He entered Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena in Italy, … - Ken Annakin
Ken Annakin (born August 10, 1914 in Beverley, Yorkshire) is an English film director. His career in films followed his work experience in documentaries. He made his directing debut in 1947 at the Rank Organisation, although the following year he moved to Gainsborough Pictures to helm three films about the Huggetts, a working class family living in suburban England. - Basil Radford
Basil Radford was an English character actor who featured in many British films of the 1930s and 1940s. He is probably best-remembered for his appearances alongside Naunton Wayne as two cricket-obsessed Englishmen in several films from 1938-1949. The two first appeared as their characters "Charters" and "Caldicott" in Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 thriller "The Lady Vanishes". - L. J. Smith
L.J. (Lisa Jane) Smith is an American author. Her books are aimed at Young adult literature and combine a myriad of genres including horror, science fiction/fantasy and romance. So far, she has written three trilogies, one series, one quartet and two companion novels. Her books are characteristically populated with unusually beautiful people, human and supernatural; most of them young, or at least appear youthful. - Paul Kantor
Paul Kantor is one of the leading violin pedagogues and one of the most in-demand teacher in the United States today. Appointed Eleanor H. Biggs Memorial Distinguished Professor of Violin at the Cleveland Institute of Music in 2002, he received Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees from The Juilliard School. His principal teachers include Margaret Graves, Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann. - Fats Sadi
"Fats" Sadi (Lallemand) (born October 23, 1927 in Andenne) is a Belgian jazz musician, vocalist and composer, playing vibraphone and percussion. He chose Sadi as an artist name as he had an aversion for his last name (which means "the German" in French. He has his own quartet and nonet. Sadi won the Belgian Golden Django for best French-speaking artist in 1996. - Ramon Orlando
Ramón Orlando Valoy is a merengue musician and son of Cuco Valoy. he was born in Manoguayabo, then part of Santo Domingo, D.N. (the capital city) and now part of Santo Domingo Province. He studied music at National Conservatory of Music in the Dominican Republic. In the 70s, after his father left Los Compadres Guitar quartet, he formed his first group, Los Virtuosos, with his father as the lead singer. - Martin Turner
Martin Turner (born 1 October 1947, Torquay, Devon) was the bass guitarist, lead vocalist and a founder member of the the rock band, Wishbone Ash. Known for their twin lead guitars, melodic song-writing and complex instrumental style, Turner was with Wishbone Ash from its inception in 1969 until 1980, during which time he was a key songwriter and a key creative force within the band. - Paula Kelly
"Paula Kelly" (October 13, 1919 -April 2, 1992) was an American big band singer. She was born in Grove City, Pennsylvania. In her early career, she sang with orchestras led by Dick Stabile, Artie Shaw, and Al Donahue. In early 1941 she joined Glenn Miller's orchestra, replacing Dorothy Claire. (Marion Hutton, who was Miller's main female vocalist, was on a leave of absence, and Claire had been brought in to replace her, but didn't satisfy Miller.) Kelly performed solo, … - Les Inconnus
Les Inconnus is a French trio of humorists formed in 1986 following the departure of Seymour Brussel from the quartet named "Les Quatre Quarts" (means "The Four Quarters" or "The Pound Cake"). The members of this trio are Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus. They first achieved success on stage and then on television with "La Télé des Inconnus", starting 1990, and finally in music and movies. - Simon Rowland-Jones
Simon Rowland-Jones is a violist, composer, and music editor. He is best known for his arrangement of the Bach Cello Suites for Viola, which is widely praised as one of the best scholarly editions of the work for viola. He has taught at the Malmö Musikhögskolan in Sweden, the Royal College of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music, and the Yehudi Menuhin School. - Erica Lindsay
Erica Lindsay is a saxophone player and composer. She was born in San Francisco in 1955. Her early years were spent in Europe where her parents were teachers in the American school system. She began playing clarinet in high school, then alto and tenor; and of particular importance to her future, she was also studying with Mal Waldron during this period. - Mai Zetterling
Mai Zetterling (May 24, 1925 - March 17, 1994 ) was an actress and film director born in Västerås, Västmanland, Sweden. Zetterling was a successful actress in Swedish and English-language films before turning to directing. She also lived for a time in Australia. She was involved in films in five different decades, from the 1940s to the 1990s. Her films as an actress included "Quartet" (1948) and "Only Two Can Play" (1962). - Lisa Edwards
Lisa Edwards is an Australian singer and musician, who had an Australian Top 5 hit with the Godley and Creme song "Cry." Born in Adelaide, she is the daughter of a Jazz pianist and a stage performer. She made her stage debut aged seven with her father, who would then regularly take the young girl on stage with him to perform.
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