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He enlisted in the Army during World War II and played in an Army jazz band [3] from 1942 to 1945. He started a trio with Page Cavanaugh and bassist Lloyd Pratt. [3] The band appeared in several films, including Romance on the High Seas with Doris Day, and played a few dates in 1946 and 1947 with Frank Sinatra. Viola continued to work with ...
Robert "Waddy" Wachtel (born May 24, 1947) is an American musician, composer and record producer, most notable for his guitar work. Wachtel has worked as session musician for other artists such as Linda Ronstadt, Beth Hart, Stevie Nicks, Miranda Lambert, Kim Carnes, Randy Newman, Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones (lead guitar on "Saint of Me"), Jon Bon Jovi, James Taylor, Iggy Pop, Warren ...
I wish the world had the opportunity to experience his artistry." [ 16 ] A follow-up documentary, The Genius of Lenny Breau Remembered , directed by Hughes, was released in 2018 . The biography One Long Tune: The Life and Music of Lenny Breau by Ron Forbes-Roberts [ 1 ] was published in 2006 containing interviews with nearly 200 people and a ...
Fuller's instruments included 6-string guitar (an instrument which he had abandoned before the beginning of his one-man band career), 12-string guitar, harmonica, kazoo, cymbal (high-hat) and fotdella. He could play several instruments simultaneously, particularly with the use of a headpiece to hold a harmonica, kazoo, and microphone.
Peluso came from a musical family, his mother being a successful opera singer and his father being the music director for NBC radio on the west coast. [1] His mother was Emily Hardy (1908-1983), a soprano who performed most notably with The San Francisco Opera Company (debut 1933, Musetta, La Bohème) and the Metropolitan Opera (debut 1936, Gilda, Rigoletto).
In 1968, Osborne moved to Bakersfield, California, where she lived the rest of her life. With her husband, she founded the Osborne Guitar Company. She taught music and continued to play jazz locally and in Los Angeles. She played in the Newport and Concord festivals in the early 1970s, and in the Kool Jazz Festival in New York in 1981.
Paul was Miller's godfather and his first guitar teacher. [63] [64] Ford gave birth to their first child on November 30, 1954, but the girl was born prematurely and died when she was four days old. [62] They adopted a girl, Colleen, in 1958, and their son, Robert (Bobby), was born the following year. Paul and Ford divorced in December 1964. [53]
His performances, played on both steel string and classical guitars, included musical styles ranging from blues, to baroque, to country, to rhythm 'n' blues. In the '80s and '90s, Chapdelaine twice won the coveted National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalist Grant and took First Prize in both the Guitar Foundation of America's and the Music ...