Results for "Brad Gowans"

Brad Gowans

Born: December 3, 1903

Love Is Just Around The Chorus

by Andrew J. Sammut
March 16, 2011

In Lost Chords (Oxford University Press, 1999), Richard M. Sudhalter describes a humorous but powerful image of the working class jazz musician circa 1933: That most broadcast work was surely, in [Artie Shaw's] words, “boring, mind- numbing garbage" is more than substantiated by a photograph recently unearthed by the Institute of Jazz Studies, ...

Jazz Oracle: Portal to Antiquity

by Nathan Holaway
October 8, 2010

“Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been."--George Eliot The world will never be able to hear exactly how Beethoven or Bach played their instruments, but it can hear how artists such as clarinetist Wilbur Sweatman and clarinetist and ...