Occupation: Musician Birth: May 23, 1921 Death: April 25, 2008
An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons..
Coincidence is a wonderful thing..
For me, it's a bigger challenge, it's much harder to do and much more rewarding to do well, then just to think up stuff of your own, hit or miss, bec….
The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his ….
I did the pilot, and when they came through and said they were going to put it on the air, I had already some dates in the book with my band and so o….
Well, I had started a program which is even longer running than this one in 1967 which was a jazz program called The Best of Jazz and that still goes….
I started on the fringes of journalism as a cartoonist on The Daily Mail..
I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it ….
Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick blac….