01-07: Bruckner 7 / Schuricht 1964 - Feeder : Echo Park 2001 - Tesla Louisville 1989 - Bartok Complete String Quartets / Vegh Quartet 1972

Not shown: Jacobus de Kerle, Gallus Zeiler, Antonio Corbisiero, Josef Lipavský, Ramón Félix Cuéllar y Altarriba, Bobby Pratt & Arthur Leavins

1591 – Jacobus de Kerle (Flemish composer & organist)
1625 – Ruggiero Giovannelli (Italian composer & singer)
1678 – Johannes Flittner (German composer & poet, active in Sweden)
1736 – Ceslav Vanura (Czech composer)
1755 – Gallus Zeiler (German Benedictine abbot & composer)
1783 – William Tans'ur (English hymnist, teacher, music theorist  & composer of West Gallery music)
1790 – Antonio Corbisiero, composer, dies at 69
1810 – Josef Lipavský (Czech pianist & composer)
1833 – Ramón Félix Cuéllar y Altarriba (Spanish composer & organist)
1843 – Franz Schoberlechner (Austrian composer)
1868 – William Batchelder Bradbury (American organist & hymn composer, "Jesus Loves Me, This I Know")
1890 – Hans Matthison-Hansen (Danish organist, composer & painter)
1891 – Wilhelm Taubert (German pianist, composer & conductor)
1922 – Antonio Scontrino (Italian composer & bassist)
1936 – Guy d'Hardelot [Helen Guy Rhodes] (French composer, pianist & teacher, "Because")
1943 – Nikola Tesla [Никола Тесла] (Serbian-born American inventor, electrical engineer & pioneer of wireless transmission)
1946 – Adamo Didur (Polish operatic bass)
1960 – Luiz António Ferreira da Costa (Portuguese composer & pianist)
1964 – Colin McPhee (Canadian composer & ethnomusicologist, specialist in the music of Bali)
1964 – Cyril Davies (English blues harmonica player & singer)
1967 – Carl Schuricht (German conductor)
1979 – Zbigniew Turski (Polish composer)
1980 – Carl White (American R&B singer, The Rivingtons)
1980 – Larry Williams (American R&B & rock singer, songwriter, producer & pianist)
1981 – José Ardévol (Spanish-born Cuban composer & conductor)
1983 – Dame Edith Coates (English operatic mezzo-soprano)
1985 – Johnny Guarnieri (American jazz pianist)
1994 – Bobby Pratt (American jazz trombonist & pianist)
1994 – Jay Blackton (American music theater conductor & arranger)
1995 – Arthur Leavins (English violinist)
1997 – Sándor Végh (Hungarian violinist, conductor & teacher)
1998 – Owen Bradley (American country & rock record producer)
2001 – James Carr (American R&B & soul singer)
2002 – Jon Lee (Welsh rock drummer & guitarist, Feeder)
2009 – Maria Dimitriadi [Μαρία Δημητριάδη] (Greek singer & leftist political activist)
2010 – Willie Mitchell (American R&B, soul, rock & funk singer, trumpeter, record producer & arranger)

Today it's hard rock, and Bartók, and Bruckner. And rest assured the humor is not lost on me at how the presence of Tesla the band here is a bit of a stretch in more ways than one. But if you've been reading this blog for a while, you realize that it's entirely appropriate for us to be remembering Nikola Tesla on his deathday; for Tesla can claim as much right as Guglielmo Marconi to being called the "Father of Radio," and of course the effect of radio on the dissemination of music in the 20th century was incalculable.

And the pathway from Tesla the man to Tesla the band is shorter than it may seem, at least in this case. The live show presented here (in .wma format - I hope that isn't terribly inconvenient for most of you) is from 1989, when the band were touring in support of their second album, The Great Radio Controversy, whose liner notes indeed posit the notion that Tesla deserves more credit than Marconi for the earth-shaking invention. So, as you would expect, five out of the nine songs that make up this short but sizzling set are from that album.

Not only that, but it's also extremely likely that AC power (which, as used today, hinges largely on the work of Nikola Tesla) will come into play at one or more points when you're downloading, unpacking, importing, synching up, and listening to this Tesla show... so you see, it's all making sense here at YiDM!

