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Bunny Brunel
Bernard "Bunny" Brunel is a French-American bass guitarist who has played with Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Wayne Shorter. He is a founding member of the jazz fusion band CAB and is involved in musical instrument design and film and television scoring. He was a bass and music teacher for jazz bass player Kyle Eastwood. Discography As leader * ''Touch'' (Warner Bros., 1979) * ''Ivanhoe'' (Inner City, 1982) * ''Momentum'' (America, 1989) * ''Dedication'' (Musidisc, 1992) * ''For You to Play'' (Media 7, 1994) * ''Bunny Brunel's L.A. Zoo'' (Tone Center, 1998) * ''Led Boots'' (Mascot, 2000) * ''Cafe Au Lait'' (Brunel Music, 2004) * ''Touch'' (Nikaia, 2006) * ''Invent Your Future'' (Nikaia, 2015) With CAB * '' CAB'' (Tone Center, 2000) * ''CAB 2'' (Tone Center, 2000) * ''Live'' (2002) * ''CAB 4'' (Favored Nations, 2003) * '' Theatre de Marionnettes'' (2009) * ''Live On Sunset'' (Nikaia, 2011) Singles * ''Fusion Holidays'', CAB, featuring Roman Miroshnichenko, (Nikaia, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nice
Nice ( , ; Niçard dialect, Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes departments of France, department in France. The Nice urban unit, agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of nearly 1 millionDemographia: World Urban Areas , Demographia.com, April 2016 on an area of . Located on the French Riviera, the southeastern coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, at the foot of the French Alps, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region after Marseille. Nice is approximately from the principality of Monaco and from the Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Agent (Chick Corea Album)
''Secret Agent'' is the twelfth album by Chick Corea, recorded and released in 1978. It is a musically diverse release that features Corea’s long-standing collaborators Joe Farrell on reeds and woodwinds, percussionist Airto, and vocalist Gayle Moran (Corea’s wife). Al Jarreau sings “Hot News Blues”, and a four piece brass section and string quartet also appear. This album is one of three that Corea released in 1978, along with ''The Mad Hatter'' and ''Friends'' in what was called an "almost impossibly active year". 1978 also featured the release of live albums '' An Evening with Herbie Hancock & Chick Corea: In Concert'' and '' RTF Live: The Complete Concert'' (4LP Box Set) with Return to Forever. Track listing All pieces are composed by Chick Corea unless otherwise noted. Side one #"Golden Dawn" – 3:39 #"Slinky" – 5:42 #"Mirage" – 2:11 #"Drifting" – 4:09 #"Glebe St. Blues" – 6:58 Side two #"Fickle Funk" – 5:05 #"Bagatelle, No. 4" (Béla Bartók) – 3:34 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1950 Births
Year 195 ( CXCV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar The Julian calendar, proposed by Roman consul Julius Caesar in 46 BC, was a reform of the Roman calendar. It took effect on , by edict. It was designed with the aid of Greek mathematicians and astronomers such as Sosigenes of Alexandr .... At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Scrapula and Clemens (or, less frequently, year 948 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 195 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus has the Roman Senate deify the previous emperor Commodus, in an attempt to gain favor with the family of Marcus Aurelius. * King Vologases V and other eastern princes support the claims of Pescennius Niger. The Roman province of Mesopotamia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kilowatt (album)
''Kilowatt'' is an album by jazz fusion guitarist Kazumi Watanabe, originally released on audio cassette in 1989. In 1991 it was released again on cassette, CD and LP. Track listing All tracks by Kazumi Watanabe except where noted. #"1000 Mega" - 4:58 #"Capri" - 4:10 #"No One" (Watanabe/Brunel) - 5:33 #"Jive" (Watanabe/Brunel) - 3:48 #"Papyrus" - 4:50 #"Sunspin" - 5:15 #"Pretty Soon" (Brunel) - 5:37 #"Bernard" (Brunel) - 4:42 #"Dolphin Dance" ( Herbie Hancock) - 6:59 #"Good Night Machines" (Watanabe/Moraz/Brunel) - 6:18 Personnel * Kazumi Watanabe - guitars, synth guitars, keyboards * Bunny Brunel - bass, synth bass, keyboards * John Wackerman - drums, synth drums, electric vibes Additional Musicians * Wayne Shorter - sax (2, 8) * Patrick Moraz - keyboards (1, 2, 4, 8, 10) * Alex Acuna Alex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (other), multiple people *Alex Gordon (other), multip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazumi Watanabe
is a Japanese guitarist. Other guitarists such as Luke Takamura and Sugizo have cited him as an influence. Career Watanabe learned guitar at the age of 12 from Sadanori Nakamure at the Yamaha Music School in Tokyo. He released his first album in 1971. In 1979, he formed a jazz rock band with some of Japan's leading studio musicians, and recorded the album ''Kylyn''. During that year, he toured with the pop band Yellow Magic Orchestra. In the 1980s, he toured as guest soloist with Steps, the Brecker Brothers, and Word of Mouth, led by Jaco Pastorius. Watanabe created the jazz-rock/jazz-fusion band Mobo in 1983 with Mitsuru Sawamura (saxophone), Ichiko Hashimoto (piano), Gregg Lee (bass), Shuichi Murakami (drums), and Kiyohiko Senba. During the eighties Watanabe released the jazz-rock albums ''To Chi Ka'' (1980), ''Mobo Club'' (1983), ''Mobo Splash'' (1985), and ''Spice of Life'' (1987). A DVD was issued from the tour which featured drummer Bill Bruford and bassist Jeff Berli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Polnareff
