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Brooklyn
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Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City, with a Census-estimated 2,636,735 residents in 2015. It borders the borough of Queens at the end of Long Island. Today, if New York City dissolved, Brooklyn would rank as the third-most populous city in the U. S. behind Los Angeles, the borough continues, however, to maintain a distinct culture. Many Brooklyn neighborhoods are ethnic enclaves, Brooklyns official motto, displayed on the Borough seal and flag, is Eendraght Maeckt Maght which translates from early modern Dutch as Unity makes strength. Since 2010, Brooklyn has evolved into a hub of entrepreneurship and high technology startup firms. The history of European settlement in Brooklyn spans more than 350 years, the neighborhood of Marine Park was home to North Americas first tidal mill. It was built by the Dutch, and the foundation can be seen today, however, the area was not formally settled as a town. Many incidents and documents relating to this period are in Gabriel Furmans early compilation, what is today Brooklyn left Dutch hands after the final English conquest of New Netherland in 1664, a prelude to the Second Anglo–Dutch War. The English reorganized the six old Dutch towns on southwestern Long Island as Kings County on November 1,1683 and this tract of land was recognized as a political entity for the first time, and the municipal groundwork was laid for a later expansive idea of Brooklyn identity. On August 27,1776 was fought the Battle of Long Island, the first major engagement fought in the American Revolutionary War after independence was declared, and the largest of the entire conflict. British troops forced Continental Army troops under George Washington off the heights near the sites of Green-Wood Cemetery, Prospect Park. The fortified American positions at Brooklyn Heights consequently became untenable and were evacuated a few days later, One result of the Treaty of Paris in 1783 was the evacuation of the British from New York City, celebrated by residents into the 20th century. The New York Navy Yard operated in Wallabout Bay for the entire 19th century, the first center of urbanization sprang up in the Town of Brooklyn, directly across from Lower Manhattan, which saw the incorporation of the Village of Brooklyn in 1817. Reliable steam ferry service across the East River to Fulton Landing converted Brooklyn Heights into a town for Wall Street. Ferry Road to Jamaica Pass became Fulton Street to East New York, Town and Village were combined to form the first, kernel incarnation of the City of Brooklyn in 1834. Industrial deconcentration in mid-century was bringing shipbuilding and other manufacturing to the part of the county. Each of the two cities and six towns in Kings County remained independent municipalities, and purposely created non-aligning street grids with different naming systems and it later became the most popular and highest circulation afternoon paper in America. The publisher changed to L. Van Anden on April 19,1842, on May 14,1849 the name was shortened to The Brooklyn Daily Eagle, on September 5,1938 it was further shortened to Brooklyn Eagle
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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New York (state)
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New York is a state in the northeastern United States, and is the 27th-most extensive, fourth-most populous, and seventh-most densely populated U. S. state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south and Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Vermont to the east. With an estimated population of 8.55 million in 2015, New York City is the most populous city in the United States, the New York Metropolitan Area is one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world. New York City makes up over 40% of the population of New York State, two-thirds of the states population lives in the New York City Metropolitan Area, and nearly 40% lives on Long Island. Both the state and New York City were named for the 17th-century Duke of York, the next four most populous cities in the state are Buffalo, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse, while the state capital is Albany. New York has a diverse geography and these more mountainous regions are bisected by two major river valleys—the north-south Hudson River Valley and the east-west Mohawk River Valley, which forms the core of the Erie Canal. Western New York is considered part of the Great Lakes Region and straddles Lake Ontario, between the two lakes lies Niagara Falls. The central part of the state is dominated by the Finger Lakes, New York had been inhabited by tribes of Algonquian and Iroquoian-speaking Native Americans for several hundred years by the time the earliest Europeans came to New York. The first Europeans to arrive were French colonists and Jesuit missionaries who arrived southward from settlements at Montreal for trade, the British annexed the colony from the Dutch in 1664. The borders of the British colony, the Province of New York, were similar to those of the present-day state, New York is home to the Statue of Liberty, a symbol of the United States and its ideals of freedom, democracy, and opportunity. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. On April 17,1524 Verrazanno entered New York Bay, by way of the now called the Narrows into the northern bay which he named Santa Margherita. Verrazzano described it as a vast coastline with a delta in which every kind of ship could pass and he adds. This vast sheet of water swarmed with native boats and he landed on the tip of Manhattan and possibly on the furthest point of Long Island. Verrazannos stay was interrupted by a storm which pushed him north towards Marthas Vineyard, in 1540 French traders from New France built a chateau on Castle Island, within present-day Albany, due to flooding, it was abandoned the next year. In 1614, the Dutch under the command of Hendrick Corstiaensen, rebuilt the French chateau, Fort Nassau was the first Dutch settlement in North America, and was located along the Hudson River, also within present-day Albany. The small fort served as a trading post and warehouse, located on the Hudson River flood plain, the rudimentary fort was washed away by flooding in 1617, and abandoned for good after Fort Orange was built nearby in 1623. Henry Hudsons 1609 voyage marked the beginning of European involvement with the area, sailing for the Dutch East India Company and looking for a passage to Asia, he entered the Upper New York Bay on September 11 of that year
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United States
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Forty-eight of the fifty states and the federal district are contiguous and located in North America between Canada and Mexico. The state of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America, bordered by Canada to the east, the state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific Ocean. The U. S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean, the geography, climate and wildlife of the country are extremely diverse. At 3.8 million square miles and with over 324 million people, the United States is the worlds third- or fourth-largest country by area, third-largest by land area. It is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, paleo-Indians migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years ago. European colonization began in the 16th century, the United States emerged from 13 British colonies along the East Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the following the Seven Years War led to the American Revolution. On July 4,1776, during the course of the American Revolutionary War, the war ended in 1783 with recognition of the independence of the United States by Great Britain, representing the first successful war of independence against a European power. The current constitution was adopted in 1788, after the Articles of Confederation, the first ten amendments, collectively named the Bill of Rights, were ratified in 1791 and designed to guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. During the second half of the 19th century, the American Civil War led to the end of slavery in the country. By the end of century, the United States extended into the Pacific Ocean. The Spanish–American War and World War I confirmed the status as a global military power. The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 left the United States as the sole superpower. The U. S. is a member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Organization of American States. The United States is a developed country, with the worlds largest economy by nominal GDP. It ranks highly in several measures of performance, including average wage, human development, per capita GDP. While the U. S. economy is considered post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of services and knowledge economy, the United States is a prominent political and cultural force internationally, and a leader in scientific research and technological innovations. In 1507, the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller produced a map on which he named the lands of the Western Hemisphere America after the Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci
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Pop music
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Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid 1950s. The terms popular music and pop music are used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular. Pop and rock were synonymous terms until the late 1960s, when they were used in opposition from each other. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music. Pop music is eclectic, and often borrows elements from other such as urban, dance, rock, Latin. Identifying factors include generally short to medium-length songs written in a format, as well as the common use of repeated choruses, melodic tunes. David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop music as a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, according to Pete Seeger, pop music is professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music. Although pop music is seen as just the singles charts, it is not the sum of all chart music, the music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical, jazz, rock, and novelty songs. Pop music, as a genre, is seen as existing and developing separately, pop music continuously evolves along with the terms definition. The term pop song was first recorded as being used in 1926, Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country, blues and hillbilly music. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pops earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience. Since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the meaning of non-classical mus, usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as the Beatles. Grove Music Online also states that, in the early 1960s pop music competed terminologically with beat music, while in the USA its coverage overlapped with that of rock and roll. From about 1967, the term was used in opposition to the term rock music. Whereas rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of the possibilities of music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral. It is not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward, and, in musical terms, it is essentially conservative. It is, provided from on high rather than being made from below, pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged. The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment, the lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions
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Rock music
