"Stanley Burrell (basketball) Stanley Dewayne Burrell, Jr. (born September 16, 1984) is an American professional basketball player who last played for Energa Czarni Słupsk of the Polish Basketball League. Standing at , he plays the point guard position. Burrell played college basketball for Sean Miller at Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH). He was the starting guard for four seasons at Xavier and finished his career #12 on the All-Time scoring list (with 1,612 points). He also played in a school record 132 collegiate games. Burrell was born to Wonda and Stanley Burrell in Fort Knox, Kentucky. Burell's parents divorced at an"
"Charles Burrell (musician) Charles ""Charlie"" Burrell (born October 4, 1920) is a classical and jazz bass player most prominently known for being the first African-American to be a member of a major American symphony (the San Francisco Symphony). For this accomplishment he is often referred to as ""the Jackie Robinson of Classical Music"". Charles was born in Toledo, Ohio and raised in depression-era Detroit, Michigan. In grade school he excelled in music. When he was twelve years old he heard the SFS under renowned conductor Pierre Monteux on his family's crystal radio, and vowed to one day play as a"
"Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith produced the 1965 ""Billboard"" Top Twenty hit album ""Organ Grinder Swing"". He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters. Burrell is a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Burrell was born in Detroit, Michigan. Both his parents played instruments, and he began playing guitar at the age of 12. He went"
"MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the early 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records (such as ""U Can't Touch This"" and ""2 Legit 2 Quit""), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants. A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a ""forefather/pioneer"" and innovator of pop rap (incorporating elements of ), and is"
"Stanley is an ambassador for the charitable organization AboutFace, an organization that provides support and information to people with facial differences. He has appeared at fundraising events and in videos to raise awareness. Paul Stanley Stanley Bert Eisen (born January 20, 1952), known professionally by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and painter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and singer of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's highest-charting hits. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona. Hit Parader ranked him 18th on"
"by Blue Note and the French label Classics. ""Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Kenny Burrell."" Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album) Midnight Blue is a 1963 album by Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga, and is one of Burrell's best-known works for Blue Note. ""Jazz Improv Magazine"" lists the album among its top five recommended recordings for Burrell, indicating that ""[i]f you need to know 'the Blue Note sound', here it is"". In 2005, NPR included the album in its"
"Buckwheat Zydeco Stanley Joseph Dural, Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band, but they often performed as merely Buckwheat Zydeco. ""The New York Times"" said: “Stanley ‘Buckwheat’ Dural leads one of the best bands in America. A down-home and high-powered celebration, meaty and muscular with a fine-tuned sense of dynamics…propulsive rhythms, incendiary performances.” ""USA Today"" called him “a"
"Along with financial assistance to the hospital, he donated machinery and hospital equipment. Grammy Awards American Music Awards Golden Raspberry Awards Shaggy (musician) Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican musician, singer, DJ and former United States Marine. He is best known for his hit singles ""Oh Carolina"", ""Boombastic"", ""It Wasn't Me"", and ""Angel"". He took his stage name from the character Shaggy, from the popular children's TV show ""Scooby-Doo"". Burrell was born on October 22, 1968, in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1987, he took singing courses and was discovered a"
"during the UCLA Spring Sing in Pauley Pavilion on May 17, 2013. MC Hammer Stanley Kirk Burrell (born March 30, 1962), better known by his stage name MC Hammer (or simply Hammer), is an American hip hop recording artist, dancer, record producer and entrepreneur. He had his greatest commercial success and popularity from the late 1980s, until the early 1990s. Remembered for his rapid rise to fame, Hammer is known for hit records (such as ""U Can't Touch This"" and ""2 Legit 2 Quit""), flashy dance movements, choreography and eponymous Hammer pants. A multi-award winner, M.C. Hammer is considered a"