01-06: The Stooges : Azkena Rock Festival 2006 - Dizzy in Greece 1956 - Don Cherry : Art Deco 1988 - Lou Rawls : Live! 1966 - Michel Petrucciani : Power of Three 1986

Not shown: Malachias Siebenhaar, Carlo Mannelli & Johann Georg Reinhardt

1685 – Malachias Siebenhaar (Czech-born German composer)
1697 – Carlo Mannelli (Italian violinist, castrato singer & composer)
1738 – Franz Xaver Murschhauser (German composer, music theorist, organist & singer)
1742 – Johann Georg Reinhardt (Austrian composer & organist)
1831 – Rodolphe Kreutzer (French violinist, teacher, composer & conductor)
1847 – Tyāgarāja [Thyagaraja, త్యాగరాజు] (Indian Carnatic composer, singer & saint)
1866 – Louis Antoine Ponchard (French tenor & singing teacher)
1906 – Gabrielle Krauss (Austrian soprano, aunt of conductor Clemens Krauss)
1933 – Vladimir de Pachmann (Ukrainian-born pianist of Russian & German ancestry)
1942 – Emma Calvé (French soprano & friend of Swami Vivekananda)
1959 – José Enrique Pedreira (Puerto Rican composer & pianist, noted for his danzas)
1987 – Domingo Santa-Cruz-Wilson (Chilean composer)
1993 – Dizzy Gillespie (American jazz trumpeter, composer & bandleader)
1995 – James Clay (American jazz tenor saxophonist & flutist)
1996 – Chubby Wise (American bluegrass fiddler)
1999 – Michel Petrucciani (French jazz pianist & composer)
2001 – Victor Braun (Canadian baritone)
2003 – Hirini Melbourne (New Zealand Māori musician, university lecturer, poet & author)
2006 – Lou Rawls (American soul, R&B & jazz singer & actor)
2007 – Sneaky Pete Kleinow (American pedal steel guitarist & songwriter, Flying Burrito Brothers et al.)
2009 – Ron Asheton (American rock guitarist, bass guitarist & songwriter, The Stooges)

If you thought yesterday was a big jazz day, with Mingus, it was only an appetizer for this huge jazz day we have today. Among our huge figures is the little pianist with the big technique, Michel Petrucciani, who was born with the condition osteogenesis imperfecta, which stunted his height but left him with average-sized hands. Petrucciani was a living testament to one's ability to overcome limitations, and his only special requirements were that the pedals of his piano be raised so he could reach them with his feet. Sometimes his small size even had its advantages - early in his career, Petrucciani's manager would often smuggle him into hotels in a suitcase in order to save money.

Aside from James Clay and Lou Rawls (who some people don't realize was a jazz singer long before he was doing the smooth soul which brought him hits during the 70s), of course there's Diz, about whose importance in the history of jazz too much cannot be said. One of the most unique and dazzling trumpeters who ever was, one of the inventors of bebop, a powerhouse who with his very physical appearance personified the coolness of jazz in the 40s and 50s. I'll not go any further, except to add that I got the chance once to see Gillespie in rehearsal a couple years before he passed, and it's a memory I know I'll always treasure.

As if that were not enough, we also remember Ron Asheton, one of the great guitarists of proto-punk; Vladimir de Pachmann and Emma Calvé, two of the most famous stars of the classical music world in the early 20th century; and Tyāgarāja, one of the very greatest composers in the history of South Indian music. I regret not being able to bring you any of Tyāgarāja's compositions today. I located what looked to be a very good record that consists largely of improvisations upon them, but as fate would have it the link directs one to the now-unreachable multiupload. Quite disappointing. But if I find something suitable later, I'll be sure to update this post and let you know about it.

01-05: Mingus At Monterey 1964 - The Doors Isle of Wight 1970 - Love : Forever Changes 1967 - Alan Rawsthorne Symphony No. 3 | Roberto Gerhard Concerto for Orchestra / Del Mar 1967 - Cher and Sonny & Cher Greatest Hits

