Cosmos NGC 520

NGC 520 is a pair of colliding spiral galaxies about 105 million light-years away in the constellationPisces. They were discovered by astronomer William Herschel on 13 December 1784. Halton Arp called this the second-brightest very disturbed galaxy in the sky, and it is as bright in the infrared and radio bands as the Antennae Galaxies.…

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Michael Brecker

Michael Leonard Brecker (March 29, 1949 – January 13, 2007) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. He was awarded 15 Grammy Awards as a performer and composer, received an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music in 2004, and was inducted into the DownBeat Jazz Hall of Fame in 2007. Brecker was in great demand…

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Vangelis

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek keyboardist, composer, and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982),…

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Astrud Gilberto

Astrud Gilberto (Portuguese: [asˈtɾud ʒiwˈbɛʁtu]; born Astrud Evangelina Weinert; March 29, 1940 – June 5, 2023) was a Brazilian samba and bossa nova singer and songwriter. She gained international attention in the mid-1960s following her recording of the song “The Girl from Ipanema“. Astrud Gilberto was born Astrud Evangelina Weinert, the daughter of a Brazilian…

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Flamenco Fridays José Anillo, y Rafael Rodríguez

The Soleá is synonymous with the Soleares, known as the “Mother of Flamenco”. Flamenco guitarists usually begin their study with the Soleá since it has a relatively slow BPM (usually 50-110BPM). As a result, students have ample time to feel comfortable with the compás accents. Harmonic tension between the E major and F major chords…

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Cosmos NGC 2077

NGC 2077 is a Nebula in the Dorado constellation. NGC 2077 is situated south of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the southern hemisphere.

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Gary Willis

Gary Willis (born 28 March 1957) is an American bassist and composer known foremost as the co-founder (with Scott Henderson) of the jazz fusionband Tribal Tech. Aside from his work in Tribal Tech, Willis has worked with numerous other jazz musicians including Wayne Shorter, Dennis Chambers, and Allan Holdsworth. “Slaughterhouse 3”, released in 2006, continued…

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