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Okay, I lied. Look, I am really sorry. How many weeks has it been? It's not just that I'm busy, either. I'm not going to shit you... I have lost a lot of interest in doing this blog. It's a pain in the ass to do the research and hunt for the images and downloads, and I've become weary of it. Plus I have some music projects I'm starting right now, and they've been occupying a lot of my attention. If you're new around here, there are more than 200 posts for you to look at. Many of the downloads are no longer available, thanks to the infamous host purgings, and the usual deletions that would occur anyway. You regulars out there can rest assured that this blog will continue into perpetuity, such as it is. However, I'm not going to post unless I really feel like it. 

Oh, and I almost forgot... we finally surpassed 20,000 page views! Many thanks to all of you.

01-21: Peggy Lee & Nelson Riddle : Jump For Joy 1958 - Best Of Charles Brown 1945-1956 - Champion Jack Dupree : Blues for Everyone 1969 - Wolf-Ferrari Violin Concerto | Serenade for Strings / Hoelscher | Francis 1994

Not shown: Domenico Mazzocchi, John Vincent, John Gibbs & Peter Stadlen

1638 – Ignazio Donati (Italian composer)
1665 – Domenico Mazzocchi (Italian composer)
1851 – Albert Lortzing (German composer, actor & singer)
1876 – Therese [Müller] Grünbaum (Austrian soprano, creator of Eglantine in Weber’s Euryanthe)
1882 – Anton Emil Titl (Austrian composer & conductor)
1883 – Jacopo Tomadini (Italian priest, composer & organist)
1884 – Auguste Franchomme (French cellist & composer, friend of Mendelssohn & dedicatee of Chopin's Cello Sonata, Op. 65)
1888 – Stephan Hale Alonzo Marsh (English-born Australian composer & harpist, active also in the United States & Japan)
1891 – Calixa Lavallée (Canadian composer, pianist & teacher, active also in the United States, "O Canada")
1894 – Guillaume Lekeu (Belgian composer, pupil of Franck & D'Indy)
1931 – Felix Blumenfeld [Фе́ликс Блуменфе́льд] (Russian composer, conductor & pianist, pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, teacher of Horowitz)
1942 – Henryk Opieński (Polish composer, violinist, teacher & musicologist, early Chopin scholar & friend of Paderewski)
1948 – Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (Italian composer, conductor & teacher)
1959 – Lamar Stringfield (American composer, flutist, conductor & anthologist of American folk songs)
1961 – John Joseph Becker (American composer, one of the American Five)
1977 – John Vincent (American composer, conductor, teacher & author)
1977 – Zoltán Vásárhelyi (Hungarian choral conductor, composer, violinist & teacher)
1984 – Jackie Wilson (American R&B singer & songwriter, "Mr. Excitement", Billy Ward and His Dominoes)
1985 – Barbara Cowsill (American pop singer, The Cowsills)
1989 – Billy [Dorothy Lucille] Tipton (American jazz pianist, saxophonist & bandleader)
1992 – Champion Jack Dupree (American blues pianist & boxer)
1996 – John Gibbs (English baritone)
1996 – Peter Stadlen (Austrian-born British composer, pianist & musicologist, specialist in Beethoven)
1997 – Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk] (Dutch-born American impresario, manager of Elvis Presley)
1999 – Charles Brown (American blues singer & pianist)
2002 – Peggy Lee [Norma Deloris Egstrom] (American jazz & pop singer, songwriter, composer & actress)
2007 – U;Nee [Heo Yoon] (Korean pop singer, rapper, dancer & actress)
2010 – Paul Quarrington (Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician & teacher)

Billy Tipton was a female pianist who began dressing as a man in the 1930s so it would be easier for her to find work playing in jazz clubs. But even long after the jazz world had become more receptive to female instrumentalists, she continued to dress and self-identify as a man. Billy Tipton was in fact a lesbian. And unbelievably enough, she somehow managed over the course of her life to fool five husbands, and several government agencies, into believing she was a man. It was only upon her death that the truth about her gender was revealed. One of the most astonishing stories in jazz history.

01-20: Etta James Rocks the House 1963 - Gerry Mulligan Quartet : Pleyel Concert 1954 - Lonnie Smith : Think! 1968 - Franz Andre 78s & LPs 1941-1958 - Czech New Music : Pinos | Blatny | Istvan / Jilek 1988

Not shown: Christian de Placker, Michal Bogdanowicz, Edward Francis Fitzwilliam, Giacomo Benvenuti & Beverley Johnson