Not shown: Johann Schneider, Ferdinando Orlandi, Leonce Gras & Victor van Os

1740 – Antonio Lotti (Italian composer, organist & singer)
1788 – Johann Schneider (German organist, violinist & composer, pupil of Bach)
1848 – Ferdinando Orlandi (Italian composer, organist & singing teacher)
1862 – Franz Joseph Fröhlich (German teacher & musicologist)
1888 – Henri Herz (Austrian-born French pianist & composer)
1891 – Emma Abbott (American soprano, impresario, pianist, guitarist & violinist)
1919 – Sumako Matsui [松井 須磨子] (Japanese actress & singer)
1946 – Kitty Cheatham (American singer, monologist & actress)
1956 – Mistinguett [Jeanne Bourgeois] (French actress, singer & dancer)
1970 – Roberto Gerhard [i Ottenwaelder] (Spanish composer & writer)
1974 – Lev Oborin [Лев Оборин] (Russian pianist)
1976 – Georges Migot (French composer, poet & painter)
1976 – Mal Evans (English road manager and assistant to The Beatles)
1979 – Charles Mingus (American jazz bassist, composer, pianist, cellist, trombonist & civil rights activist)
1992 – Hans Federico Neuman (Colombian composer & pianist)
1993 – Leonce Gras (Belgian conductor, singer & teacher)
1994 – Victor van Os (Dutch jazz guitarist)
1995 – Francis Lopez (French dentist & operetta composer)
1996 – Danny White (American R&B singer, Huey Smith & the Clowns)
1997 – Burton Lane (American theatrical composer & lyricist, Finian's Rainbow, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever)
1998 – Georgy Sviridov [Гео́ргий Свири́дов] (Russian composer, pianist & balalaika player)
1998 – Ken Forssi (American rock bass guitarist, Love, The Surfaris)
1998 – Sonny Bono (American pop singer, songwriter, record producer, entertainer & politician)
2003 – Doreen Carwithen (English composer, pianist & violinist, spouse of William Alwyn)
2005 – Danny Sugerman (American rock manager & author, The Doors, Iggy Pop)

A lot of great Chers, er, shares here, this time all from the 60s and 70s. There's something for just about everybody here!

01-04: Thin Lizzy : Boston 1978 + Phil Lynott Last Studio Recordings 1985 - Grand Slam : BBC 1984 - Stealers Wheel 1972

Not shown: Carl-Olof Anderberg

1885 – Iosif Kotek [Иосиф Котек] (Russian violinist & composer, close friend of Tchaikovsky)
1898 – František Pivoda (Czech composer, singing teacher & music critic, nemesis of Smetana)
1924 – Alfred Grünfeld (Austrian pianist & composer)
1942 – Leon Jessel (German composer, "Parade of the Tin Soldiers")
1955 – François Rasse (Belgian composer & violinist, winner of 1900 Prix de Rome)
1969 – Montague Phillips (English composer)
1972 – Carl-Olof Anderberg (Swedish pianist, composer & arranger)
1981 – Ruth Lowe (Canadian pianist & popular songwriter, Sinatra's first big hit "I'll Never Smile Again")
1985 – Lovro von Matačić (Croatian conductor & composer)
1986 – Phil Lynott (Irish rock singer, bass guitarist & songwriter, Thin Lizzy, Grand Slam)
1988 – Lily Laskine (French harpist)
1994 – Rahul Dev Burman (Indian film composer & playback singer, son of Sacha Dev Burman)
1995 – Eduardo Mata (Mexican conductor & composer)
1996 – Ramón Vinay (Chilean dramatic tenor & baritone)
1998 – John Gary (American pop singer & songwriter)
2001 – Les Brown (American jazz bandleader, reed player & composer, Les Brown and His Band of Renown)
2003 – Yfrah Neaman [يفراح نيعمان‎] (Lebanese-born British violinist & teacher)
2004 – Jake Hess (American southern gospel singer)
2010 – Sandro de América [Roberto Sánchez] (Argentine rock & pop singer & actor)
2011 – Mick Karn [Andonis Michaelides] (Cypriot-born British rock multi-instrumentalist & songwriter, Japan)
2011 – Gerry Rafferty (Scottish rock & folk singer, songwriter, guitarist, pianist & saxophonist, The Humblebums, Stealers Wheel)
2012 – Kerry McGregor (Scottish singer-songwriter, actress & contestant, The X Factor)

For Lovro von Matačić, go here.

For Eduardo Mata, go here.

For Ramón Vinay, go here.

And for Thin Lizzy & Grand Slam, featuring Phil Lynott, and Stealers Wheel, featuring Gerry Rafferty... well, you know what to do...