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It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by blues, rhythm and blues and country music. Rock music also drew strongly on a number of genres such as electric blues and folk. Musically, rock has centered on the guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar. Typically, rock is song-based music usually with a 4/4 time signature using a verse-chorus form, like pop music, lyrics often stress romantic love but also address a wide variety of other themes that are frequently social or political in emphasis. Punk was an influence into the 1980s on the subsequent development of subgenres, including new wave, post-punk. From the 1990s alternative rock began to rock music and break through into the mainstream in the form of grunge, Britpop. Similarly, 1970s punk culture spawned the visually distinctive goth and emo subcultures and this trio of instruments has often been complemented by the inclusion of other instruments, particularly keyboards such as the piano, Hammond organ and synthesizers. The basic rock instrumentation was adapted from the blues band instrumentation. A group of musicians performing rock music is termed a rock band or rock group, Rock music is traditionally built on a foundation of simple unsyncopated rhythms in a 4/4 meter, with a repetitive snare drum back beat on beats two and four. Melodies are often derived from older musical modes, including the Dorian and Mixolydian, harmonies range from the common triad to parallel fourths and fifths and dissonant harmonic progressions. Critics have stressed the eclecticism and stylistic diversity of rock, because of its complex history and tendency to borrow from other musical and cultural forms, it has been argued that it is impossible to bind rock music to a rigidly delineated musical definition. These themes were inherited from a variety of sources, including the Tin Pan Alley pop tradition, folk music and rhythm, as a result, it has been seen as articulating the concerns of this group in both style and lyrics. Christgau, writing in 1972, said in spite of some exceptions, rock and roll usually implies an identification of male sexuality, according to Simon Frith rock was something more than pop, something more than rock and roll. Rock musicians combined an emphasis on skill and technique with the concept of art as artistic expression, original. The foundations of music are in rock and roll, which originated in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its immediate origins lay in a melding of various musical genres of the time, including rhythm and blues and gospel music, with country. In 1951, Cleveland, Ohio disc jockey Alan Freed began playing rhythm and blues music for a multi-racial audience, debate surrounds which record should be considered the first rock and roll record. Other artists with rock and roll hits included Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Fats Domino, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis
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Musician
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A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented. Anyone who composes, conducts, or performs music may also be referred to as a musician, Musicians can specialize in any musical style, and some musicians play in a variety of different styles. Examples of a musicians possible skills include performing, conducting, singing, composing, arranging, in the Middle Ages, instrumental musicians performed with soft ensembles inside and loud instruments outdoors. Many European musicians of this time catered to the Roman Catholic Church, providing arrangements structured around Gregorian chant structure, vocal pieces were in Latin—the language of church texts of the time—and typically were Church-polyphonic or made up of several simultaneous melodies. Giovanni Palestrina Giovanni Gabrieli Thomas Tallis Claudio Monteverdi Leonardo da Vinci The Baroque period introduced heavy use of counterpoint, vocal and instrumental “color” became more important compared to the Renaissance style of music, and emphasized much of the volume, texture and pace of each piece. George Frideric Handel Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi Classical music was created by musicians who lived during a time of a middle class. Many middle-class inhabitants of France at the time lived under long-time absolute monarchies, because of this, much of the music was performed in environments that were more constrained compared to the flourishing times of the Renaissance and Baroque eras. This age included the initial transformations of the Industrial Revolution, a revolutionary energy was also at the core of Romanticism, which quite consciously set out to transform not only the theory and practice of poetry and art, but the common perception of the world. Some major Romantic Period precepts survive, and still affect modern culture, in 20th-century music, composers and musicians rejected the emotion-dominated Romantic period, and strove to represent the world the way they perceived it. Musicians wrote to be. objective, while objects existed on their own terms, while past eras concentrated on spirituality, this new period placed emphasis on physicality and things that were concrete. The advent of recording and mass media in the 20th century caused a boom of all kinds of music—popular music, rock music, electronic music, folk music. Singer Composer Music artist Tour Manager Media related to Musicians at Wikimedia Commons
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Drummer
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The term percussionist applies to a musician who performs struck musical instruments of numerous diverse shapes, sizes and applications. Most contemporary western ensembles bands for rock, pop, jazz, most drummers of this particular designation work within the context of a larger contingent that may also include, keyboard or guitar, auxiliary percussion and bass. Said ensembles may also include melodic based mallet percussion including, vibraphone, the rhythm section, being the core metronomic foundation with which other melodic instruments, including voices, may present the harmonic/melodic portion of the material. In popular music, the function of the drummer is to keep time or provide a steady tempo. There are many tools that a drummer can use for either timekeeping or soloing and these include cymbals, snare, toms, auxiliary percussion and many others. Also there are single, double, and triple bass pedals for the bass drum, before motorized transport became widespread, drummers played a key role in military conflicts. Military drummers provided drum cadences that set a marching pace. In some armies drums also assisted in combat by keeping cadence for firing and loading drills with muzzle loading guns, military drummers were also employed on the parade field, when troops passed in review, and in various ceremonies including ominous drum rolls accompanying disciplinary punishments. Children also served as drummer boys well into the century, though less commonly than is popularly assumed, due to the nature of the job. In modern times, drummers are not employed in battle, typically buglers and drummers mass under a sergeant-drummer and during marches alternately perform with the regiment or battalion ensembles. Military-based musical percussion traditions were not limited exclusively to the western world, in the Ottoman Empire, the size of a military band reflected the rank of its commander in chief, the largest band was reserved for the Sultan. It included various percussion instruments, often adopted in European military music, the pitched bass drum is still known in some languages as the Turkish Drum. The drumline is a type of marching ensemble descended from drummers, and can be arranged as a performance of a drum. Their uniforms will often have a style and a fancy hat. In recent times, it is common to see drummers in parades wearing costumes with an African, Asian, Latin, Native American, or tribal look. Various indigenous cultures use the drum to create a sense of unity with others especially during recreational events, the drum also helps in prayers and meditations. List of drummers Drum beat Drum machine Drum tracks Pipe band This article incorporates text from a now in the public domain, Chisholm, Hugh
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Drum kit
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A drum kit consists of a mix of drums and idiophones most significantly cymbals but also including the woodblock and cowbell. In the 2000s, some also include electronic instruments and both hybrid and entirely electronic kits are used. If some or all of them are replaced by electronic drums, the drum kit is usually played while seated on a drum stool or throne. The drum kit differs from instruments that can be used to produce pitched melodies or chords, even though drums are often placed musically alongside others that do, such as the piano or guitar. The drum kit is part of the rhythm section used in many types of popular and traditional music styles ranging from rock and pop to blues. Other standard instruments used in the section include the electric bass, electric guitar. Many drummers extend their kits from this pattern, adding more drums, more cymbals. Some performers, such as some rockabilly drummers, use small kits that omit elements from the basic setup, some drum kit players may have other roles in the band, such as providing backup vocals, or less commonly, lead vocals. Thus, in an early 1800s orchestra piece, if the called for bass drum, triangle and cymbals. In the 1840s, percussionists began to experiment with foot pedals as a way to them to play more than one instrument. In the 1860s, percussionists started combining multiple drums into a set, the bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, and other percussion instruments were all played using hand-held drum sticks. Double-drumming was developed to one person to play the bass and snare with sticks. With this approach, the drum was usually played on beats one. This resulted in a swing and dance feel. The drum set was referred to as a trap set. By the 1870s, drummers were using an overhang pedal, most drummers in the 1870s preferred to do double drumming without any pedal to play multiple drums, rather than use an overhang pedal. Companies patented their pedal systems such as Dee Dee Chandler of New Orleans 1904–05, liberating the hands for the first time, this evolution saw the bass drum played with the foot of a standing percussionist. The bass drum became the central piece around which every other percussion instrument would later revolve and it was the golden age of drum building for many famous drum companies, with Ludwig introducing
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Percussion
