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!!

10-27b: Tyrannosaurus Rex : Unicorn 1969 - Billie Holiday Lady In Satin 1958 - Max Roach Drums Unlimited 1966 - Xavier Cugat Cugi's Cocktails 1963

1953 – Eduard Künneke (German composer)
1953 – Zdzisław Jachimecki (Polish composer)
1954 – Franco Alfano (Italian composer, completed Puccini's final opera Turandot)
1955 – Vladimir Mikhaylovich Deshevov [Владимир Михайлович Дешевов] (Russian composer)
1969 – Jaime Pahissa (Spanish composer & musicologist, active in Argentina)
1980 – Steve Peregrin Took (English singer, songwriter & percussionist, Tyrannosaurus Rex)
1990 – Xavier Cugat (Spanish-born American Latin dance musician, spent formative years in Cuba)
1991 – Andrzei Panufkin (Polish-born British conductor & composer)
1994 – Robert White (American R&B session guitarist, Motown Records)
2000 – Walter Berry (Austrian bass-baritone)
2002 – Tom Dowd (American recording engineer, Atlantic Records)
2003 – Stephanie Tyrell (American songwriter & record producer)
2004 – Zdenko Runjić (Croatian composer)
2004 – Lester Lanin (American bandleader)
2006 – Jozsef Gregor (Hungarian operatic bass)
2008 – Frank Nagai (Japanese popular singer)
2008 – Ray Ellis (American record producer, conductor & arranger)

With this post, Yesterday in Dead Musicians achieves TWO significant landmarks in its history. And what a glorious history it is, one that stretches all the way back to the second week in August.

First of all, this is our ONE HUNDREDTH post. If you don't believe me, you can scroll down and look at the archive to see for yourself.

Second of all, with this post, YiDM reaches 3000 total page views. Now, I know what some of you, who see this post before most of the others, are going to say: "But it isn't at 3000 yet!" And you would be correct. Can't argue with you there! And my answer to that is that it will be, shortly, once our subscribers and followers see what a great post this is. Trust me on this one. Have I ever let you down before? Don't answer that!

So, it's an emotional moment for me. If you'll excuse me... I'm sorry... just getting a big choked up... and I'd like to give special thanks to that without which we could never have achieved these goals.

Yes, I'm talking to YOU, base-10 counting system! Without you, the numbers 100 and 3000 would be arbitrary and ultimately meaningless. So, THANK YOU, for all the hard work you do, day in and day out, serving as the base by which most people in the world count in this day and age. And if you ask me, hexadecimal never had shit on you!

10-16b: Eyedea & Abilities : By The Throat 2009 - Toše Proeski : Božilak 2006 - Blakey & Jazz Messengers : Free For All 1964 - Mozart String Quintets / Grumiaux et al 1976 - Wagner-Liszt Tannhäuser Overture / Bolet 1973

1983 – George Liberace (American violinist & arranger, older brother & business partner of the pianist)
1983 – Jakov Gotovac (Croatian composer & conductor)
1986 – Arthur Grumiaux (Belgian violinist & pianist)
1990 – Jorge Bolet (Cuban-born pianist & teacher, active mostly in America)
1990 – Art Blakey [Abdullah Ibn Buhaina] (American jazz drummer & bandleader, The Jazz Messengers)
1991 – Ole Beich (American rock bass guitarist, L.A. Guns, Guns N' Roses)
2005 – Len Dresslar (American jazz singer & advertising voice actor, The Jolly Green Giant)
2005 – David Reilly (American rock & electronica singer, songwriter & producer, God Lives Underwater)
2006 – Tommy Johnson (American orchestral & soundtrack tuba player, Jaws, etc.)
2007 – Toše Proeski [Тоше Проески] (Macedonian classical, pop & rock singer, songwriter, keyboardist, guitarist, actor & humanitarian)
2010 – Eyedea [Micheal Larsen] (American rapper, singer, producer & guitarist, Eyedea & Abilities)

I'm doing 10-16b before 10-16a? Well, yes, I am. Why? Because I feel like it. If you don't like it, start your own blog that nobody ever bothers to leave a comment on. ;>

Sorry, but I'll have to skip the write-up tonight. There is just too much on my plate right now. I'd love to drone on and on about Art Blakey, perhaps the quintessential hard bop drummer, but it would take me too long. I don't write quickly, tend to be too perfectionistic about my spellnig & syntax my too also, as well. Even this write-up telling you there will be no write-up is taking me forever!

Anyway, Eyedea. He wasn't one of those rappers who sang about "ho's" a lot, but we'll we're on the subject, of course the guy who voiced the Jolly Green Giant was a legitimate musician, even if you never heard him sing anything but three different notes and just that one syllable. And that little tune was so short and simple: first down a major 2nd, and then down a perfect 4th. But I bet it made you run out and grab some Niblets, didn't it?