"Ralph Stanley Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr. Ralph Stanley, was an American bluegrass artist, known for his distinctive singing and banjo playing. Stanley began playing music in 1946, originally with his older brother Carter Stanley as part of The Stanley Brothers, and most often as the leader of his band, The Clinch Mountain Boys. He was part of the first generation of bluegrass musicians and was inducted into both the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor and the Grand Ole Opry. Stanley was born, grew up, and lived in rural Southwest"
"VMF, Tupac Shakur, Teddy Riley, Felton Pilate, Tha Dogg Pound, The Whole 9, The Hines Brother (Andra Hines & Dunkin Hines), Deion Sanders, Big Daddy Kane, BeBe & CeCe Winans and Jon Gibson. In 1992, Doug E. Fresh was signed to M.C. Hammer's Bust It Records label. Stanley Kirk Burrell was born on March 30, 1962 in Oakland, California. His father was a professional poker player and gambling casino manager (at Oaks Card Club's cardroom), as well as warehouse supervisor. He grew up poor with his mother (a secretary) and eight siblings in a small apartment in East Oakland. He"
"Paul Stanley Stanley Bert Eisen (born January 20, 1952), known professionally by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and painter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and singer of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's highest-charting hits. Stanley established The Starchild character for his Kiss persona. Hit Parader ranked him 18th on their list of Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time. Gibson.com Readers Poll also named him 13th on their list of Top 25 Frontmen. Stanley Bert Eisen was born January 20, 1952, in"
"Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell album) Midnight Blue is a 1963 album by Jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga, and is one of Burrell's best-known works for Blue Note. ""Jazz Improv Magazine"" lists the album among its top five recommended recordings for Burrell, indicating that ""[i]f you need to know 'the Blue Note sound', here it is"". In 2005, NPR included the album in its ""Basic Jazz Library"", describing it as ""one of the great jazzy blues records"". The album has been re-issued"
"With Charlie Rouse With Vanessa Rubin With A. K. Salim With Lalo Schifrin With Carol Sloane With Jimmy Smith With Dakota Staton With Sylvia Syms With Ed Thigpen With Cal Tjader With Stanley Turrentine With Dinah Washington With Doug Watkins With Dicky Wells With Frank Wess With Randy Weston With Joe Williams With Kai Winding With Jimmy Witherspoon With Leo Wright Kenny Burrell Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on the Blue Note label. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith produced the 1965 ""Billboard"" Top Twenty hit album ""Organ Grinder Swing""."
"Among the Stanley Brothers' best known recordings are: The Stanley Brothers The Stanley Brothers were an American bluegrass duo of singer-songwriters and musicians made up of brothers Carter Stanley (1925–1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927–2016). Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, from 1946 to 1966. Ralph kept the band name when he continued as a solo artist after Carter's death, from 1967 until his own death in 2016. Carter and Ralph Stanley were born on a small farm in Dickenson County, Virginia, near McClure. Music was a part of their lives even"
"The Stanley Brothers The Stanley Brothers were an American bluegrass duo of singer-songwriters and musicians made up of brothers Carter Stanley (1925–1966) and Ralph Stanley (1927–2016). Ralph and Carter performed as The Stanley Brothers with their band, The Clinch Mountain Boys, from 1946 to 1966. Ralph kept the band name when he continued as a solo artist after Carter's death, from 1967 until his own death in 2016. Carter and Ralph Stanley were born on a small farm in Dickenson County, Virginia, near McClure. Music was a part of their lives even in their early years, and they listened to"
"Boz Burrell Raymond ""Boz"" Burrell (1 August 1946 – 21 September 2006) was an English musician. Originally a vocalist and guitarist, Burrell is best known for his bass playing and work with the bands King Crimson and Bad Company. He died of a heart attack in Spain on 21 September 2006 aged 60. Raymond Burrell was born on 1 August 1946 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. As a teen in the 1950s, he began playing rhythm guitar for the Tea Time 4, a group formed with his school pal Bernie Rudd. They both acquired a passion for jazz and enjoyed acts such"