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A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater, struck, scraped or rubbed by hand, or struck against another similar instrument. The percussion family is believed to include the oldest musical instruments, the percussion section of an orchestra most commonly contains instruments such as timpani, snare drum, bass drum, cymbals, triangle and tambourine. However, the section can also contain non-percussive instruments, such as whistles and sirens, percussive techniques can also be applied to the human body, as in body percussion. On the other hand, keyboard instruments, such as the celesta, are not normally part of the percussion section, Percussion instruments may play not only rhythm, but also melody and harmony. Percussion is commonly referred to as the backbone or the heartbeat of an ensemble, often working in close collaboration with bass instruments. In jazz and other popular ensembles, the pianist, bassist, drummer. Most classical pieces written for full orchestra since the time of Haydn and Mozart are orchestrated to place emphasis on the strings, woodwinds, however, often at least one pair of timpani is included, though they rarely play continuously. Rather, they serve to provide additional accents when needed, in the 18th and 19th centuries, other percussion instruments have been used, again generally sparingly. The use of percussion instruments became more frequent in the 20th century classical music, in almost every style of music, percussion plays a pivotal role. In classic jazz, one almost immediately thinks of the rhythm of the hi-hats or the ride cymbal when the word swing is spoken. Because of the diversity of instruments, it is not uncommon to find large musical ensembles composed entirely of percussion. Rhythm, melody, and harmony are all represented in these ensembles, music for pitched percussion instruments can be notated on a staff with the same treble and bass clefs used by many non-percussive instruments. Music for percussive instruments without a pitch can be notated with a specialist rhythm or percussion-clef. The word percussion has evolved from Latin terms, percussio, as a noun in contemporary English it is described in Wiktionary as the collision of two bodies to produce a sound. Hornbostel–Sachs has no high-level section for percussion, Most percussion instruments are classified as idiophones and membranophones.1 Concussion idiophones or clappers, played in pairs and beaten against each other, such as zills and clapsticks. 111.2 Percussion idiophones, includes many percussion instruments played with the hand or by a mallet, such as the hang, gongs and the xylophone. 21 Struck drums, includes most types of drum, such as the timpani, snare drum, (Included in most drum sets or 412. Stringed instruments played with such as the hammered dulcimer
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Billy Joel
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William Martin Billy Joel is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. Since releasing his first hit song, Piano Man, in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and his compilation album Greatest Hits Vol.1 &2 is one of the best-selling albums in the US. Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the US and he is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the artists of all time. Joel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 2001, Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors, the nations highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts, with the exception of the 2007 songs All My Life and Christmas in Fallujah, Joel stopped writing and releasing pop/rock material after 1993s River of Dreams. However, he continues to tour, and he plays songs from all eras of his solo career. William Martin Joel was born in the Bronx on May 9,1949, in 1963, when ZIP codes were assigned, the section of Levittown in Oyster Bay was given a Hicksville, New York ZIP code and has since been part of Hicksville. Joels father, Howard Joel, a classical pianist, was born in Germany, to a Jewish family, Howard immigrated to Switzerland and later to the US to escape the Nazi regime. Joels mother, Rosalind, was born in England to Jewish parents, Philip, Rosalind and Howard Joel divorced in 1957. Howard Joel moved to Vienna, Austria, Billy Joel has a sister, Judith, and a half-brother, Alexander Joel, a classical conductor in Europe, who was the chief musical director of the Staatstheater Braunschweig from 2001 to 2014. He reluctantly began piano lessons at an age, at his mothers insistence, his teachers including the noted American pianist Morton Estrin. As a teenager, Joel took up boxing so he could defend himself and he boxed successfully on the amateur Golden Gloves circuit for a short time, winning 22 bouts, but abandoned the sport shortly after his nose was broken in his 24th boxing match. Joel attended Hicksville High School until 1967, but he did not graduate with his class, though Joel was a comparatively strong student, at the end of his senior year, he did not have enough credits to graduate. Rather than attend school to earn his diploma, Joel decided to begin a career in music, I told them. If Im not going to Columbia University, Im going to Columbia Records, Joel did eventually sign with Columbia. In 1992, he submitted essays to the board and was awarded his diploma at Hicksville Highs annual-graduation ceremony,25 years after leaving. After seeing The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, Joel decided to pursue a career in music, in an interview he said of the groups impact, That one performance changed my life … Up to that moment Id never considered playing rock as a career
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Karen Carpenter
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Karen Anne Carpenter was an American singer and drummer. She and her brother Richard Carpenter formed the 1970s duo The Carpenters and her skills as a drummer earned admiration from drumming luminaries and peers, but she is best known for her vocal performances. She typically sang in a vocal range. Carpenter suffered from anorexia nervosa, a disorder that was little known at the time. She died at age 32 from heart failure caused by related to her illness. Carpenters death led to increased visibility and awareness of eating disorders, Karen Anne Carpenter was born in New Haven, Connecticut, the daughter of Agnes Reuwer and Harold Bertram Carpenter. Harold had been born in China where his parents were missionaries and was educated at boarding schools in England, when she was young, she enjoyed playing baseball with other children on the street. On the TV program This Is Your Life, she stated that she liked pitching and later, in the early 1970s and her brother Richard developed an interest in music at an early age, becoming a piano prodigy. Karen enjoyed dancing and by age 4 was enrolled in tap dancing, the family moved in June 1963 to the Los Angeles suburb of Downey. When Carpenter entered Downey High School, she joined the school band, bruce Gifford, the conductor gave her the glockenspiel, an instrument she disliked and after admiring the performance of her friend, Frankie Chavez, she asked if she could play the drums instead. She and her brother made their first recordings in 1965 and 1966, the following year she began dieting. Under a doctors guidance, she went on the Stillman Diet and she rigorously ate lean foods, drank eight glasses of water a day, and avoided fatty foods. She was 54 in height and before dieting weighed 145 pounds and afterwards weighed 120 pounds until 1973, by September 1975, her weight was 91 pounds. From 1965 to 1968 Karen, her brother Richard, and his college friend Wes Jacobs, the band played jazz at numerous nightclubs and also appeared on the TV talent show Your All-American College Show. Karen, Richard and other musicians, including Gary Sims and John Bettis, Spectrum focused on a harmonious and vocal sound, and recorded many demo tapes in the garage studio of friend and bassist Joe Osborn. Many of those tapes were rejected by record companies, according to former Carpenters member John Bettis, those rejections took their toll. The tapes of the sessions were lost in a fire at Joe Osborns house. Finally A&M Records signed the Carpenters to a contract in 1969
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Stevie Nicks
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Stephanie Lynn Stevie Nicks is an American singer-songwriter. Often regarded as the Queen of Rock n Roll, Nicks is best known for both her work as frontwoman of Fleetwood Mac and for her solo career and she is also known for her distinctive voice, mystical visual style, and symbolic lyrics. As a member of Fleetwood Mac, she was inducted into the Rock and she has garnered eight Grammy Award nominations and two American Music Award nominations as a solo artist. She has won awards with Fleetwood Mac, including a Grammy Award. Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 along with her then boyfriend, the album remained at number one on the American albums chart for 31 weeks and reached Number One in various countries worldwide. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 1978 and it produced four U. S. top-10 singles, with Nicks Dreams being the bands first and only U. S. number-one hit. She has released a total of eight studio albums to date, with her most recent titled 24 Karat Gold, Songs from the Vault. During her solo career, she has had a working relationship with Tom Petty. They served as a band for several tracks on each of her solo albums. The song Stop Draggin My Heart Around, performed by Nicks, Nicks was born at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, to Jess Nicks, former president of Greyhounds Armour-Dial, and Barbara Nicks, a homemaker. Nicks, Sr. a struggling country singer, taught Nicks to sing duets with him by the time she was four years old. Nickss mother was so protective that she kept her at home more than most people, the infant Stephanie could pronounce her own name only as tee-dee, which led to her nickname of Stevie. Her fathers frequent relocation as a business executive had the family living in Phoenix, Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles. With the Goya guitar that she received for her 16th birthday, Nicks wrote her first song, Ive Loved and Ive Lost and she spent her adolescence playing records constantly, and lived in her own little musical world. While attending Arcadia High School in Arcadia, California, she joined her first band, the Changing Times, Nicks first met her future musical and romantic partner, Lindsey Buckingham, during her senior year at Menlo-Atherton High School. When she saw Buckingham playing California Dreamin at Young Life club and she later recalled, I was a senior in high school and Lindsey was a junior. I thought he was a darling, I didnt see him again for two years and he called me up and asked if I wanted to be in a band. And so, I was in band with him for three and a half years ~ a band called Fritz
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The Beach Boys
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The Beach Boys are an American rock band formed in Hawthorne, California in 1961. The groups original lineup consisted of brothers Brian, Dennis, and Carl Wilson, their cousin Mike Love, distinguished by their vocal harmonies and early surf songs, they are one of the most influential acts of the rock era. The Beach Boys began as a band managed by the Wilsons father Murry. Emerging at the vanguard of the California Sound, they performed material that reflected a southern California youth culture of surfing, cars. After 1964, they abandoned the surfing aesthetic for more personal lyrics, in 1966, the Pet Sounds album and Good Vibrations single vaulted the group to the top level of rock innovators and established the band as symbols of the nascent counterculture era. Following Smiles dissolution, Brian gradually ceded production and songwriting duties to the rest of the band, reducing his input because of mental health and substance abuse issues. The continued success of their greatest hits albums during the mid 1970s precipitated the transition into an oldies act. Since the 1980s, much-publicized legal wrangling over royalties, songwriting credits, Dennis drowned in 1983 and Carl died of lung cancer in 1998. After Carls death, many live configurations of the band fronted by Mike Love, Even though Wilson and Jardine have not performed with Love and Johnstons band since their one-off 2012 reunion tour, they remain a part of the Beach Boys corporation, Brother Records Inc. The Beach Boys are one of the most critically acclaimed, commercially successful, the group had over eighty songs chart worldwide, thirty-six of them US Top 40 hits, four reaching number-one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They received their only Grammy Award for The Smile Sessions, the core quintet of the three Wilsons, Love and Jardine were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. At the time of his birthday on June 20,1958, Brian Wilson shared a bedroom with his brothers, Dennis and Carl – aged thirteen and eleven. He had watched his father, Murry Wilson, play piano, after dissecting songs such as Ivory Tower and Good News, Brian would teach family members how to sing the background harmonies. For his birthday that year, Brian received a tape recorder. He learned how to overdub, using his vocals and those of Carl, Brian played piano with Carl and David Marks, an eleven-year-old longtime neighbor, playing guitars they had each received as Christmas presents. Soon Brian and Carl were avidly listening to Johnny Otis KFOX radio show, inspired by the simple structure and vocals of the rhythm and blues songs he heard, Brian changed his piano-playing style and started writing songs. His enthusiasm interfered with his studies at school. Family gatherings brought the Wilsons in contact with cousin Mike Love, Brian taught Loves sister Maureen and a friend harmonies
