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Oscar Lopez (born 1954 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean-Canadian folk guitarist. Lopez moved to Canada in 1979 and settled in Calgary, Alberta. He began pursuing music as a career, becoming a popular draw on the Canadian folk festival circuit, and released his debut album, Hola, in 1989. Several of his albums have been nominated for Canada's Juno Awards, and 2000's Armando's Fire was his first Juno win, for Best Instrumental Album. He has recorded on the Narada label. Although he has continued recording, Lopez has not toured or performed in several years due to a battle with depression. As...

カナダ、ケベック州モントリオール出身のジャズ・ピアニスト。1925年8月15日〜2007年12月23日。6歳でクラシック・ピアノを始め、14歳で地元のコンテストで優勝。10代の終わりには地元ラジオ・ショーでピアノを弾き、1949年に Norman Granz に認められ、カーネギーホールで演奏。 Granz 傘下のアーティストとなり、 Jazz at the Philharmonic や多くのセッションに起用される。1953年から1958年まで Ray Brown (b) 、Herb Ellis (ds) とトリオを、1959年から1965年まではエリスに代わり Ed Thigpen (ds) となったトリオで活躍する。“ザ・トリオ”と呼ばれ、黄金時代を築いた。1970年代にはソロ・ピアノにも挑戦、 Granz のプロデュースで多くの作品を発表。 Dizzy Gillespie (tp) や Clark Terry (tp) 、 Joe Pass (g) らと共演した。2007年、腎不全により自宅で死去。 .

Oscar Benton (born Ferdinand van Eif on February 3, 1949) is a Dutch vocalist and the founder of the Oscar Benton Blues Band in 1967. The band rose to fame in 1968 by being a runner up in the Jazz Festival, Loosdrecht, Holland. In his solo career, Oscar Benton released with his 1981 homonymous album the Bensonhurst Blues, written by Artie Kaplan & Artie Kornfeld, and produced by the EMI Records. The Bensonhurst Blues, which is considered to be Oscar Benton's best hit, was part of the soundtrack of the 1999 movie La Bûche. Earlier it was on the soundtrack...

Oscar And The Wolf is a young Belgian band signed to PIAS Recordings. Their music sounds like a combination of dark melancholic pop with danceable rhythms, according to singer Max Colombie. In june 2012 their EP ‘Summer Skin’ was released. The EP was recorded in a church and it contained the single 'Orange Sky'. In 2014 they released their debut album 'Entity', which went to #1 in the album chart of their home country Belgium. The album also received generally favorable reviews from critics. Both 'Princes' and ' Strange Entity' became small hits. The band has already played in different...