THE 100 MOST INFLUENTIAL MUSICIANS OF ALL TIME

7 Woody Guthrie 7 Woody Guthrie, an American folksinger and songwriter, seen here singing and playing his guitar on a New York C ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 unrecorded lyrics by Guthrie that they had set to music; Mermaid Avenue Vol. ...

7 John Cage 7 activities that make up music must be seen as part of a single natural process. He came to regard all kinds of sou ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Muddy Waters (b. April 4, 1915, Rolling Fork, Miss., U.S.—d. April 30, 1983, ...

7 Muddy Waters 7 several unremarkable recordings. By 1948 Aristocrat had become Chess Records (taking its name from Leonard and ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 Billie Holiday, 1958. Reprinted with permission of Down Beat magazine Eleanor ...

7 Billie Holiday 7 she found a job singing in a Harlem nightclub. She had had no formal musical training, but, with an instincti ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 between a vocal line and an instrumental obbligato. In 1956 she wrote an auto ...

7 Frank Sinatra 7 Sinatra recordings is “All or Nothing at All”—unsuccessful in 1939 but a million-seller when rereleased in 194 ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 friendships with organized-crime figures. There was also the widely reported ...

7 Frank Sinatra 7 Frank Sinatra, sometimes called “Ol’ Blue Eyes,” is photographed here in 1945 in front of a CBS radio micropho ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 The Capitol Years In 1953 Sinatra’s musical style took a dramatic turn. He si ...

7 Frank Sinatra 7 influences with an uncanny sense of syncopation and an innate knowledge of “blue notes.” Two of his most heral ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 masterpieces, September of My Years (1965) and the partner- ship with Brazili ...

7 Edith Piaf 7 interpretation of the chanson, or French ballad, made her internationally famous. Among her trademark songs were ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 In addition to singing, she recorded her thoughts about her life in two books ...

7 Nat King Cole 7 however, when Cole began doubling as a solo singer. Their first chart success, “Straighten Up and Fly Right” ( ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 The prejudices of the era in which Cole lived hindered his potential for even ...

7 Ella Fitzgerald 7 dramatically in the 1950s when jazz impresario Norman Granz became her manager. From 1956 to 1964 she record ...

7 The 100 Most Influential Musicians of All Time 7 both classical and popular music, for his flamboyant con- ducting style, and ...