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Meat Loaf
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Michael Lee Aday, better known by his stage name Meat Loaf, is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is noted for the Bat Out of Hell trilogy of albums, consisting of Bat Out of Hell, Bat Out of Hell II, Back into Hell, Bat Out of Hell has sold more than 43 million copies worldwide. Almost 40 years after its release, it sells a estimated 200,000 copies annually. He is also known for his powerful wide-ranging operatic voice and theatrical live performances and he ranked 96th on VH1s 100 Greatest Artists of Hard Rock. He is one of the music artists of all time. He has also appeared in over 50 movies and television shows and his most notable roles include Eddie in the The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Robert Bob Paulson in David Finchers Fight Club and The Lizard in The 51st State. He has also appeared in television shows such as Monk, Glee, South Park, House, M. D. Marvin Lee Aday was born in Dallas, Texas and he was the only child of Wilma Artie, a school teacher and a member of the Vo-di-o-do Girls gospel quartet, and Orvis Wesley Aday, a police officer. His father was an alcoholic who would go on drinking binges for days at a time, Aday and his mother would drive around to all the bars in Dallas, looking for Orvis to take him home. As a result, Aday often stayed with his grandmother, Charlsee Norrod, Meat Loaf relates a story in his autobiography, To Hell and Back, about how he, a friend, and his friends father drove out to Love Field to watch John F. Kennedy land. After watching him leave the airport, they went to Market Hall, in 1965, Aday graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School, having already started his acting career via school productions such as Wheres Charley. and The Music Man. After attending college at Lubbock Christian College, he transferred to North Texas State University, after Aday received his inheritance from his mothers death, he rented an apartment in Dallas and isolated himself for three and a half months. A short time later, Aday went to the airport and caught the next flight leaving, the plane took him to Los Angeles. In Los Angeles, Aday formed his first band, Meat Loaf Soul, during the recording of their first song, he hit a note so high that he managed to blow a fuse on the recording monitor. He was immediately offered three recording contracts, which he turned down, Meat Loaf Souls first gig was in Huntington Beach at the Cave, opening for Van Morrisons band, Them. While performing their cover of the Howlin Wolf song Smokestack Lightning, the machine they used made too much smoke. Later, the band was the act at Cal State Northridge for Renaissance, Taj Mahal. The band then underwent several changes of lead guitar, changing the name of the each time
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Rick Wakeman
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Richard Christopher Rick Wakeman is an English keyboardist, songwriter, television and radio presenter, and author. He is best known for being in the rock band Yes across five tenures between 1971 and 2004 and for his solo albums released in the 1970s. Born and raised in West London, Wakeman intended to be a concert pianist and his early sessions included playing on Space Oddity, among others, for David Bowie and songs by Juniors Eyes, T. Rex, Elton John, and Cat Stevens. He formed his band, The English Rock Ensemble, in 1974. He hosted the television show Gastank, and produced the first of many New-age, in 1988, he co-formed Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe which led to his third Yes stint until 1992. He returned twice more between 1995 and 2004, during which he completed several solo projects and tours, including venturing into Christian music. Wakeman continues to perform concerts worldwide in various capacities, Wakemans discography includes over 90 solo albums that range from several musical styles. Wakeman has written three books, an autobiography and two memoirs, Wakeman will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Yes in 2017. Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Perivale, the only child of Cyril Frank Wakeman and Mildred Helen Wakeman, the three lived in Wood End Gardens in nearby Northolt. Cyril played the piano in a band while he was in the army and worked at a building suppliers. Mildred worked at a removal firm, in 1954, Wakeman began at Wood End Infants School in Greenford followed by Drayton Manor Park Grammar School in Hanwell, in 1959. The family spent their holidays in Exmouth. When Wakeman turned seven, his father paid for weekly piano lessons with Dorothy Symes which lasted for eleven years, in 1960, Symes entered Wakeman in his first music competition and he went on to win many awards, certificates, and cups in contests held around London. Wakeman then took up the clarinet at age twelve and in his years, attended church and learned the church organ, became a Sunday school teacher. Wakeman described himself at school as a horror, I worked hard in the first year, then eased up. In 1963, at fourteen, Wakeman joined the Atlantic Blues, two years later, Wakeman passed his O Levels in English, maths, art and music, and went on to study music, art, and British constitution at A-level. In 1966, he joined the Concordes, later known as the Concorde Quartet, playing dance and pop songs at events with his cousin Alan on saxophone. Wakeman used the money earned from their gigs to buy a Pianet, the band were unpaid after Wakeman lost control of his car and drove across the headmasters rose garden at the front of the school, thereby forfeiting their performance fee to pay for the damage
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Carly Simon
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Carly Elisabeth Simon is an American singer-songwriter, musician and childrens author. Over the course of her career, Simon has amassed 24 Billboard Hot 100 charting singles,28 Billboard Adult Contemporary charting singles, AllMusic called Simon, One of the quintessential singer-songwriters of the 70s. Simon has a vocal range. She was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1994, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for Youre So Vain in 2004 and awarded the ASCAP Founders Award in 2012. In 1995 and 1998, respectively, Simon received the Boston Music Awards Lifetime Achievement, Simon is the former wife of another notable singer-songwriter, James Taylor. Simon and Taylor have two children together, Sarah Sally Maria Taylor and Benjamin Ben Simon Taylor, who are also musicians, Carly Simon was born in New York City. Her father was Richard L. Simon, a pianist who often played Chopin and her mother was Andrea Louise Simon, a civil rights activist and singer. Her father was from a German Jewish family, while her maternal grandfather Frederick was a German-speaking Swiss and maternal grandmother a Spanish-Catholic from Valencia and her grandmother was sent to England and raised by nuns until the age of sixteen. In 2015, Simon stated that when she was seven years old and she stated, It was heinous, adding, It changed my view about sex for a long time. Simon began stuttering severely when she was eight years old, a psychiatrist tried unsuccessfully to cure her stuttering. Instead, Simon turned to singing and songwriting, I felt so strangulated talking that I did the natural thing, which is to write songs, because I could sing without stammering, as all stammerers can. Simon was raised in the Riverdale neighborhood of the Bronx, New York City and has two sisters, Joanna and Lucy, and a younger brother, Peter. They were raised as nominal Catholics, according to a book of photography Peter published in the late 1990s and she also briefly attended Sarah Lawrence College before dropping out to pursue music. Simons career began with a music group with her sister Lucy as the Simon Sisters. They had a hit in 1964 called Winkin, Blinkin and Nod. Their second album, Cuddlebug, followed later that year, the duo made one more album together, 1969s The Simon Sisters Sing the Lobster Quadrille and Other Songs for Children, before Lucy left to get married and start a family. Later, Carly collaborated with eclectic New York rockers Elephants Memory for about six months and she also appeared in the 1971 Miloš Forman film Taking Off, playing an auditioning singer, and sang Long Term Physical Effects, which was included in the 1971 soundtrack for the film. Simon was signed by Jac Holzman to Elektra Records in 1970 and she released her self-titled debut album, Carly Simon, in March 1971
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Mick Jones (Foreigner guitarist)
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Michael Leslie Mick Jones is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the founding member of the rock band Foreigner. Prior to Foreigner, he was in the band Spooky Tooth, michael Leslie Jones was born in Portsmouth, England. He started playing guitar at an early age, after attending a couple of concerts by Elvis Presley, Jones decided to pursue a career in music. He began his career in the early 1960s as a member of the band Nero and the Gladiators. When The Beatles toured France in 1964, they befriended Mick when Hallyday played on the bill as they did. Between 1965 and 1971 Jones recorded in France with Tommy Brown as State of Mickey & Tommy, as well as other session names including the Blackburds, Nimrod. After leaving France to return to his country, Jones joined Gary Wright, formerly of the band Spooky Tooth. In 1972 Jones and Wright reformed Spooky Tooth, and after this Jones was a member of the Leslie West Band and he also played guitar on the albums Wind of Change for Peter Frampton, and Dark Horse for George Harrison. In 1976, Jones formed Foreigner with Ian McDonald and recruited lead singer Lou Gramm, Jones co-produced all of the bands albums and co-wrote most of their songs with Gramm. Jones wrote the bands most successful single, I Want to Know What Love Is, Gramm left the band in 1990 but returned in 1992. In 1989, Jones released his solo album titled Mick Jones on the Atlantic Records label. Jones is the person to play on every Foreigner album. In between his Foreigner commitments, Jones also started a career as a producer for such albums as Van Halens 5150. He co-wrote with Eric Clapton the song Bad Love on Claptons Journeyman album, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he played with Bill Wymans Rhythm Kings. He was married to socialite/writer Ann Dexter-Jones, mother of Mark, Samantha, Ann and Mick have two children, Annabelle and Alexander Dexter-Jones. Married for nearly 25 years, in 2007 Jones and Dexter-Jones divorced and he also has two sons, from prior relationships, Roman and Christopher Jones
