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Ellen Christi
Ellen Christi (born March 7, 1958, Chicago) is an American jazz singer. Christi studied music formally in New York City with Jaki Byard, Jeanne Lee, and Metropolitan Opera coloratura singer Galli Campi. She was a founding member of the New York City Artists' Collective in 1975. Working primarily in New York in the 1980s, she played with Jemeel Moondoc, Rahn Burton, Tom Bruno, William Parker, and Lisa Sokolov. In the late 1980s and 1990s she began working increasingly in Europe, with Hans Koch, Carlo Actis Dato, Enrico Fazio, Guido Mazzon, and Claudio Lodati. Discography * ''The Sounds of Life'' (N.Y.C.A.C., 1976) * ''And You Ain't Ready For This One Either'' (N.Y.C.A.C., 1979) * ''New York City Artists' Collective Plays Butch Morris'' (N.Y.C.A.C., 1984) * ''Live at Irving Plaza'' (Soul Note, 1985) * ''Star of Destiny'' (N.Y.C.A.C., 1987) * ''Senza Parole'' (Splasc(h), 1990) * ''Dreamers'' with Claudio Lodati (Splasc(h), 1990) * ''A Piece of the Rock'' (Splasc(h), 1992) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Koch (musician)
Hans Koch (born March 12, 1948) is a Swiss clarinetist, saxophonist, and film score composer. While trained in classical music, he has spent the majority of his career performing in other genres such as jazz, rock, avant-garde, and electronic music. Life and career Hans Albrecht Koch was born in Villmergen, Switzerland on March 12, 1948. He trained as a classical clarinetist before joining Werner Lüdi's Sunnymoon; a jazz band with whom he first performed at the in 1981. He performed and recorded with a variety of jazz musicians in the 1980s; including recordings made with saxophonist Urs Blöchlinger (1983), Peter Schärli’s quintet (beginning in 1984), Lüdi (1987), and Cecil Taylor’s Big Band Berlin (1988). He traveled with cellist Martin Schütz in 1987 to Manhattan where they worked in the avant-garde music scene. In 1990 Koch performed and recorded in a jazz trio with pianist Paul Bley and trumpeter Franz Koglmann. That same year he formed another trio with drummer F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Jazz Singers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry Kernfeld
Barry Dean Kernfeld (born August 11, 1950) is an American musicologist and jazz saxophonist who has researched and published extensively about the history of jazz and the biographies of its musicians. Education In 1968, Kernfeld enrolled at University of California, Berkeley; then, from April 1970 to September 1972, he focused on being a professional saxophonist. In October 1972, Kernfeld enrolled at the University of California, Davis, where, in 1975, he earned a Bachelor of Arts in musicology. From 1975 to 1981, he studied at Cornell University where he focused on jazz. Cornell awarded him a master's degree in 1978 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree 1981. Career Kernfeld was the editor of the first and second editions of ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz,'' the largest jazz dictionary ever published. The first edition was published in 1988. ''Volume 1'' had 670 pages and ''Volume 2'' had 690. John S. Wilson"Books of The Times; Updating the Minutiae of a Truly American Sou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Grove
''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians. Along with the German-language '' Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart'', it is one of the largest reference works on the history and theory of music. Earlier editions were published under the titles ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', and ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians''; the work has gone through several editions since the 19th century and is widely used. In recent years it has been made available as an electronic resource called ''Grove Music Online'', which is now an important part of ''Oxford Music Online''. ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' ''A Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' was first published in London by Macmillan and Co. in four volumes (1879, 1880, 1883, 1889) edited by George Grove with an Appendix edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland in the fourth volume. An Index edited by Mrs. E. Wodehouse was issued as a separate volume in 1890. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claudio Lodati
Claudio is an Italian and Spanish first name. In Portuguese, it is accented Cláudio. In Catalan and Occitan, it is Claudi, while in Romanian it is Claudiu. Origin and history Claudius was the name of an eminent Roman gens, the most important members of which were: * Claudius, Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus * Appius Claudius Sabinus Regillensis (), founder of the family, originally a Sabine known as Attius Clausus. * Appius Claudius Crassus (), public official, decemvir in 451 BC, appointed to codify the laws * Appius Claudius Caecus (), official orator, consul in 307 BC and 296 BC, known for the Appian Way * Claudius Gothicus (210–270), officer in the Roman army and a provincial governor First name: Claudio Claudio became a popular first name due to the spread of Christianity during the Middle Ages. Claudio is also used in Spanish and in Portuguese, accented as Cláudio. Notable people with the name include: * Claudio Abarca (born 1994), Chilean f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