"Carter Stanley Carter Glen Stanley (August 27, 1925 – December 1, 1966) was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed ""The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys"" band together with his younger brother Ralph Stanley. Stanley was born in Big Spraddle Creek in Dickenson County, Virginia. The son of Lucy and Lee Stanley, Carter grew up in rural southwestern Virginia. In 1946 he and his brother Ralph formed the Stanley Brothers, one of the most respected and influential bands in the new genre of bluegrass music. Carter played guitar and sang lead while Ralph"
"Snape: with Bad Company with Boxer: with Jon Lord: with The Shortlist: with Ken Hensley: with Ruby Turner: with Celtic Groove Connection: Boz Burrell Raymond ""Boz"" Burrell (1 August 1946 – 21 September 2006) was an English musician. Originally a vocalist and guitarist, Burrell is best known for his bass playing and work with the bands King Crimson and Bad Company. He died of a heart attack in Spain on 21 September 2006 aged 60. Raymond Burrell was born on 1 August 1946 in Holbeach, Lincolnshire. As a teen in the 1950s, he began playing rhythm guitar for the Tea"
"Bluesy Burrell Bluesy Burrell (also released as Out of This World) is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell with saxophonist Coleman Hawkins recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Moodsville label. Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating ""This session is valuable for the majestic playing of tenor great Coleman Hawkins, who performs on half of the eight tracks"". The All About Jazz review stated ""It's definitely a variety album, with many tunes to choose from. Burrell is the star (his high ringing tone also plays octaves here and there), but everyone has their time in the spotlight, especially"
"Within months, Burrell had recorded his first album as leader for Blue Note and both he and Flanagan were sought-after as sidemen and studio musicians, performing with singers Tony Bennett and Lena Horne and recording with Billie Holiday, Jimmy Smith, Gene Ammons, and Kenny Dorham, among others. From 1957 to 1959, Burrell occupied the former chair of Charlie Christian in Benny Goodman's band. Since his New York debut Burrell has had a prolific recording career, and critics have cited ""The Cats"" with John Coltrane in 1957, ""Midnight Blue"" with Stanley Turrentine in 1963, and ""Guitar Forms"" with arranger Gil Evans"
"57, a fund for wounded soldiers. In 2015, Alice in Chains donated two dollars from every pre-sold ticket of their summer tour to help the family of a fan named Stefan Dayne-Ankle, who passed away after a battle with leukemia. Cantrell also supports Music for Relief Autism Speaks, Rock Against MS Foundation, and the Los Angeles Police Memorial Foundation. Jerry Cantrell Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter of the rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to international"
"Stanley Clarke Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951) is an American bassist and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. He has composed music for films and television and has worked with musicians in many genres. Like Jaco Pastorius, Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. Clarke was born in Philadelphia. His mother sang opera around the house, belonged to a church choir, and encouraged him to study music. He started on accordion, then tried violin. But he felt awkward holding such a small instrument in his big hands"
"such as Sanchez, Pinchers and Thriller U, and established artists including Frankie Paul, Gregory Isaacs and Charlie Chaplin. By 1989, Burrell had founded the ""Exterminator"" (later ""Xterminator"") label, which in the early 1990s released records by Ninjaman, Ini Kamoze, Admiral Tibet, Cocoa Tea, Beres Hammond and Johnny Osbourne. More recent successes came with releases from Luciano, Sizzla (who he also managed), Everton Blender, Ras Shiloh and Turbulence. Burrell's house band includes drummer Sly Dunbar and The Firehouse Crew. Burrell died on the 3 December 2011. He had been admitted to the University Hospital of the West Indies two weeks earlier"
"Death."" The soundtrack's producer was T-Bone Burnett. Stanley said the following about working with Burnett: With that song, Stanley won a 2002 Grammy Award in the category of Best Male Country Vocal Performance. ""That put the icing on the cake for me,"" he said. ""It put me in a different category."" Known in the world of bluegrass music by the popular title, ""Dr. Ralph Stanley"" (after being awarded an honorary Doctorate of Music from Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee in 1976), Stanley was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor in 1992 and in 2000, and became"