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Billy J. Kramer
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William Howard Ashton, better known by the stage name Billy J. Kramer is a pop singer. In the 1960s he was managed by Brian Epstein, who also managed The Beatles and he grew up as the youngest of seven siblings and attended the St George of England Secondary School, Bootle. He then took up an apprenticeship with British Railways and in his spare time played rhythm guitar in a group he had formed himself. The performing name Kramer was chosen at random from a telephone directory and it was John Lennons suggestion that the J be added to the name to further distinguish him by adding a tougher edge. Kramer soon came to the attention of Brian Epstein, ever on the look-out for new talent to add to his roster of local artists. Kramer turned professional but his then backing group, the Coasters, were keen, so Epstein sought out the services of a Manchester-based group, the Dakotas. Even then, the Dakotas would not join Kramer without a contract of their own. Once in place, the deal was set and both signed to Parlophone under George Martin. Collectively, they were named Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas to keep their own identities within the act, once the Beatles broke through, the way was paved for a tide of Merseybeat and Kramer was offered the chance to cover Do You Want to Know a Secret. First released by the Beatles on their own album, Please Please Me. The track had turned down by Shane Fenton who was looking for a career-reviving hit. After this impressive breakthrough another Lennon–McCartney pairing, Bad to Me c/w I Call Your Name and it sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc. Ill Keep You Satisfied ended the year with a number four placing. Kramer was given a series of songs written for him by John Lennon. Ill Keep You Satisfied, From a Window, I Call Your Name and Bad to Me earned him appearances on the television programmes, hullabaloo and The Ed Sullivan Show. This was followed by a George Martin creation, Magic Carpet, but it missed out altogether and it was a year before their next release. All four tracks appeared on an EP later that year, the three hits penned by Lennon and McCartney suggested that Kramer would always remain in the Beatles shadow, unless he tried something different. Despite being advised against it, he turned down the offer of another Lennon–McCartney song, One and One Is Two and it became his second chart topper and biggest hit
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Mitch Ryder
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William S. Levise, Jr. known better by his stage name Mitch Ryder, is an American musician who has recorded more than two dozen albums over more than four decades. Ryder is noted for his gruff, wailing singing style and his stage performances. He was influenced by his father, a musician, as a teenager, Ryder sang backup with a black soul-music group known as the Peps, but racial animosities interfered with his continued presence in the group. Ryder formed his first band, Tempest, when he was in school. Ryder next appeared fronting a band named Billy Lee & The Rivieras, a number 6 hit in 1967, and Jenny Take a Ride. which reached number 10 in 1965. The Detroit Wheels were John Badanjek on drums, Mark Manko on lead guitar, Joe Kubert on rhythm guitar, Jim McCarty on lead guitar, Ryders musical endeavors would see less success after the early 1970s. Ryders participation with the Detroit Wheels ended just as the counterculture was becoming dominant in 1968, during 1968, trumpeters Mike Thuroff and John Stefan were hired to tour with his horn section and band. Thuroff and Stefan also recorded the parts of Ryders song, Ring My Bell. This song was not permitted to be played by radio in many due to its sexual innuendos. Ryder had one hit single from that period, a version of What Now. His last successful ensemble band was Detroit, the only original Wheel in the group was the drummer John Badanjek, other members were guitarists Steve Hunter, Robert Gillespie, and Brett Tuggle, organist Harry Phillips, and bassist W. R. Cooke. A single album was released by this grouping, a 1971 self-titled LP issued on Paramount Records and they had a hit with their version of the Lou Reed-penned song Rock & Roll, which Reed liked enough to ask Steve Hunter to join his backing band. According to allmusic. com, Ryder withdrew from music after experiencing throat trouble, moving to Colorado with his wife, in 1983, Ryder returned to a major label with the John Mellencamp-produced album Never Kick a Sleeping Dog. The album featured a version of the Prince song When You Were Mine. Ryder continues to record and tour in the United States and Europe, on February 14,2012 Ryder released The Promise, his first US release in almost 30 years. Ryder spent his school years in Warren, Michigan. After many years living in Warren, and later Livonia, Ryder currently resides in South Lyon, Michigan and he has also been cited as a primary musical influence by Ted Nugent. Bruce Springsteen still plays his music on stage, the song titled Detroit Medley refers directly to the Detroit Wheels
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Billy Joel Band
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The Billy Joel Band is the band that backs singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel on both studio and live recordings. The band stabilized around 1975 but has several significant lineup changes beginning in the late 1980s. Joels touring band didnt begin playing on his records until he recorded the album Turnstiles in 1976 and this line-up included Richie Cannata on saxophones and organ, Liberty DeVitto on drums, Russell Javors on guitar, and Doug Stegmeyer on bass. The band, which now no longer any of its original members, is often not recognized as a formal entity. Joels first touring band, formed in 1971 to support the Cold Spring Harbor album, comprised Rhys Clark on drums, Al Hertzberg on guitar, the group toured throughout the United States and in Puerto Rico. The touring lineup changed and it took a few years for the lineup to stabilize. In an online interview, DeVitto describes how Joels classic late 1970s-early 1980s band first came together, Billy and I used to play the club in Plainview, Long Island. He was 17 and in a band called The Hassles and I was 16 and we would watch each other play and acknowledge each other in passing. In 1974, he was living in Los Angeles and had already released Piano Man and he used studio musicians for the recording and different guys out on the road. I was playing in a band called Topper with Doug Stegmeyer, told Doug that he wanted to move back to New York and find a permanent band he could record and tour with on a regular basis. Doug recommended me because Billy was looking for a New York-type drummer, aggressive and hard hitting, and they officially formed a band, The Lords of 52nd Street, which plays faithful renditions of the original Joel recordings. David Clark of the Joel tribute band Songs in the Attic plays piano and provides vocals, Ken Cino plays guitar. From The Stranger in 1977 through The Bridge in 1986, Joel had been working with the producer, Phil Ramone. One important addition to the band in 1982 was the replacement of his long-time saxophonist Richie Cannata with Mark Rivera, Joel also added the lead guitarist David Brown who stayed with the band throughout the 1980s, beginning with the recording of Glass Houses. But for the 1989 album Storm Front, Joel chose a new producer, Mick Jones, at this point, the only players that Joel kept, for both his touring band and for the recording of the album, were David Brown, Mark Rivera, and Liberty DeVitto. He also added the percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Crystal Taliefero who would become a permanent fixture in his band, for his last studio album, River of Dreams, in 1993, Joel used a new producer again. Although Joel continued to use DeVitto as his drummer, he allowed Kortchmar to use different drummers for some of the drum tracks. Richie Cannata returned to some of the sax parts on the record
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Police officer
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A police officer, also known as a policeman, policewoman, police agent, or a police employee is a warranted law employee of a police force. In the United States, the officer is typically the formal name of the lowest police rank. In many other countries, officer is a term not specifying a particular rank. In some nations the use of the officer is legally reserved for military personnel. Police officers may be sworn to an oath, and have the power to arrest people and detain them for a time, along with other duties. Although many police officers wear a uniform, some police officers are plain-clothed in order to dissimulate as ordinary citizens. The word police comes from the Greek politia meaning government, which came to mean its civil administration, Police officers are those empowered by government to enforce the laws it creates. In The Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote If men were angels and these words apply to those who serve government, including police. The more general term for the function is law enforcement officer or peace officer, a sheriff is typically the top police officer of a county, with that word coming from the person enforcing law over a shire. A person who has been deputized to serve the function of the sheriff is referred to as the deputy, a common nickname for a police officer is cop. The term copper is used in Britain to mean someone who captures. The common myth is that its a term referring to the officers buttons which are made of copper. The word Cop derives from a Gaelic word which has the equivalence of saying, protector, leader, the terms are almost nearly homophonic but have similar meanings. The term County Mountie is used specifically in reference to county police officers or county sheriffs deputies in the United States, as with Canadian Mounties, the term mountie comes from police who serve while mounted on horseback. Responsibilities of an officer are varied, and may differ greatly from within one political context to another. Typical duties relate to keeping the peace, law enforcement, protection of people and property, officers are expected to respond to a variety of situations that may arise while they are on duty. Rules and guidelines dictate how an officer should behave within the community, in some countries, rules and procedures dictate that a police officer is obliged to intervene in a criminal incident, even if they are off-duty. Police officers in all countries retain their lawful powers while off duty
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New York Police Department
