01-03: Fleetwood Mac : Mystery to Me 1973 - Esquivel : Other Worlds, Other Sounds 1958 - Schubert : Grand Duo / Gold & Fizdale - Galuppi : Concerti a quattro / Quartetto Aglàia 2007

Not shown: Francesco Maria Guaitoli, Josef Foerster & Al Duncan

1628 – Francesco Maria Guaitoli (Italian composer)
1761 – Willem de Fesch (Dutch violone player & composer)
1785 – Baldassare Galuppi (Italian composer & harpsichordist, active also in England & Russia)
1829 – Robert Archibald Smith (Scottish composer & music editor)
1836 – Friedrich Witt (German cellist & composer, author of the 'Jena Symphony' once attributed to Beethoven)
1850 – Giuseppina Grassini (Italian contralto or mezzo-soprano, lover in turn of Napoleon, Pierre Rode & the Duke of Wellington)
1853 – Theodor Uhlig (German violist, composer & music critic, friend & advocate of Richard Wagner)
1858 – Mlle. Rachel [Elisabeth Rachel Félix] (French actress & singer)
1868 – Moritz Hauptmann (German music theorist, teacher & composer, influenced theory of harmonic dualism)
1873 – John Lodge Ellerton (English composer)
1900 – Edwin George Monk (English organist & composer)
1907 – Josef Foerster (Czech organist & composer, father of Josef Bohuslav Foerster)
1914 – Raoul Pugno (French composer, teacher, organist & pianist, known for his interpretations of Mozart)
1942 – Julius Conus [Ю́лий Коню́с] (Russian violinist & composer)
1945 – Fyodor Akimenko [Федір Якименко] (Ukrainian composer, pianist & musicologist)
1951 – Fred Barlow (English-born French composer)
1956 – Alexander Gretchaninov [Алекса́ндр Гречани́нов] (Russian composer)
1965 – Mario Basiola (Italian baritone)
1967 – Mary Garden (Scottish-born American lyric soprano & actress, active also in France)
1990 – Arthur Gold (American duo-pianist and cooking show co-host, Gold and Fizdale)
1992 – Lewis M. Friedman (American pianist, songwriter & club owner)
1994 – Josef Witt (Austrian tenor & vocal coach)
1995 – Al Duncan (American blues session drummer, Chess & Vee-Jay labels)
1997 – Cor Kee (Dutch organist & composer)
2002 – [Juan García] Esquivel (Mexican pop & easy listening bandleader, pianist & composer)
2007 – János Fürst (Hungarian conductor & violinist, active also in France, the British Isles & Scandinavia)
2010 – Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt (Chilean composer)
2012 – Bob Weston (English guitarist, singer, songwriter, banjoist & harmonica player, Fleetwood Mac 1972-74)

01-02: Spirit : Seattle 1971 - Ussachevsky | Davidovsky | Arel | Gaburo / CRI 356 - Nat Adderley Work Song 1960 - Erroll Garner Concert By The Sea 1955

Not shown: Johann Georg Weichenberger, Franz Ignaz von Beecke & Staf Gustaf Frans Nees

1726 – Domenico Zipoli (Italian Jesuit missionary & composer, active in Paraguay)
1740 – Johann Georg Weichenberger (Austrian lutenist & composer)
1780 – Johann Ludwig Krebs (German organist & composer, pupil of Bach)
1789 – Franz Joseph Leonti Meyer von Schauensee (Swiss organist & composer)
1803 – Franz Ignaz von Beecke (German harpsichordist & composer, pupil of Gluck)
1915 – Karl [Károly, Carl] Goldmark (Hungarian composer, music critic & violinist)
1924 – Sabine Baring-Gould (English priest, author, folksong collector & hymn lyricist, "Onward, Christian Soldiers")
1941 – Mischa Levitzki (Ukrainian-born American pianist & composer)
1950 – Theophrastos Sakellaridis [Θεόφραστος Σακελλαρίδης] (Greek composer & conductor)
1965 – Staf Gustaf Frans Nees (Belgian organist & composer)
1970 – Piotr Rytel (Polish composer)
1974 – Tex Ritter (American country singer, guitarist & actor)
1977 – Erroll Garner (American jazz pianist & composer, "Misty")
1990 – Vladimir Ussachevsky (Manchurian-born American composer of Russian ancestry, known for electronic works)
1993 – Karl Ahrendt (American violinist, conductor & composer)
1997 – Randy California [Wolfe] (American rock guitarist, singer & songwriter, Spirit)
1999 – Rolf Liebermann (Swiss composer)
2000 – Nat Adderley (American jazz cornetist, trumpeter & composer, brother of "Cannonball")
2002 – Armi Aavikko (Finnish singer, Miss Finland 1977)
2003 – Eric Jupp (English-born Australian pianist, composer, arranger & conductor)
2012 – Ian Bargh (Scottish-born Canadian jazz pianist & composer)
2012 – Helmut Müller-Brühl (German conductor, founder of Cologne Chamber Orchestra)

I really like this post!

