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Liane Carroll
Liane Carroll (born 9 February 1964) is an English jazz vocalist, pianist and keyboardist. Early life Carroll's parents were semi-professional singers who met and sang at the Country Club in Eastbourne. She grew up in a musical householdIn a short film by Sarah Linklater about Liane Carroll and her weekly performances at Porters, a small pub in Hastings, Carroll said that her parents were both singers and her grandmother had played the piano. in Hastings and in south London. She started learning the piano at the age of three, began composing at the age of eight, and has been a professional singer, pianist and composer since she was 15. Career In 1998 Carroll joined Trevor Watts' Moiré Music band and toured overseas with them. She became a respected session musician and also worked in bands under Dave Holdsworth, Gerry Rafferty, Jerry Donohue and Long John Baldry. Carroll formed her own trio and recorded for Jazz Art, Bridge, and Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, Ronnie Scott's Jaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Chapel, Islington
Union Chapel is a working Congregational church, live-entertainment venue and charity drop-in centre for the homeless in Islington, London, England. Built in the late 19th century in the Gothic revival style, the church is a Listed building, Grade I-listed building. It is at the north end of Upper Street, near Highbury Fields. As a venue Union Chapel hosts live music, film, spoken word and comedy events. There are around 250 events per year. It was voted London's Best Live Music Venue by readers of ''Time Out (magazine), Time Out'' magazine in 2002, 2012 and again in 2014. It has a reputation for excellent acoustics, due to its design. Margins Homelessness Project The Margins Project, based in the Union Chapel, provides a range of support services to people facing homelessness, crisis and isolation. It operates a twice-weekly drop-in that provides advice around accessing benefits, support showers and laundry facilities. There is a Supported Employment Programme which provides ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long John Baldry
John William "Long John" Baldry (12 January 1941 – 21 July 2005) was an English musician and actor. In the 1960s, he was one of the first British vocalists to sing the blues in clubs and shared the stage with many British musicians including the Rolling Stones and the Beatles. Before achieving stardom, Rod Stewart and Elton John were members of bands led by Baldry. He enjoyed pop success in 1967 when " Let the Heartaches Begin" reached No. 1 in the UK, and in Australia where his duet with Kathi McDonald, "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'", reached No. 2 in 1980. Baldry lived in Canada from the late 1970s onward, and continued to make records there. Beginning in the mid 1980s, he took up voiceover work, most notably as Dr. Ivo Robotnik in ''Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog'' and KOMPLEX in '' Bucky O'Hare and the Toad Wars!'' Early life John William Baldry was born on 12 January 1941, at East Haddon Hall, East Haddon, Northamptonshire, which was serving as a makeshift wartim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Horne
Alexander James Jeffery Horne (born 10 September 1978) is an English comedian. Horne is the creator of BAFTA award-winning TV series '' Taskmaster'', in which he takes the role of assistant to the Taskmaster Greg Davies. He is the host and bandleader of comedic band The Horne Section. Horne hosts the band's eponymous podcast and television series, and has appeared with them on BBC Radio 4, TV channel Dave, and ''8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.'' Early life Alexander James Jeffery Horne was born in Chichester, West Sussex, England on 10 September 1978. He was educated at independent Lancing College (1991–1996) and at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied classics (specifically Latin and Greek) and graduated in 2001. While at Cambridge, he was a member of the Footlights, and he wrote for student newspaper '' Varsity'' as a sports journalist and satirist. Horne went on to complete a graduate degree in broadcast journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
606 Club
The 606 Club (also known as "The Six") is a jazz club in Chelsea, London. Located in a basement venue at 90 Lots Road in London SW10 (opposite Lots Road Power Station) and currently licensed for 175 people, it offers jazz, Latin, soul, R&B, blues and gospel music seven nights a week, and sometimes also on Sunday afternoons, making it one of the busiest jazz clubs in Europe. According to musician Steve Rubie, who has owned and run the club since 1976, the club's history dates back to its emergence in the 1950s. Originally a small 30-seater venue at 606 King's Road King's Road or Kings Road (or sometimes the King's Road, especially when it was the king's private road until 1830, or as a colloquialism by middle/upper class London residents) is a major street stretching through Chelsea and Fulham, both ..., the club moved to its current site in May 1988. See also * List of jazz clubs References External linksOfficial homepage [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drum And Bass
Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated as DnB, D&B, or D'n'B) is a genre of electronic dance music characterised by fast Break (music)#Breakbeat (element of music), breakbeats (typically 165–185 Tempo, beats per minute) with heavy Bass (music), bass and sub-bass lines, Sampling (music), samples, and synthesizers. The genre grew out of the UK's Jungle music, jungle scene in the 1990s. The popularity of drum and bass at its commercial peak ran parallel to several other UK dance styles. A major influence was the original Jamaican dub music, dub and reggae sound that influenced Jungle music, jungle's bass-heavy sound. Another feature of the style is the complex syncopation of the drum tracks' break (music), breakbeat. Drum and bass subgenres include breakcore, ragga jungle, hardstep, darkstep, techstep, neurofunk, ambient drum and bass, liquid funk (also known as liquid drum and bass), jump up, drumfunk, sambass, and drill 'n' bass. Drum and bass has influenced other genres such a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wurlitzer