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The New York City Police Department, officially the City of New York Police Department, is the largest municipal police force in the United States. Established in 1845, the agency has primary responsibilities in law enforcement, the NYPD is one of the oldest police departments established in the U. S. tracing its roots back to the nineteenth century. According to the department, its mission is to enforce the laws, preserve the peace, reduce fear, the departments regulations are compiled in title 38 of the New York City Rules. In June 2004, there were about 40,000 sworn officers plus several thousand employees, in June 2005. As of December 2011, that figure increased slightly to over 36,600, the NYPDs current authorized uniformed strength is 34,450. The Patrolmens Benevolent Association of the City of New York, the largest municipal police union in the United States, represents over 50,000 active, the NYPD Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau has officers stationed in 11 cities internationally. In the 1990s the department developed a CompStat system of management which has also since established in other cities. The NYPD is headquartered at 1 Police Plaza, located on Park Row in Lower Manhattan across the street from City Hall, the NYPD has extensive crime scene investigation and laboratory resources, as well as units which assist with computer crime investigations. The NYPD runs a Real Time Crime Center, essentially a search engine. A Domain Awareness System, a joint project of Microsoft and the NYPD, links 6,000 closed-circuit television cameras, license plate readers, members of the NYPD are frequently referred to by politicians, some media and their own police cars by the nickname New Yorks Finest. The Municipal Police were established in 1845, replacing an old night watch system, in 1857, it was tumultuously replaced by a Metropolitan force, which consolidated many other local police departments in 1898. Twentieth-century trends included professionalization and struggles against corruption, Officers begin service with the rank of Probationary Police Officer, also referred to as Recruit Officer. After successful completion of six months of Police Academy training and various academic, physical, There are three career tracks in the NYPD, supervisory, investigative, and specialist. The supervisory track consists of 12 sworn titles, referred to as ranks, promotion to the ranks of sergeant, lieutenant, and captain are made via competitive civil service examinations. Promotion from the rank of police officer to detective is determined by the current police labor contract, the entry level appointment to detective is third grade or specialist. The commissioner may grant discretionary grades of first or second and these grades offer compensation roughly equivalent to that of supervisors. Specifically, a second grade detectives pay roughly corresponds to a sergeants, Detectives are police officers who have been given a more investigatory position but no official supervisory authority. A Detective First Grade still falls under the command of a sergeant or above, just like detectives, sergeants and lieutenants can receive pay grade increases within their respective ranks
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The Beatles
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The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, the Beatles built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over a three-year period from 1960, with Stuart Sutcliffe initially serving as bass player. The core of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them. They acquired the nickname the Fab Four as Beatlemania grew in Britain the next year, from 1965 onwards, the Beatles produced increasingly innovative recordings, including the albums Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles and Abbey Road, after their break-up in 1970, they each enjoyed successful musical careers of varying lengths. McCartney and Starr, the members, remain musically active. Lennon was shot and killed in December 1980, and Harrison died of cancer in November 2001. The Beatles are the band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. They have had more number-one albums on the British charts and sold more singles in the UK than any other act, according to the RIAA, the Beatles are also the best-selling music artists in the United States, with 178 million certified units. In 2008, the group topped Billboard magazines list of the all-time most successful Hot 100 artists, as of 2016 and they have received ten Grammy Awards, an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and fifteen Ivor Novello Awards. The group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and they were also collectively included in Time magazines compilation of the twentieth centurys 100 most influential people. In March 1957, John Lennon, then aged sixteen, formed a group with several friends from Quarry Bank school. They briefly called themselves the Blackjacks, before changing their name to the Quarrymen after discovering that a local group was already using the other name. Fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined as a rhythm guitarist shortly after he, in February 1958, McCartney invited his friend George Harrison to watch the band. The fourteen-year-old auditioned for Lennon, impressing him with his playing, after a month of Harrisons persistence, they enlisted him as their lead guitarist. By January 1959, Lennons Quarry Bank friends had left the group, the three guitarists, billing themselves at least three times as Johnny and the Moondogs, were playing rock and roll whenever they could find a drummer. They used the name until May, when they became the Silver Beetles, before undertaking a tour of Scotland as the backing group for pop singer. By early July, they had changed their name to the Silver Beatles, allan Williams, the Beatles unofficial manager, arranged a residency for them in Hamburg, but lacking a full-time drummer they auditioned and hired Pete Best in mid-August 1960
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The Ed Sullivan Show
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The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that ran on CBS from Sunday June 20,1948, to Sunday June 6,1971, and was hosted by New York entertainment columnist Ed Sullivan. It was replaced in September 1971 by the CBS Sunday Night Movie, in 2002, The Ed Sullivan Show was ranked #15 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. In 2013, the series finished No.31 in TV Guide Magazines 60 Best Series of All Time, the format was essentially the same as vaudeville, and although vaudeville had died a generation earlier, Sullivan presented many ex-vaudevillians on his show. The last original Sullivan show telecast was on March 28,1971, with guests Melanie, Joanna Simon, Danny Davis and the Nashville Brass, repeats were scheduled through June 6,1971. While most of the episodes aired live from New York City, the show aired live on occasion from other nations, such as the United Kingdom, Australia. For many years, Ed Sullivan was an event each Sunday evening. In those days, we had six acts. Then, each of our acts would do a leisurely ten minutes or so, Now they do two or three minutes. And in those early days I talked too much, I look up at me talking away and I say You fool. But I just keep on talking, Ive learned how to keep my mouth shut. The show enjoyed phenomenal popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s and he was regarded as a kingmaker, and performers considered an appearance on his program as a guarantee of stardom, although this sometimes did not turn out to be the case. The shows iconic status is illustrated by the song Hymn for a Sunday Evening from the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie, in the song, a family of viewers expresses their regard for the program in worshipful tones. In September 1965, CBS started televising the program in compatible color, CBS had once backed its own color system, developed by Peter Goldmark, and resisted using RCAs compatible process until 1954. At that time, it built its first New York City color TV studio, Studio 72, in a former RKO movie theater at 2248 Broadway. One Ed Sullivan Show was broadcast on August 22,1954, from the new studio, CBS Studio 72 was demolished in 1986 and replaced by an apartment house. CBS Studio 50 was finally colorized in 1965, the 1965–66 season premiere starred the Beatles in an episode airing on September 12, which was the last episode to air in black and white. In the late 1960s, Sullivan remarked that his program was waning as the decade went on and he realized that to keep viewers, the best and brightest in entertainment had to be seen, or else the viewers were going to keep on changing the channel. Along with declining viewership, Ed Sullivan attracted a higher age for the average viewer as the seasons went on
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Dino Danelli
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Dino Danelli is best known as an original member and the drummer in the rock group, The Rascals. He has been called one of the great unappreciated rock drummers in history, a jazz drummer by training, Danelli had played with Lionel Hampton and was playing R&B in New Orleans. He returned to New York in 1962 with a band called Ronnie Speeks & the Elrods and he also worked at times with such legendary performers as Little Willie John. Danelli met Eddie Brigati, and Felix Cavaliere in 1963, later that year, Danelli and Cavaliere traveled to Las Vegas to try their luck with a casino house band. They remained there until early 1964, but then ventured back to New York City, in late 1964, Danelli teamed with Cavaliere, Brigati and a Canadian-born guitarist named Gene Cornish to form the Rascals. Cavaliere and Danelli traveled to Las Vegas in January 1965 to back up singer Sandu Scott and that month they debuted with the Rascals at the Choo Choo Club in Garfield, New Jersey. In addition to playing drums, Danelli and Cavaliere often scouted new repertory that the group could perform, in a 1988 interview, he cited their trips to record stores as yielding such songs as Mustang Sally and Good Lovin. He was with the Rascals for seven years, along with Cornish, Danelli formed the group Bulldog in 1972 and they produced two albums before disbanding in 1975. Danelli joined the Leslie West Band for a time along with bassist Busta Cherry Jones. Danneli and Cornish then joined the group Fotomaker in 1978, by 1980, Danelli joined Steven Van Zandt as a member of Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul. After performing with Cavaliere and Cornish at the Atlantic Records 40th Anniversary concert on May 14,1988 and he is currently reunited with his band-mates. The Rascals appeared at the Capital Theater in Port Chester, NY for six shows in December 2012 and their current production, entitled Once Upon A Dream’, is currently touring North America. It is produced by long-time Rascals fans, Steven Van Zandt, in 1999, Danelli produced a series of tracks for New York singer-songwriter Roxanne Fontana, which were released as an album entitled Love Is Blue on Etoile Records. He is also a visual artist, based at DinoDanelliArt. com, the Rascals Appreciation Site Dino Danelli Interview with Dino Danelli Dino Danelli at Ask Music Dino Danellis Rascals Dino Danelli Art New Rascals Reloaded
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Plainview, New York