1691 – Christian de Placker (Flemish poet & composer)
1774 – Florian Leopold Gassmann (Czech composer of German descent)
1789 – Johann Christoph Oley (German organist & composer)
1798 – Christian Cannabich (German violinist, composer & director of the Mannheim orchestra)
1830 – Michal Bogdanowicz (Austrian composer & violinist of Polish descent)
1838 – Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges (French cellist, conductor & composer)
1857 – Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (English composer & director of Lyceum Theatre)
1859 – Bettina Brentano von Arnim (German writer, composer, singer, artist & social activist, friend of Goethe & Beethoven)
1890 – Franz Lachner (German composer & conductor)
1905 – Stanislaw Pilinski (Polish-born French pianist, organist, conductor & composer)
1909 – Zulma Bouffar (French actress & soprano, mistress of Offenbach & creator of several roles in his opéras bouffes)
1914 – Henry Southwick Perkins (American choral & glee composer, teacher & music critic)
1914 – Emil Liebling (German-born American pianist & composer)
1943 – Giacomo Benvenuti (Italian composer, musicologist & organist)
1952 – Arthur Farwell (American composer, conductor, teacher, lithographer & music publisher)
1964 – Jan Rychlík (Czech composer, music theorist, jazz percussionist & author)
1965 – Alan Freed (American disk jockey, pioneer of rock radio)
1975 – Franz André (Belgian conductor & violinist)
1979 – Gustav Winckler (Danish pop singer, composer & music publisher)
1985 – Jo Juda (Dutch violinist, concertmaster of the Concertgebouw Orchestra)
1990 – Miloslav Ištvan (Czech composer)
1990 – Hayedeh [هایده‎] (Iranian-born American classical & pop singer)
1993 – Marko Rothmuller (Croatian-born American operatic baritone, teacher & composer of Sephardic songs)
1996 – Gerry Mulligan (American jazz baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, composer & arranger,"Jeru")
2000 – Irra Petina (Russian-born Broadway actress & contralto at the Metropolitan Opera)
2001 – Beverley Johnson (American singing coach, Juilliard School, teacher of Renée Fleming)
2002 – Carrie Hamilton (American actress, singer & playwright, daughter of Carol Burnett)
2006 – Dave Lepard (Swedish glam metal singer & guitarist, Crashdïet)
2009 – David "Fathead" Newman (American jazz & R&B saxophonist & flutist, Ray Charles)
2012 – Etta James (American R&B, soul, gospel & jazz singer)

01-19: Carl Perkins Palo Alto 1977 - The Exciting Wilson Pickett 1966 | The Wicked Pickett 1966 - Janáček : The Makropulos Case / Söderström | Mackerras 1978

Not shown: Erhard Buttner, Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier & Ferdinand Pour

1576 – Hans Sachs (German Meistersinger, poet, playwright & shoemaker)
1625 – Erhard Buttner (German composer)
1795 – Maria Teresa Agnesi (Italian composer, harpsichordist & singer)
1805 – Johann Gottlieb Karl Spazier (German singer, teacher, composer & music journalist)
1830 – Wenzel Thomas Matiegka (Czech-born Austrian composer, guitarist, pianist & teacher)
1833 – Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold (French composer & pianist)
1839 – Georg Abraham Schneider (German hornist, woodwind player, composer & conductor)
1893 – Julius Eichberg (German composer, conductor, teacher & violinist, active in the United States)
1934 – Armand Parent (French violinist, composer & teacher)
1939 – Ferdinand Pour (French bass-baritone, created roles of Harašta & Dr Kolenatý in Janáček's Cunning Little Vixen & Makropulos Affair)
1944 – Harold Fraser-Simson (English composer of light music)
1951 – Constantin C. Nottara (Romanian composer, son of actor Constantin I. Nottara)
1971 – Harry Shields (American jazz clarinetist & baritone saxophonist, younger brother of Larry Shields)
1972 – Michael Rabin (American violinist)
1980 – Richard Franko Goldman (American conductor, teacher, author, music critic & composer)
1981 – Iva Pacetti (Italian operatic soprano & teacher)
1982 – Elis Regina (Brazilian pop, samba, bossa nova, jazz & rock singer, known also as "Pimentinha" or "Furacão")
1990 – Semprini (English pianist, composer, conductor, cellist & radio personality of Italian descent)
1995 – Gene MacLellan (Canadian country singer & songwriter, "Snowbird", "Put Your Hand in the Hand")
1998 – Carl Perkins (American rockabilly & country guitarist, songwriter & singer)
2006 – Wilson Pickett (American R&B, soul & rock singer & songwriter)
2007 – Denny Doherty (Canadian folk & pop singer & songwriter, The Mamas & the Papas, The Halifax III)
2007 – Murat Nasyrov [Мурат Насыров] (Russian pop singer & songwriter of Uyghur ethnicity)
2008 – John Stewart (American folk & pop songwriter, singer, guitarist & banjoist, The Kingston Trio)

Well, that was kind of interesting. The Carl Perkins concert was in Palo Alto. The Kingston Trio was formed in Palo Alto. But I couldn't find any of them... not with John Stewart, anyway. Ah well, Semprini it all... oh dear, pardon my French...