The Rudolph Wurlitzer Company, usually referred to as simply Wurlitzer, is an American company started in Cincinnati in 1853 by German immigrant (Franz) Rudolph Wurlitzer. The company initially imported stringed, woodwind and brass instruments from Germany for resale in the United States. Wurlitzer enjoyed initial success, largely due to defense contracts to provide musical instruments to the U.S. military. In 1880, the company began manufacturing pianos and eventually relocated to North Tonawanda, New York. It quickly expanded to make fairground organ, band organs, orchestrions, player pianos and pipe organs, pipe or theatre organs popular in theatres during the days of silent movies. Wurlitzer also operated a chain of retail stores where the company's products were sold. As technology evolved, Wurlitzer began producing Wurlitzer electric piano, electric pianos, electronic organs and jukeboxes, and it eventually became known more for jukeboxes and vending machines, which are s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Ladysmith Black Mambazo are a South African male choral group singing in the local vocal styles of ''isicathamiya'' and ''mbube (genre), mbube''. They became known internationally after singing with American Paul Simon on his 1986 album ''Graceland (album), Graceland.'' They have since won #Awards and nominations, multiple awards, including five Grammy Awards the fifth of which they dedicated to the late former South African President Nelson Mandela. Formed by Joseph Shabalala in 1960, Ladysmith Black Mambazo became one of South Africa's most prolific musical groups. Their releases received gold and platinum disc honours in both South Africa and abroad. The group became a mobile academy of South African cultural heritage through their Indigenous peoples of Africa, African indigenous ''isicathamiya'' music. History 1960–1986 The first incarnation of Ladysmith Black Mambazo was "Ezimnyama" ("The Black Ones"), formed by Joseph Shabalala in December 1960. The members of the grou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
On A Wing And A Prayer
''On a Wing & a Prayer'' is the seventh studio album by Gerry Rafferty. The album includes three tracks co-written with Rafferty’s brother Jim, also a singer-songwriter, who had been signed to Decca Records in the 1970s. The music was heavily influenced by Rafferty's divorce from his wife Carla Ventilla in 1990. They were married for 20 years. Track listing All tracks composed by Gerry Rafferty; except where indicated. #"Time's Caught Up on You" - 4:21 #"I See Red" (Jim Rafferty) - 4:05 #"It's Easy to Talk" - 4:29 #"I Could Be Wrong" - 3:59 #"Don't Speak of My Heart" (Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty) - 5:55 #" Get Out of My Life Woman" (Allen Toussaint) - 4:11 #"Don't Give Up on Me" - 4:59 #"Hang On" - 4:00 #"Love and Affection" - 6:25 #"Does He Know What He's Taken On" - 4:56 #"The Light of Love" (Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty) - 4:57 #"Life Goes On" - 5:22 Personnel * Gerry Rafferty – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar (1, 3, 4, 6, 7), high-string guitar (5) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained global fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and the piano, and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon. One of List of best-selling music artists, the most successful composers and performers in history, McCartney is known for his melodic approach to bass-playing, versatile and wide tenor vocal range and eclecticism in music, musical eclecticism, exploring genres ranging from traditional pop, pre-rock and roll pop to classical, ballads and electronica. His Lennon–McCartney, songwriting partnership with Lennon is the most successful in music history. Born in Liverpool, McCartney taught himself piano, guitar and songwriting as a teenager, having been influenced by his father, a jazz player, and rock and roll performers such as Little Richard and Buddy Holly. He began his career when he joined Lennon's skiffle group, the Quarrymen, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm And Blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was starting to become more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American history and experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of societal racism, oppression, relationships, economics, and aspirations. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brasília
Brasília ( ; ) is the capital city, capital of Brazil and Federal District (Brazil), Federal District. Located in the Brazilian highlands in the country's Central-West Region, Brazil, Central-West region, it was founded by President Juscelino Kubitschek on 21 April 1960, to replace Rio de Janeiro as the national capital. Brasília is Brazil's List of cities in Brazil by population, third-most populous city after São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, with a population of 2.8 million. Among major Latin American cities, it has the highest GDP per capita. Brasília is a Planned community, planned city developed by Lúcio Costa, Oscar Niemeyer and Joaquim Cardozo in 1956 in a scheme to move the capital from Rio de Janeiro to a more central location. The landscape architect was Roberto Burle Marx. The city's design divides it into numbered blocks as well as sectors for specified activities, such as the Hotel Sector, the Banking Sector, and the Embassy Sector. Brasília was inscribed as a UN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jubilee Debt Coalition
Debt Justice (formerly Jubilee Debt Campaign, Jubilee Debt Coalition and Drop The Debt) is a UK-based campaigning organisation which exists to end injustice in relation to developing countries' debt and the poverty and inequality it perpetuates. The organisation’s activities include campaigning, advocacy, community organising and activism and aims to build collective power with people most affected by debt to demand a fair economy for all. History The Coalition was formed as a successor organisation to the Jubilee 2000 Coalition. Many campaigners felt that it was necessary to continue working together to monitor the G8's promise to deliver $100 billion of debt relief at Cologne in 1999, and make further progress on the cancellation of the poorest countries' debts. The name was chosen in 1995/1996, as preparations were gathering pace for the celebration of the millennium. The concept was that justice and poverty alleviation through the cancellation of debts would be a fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