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Plainview is a hamlet and census-designated place located near the North Shore of Long Island in the town of Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York, United States. The population of the CDP as of 2010 was 26,217, the Plainview post office has the ZIP code 11803. Plainview and its neighboring hamlet, Old Bethpage, share a school system, library, fire department, law enforcement for the communities is provided by the Nassau County Police Departments, Second Precinct. Plainview is located at 40°46′48″N 73°28′46″W, according to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 5.7 square miles. Plainview is on the Nassau County side of the border with Suffolk County, on the Nassau side it borders the hamlets of Hicksville, Old Bethpage, Syosset, and Woodbury. On the Suffolk side, its border is with Melville. Plainviews origins dates to 1648, when Robert Williams, a settler from Wales, the land was considered desirable for farming because of a small pond named the Moscopas by local Native Americans, meaning hole of dirt and water. The remainder of the land in the area was purchased by Thomas Powell in 1695 as part of the Bethpage Purchase, the name Mannatto Hill had already appeared on the 1695 deed of the Bethpage Purchase, and the settlement came to be called Manetto Hill. Manitou was the Native American word either for god or for spirit, the 1837 arrival of the Long Island Rail Road to nearby Hicksville brought a boom to local farming. The hamlet was then named Plainview, for the view of the Hempstead Plains from the top of the Manetto Hills, Plainview remained a farming community, famous for growing cucumbers for the huge Heinz pickle factories located in nearby Farmingdale and Hicksville. In the early 1900s blight destroyed the crop and many farmers switched to potatoes. Between 1950 and 1960, the hamlet grew from a population of 1,155 to more than 35,000, most of the available land was developed during this period or otherwise designated as parkland. While overall development declined it did continue sporadically as smaller remaining parcels of land were also developed, in recent years, some of few large remaining parcels have given way to gated communities, which are in contrast to most housing in the area. Some of these developments include The Hamlet on Olde Oyster Bay and The Seasons at Plainview, as of a 2010 census, there were 26,217 people,8,963 households, and 7,396 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 4,573. 0/sq mi, the racial makeup of the CDP was 91. 8% White,7. 5% Asian, and. 07% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were. 03% of the population, there were 8,963 households out of which 36. 5% had children under the age of 18 living with them,73. 0% were married couples living together. 16. 3% of all households were made up of living alone. The average household size was 2.87 and the family size was 3.24
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The Hassles
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The Hassles were a rock group in the 1960s, most notable for recording the first releases to feature Billy Joel. The group released two albums and a number of singles. The original line-up of the group consisted of vocalist John Dizek, guitarist Richard McKenna, drummer Jon Small, in 1966 Weber was fired from the band due to excessive drug use and was replaced by Howie Arthur Blauvelt and Billy Joel on bass and keyboards respectively. It is with this lineup that the recorded their self-titled debut album in 1967. Blauvelt departed the band early in 1968 but returned later on in the year, Dizek departed the band in late 1968, at which point Joel took over on vocal duties. The band recorded their album, Hour of the Wolf, in 1969. Following the demise of The Hassles Joel and Small formed the duo Attila, Joel later went on to a successful solo career and Small became a video producer and director. The single Youve Got Me Hummin was number 112 for one week on the Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart, the title should in fact be spelt You Got Me Hummin. In 1983, Billy Joel released a live recording of You Got Me Hummin as a B-side to his hit Tell Her About It. All songs on album were original recordings written by Billy Joel. Country Boy 2,35 Night After Day -3,11 Hour Of The Wolf -11,58 Four OClock In The Morning -3,12 Cat -4,15 Hotel St
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Piano Man (album)
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Piano Man is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on November 9,1973. Joels first recording with Columbia Records, Piano Man emerged from legal difficulties with his label, Family Productions. However, the Family Productions print logo was used until 1986, travelin Prayer and Worse Comes to Worst peaked at #77 and #80 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively, while the album reached #27 on the Billboard 200. Columbia Records released a 2-disc legacy version of Piano Man in November 2011 and this edition included a slightly truncated live 1972 radio broadcast of early songs that Joel recorded at the Philadelphia radio station WMMRs Sigma Sound Studios. Once the popularity of live recording was known, people working for Columbia Records heard the recording. The radio broadcast included three songs that were never on any of Joels studio albums, all songs written by Billy Joel
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Streetlife Serenade
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Streetlife Serenade is the third studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on October 11,1974. /If youre gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit. /So they cut it down to 3,05. The Entertainer peaked at #34 on the US Singles Chart, the album itself peaked at #35 on the charts, eventually selling over one million copies. Two others, Streetlife Serenader and Los Angelenos, were included on Joels first live album and he also says that he didnt have too many songs, hence the inclusion of two instrumentals – the aforementioned Root Beer Rag and The Mexican Connection. The back cover has a portrait of a barefoot Joel sitting in a chair looking unhappy, all tracks written and composed by Billy Joel
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Turnstiles (album)
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Turnstiles is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on May 19,1976. Joel recorded Turnstiles in part as a celebration of his return to his native New York City, three of the albums tracks reference New York, Summer, Highland Falls, New York State of Mind and Miami 2017. It begins with Say Goodbye to Hollywood and also includes Ive Loved These Days, the songs were first recorded at Caribou Ranch, with members of Elton Johns band and produced by Chicago producer James William Guercio. Turnstiles marked the first time that Joels band played on one of his studio albums, the album cover photo was shot in the Astor Place station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway. According to Joel, each of the characters on the cover was meant to represent a particular song. No matter how much stylistic ground Joel covers, hes kept on track by his backing group, all tracks written by Billy Joel. Many tracks have alternate mixes exclusive to the Quadrophonic LP release including New York State of Mind, Prelude/Angry Young Man, Ive Loved These Days & Miami 2017
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Phoebe Snow
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Phoebe Snow was an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist, best known for her 1975 song Poetry Man. She was described by The New York Times as a contralto grounded in a bluesy growl and her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an encyclopedic knowledge of American film and theater and was also an avid collector and restorer of antiques. Her mother, Lili Laub, was a teacher who had performed with the Martha Graham group. Snow grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey, and graduated from Teaneck High School in 1968 and she subsequently attended Shimer College in Mount Carroll, Illinois, but did not graduate. As a student, she carried her prized Martin 000-18 acoustic guitar from club to club in Greenwich Village, between 1975 and 1978 Snow was married to Phil Kearns, and on December 10,1975, her daughter, Valerie Rose, was born with severe brain damage. Snow resolved not to institutionalize Valerie, and cared for her at home until Valerie died on March 19,2007, Snows efforts to care for Valerie nearly ended her career. She continued to voice lessons, and she studied opera informally. Snow was described as Jewish as a knish, although many of her fans had thought she might be African-American, in her later years she embraced Buddhism. It was at The Bitter End club in 1972 that Denny Cordell, co-owner of Shelter Records, was so taken by the singer that he signed her to the label and she released an eponymous album, Phoebe Snow, in 1974. The cover of Rolling Stone magazine followed, while she performed as the act for tours by Jackson Browne. 1975 also brought the first of several appearances as a musical guest on Saturday Night Live, during the 1975 appearance, she was seven months pregnant with her daughter, Valerie. Her backup vocal is heard on Paul Simons hit song 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover along with Valerie Simpson and Patti Austin and she also duets with him on the song gospel-tinged Gone At Last. Both songs appear on Simons Grammy-winning 1975 album Still Crazy After All These Years, legal battles took place between Snow and Shelter Records. Snow ended up signed to Columbia Records and her second album, Second Childhood, appeared in 1976, produced by Phil Ramone. It was jazzier and more introspective, and was an RIAA Certified Gold Album for Phoebe and she moved to a more rock-oriented sound for It Looks Like Snow, released later in 1976 with David Rubinson producing. 1977 saw Never Letting Go, again with Ramone, while 1978s Against the Grain was helmed by Barry Beckett, after that Snow parted ways with Columbia, she would later say that the stress of her parental obligations degraded her ability to make music effectively. In 1979, she toured throughout the U. S. and Canada with noted guitarist Arlen Roth as her lead guitarist. Her January 1979 cover of the Paul McCartney song Every Night reached #37 in the UK, in 1981, Snow, now signed with Mirage Records, released Rock Away, recorded with members of Billy Joels band, it spun off the Top 50 hit Games
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Bob James (musician)
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Robert McElhiney Bob James is an American Grammy Award-winning jazz keyboardist, arranger, and record producer. He founded the band Fourplay and wrote the song for the TV show Taxi. Music from his first three albums has often been sampled and has contributed to the formation of hip hop, robert McElhiney James was born on Christmas Day 1939 in Marshall, Missouri to Albert Lamkin James and Alice James. He has a sister, Katherine. He started playing the piano at the age of 4. His first piano teacher, Sister Mary Elizabeth, who taught at Mercy Academy, at age seven, James began to study with Mrs. R. T. Dufford, a teacher at Missouri Valley College. He called her an excellent teacher who also taught fundamentals of theory and his first professional music job was when he was eight years old and playing for a tap dance class at Mercy Academy. Apart from the piano, James can also play trumpet, timpani, from 1950–56, he competed at the Missouri State Fair piano competitions and walked away with several blue ribbons. He remembered that cows were being judged at adjacent buildings, other early jobs included being a member of the Earle Parsons Dance Band which played various engagements around the Marshall area. It was during this time that he penned his first dance band arrangement and he recalls that during the day we had free time and I became a proficient water skier that summer. At age 16, an engagement followed in the summer when James traveled with good friend Ben Swinger to Colorado. A year later, he attended the University of Michigan and began his journey towards receiving his Bachelors, during the first semester of his sophomore year, James transferred to Berklee College of Music, in Boston, Massachusetts. Jamess roommate was Nick Brignola, who has one of the great baritone sax jazz artists. James dated Heric throughout the remainder of his time at University of Michigan until they were married in September 1963, while at Michigan, James played free jazz with musicians in Ann Arbor and Detroit. In 1962, his band entered the Notre Dame Collegiate Jazz Festival, after Jamess band won the competition, Jones signed James to an album deal with Mercury Records. Mercury released Jamess first album, Bold Conceptions, a free jazz exploration that was produced by Quincy Jones, in New York City, James worked as an arranger and was hired as piano accompanist for jazz singer Sarah Vaughn. He reunited with Quincy Jones when Jones asked him to do some arranging for studio sessions, creed Taylor, producer and founder of CTI Records, was at the sessions and hired James to work for CTI as a producer, arranger, and studio musician. In the 1970s, James worked on albums by Milt Jackson, Stanley Turrentine, Grover Washington, Jr. creed Taylor invited James to record a solo album