Michel Polnareff (born 3 July 1944, Nérac, Lot-et-Garonne, France) is a French singer-songwriter, who was popular in France from the mid-1960s until the early 1990s with his penultimate original album, ''Kāma-Sūtra''. He is still critically acclaimed and occasionally tours in France, Belgium and Switzerland. Biography and career Resounding beginnings (1966–1973) Early years Michel was born into an artistic family: his mother, Simonne Lane (1912-1973), was a Breton dancer and his father, Leib Polnareff (russian: Лейб Полнарёв) or (1899-1988) was a Russian Jewish immigrant from Odessa who worked with Édith Piaf. He attended the Cours Hattemer, a private school. He learned the guitar, and after his studies, military service, and a brief time in insurance, he began to play his guitar on the steps of the Sacré Cœur. Early successes In 1965 Polnareff won a prize in Paris of recording at Barclay Records, but as part of the counterculture he turned dow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Nougaro
Claude Nougaro (, oc, Claudi Nogaròu; 9 September 1929 – 4 March 2004) was a French songwriter and singer. Life and career Claude Nougaro was born in Toulouse to a respected French opera singer, Pierre Nougaro, and a piano teacher, Liette Tellini. His maternal grandparents were Italian; his grandfather was born in Livorno, Tuscany and his grandmother in San Damiano d'Asti, Piedmont. He was raised by his grandparents in Toulouse where he heard Glenn Miller, Édith Piaf and Louis Armstrong (among others) on the radio. In 1947 he failed his baccalaureat and began a career in journalism, writing for various journals including ''Le Journal des Curistes'' at Vichy and ''L'Echo d'Alger''. At the same time he wrote songs for Marcel Amont ("Le barbier de Belleville", "Le balayeur du roi") and Philippe Clay ("Joseph", "La sentinelle"). He met Georges Brassens, who became his friend and mentor. In 1949, he performed his military service in the Foreign Legion at Rabat, Morocco. He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Moustaki
Georges Moustaki (born Giuseppe Mustacchi; 3 May 1934 – 23 May 2013) was an Egyptian-French singer-songwriter of Jewish Italo-Greek origin. He wrote about 300 songs for some of the most popular singers in France, including Édith Piaf, Dalida, Françoise Hardy, Yves Montand, Barbara, Brigitte Fontaine, Herbert Pagani, France Gall, Cindy Daniel, Juliette Gréco, Pia Colombo, and Tino Rossi, as well as for himself. Early life in Egypt Georges Moustaki was born Giuseppe Mustacchi in Alexandria, Egypt, on 3 May 1934. His parents, Sarah and Nessim Mustacchi, were Francophile, Greek Jews from the ancient Romaniote Jewish community. Originally from the Greek island of Corfu, they moved to Egypt, where Giuseppe was born and first learned French. They owned the Cité du Livre bookshop in the cosmopolitan city of Alexandria, where many ethnic communities lived together. Moustaki's father spoke five languages and his mother spoke six. The young Giuseppe and his two older sisters s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gayle Moran
Gayle Moran (born 1943) is a vocalist, keyboardist, and songwriter. She is from Spring Arbor, Michigan and graduated from Spring Arbor High School (now Spring Arbor University) in 1961. She was a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra during the mid-1970s, appearing on ''Apocalypse'' (1974) and '' Visions of the Emerald Beyond'' (1975). She later appeared on multiple recordings by her husband Chick Corea (whom she married in 1972): Return to Forever's 1977 album ''Musicmagic'', the Chick Corea solo albums '' The Leprechaun'' (1975), ''My Spanish Heart'' (1976), ''The Mad Hatter'' (1978), ''Secret Agent'' (1978) and ''Touchstone'' (1982). She participated in the making of "Afterlife" from the soundtrack to the 2007 film ''War'' starring Jet Li and Jason Statham. Other guest appearances include "The Gracious Core", on Mark Isham's album ''Castalia'', and the title track from the 1976 David Sancious & Tone release, ''Transformation (The Speed of Love)''. She recorded one album und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathi McDonald
Kathryn Marie "Kathi" McDonald (September 25, 1948 – October 3, 2012) was an American blues and rock singer and songwriter. As a teenager she sang with different bands around the Pacific Northwest before she was discovered by Ike Turner. She sang as an Ikette with Ike & Tina Turner and eventually replaced Janis Joplin as the front woman of Big Brother and Holding Company. McDonald became a background vocalist for various artists, including Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, The Rolling Stones, Freddie King, and Long John Baldry. She also recorded as a solo artist and fronted her own band Kathi McDonald & Friends. Biography McDonald was born in Anacortes, Washington, on September 25, 1948. McDonald began singing at an early age. The first song she fully learned was " Goodnight Irene" by Huddie Leadbetter and at age two she would sing all five verses from her crib. McDonald performed professionally for the first time around Seattle when she was 12 years old. Her musical influences ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didier Lockwood
Didier Lockwood (11 February 1956 – 18 February 2018) was a French violinist. He played in the French rock band Magma in the 1970s, and was known for his use of electric amplification and his experimentation with different sounds on the electric violin. Career In 1979, Lockwood released his first album as a leader, ''New World'', ''New World''review at Allmusic and recorded more than 20 albums.Discographyat Allmusic In 1994, he moved to New York City for two years. During that time he recorded two albums, ''New York Rendez Vous'' and ''Storyboard''. Lockwood's influences include violinist Jean-Luc Ponty. He started playing electric violin after hearing Ponty on the album '' King Kong: Jean-Luc Ponty Plays the Music of Frank Zappa''. Another important influence was Frenchman Stéphane Grappelli. In 2000, Lockwood recorded a tribute album to Grappelli. Discography In Magma * Live/Hhaï ''Live/Hhaï'' (also known as ''Magma Live'', ''Live Köhntark'', and ''Hhaï Live'') is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
