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Barney Kessel (October 17, 1923 – May 6, 2004) was an American jazz guitarist born in Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA. He began his career as a teenager touring with local dance bands before moving on to bands such as that led by Chico Marx. He quickly established himself as a key post-Charlie Christ... Read More...
Earl Palmer - Daily Telegraph Earl Palmer, who died on Friday aged 84, was a session drummer whose subtle pioneering backbeats featured on many of the R&B classics of his day. An ever-adaptable, jazz-rooted drummer esteemed by Shelly Manne and Charlie Watts, Palmer made a ...
Poet Leonard Cohen survives Spector of a gun - News.com.au THIS was the '70s in LA, after all, so things were a little, well, strange. Life was spinning out of control for Leonard Cohen. His partner Suzanne, not the one of his song of that name, was leaving him and taking their children. Cohen, who has just ...