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Sabian
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Sabian is a Canadian cymbal designer and manufacturer. It is one of the big four manufacturers of cymbals, along with Zildjian, Meinl, the company was founded in 1981 in Meductic, New Brunswick, Canada, by Robert Zildjian, son of Avedis Zildjian III, the head of the Avedis Zildjian Company. Family tradition had it that the head of the company would pass the company down to the oldest son, after Avedis Zildjian III died in 1979, Armand became chairman of the board. This eventually led to a feud and a legal dispute between Robert and Armand that resulted in Robert leaving Zildjian to form the rival Sabian company. The companies continue to be rivals, and are both among the worlds most popular cymbal brands, the settlement gave Robert Zildjian the Canadian factory that had been producing the K. Zildjian line. As president of the Zildjian Company, Armand had insisted that the K name remain with his company, in the settlement, Robert agreed not to use the Zildjian name or to claim that his cymbals were the same. As of 2006, Sabians president is Andy Zildjian, the youngest in the family
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D'Addario
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DAddario is a manufacturer of musical instrument strings, primarily for guitars, currently headquartered in Farmingdale, Long Island, New York. DAddario also produces and distributes other musical accessories under other brands, some of the products offered are cables, capos, ear plugs, electronic tuners, straps, humidifiers, picks, slides, drumheads, drum sticks, and reeds for woodwind instruments. The DAddario family of string-makers originated in the small Italian town of Salle in the province of Pescara, a baptismal form from 1680 names a Donato DAddario as a cordaro, where cordaro is a regional variant of Italian cordaio meaning maker or seller of ropes and strings. From other historical records it appears that the primary occupations were farming and string-making. At the time strings were made of sheep or hog gut, by 1918 Rocco had returned to Salle, and Carmine, who later, known as Charles, began making his own strings in a small shop behind the family home. Still made from gut, the process of making strings involved all members of the family, the development of nylon by DuPont during World War II produced a major change in the family business. Sent samples by Dupont in 1947, the DAddarios immediately began experimenting with new material. During the late 1940s and early 1950s nylon-stringed classical guitars were being eclipsed in popularity by the steel-string guitar, some of the younger members of the family wanted to expand into steel strings, but Charles was reluctant to risk the family business on what he considered an uncertain market. In 1956 a new company began to make strings, run by Charles son. The company made strings for several of the guitar makers of the time, including Gretsch, DAngelico, Martin. In 1962 the two companies were merged under the name Darco, in the late 1960s, Darco was approached by Martin Guitars regarding a merger in order to pool resources and development efforts. While the partnership was beneficial for companies, by 1974 the DAddario family decided it was time to market strings under their own name. Darco is still a name used by the Martin Guitar company. Originally located in Lynbrook, New York, the continued to expand and in 1994 moved to its current facility in Farmingdale. The company is owned and operated by the DAddario family
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Latin Percussion (company)
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Unable to buy congas, bongos and similar instruments of the quality he saw other performers using, he manufactured his own. After much trial and error he produced acceptable results, and found a market for such instruments. As the company expanded, it added imported lines to its catalog, LP pioneered the use of many ethnic-based instruments for wider musical uses, and continues to be a leading innovator in this area. Some of their discontinued china cymbals are now sought after. There is little to no information on the models that were produced by them, in 2002 LP was purchased by Kaman Music Corporation and operates as its independent subsidiary within Kamans music distribution segment. World music LP home page About LP Martin Cohen Interview NAMM Oral History Library
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Pro-Mark
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ProMark is a Houston, Texas-based American drum stick company. Since 2011, it is part of strings company DAddario, ProMark is a widely known stick company generally played in drum set, drum and bugle corps and concert bands. ProMark was founded in 1957 by percussion instructor and shop owner Herb Brochstein in Houston and it was the first company to introduce Japanese Shira Kashi white oak into the American market, and the only company to successfully market oak sticks in the United States. The wood provided for ProMark is supplied by Japanese trader Tatsuo Kosaka, in recent years, ProMark has moved to use of non-endangered wood and a green finishing process to make their sticks and manufacturing processes safer to the player and the environment. In 1985, ProMark patented a rute for drum kit use, several similar models followed, both from them and other manufacturers. ProMark offers many products from notable players and endorsees, such as System Blues by the Blue Devils for field marching. Official website Herb Brochstein Interview NAMM Oral History Library Maury Brochstein Interview NAMM Oral History Library
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Making Music (magazine)
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Making Music magazine is a bimonthly lifestyle music magazine devoted to the recreational musician and all instruments and genres of music. Their tag line is Better Living Through Recreational Music Making, the first issue debuted in November/December 2004. It is published six times per year by Bentley Hall, Inc. located in the Armory Square district of Syracuse, tips & Techniques, Guides to music theory for beginners and intermediate musicians, maintenance tips, good practice techniques, and how to play with others. Health issues, Advice on keeping the body in shape, health tools, ergonomic issues, music and memory, product Spotlights, New product features, plus in-depth guides to buying instruments and accessories
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Torrey DeVitto
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Torrey Joélle DeVitto is an American actress, musician and former fashion model. She also played Maggie Hall in the Lifetime drama Army Wives, DeVitto was born and raised in Huntington on Long Island, New York and Winter Park, Florida. Her parents are Mary and Liberty DeVitto, her father was a drummer for Billy Joel. Her mother had been Stevie Nickss best friend since the late 1970s and she was named Torrey after her mothers maiden name. She has two sisters, Devon and Maryelle. Her sister Maryelle was a contestant in the Discovery Kids reality competition show Endurance, as a child, DeVitto spent a lot of time touring with her parents. She attended Fort Salonga Elementary School, part of Kings Park Central School District, when DeVitto was six years old, she took violin lessons and when she was in the fourth grade, she earned her place as the fourth chair violinist in a high school band. When DeVitto was twelve years old, she played a violin piece at Christie Brinkley. After graduating from Winter Park High School in Winter Park, Florida, DeVitto started her career by working in commercials, which she described to be a stepping stone to get to TV and film jobs. She was signed to Ford and Avenue One modeling agencies, but in 2002, she realized her future was not in modeling, staying true to her love of music in 2002, she played violin with the Tommy Davidson Band at the Sunset Room in Hollywood. She also played violin on Raphael Saadiqs 2004 album, Ray Ray, afterwards, DeVitto felt that acting was her strongest passion and takes precedence over music, but she hopes that she can do more with it in the future. DeVitto co-starred in the ABC Family drama Beautiful People as aspiring model Karen Kerr from 2005 to 2006 and she also appeared in the 2006 horror film sequel Ill Always Know What You Did Last Summer as Zoe. She has guest-starred on Drake & Josh, Scrubs, Jack & Bobby and had a part in the romantic drama short film Forbidden Love. Her movie role debut was in the short film Starcrossed, which tells about brothers. Later she starred as L. A. actress Sierra Young in the comedy Heber Holiday and co-starred in the comedy-drama Green Flash with David Charvet and she co-starred Phoebe Hilldale in the horror comedy Killer Movie with her then-future husband Paul Wesley, Kaley Cuoco and Gloria Votsis. During the fifth and sixth seasons of The CW drama One Tree Hill and she was in Will. I. Ams Vote Obama video We Are The Ones. In 2010, DeVitto began a role as Melissa Hastings in the ABC Family mystery/thriller series Pretty Little Liars based on Sara Shepards book series of the same name. In November 2012, it was reported that she had signed on to star as Maggie Hall in the season of the Lifetime drama Army Wives
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The Stranger (album)
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The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released on September 29,1977, by Columbia Records. While his four albums had been moderately successful, The Stranger became Joels true critical and commercial breakthrough. Considered his magnum opus, it remains his best-selling non-compilation album to date, Joel had written a batch of new songs and wanted to use his touring band in the studio on future releases, just as he had done on Turnstiles. He had in fact met with George Martin, producer of The Beatles, Martin showed interest, but didnt want to use Joels band, and so it never came to fruition. Joel describes the sessions for the album as a blast and as the album with four hit singles. Lyrically, the approach is decidedly narrative, each song tells a story. The seven-and-a-half-minute epic Scenes From an Italian Restaurant began as a song entitled The Ballad of Brenda and Eddie. While composing The Stranger, Joel whistled the tracks signature theme for producer Phil Ramone, claiming that he needed to find an instrument to play it. Four singles from the LP charted on the Billboard Hot 100 in the order, Just the Way You Are, Movin Out, Only the Good Die Young. Many of its songs are now staples on classic rock and adult contemporary FM radio stations, according to Joel, George Martin wrote him a letter and it read, You were right, I was wrong. I should have considered working with your band and this album overtook Simon and Garfunkels Bridge over Troubled Water to become the best-selling album on the Columbia Records imprint at the time. All songs written and composed by Billy Joel, songs ©1977 except Everybody Has a Dream ©1971 In July 2008, a special 30th Anniversary Edition of The Stranger was released. It contains two editions, a 2-CD Legacy Edition, and a Deluxe Limited Edition
