BIOS of Beautiful music musicians: January 2012

Bobby Hackett

Robert Leo "Bobby" Hackett (January 31, 1915 – June 7, 1976) was an US jazz musician who played trumpet, cornet and guitar with the bands of Glenn Miller and Benny Goodman in the late thirties and early forties. During the 1950s, he made a series of albums of ballads with a full string orchestra, produced by Jackie Gleason, exhibiting a dreamy, vibrato-free sound.

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Stereorey Mexico

Este es un Jingle de los 70's u 80's de Stereorey la maxima dimension del radio ojala que les traiga bonitos recuerdos. Stereorey fue una de las mejores estaciones de musica en las principales ciudades de la Republica Mexicana:

Skitch Henderson

On January 27th in 1918, pianist/bandleader/symphony conductor Skitch Henderson was born Lyle Russell Cedric Henderson at Birmingham England. After World War II he was Bing Crosby's musical director on radio. He is best remembered as the bandleader on NBC-TV's Tonight Show with Steve Allen and briefly with Johnny Carson; he also was an occasional co-host subbing for Carson. Also in his later years as conductor of the New York Pops Symphony. He died Nov 1 2005 at age 87. His nickname ("Skitch") reportedly derived from his ability to quickly "re-sketch" a song in a different key.

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Martin Louis "Marty" Paich (January 23, 1925, Oakland, California – August 12, 1995, Santa Ynez, California) was an American pianist, composer, arranger, producer, music director and conductor.

On January 23rd in in 1925, musician/arranger Marty Paich was born in Oakland. He worked as pianist, composer, & arranger with & for the likes of Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Barbra Streisand, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormé, & Ray Charles, and a hundred others. His name was not widely known, he avoided self-promotion. He died of colon cancer Aug 12, 1995 at age 70.

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January 21 1932 Mantovani Concert in England

On this day in 1932, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani gave a memorable concert at Queen's Hall in England to "glowing notices". This was the beginning of the musician's successful recording career that provided beautiful music to radio stations for nearly five decades. Mantovani, was an Anglo-Italian conductor and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature. The book British Hit Singles & Albums states that he was "Britain's most successful album act before The Beatles ... the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and had six albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959". Better known as just Mantovani, his music still entertains us with hits like, "Red Sails in the Sunset", "Serenade in the Night", "Song from Moulin Rouge" and "Charmaine".

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Bert Weedon

Herbert Maurice William 'Bert' Weedon OBE (born 10 May 1920) is an English guitarist and composer whose style of guitar playing was popular and influential during the 1950s and 1960s. He was born in Burges Road, East Ham, Essex, now Greater London.

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Paul Adams (August 1951 - ) is an American musician, writer and musical instrument builder.

He began his foray into the arts by making stringed musical instruments such as guitars, banjos, Basses, and dulcimers after being introduced into the craft as a student of Ethnomusicology under Dr. Joel Maring at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. He has been commissioned to build instruments by Daryl Hall, members of Stevie Wonder's band as well as other well known musicians.

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USA Congress does not own The Internet

On Jan 24th, Congress will vote to pass internet censorship in the Senate, even though the vast majority of Americans are opposed. We need to kill the bill - PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House - to protect our rights to free speech, privacy, and prosperity.
See this timeline of SOPA and PIPA events and the activist backlash.

David Nevue is a solo piano composer and a pianist and the founder of online radio station "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio".

Nevue established the "Whisperings: Solo Piano Radio" internet radio station in August 2003 as a vehicle for promoting his own particular style of piano music. Believing that the days of the traditional music industry were numbered, he decided to bypass the process of sending demos to record labels, and to use the web to promote his music himself. Nevue has been working full time promoting his music via the web since 2001. Whisperings started out as part of the Live365.com family of independent online radio stations, but eventually grew beyond just Live365.com. Whisperings radio now runs off its own servers, located in Chicago.

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David Lanz (born June 28, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist.

David Lanz (born June 28, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) is a Grammy-nominated New Age pianist. His most popular album, Cristofori's Dream, topped the New Age charts in 1988, which was No. 1 on Billboard's first adult alternative/New Age chart for 27 weeks and eventually sold platinum. Natural States peaked at No. 125 on the Billboard 200.

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American contemporary composer and pianist ROBIN SPIELBERG

Robin Spielberg (born 1962) is an American pianist who was born in New Jersey. Raised in the suburban town of Maplewood, she is a Columbia High School alumni. She attended Michigan State University and later Tisch School of the Arts at New York University where she graduated with high honors and a BFA in drama. She currently lives in the rural community of New Freedom, Pennsylvania.

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Louis Landon is a pianist from New York.

Louis Landon is a singer-songwriter, pianist and touring musician from New York. Under his former name, Louis Levin, he toured and recorded with renowned musician John Payne as a member of the John Payne-Louis Levin Band. He has performed and toured with Mikhail Baryshnikov, John Payne, Rupert Holmes, and John Hall.

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