THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

7 Louis Armstrong 7 Europe as a trumpet soloist accompanied by big bands; for several years beginning in 1935, Luis Russell’s bi ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 In most of Armstrong’s movie, radio, and television appearances, he was featu ...

Umm Kulthūm’s father was a village imam who sang traditional religious songs at weddings and holidays to make ends meet. She lea ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 she had moved from singing religious songs to performing popular tunes—often ...

Egypt and the broader Arab world, donating the proceeds of her concerts to the Egyptian government. Health problems plagued the ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 shortwave radio station in Kansas City, he was dubbed “Count” Basie by a radi ...

7 Count Basie 7 amount of notes required for maximum emotional and rhythmic effect. The Basie orchestra had several hit recordin ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 faithful to the overall Basie sound. Throughout the 1960s, Basie’s recordings ...

7 Dmitry Shostakovich 7 numerous chamber works, and concerti, many of them written under the pressures of government-imposed sta ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 precipitated the official condemnation of the opera and of its creator. Shost ...

7 Dmitry Shostakovich 7 much because of the quasi-romantic circumstances of its composition as because of its musical quality. I ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 where he received a number of honours for his music. After Prokofiev’s death ...

7 Bill Monroe 7 Monroe’s signature sound emerged fully in 1945, when banjoist Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt joined his ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Mahalia Jackson (b. Oct. 26, 1911, New Orleans, La., U.S.—d. Jan. 27, 1972, E ...

7 Mahalia Jackson 7 The great American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson is seen here in 1971 singing at the Imperial Palace in Toky ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 annual concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Eight of Jackson’s records ...

7 Robert Johnson 7 16 -year-old Virginia Travis, whose death in childbirth (along with that of their baby) in April 1930 devasta ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 joints, and lumber camps and on the street. In 1936 –37 he made a series of r ...

7 Woody Guthrie 7 small agricultural and railroad town that boomed in the 1920s when oil was discovered in the area. The effect ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 had brought his family, Guthrie became one of the principal songwriters for t ...