Too bad about Randy California, though. His final act on this earth was saving his son from drowning. A rock hero, and a hero in real life...

01-01b: Townes Van Zandt : Minneapolis 1973 - Lhasa de Sela : The Living Road 2003 - Ted Hawkins : The Final Tour 1998 - House of Freaks : Monkey on a Chain Gang 1987

Not shown: Tad Jones

1995 – Ted Hawkins (American blues, soul, folk, country & gospel singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1995 – Jess Stacy (American jazz pianist)
1996 – Hamish Imlach (Indian-born Scottish folk singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1997 – Ivan Graziani (Italian rock singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1997 – Hagood Hardy (American-born Canadian easy listening & television composer, pianist & vibraphonist)
1997 – Townes Van Zandt (American country, folk & blues singer, songwriter, guitarist & poet)
2006 – Bryan Harvey (American rock singer, songwriter & guitarist, House of Freaks)
2007 – Del Reeves (American country singer, songwriter & guitarist)
2007 – Julius Hegyi (American conductor & violinist)
2007 – Tad Jones (American jazz music historian)
2010 – Lhasa de Sela (American-born folk singer & songwriter, active in Mexico, Canada & France)
2011 – Marin Constantin (Romanian conductor, composer & pianist)
2011 – Flemming Jørgensen (Danish rock singer, bass guitarist & actor, Bamses Venner)
2012 – Yafa Yarkoni [יפה ירקוני] (Israeli popular singer, "Songstress of the Wars")

Something from the 70s, the 80s, the 90s and the 00s. I love it when that happens. And is it me, or does Ivan Graziani look kind of like a cross between Elton John and Eugene Levy?

01-01a: Memphis Slim & Alexis Korner : Rock Me Baby 1960 - J C Bach | C F Abel : Chamber Music / Il Gardellino 2010 - Beethoven Violin Sonata 7 | Rondo in G / Yehudi & Hephzibah Menuhin 1938

1732 – Nicolini [Nicolo Grimaldi] (Italian castrato mezzo-soprano, creator of title roles in Handel's Rinaldo & Amadigi)
1782 – Johann Christian Bach (German composer & organist, youngest son of Johann Sebastian, active in England)
1953 – Hank Williams, Sr. (American country singer, songwriter & guitarist)
1967 – Moon Mullican (American country, rock & blues singer, songwriter & pianist)
1972 – Maurice Chevalier (French actor & singer)
1980 – Adolph Deutsch (American film & musical theater composer, conductor & arranger)
1981 – Hephzibah Menuhin (American, later Australian, pianist & human rights activist, sister & accompanist of Yehudi)
1984 – Alexis Korner (French-born British blues singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist & radio broadcaster)
1991 – Buck Ram (American pop songwriter, producer, arranger & A&R executive, The Platters)

We finally got finished with 2011, didn't we? It's a day I thought would never come. And so, a belated Happy New Year to all of you from all of us here at YiDM!

Another two-parter today, with the youngest of the Bach sons and some greats from the worlds of blues and country music. I hope none of you have your hearts set on Maurice Chevalier. Or Moon Mullican. Or Hank Williams, Sr. I mean, everybody already has plenty of Hank Senior, don't they? Well, they should if they don't, and if they don't... I guess they'd better look somewhere else...

12-31: The Essential Floyd Cramer 1995 - Charles Koechlin : Ballade & Seven Stars Symphony / Rigutto | Myrat 1982 - George Lewis Birth of Jazz 1950s

1950 – Charles Koechlin (French composer & teacher)
1969 – George Lewis (American jazz clarinetist & composer)
1985 – Ricky Nelson (American rock, pop, folk & country singer, songwriter, guitarist & actor)
1997 – Floyd Cramer (American country pianist, popularizer of 'slip-note' style)
2002 – Kevin MacMichael (Canadian guitarist, songwriter, singer & producer, Cutting Crew, Robert Plant)
2005 – Enrico di Giuseppe (American lyric tenor & clarinetist)
2007 – Markku Peltola (Finnish actor & rock singer, guitarist & bass guitarist)
2011 – Omus Hirshbein (American classical music impresario & music director, 92nd Street Y)

I've been staring at a long list for the past two days, saying "Oh, no, ma'am! I am not researching all those names!" And so I got rid of about 75% of them. It was quite liberating. So here we are. Sorry, all you dead people who've been overlooked. But after all... you're dead. What are you going to do about it?

