Archive for September, 2006
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Modern Electrics [1914]
Modern Electrics covered all aspects of electricity, motors, power, wireless, controls, switches, lighting, and the thousands of other topics that made electricity the hottest area for technical enthusiasts of the early twentieth century. It was the first magazine published by Hugo Gernsback, and was also an early pioneer in futuristic and technical science fiction, with numberous fiction stories running as early as 1911. As such it paved the way for the huge genre SF and Fantasy industry we have today.
George Braith [1963]
George Braith is not as widely known as Roland Kirk, but he too made indisputably musical sounds playing two horns simultaneously. He in fact played one of Kirk’s signature instruments, the stritch (a type of straight alto), often in tandem with the soprano. This Blue Note reissue combines the three albums Braith made for the label between 1963 and 1965: Two Souls In One, Soul Stream, and Extension. Braith, guitarist Grant Green, and organist Billy Gardner appear on all three albums, but the drummers change every time. They are Donald Bailey, Hugh Walker, and Clarence Johnson, respectively.
Bron: allaboutjazz.com
Gloria Swanson
Born Gloria May Josephine Swanson (or Svensson) in a small house in Chicago, Illinois to a Swedish American father, who was a soldier, and a Polish American mother, but she grew up mainly in Puerto Rico, Chicago, and Key West, Florida. Gloria didn’t intend on going into show business. After her formal education in the Chicago school system and elsewhere, she began work in a department store as a sales clerk.
Bron: en.wikipedia.org/