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)

01-16b: Ike Quebec : Blue & Sentimental 1961 - Ponchielli : La Gioconda / Caballé | Pavarotti | Milnes | Bartoletti 1980 - Bach English Suites / Leonhardt 1984 - Delibes : Coppelia | Sylvia Suites / Fournet 1953

Not shown: Antonín Josef Alois Volanek & Annie Patterson

 

Not shown: Henryk Klejne & Charlie Galbraith

1703 – Matteo Coferati (Italian priest, composer & music theorist)
1817 – Antonín Josef Alois Volanek (Czech composer)
1864 – Anton Schindler (Austrian associate, secretary & biographer of Beethoven)
1886 – Amilcare Ponchielli (Italian composer)
1891 – Léo Delibes (French ballet & opera composer)
1911 – Wilhelm Berger (German composer, pianist & conductor)
1919 – Jaroslav Jeremiáš (Czech composer, conductor & pianist, son of Bohuslav, brother of Otakar)
1920 – Reginald De Koven (American music critic, operetta composer & conductor)
1934 – Annie Patterson (Irish organist, teacher, writer & composer)
1935 – Richard Wetz (German composer)
1957 – Arturo Toscanini (Italian conductor)
1961 – János Viski (Hungarian composer & violinist, pupil of Kodály)
1963 – Gilardo Gilardi (Argentine composer, pianist & conductor)
1963 – Ike Quebec (American jazz tenor saxophonist)
1969 – Vernon Duke [Vladimir Dukelsky, Владимир Дукельский] (Russian-born American musical theater & classical composer & songwriter)
1972 – David Seville [Ross Bagdasarian, Sr.] (American pianist, singer, songwriter, actor & record producer, Alvin and the Chipmunks)
1974 – Roy Bargy (American pop composer, conductor, arranger & pianist, first to record Gershwin's Piano Concerto in F)
1976 – Henryk Klejne (Polish composer, conductor & pianist)
1995 – Bill Dillard (American jazz trumpeter, singer & actor)
1996 – Marcia Davenport (American novelist, music critic & radio commentator)
1997 – Charlie Galbraith (English jazz trombonist)
2000 – Will "Dub" Jones (American R&B bass singer, The Coasters, The Cadets)
2000 – John Morris Rankin (Canadian country & folk fiddler & pianist, The Rankin Family)
2012 – Gustav Leonhardt (Dutch harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, claviorganist, fortepianist, conductor, musicologist & music editor)

01-16a: Toscanini Wax Windfall !! : Beethoven Bizet Brahms Dukas Dvorak Gershwin Mozart Prokofiev Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky & Wagner !!

1957 – Arturo Toscanini (Italian conductor)

That wasn't too clever of me, was it? Twelve albums by the greatest Italian conductor of the 20th century, and I somehow managed to not include a single Italian composer.