"Jerry Cantrell Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. (born March 18, 1966) is an American musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist best known as the founder, lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist and main songwriter of the rock band Alice in Chains. The band rose to international fame in the early 1990s during Seattle's grunge movement, and is known for its distinctive vocal style and the harmonized vocals between Cantrell and Layne Staley (and later Cantrell and William DuVall). Cantrell started to sing lead vocals on Alice in Chains' 1992 EP ""Sap"". After Staley's death in 2002, Cantrell took the role of Alice in Chains' lead"
"Johnny Borrell Jonathan Edward Borrell (born 4 April 1980 in Sutton, London) is an English guitarist and singer, currently the front-man of the band Razorlight. Borrell was involved in music and the Camden scene while still at school. At 17 he played bass guitar in a band called Violet, who regularly played gigs on the Camden circuit. The band recorded an EP and started to gain some recognition before splitting acrimoniously live on stage at Dublin Castle in late '97 . The title track of the EP was subsequently used in the soundtrack of the 1998 Michael Winterbottom film 'I"
"on to study composition and theory with Louis Cabara and classical guitar with Joe Fava. While a student at Wayne State University, he made his recording debut as a member of Dizzy Gillespie's sextet in 1951, followed by the ""Rose of Tangier""/""Ground Round"" single recorded under his own name at Fortune Records in Detroit. While in college, Burrell founded the New World Music Society collective with fellow Detroit musicians Pepper Adams, Donald Byrd, Elvin Jones, and Yusef Lateef. Burrell toured with Oscar Peterson after graduating in 1955 and then moved to New York City in 1956 with pianist Tommy Flanagan."
"obviously imitating standard surf guitar, Burrell provides texture, specifically the ""water sound"" popularized by Vinnie Bell. Within this warm bath, as it were, the piercing electronic ondioline shimmers icily. The rhythm is basic ""big beat"" rock, and melody never really has a chance to escape blues figures, which is just as well"". Soul Surfin' Soul Surfin' is an album by jazz trombonist and arranger Kai Winding featuring guitarist Kenny Burrell recorded in 1963 for the Verve label. The album was reissued as !!!More!!! (Theme from Mondo Cane) following the chart success of the single of the same name. The Allmusic"
"Shaggy (musician) Orville Richard Burrell (born October 22, 1968), better known by his stage name Shaggy, is a Jamaican musician, singer, DJ and former United States Marine. He is best known for his hit singles ""Oh Carolina"", ""Boombastic"", ""It Wasn't Me"", and ""Angel"". He took his stage name from the character Shaggy, from the popular children's TV show ""Scooby-Doo"". Burrell was born on October 22, 1968, in Kingston, Jamaica. In 1987, he took singing courses and was discovered a year later, while singing in the streets with friends. His son Richard O'Neil Burrell is a rapper known as Robb Banks."
"posthumously inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor. In 2013 a biography was released ""Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of the Stanley Brothers"" by David W. Johnson. Carter Stanley Carter Glen Stanley (August 27, 1925 – December 1, 1966) was a bluegrass music lead singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitar player. He formed ""The Stanley Brothers and The Clinch Mountain Boys"" band together with his younger brother Ralph Stanley. Stanley was born in Big Spraddle Creek in Dickenson County, Virginia. The son of Lucy and Lee Stanley, Carter grew up in rural southwestern Virginia. In 1946 he and"
"the 1965 Chicago soul song ""Got to Find a Way"", which reached #31 on the Billboard R&B charts. The following year Burrage died in Chicago, aged 35, from heart failure at the home of Tyrone Davis, a musician Burrage influenced. Harold Burrage Harold Edwin Burrage (March 30, 1931 – November 26, 1966) was an American blues and soul singer, pianist, and record producer. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Burrage did session work as a pianist in the 1950s and 1960s as well as recording under his own name. He released singles on Decca, Aladdin, States, and Cobra in the 1950s, and"
"Hawkins, having a grand time on his last session for Prestige"". All compositions by Kenny Burrell except where noted Bluesy Burrell Bluesy Burrell (also released as Out of This World) is an album by guitarist Kenny Burrell with saxophonist Coleman Hawkins recorded in 1962 and originally released on the Moodsville label. Allmusic awarded the album 3 stars stating ""This session is valuable for the majestic playing of tenor great Coleman Hawkins, who performs on half of the eight tracks"". The All About Jazz review stated ""It's definitely a variety album, with many tunes to choose from. Burrell is the star"