Features

  • Remembering Roxy Music – Musicians

    From the avant-garde sounds of the late 1960's to the grungier tunes of the new millennium, Roxy Music has continually established itself as a band that refuses to be pigeon-holed with one ...

  • Graceland: The Home of The King – Musicians

    Few entertainers evoke the American spirit more than Elvis Presley does. Having helped to establish the era of Rock 'n Roll, Elvis has become an icon in the world of music who did everything on ...

  • Frederic Chopin – Musicians

    Frederic Chopin was born in the river town of Zelazowa Wola, Poland in the year 1810. The exact birth date is not clearly defined, but it was either late February or early March. His father, ...

  • Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue – Musicians

    There are few masterpieces that can rival Miles Davis', Kind of Blue, recording. From the opening piano chords laid down by Bill Evans on "So What", to the soft melodic "Flamenco Sketches" that ...

  • Weezer – Musicians.com

    Weezer, a kickback to the alternative rock music explosion of the early nineties, were admitted geeks, and even used that nerdy look of thick-rimmed glasses and plaid shirts, despite the grunge ...

  • Classically Trained Musicians — The Art of Historically Informed Performances

    From your point-of-view in the audience you're wondering if perhaps something's not quite right: there's no thumping backbeat, no flashy pyrotechnics, no screeching lead guitar. Instead, a wave ...

  • Sacramento Jazz Jubilee – Musicians

    Music of jazz has many interpretations within in its diverse community and the Sacramento Jazz Jubilee spotlights a few of them every Memorial Day Weekend. Form Swing to Dixieland, Cajun, ...

  • Regional Music from the mountain tops of Nepal

    Hidden in the remote villages and high mountains of Nepal is a musical legacy even more varied and richer than its acclaimed natural beauty. Even today, Nepal's musical heritage remains ...

  • So You Want to be a Tenor: a Look at Opera America’s "Singer Workshop"

    I'm not sure one can actually learn to become an opera singer, any more than one can learn to become a great actor. You either have it or you don't. However, hundreds of singers who think they ...

  • Prague – Europe’s Unofficial Capital of Blues

    During the day, visitors mill around Prague's city-center and feed its ever-growing niche of the tourism industry. But at night, long after the sun has set, Prague more than lives up to its name ...

  • Molly Hatchett Set to Re-take the South – Musicians

    When the self-titled, platinum-selling, debut album of Molly Hatchett hit the streets in 1978, the timing seemed right for a southern rock and roll band that rocked every musical convention ...

  • CBGB’s: Punk Rock Music Mecca – Musicians

    For anyone who has listened to and participated in punk rock in the last thirty years, CBGB's is the place that started it all in America. One night some thirty years ago a man named Hilly ...

Musicians pictures.