12-30: The Birthday Party : Peel Sessions 1980-1982 - Richard Rodgers : Victory at Sea 1953 - The Magic of Boney M 1980 - Artie Shaw & His Gramercy Five 1954

Not shown: Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne

1796 – Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (French composer)
1821 – Angelo Maria Benincori (Italian composer & violinist)
1825 – Peter Grønland (Danish composer)
1828 – Waldemar Thrane (Norwegian composer, violinist & conductor)
1922 – Richard Zeckwer (German-born American composer, organist & teacher)
1934 – Peter Cornelius (Danish operatic tenor & baritone)
1940 – Fritz Volbach (German conductor, composer, musicologist, pianist & organist)
1946 – Charles Wakefield Cadman (American composer & pianist, associated with Indianist movement)
1948 – Rosina Buckman (New Zealand soprano)
1949 – Heinrich Rehkemper (German baritone)
1967 – Bert Berns (American songwriter, producer & record executive "Hang on Sloopy", "Twist and Shout")
1971 – Jan Mul (Dutch composer & organist)
1973 – Henri Büsser (French composer, organist & conductor of German ancestry)
1979 – Richard Rodgers (American popular songwriter & composer for theater, film & television)
1986 – Jiří Jaroch (Czech composer)
1993 – Mack David (American songwriter)
1995 – Ralph Flanagan (American jazz bandleader, pianist, composer & arranger)
1998 – Johnny Moore (American R&B singer, The Drifters)
2003 – Anita Mui [梅艷芳] (Hong Kong cantopop singer & actress)
2004 – Artie Shaw (American jazz clarinetist, bandleader, composer & author)
2009 – Rowland S. Howard (Australian post-punk guitarist, songwriter, keyboardist & singer, The Birthday Party)
2010 – Bobby Farrell (Aruban pop & disco dancer & singer, Boney M.)

We've heard from The Birthday Party before, when we were remembering their bass player, Tracy Pew. (Don't bother looking for that post - the links aren't good anymore.) Weird coincidence: On the fifth anniversary of the day Tracy Pew died, R&B musician Carter Cornelius died. Well, now we have The Birthday Party's guitarist, Rowland Howard, dying on the seventy-fifth anniversary of the day Danish opera singer Peter Cornelius died. Something funny is happening with the Birthday Party and Corneliuses (Cornelii?), and I promise to get to the bottom of it! And you know how much my promises are worth!

And as far as Peter Cornelius goes, that's another issue entirely. There are in fact three famous musicians named Peter Cornelius. The most famous Peter Cornelius nowadays is a still-living Austrian pop singer and guitarist who was formerly a member of Enigma. Prior to that Peter Cornelius coming into prominence, the most famous had been a German composer and author of the 19th century, whom we also remembered in a previous post. And do you want to know what's really coincidental about that post?!? I have no idea. At least, I haven't figured it out, YET. Maybe somebody can leave a comment and tell me what it is...

12-29: Freddie Hubbard : First Light 1971 - Bruckner 8 / Takashi Asahina 1976 - Kosaku Yamada : Symphony Triumph & Peace etc. / Yuasa 2008 - Tim Hardin 1 1966

Not shown: Albert Christoph Dies, Charles-Joseph Tolbecque, Ferdinand Marcucci, Fritz Behrend & Gene Tanner

1785 – Johann Heinrich Rolle (German composer)
1819 – Josepha Weber (Austrian soprano, sister-in-law of Mozart & creator of The Queen of the Night in The Magic Flute)
1822 – Albert Christoph Dies (German painter, composer & early biographer of Joseph Haydn)
1825 – Giuseppe Cambini (Italian composer & violinist)
1835 – Charles-Joseph Tolbecque (French violinist, conductor & composer)
1836 – Johann Baptist Schenk (Austrian composer, multi-instrumentalist & teacher)
1847 – William Crotch (English composer, organist & artist)
1876 – Ferdinand Marcucci (Italian harpist & composer)
1898 – Georg Goltermann (German cellist & composer)
1915 – Charles Beach Hawley (American bass, choir director & composer)
1952 – Beryl Rubinstein (American pianist, composer & teacher)
1959 – Robin Milford (English composer, pianist, flutist & organist)
1964 – Miroslav Krejčí (Czech composer & teacher)
1965 – Kōsaku Yamada [山田 耕筰] (Japanese composer & conductor)
1967 – Paul Whiteman (American jazz, pop & classical bandleader & violinist, commissioned Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue)
1972 – Fritz Behrend (German composer)
1980 – Tim Hardin (American folk singer, songwriter, guitarist & pianist)
1986 – John Antill (Australian composer, known for Aboriginal-inspired ballet Corroboree)
1989 – Irma Beilke (German coloratura soprano)
1990 – Aulikki Rautawaara (Finnish soprano)
1994 – Gene Tanner (American R&B singer, The Five Royales)
1996 – Mireille Hartuch (French theatrical singer, composer, pianist, actress & teacher)
2001 – Takashi Asahina [朝比奈 隆] (Japanese conductor, famed in particular for his performances of Bruckner)
2001 – Cássia Eller (Brazilian rock & MPB singer & guitarist)
2004 – Floriana Cavalli (Italian soprano)
2008 – Freddie Hubbard (American jazz trumpeter, cornetist, flugelhornist & composer)

Yay, Japan! Yay, Bruckner! Yay, Freddie Hubbard! Boo, Death!!