 

01-18: Agent Orange : Real Live Sound 1990 - Handel : Teseo / James | Jones | Minkowski 1992 - Wagner : Tannhäuser Bayreuth 1930 / Pilinszky | Elmendorff

Not shown: Rudolf Wittelsbach & Burnet Corwin Tuthill

1580 – Antonio Scandello (Italian composer)
1659 – Benedikt Lechler (German priest, lutenist & composer)
1746 – Valeriano Pellegrini (Italian soprano castrato, creator of roles in several Handel operas)
1760 – Claudio Casciolini (Italian composer, singer & choirmaster)
1875 – Joseph Philbrick Webster (American song & hymn composer, singer & pianist)
1886 – Josef Tichatschek [Tichaček] (Czech Heldentenor, creator of title roles in Wagner's Rienzi & Tannhäuser)
1902 – Filippo Marchetti (Italian opera composer & teacher)
1912 – Hermann Winkelmann (German Heldentenor, creator of title role in Wagner's Parsifal)
1918 – Amalie Materna (Austrian soprano, creator of Kundry in Wagner's Parsifal & Brünnhilde in first complete performance of his Ring cycle)
1962 – Raymond Moulaert (Belgian composer, pianist & teacher)
1972 – Rudolf Wittelsbach (Turkish-born Swiss composer, pianist & teacher)
1977 – Paul Nordoff (American composer & music therapist)
1978 – Ivan Dzerzhinsky [Иван Дзержинский] (Russian composer & pianist)
1979 – Cyril Mockridge (English film & television composer)
1982 – Burnet Corwin Tuthill (American composer, son of Carnegie Hall architect William Burnet Tuthill)
1984 – Vassilis Tsitsanis [Βασίλης Τσιτσάνης] (Greek singer, songwriter & bouzouki player)
1990 – Melanie Appleby (British dance, pop & R&B singer, Mel & Kim)
1994 – Arthur Altman (American popular songwriter, "All Or Nothing At All")
1995 – Charles Baskerville (American doo wop, R&B & soul singer, The Limelites, The Drifters)
1996 – Jos Kunst (Dutch composer & musicologist)
2007 – Brent Liles (American punk rock bass guitarist & singer, Social Distortion, Agent Orange)
2008 – Frank Lewin (American composer, music theorist & teacher)

01-17b: Junior Kimbrough : Most Things Haven't Worked Out 1997 - Czesław Niemen : Enigmatic 1970 | Strange Is This World 1972 - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble : BBC Archive Recordings 1970-1979

1994 – Noël Chiboust (French jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, clarinetist & bandleader)
1996 – Robert Covington (American blues drummer & singer)
1996 – Mostafa Sid Ahmed [مصطفى سيد احمد] (Sudanese singer, songwriter, oud player & teacher, active also in Russia, Egypt & Qatar)
1998 – Junior Kimbrough (American blues singer & guitarist)
2000 – Philip Jones (English trumpeter & leader of Philip Jones Brass Ensemble)
2002 – Eddie Meduza [Errol Leonard Norstedt] (Swedish rockabilly & Dansband composer, singer & guitarist)
2003 – Balint Vazsonyi (Hungarian pianist & political journalist)
2004 – Czesław Niemen (Polish rock & folk singer, songwriter & keyboardist)
2011 – Don Kirshner (American pop & rock songwriter, music publisher & manager, The Monkees, The Archies, Kansas)

01-17a: Blind Alfred Reed Complete Recordings 1927-1929 - Charlie Ventura 1945-1951 - Albinoni Oboe Concerti / Holliger | Elhorst 1979 - Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga String Quartets / Guilet Quartet

Not shown: Santino Garsi da Parma, Nicolo Rubini, Carl Baermann & Gottfried Rüdinger

1604 – Santino Garsi da Parma (Italian lutenist & composer)
1625 – Nicolo Rubini (Italian composer)
1738 – Jean-François Dandrieu (French composer, harpsichordist & organist)
1751 – Tomaso Albinoni (Italian composer, violinist & singer)
1788 – Alessio Prati (Italian composer, harpsichordist & singer)
1826 – Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga y Balzola (Spanish composer & violinist, "the Spanish Mozart")
1856 – Thomas Attwood Walmisley (English composer & organist, godson of Mozart's pupil Thomas Attwood)
1869 – Aleksandr Dargomyzhsky [Александр Даргомыжский] (Russian composer)
1890 – Salomon Sulzer [סלומון זולצר] (Austrian hazzan & composer)
1891 – Johannes Verhulst (Dutch composer, conductor & violinist)
1892 – Alexandre Levy (Brazilian composer, pianist & conductor)
1913 – Carl Baermann, Jr (German pianist, teacher & composer)
1942 – Frederick Jerome Work (American folksong collector & arranger)
1946 – Gottfried Rüdinger (German composer)
1956 – Blind Alfred Reed (American folk, country & old-time fiddler, singer & songwriter)
1969 – Grażyna Bacewicz (Polish composer & violinist)
1970 – Simon Kovar (Lithuanian-born American bassoonist)
1970 – Billy Stewart (American R&B & soul singer, pianist & drummer)
1992 – Charlie Ventura (American jazz tenor saxophonist & bandleader)