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James Blood Ulmer

James "Blood" Ulmer (born February 2, 1942 in St. Matthews, South Carolina) is an American avant-garde jazz and blues guitarist and singer. Ulmer's distinctive guitar sound has been described as "jagged" and "stinging." His singing has been called "raggedly soulful." Ulmer began his career playing with various soul jazz ensembles, and first recorded with organist John Patton in 1969. After moving to New York in 1971, Ulmer played with Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Joe Henderson, Paul Bley, Rashied Ali and Larry Young.

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Krzysztof Penderecki

Krzysztof Penderecki (born November 23, 1933 in D?bica) is a Polish composer and conductor. His 1960 avant-garde Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima for string orchestra brought him to international attention, and this success was followed by acclaim for his choral St. Luke Passion. Both these works exhibit novel compositional techniques. Since the 1970s Penderecki's style has changed to encompass a post-Romantic idiom.

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Lawrence Casserley

Active in electro-acoustic composition and performance since the 1960s, Lawrence Casserley has earned a reputation as a first-rate improviser with signal-processing electronics alongside such names as Evan Parker and Barry Guy. In the early 1990s, he became one of the first musicians to work with IRCAM's Signal Processing Workstation, and much of his current work involves Max/msp software. On a slightly less academic front, he is also one of the directors of the Colourscape organization...

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George Lloyd

George Lloyd (28 June 1913 - 3 July 1998) was an English composer of late-Romantic classical music. He showed his talent as a composer early. His first symphony, written at age 19, was premiered in 1933. A second symphony had its premiere in 1935 and was soon followed by a third. His first opera was performed in 1934 and his second was staged at Covent Garden when Lloyd was just 25. Lloyd wrote several operas, including Iernin performed at Penzance (1934)...

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