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?