Jazz trumpeter and singer, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. His melodic inventiveness, expressed with uninhibited tone and range on the trumpet, established the central role of the improvising soloist in jazz, especially in a series of recordings known as the ‘Hot Fives’ and ‘Hot Sevens’ (1925–8).
English pop band The Beatles became the best-known group in popular music in the 1960s. If greatness is measured in terms of commercial success and popularity, The Beatles are the greatest popular musicians of the century.
Jazz trumpeter, born in Alton, Illinois, USA. During 1949–69, he was at the forefront of jazz, developing or advancing several significant and contrasting styles and trends, all of which highlighted his intensely personal sensibilities.
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota, on May 24, 1941, singer and songwriter Bob Dylan is best known as the author of such anthems about modern injustice as “Blowin' in the Wind,”“Hard Rain's Gonna Fall,”“The Times They Are A-Changin',” and “Masters of War.”
Popular singer and film actor, born in Tupelo, Mississippi, USA. As a boy he sang with his local Assembly of God church choir, which emulated the style of African-American psalm singing.
One of the last of the great country blues singers and a primary innovator of modern Chicago blues, he was raised on the Stovall Plantation in Clarksdale, MS, where he began playing harmonica and guitar while working as a sharecropper.
The Woodstock music festival was held in Bethel, New York, on August 15, 16, and 17, 1969. Performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Grateful Dead, The Who, and Jefferson Airplane were among the many who appeared on stage at the event.
One of the most famous composers of all time, Beethoven was born into a family of musicians who had served at the Bonn court of the Elector of Cologne since 1733.
Brass wind musical instrument of part cylindrical, part conical bore, in the shape of a flattened loop and having three piston valves to regulate the pitch.
