ABSTRACT
Music lovers, researchers, students, librarians, and teachers can trace the personal and artistic influences behind music makers from Elton John to Leontyne Price. Individual entries on over 400 of the world's most renowned and accomplished living performers, composers, conductors, and band leaders in musical genres from opera to hip-hop. Also includes an in-depth Index covering musicians of all eras, so that readers can learn which artists, alive or dead, influenced the work of today's most important figures in the music industry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |1104 pages
Biographical Sketches
entry |3 pages
Abbado, Claudio
entry |4 pages
Adams, John
entry |3 pages
Alagna, Roberto
entry |1 pages
Allen, Thomas Boaz
entry |5 pages
Allman, Gregg
entry |2 pages
Alsop, Marin
entry |3 pages
Anderson, Ian
entry |3 pages
Anderson, June
entry |3 pages
Argento, Dominick
entry |1 pages
Armatrading, Joan
entry |3 pages
Arroyo, Martina
entry |3 pages
Ashkenazy, Vladimir
entry |1 pages
Aweke, Aster
entry |3 pages
Ax, Emanuel
entry |2 pages
Babbitt, Milton
entry |4 pages
Bacharach, Burt
entry |3 pages
Baez, Joan
entry |2 pages
Baker, Anita
entry |4 pages
Barenboim, Daniel
entry |2 pages
Barron, Kenny
entry |3 pages
Bartoli, Cecilia
entry |1 pages
Bassett, Leslie
entry |4 pages
Battle, Kathleen
entry |2 pages
Behrens, Hildegard
entry |3 pages
Benatar, Pat
entry |4 pages
Bennett, Tony
entry |2 pages
Benson, George
entry |4 pages
Berio, Luciano
entry |2 pages
Berry, Chuck
entry |3 pages
Birtwistle, Harrison
entry |3 pages
Black, Clint
entry |4 pages
Blades, Rubén
entry |1 pages
Blomstedt, Herbert
entry |2 pages
Blow, Kurtis
entry |1 pages
Boine, Mari
entry |1 pages
Bonney, Barbara
entry |4 pages
Bono
entry |4 pages
Boulez, Pierre
entry |4 pages
Bowie, David
entry |2 pages
Bowie, Lester
entry |2 pages
Bragg, Billy
entry |3 pages
Brendel, Alfred
entry |2 pages
Brey, Carter
entry |4 pages
Brown, James
entry |1 pages
Brown, Ray
entry |3 pages
Brown, Ruth
entry |2 pages
Bryson, Peabo
entry |1 pages
Burning Spear
entry |4 pages
Byrne, David
entry |1 pages
Calypso Rose
entry |4 pages
Carpenter, Mary Chapin
entry |4 pages
Carreras, José
entry |3 pages
Carter, Benny
entry |3 pages
Carter, Elliott
entry |2 pages
Carter, Ron
entry |3 pages
Cash, Johnny
entry |3 pages
Cash, Rosanne
entry |2 pages
Chang, Sarah
entry |4 pages
Charles, Ray
entry |2 pages
Chuck D
entry |4 pages
Chung, Myung-Whun
entry |4 pages
Clapton, Eric
entry |2 pages
Clarke, Stanley
entry |5 pages
Clinton, George
entry |5 pages
Coleman, Omette
entry |2 pages
Collins, Judy
entry |1 pages
Colón, Willie
entry |1 pages
Conlon, James
entry |2 pages
Cooper, Alice
entry |3 pages
Corigliano, John
entry |4 pages
Costello, Elvis
entry |1 pages
Cotton, James
entry |3 pages
Crespin, Régine
entry |2 pages
Crouch, Andraé
entry |3 pages
Crumb, George
entry |3 pages
Cruz, Celia
entry |2 pages
Davidovsky, Mario
entry |4 pages
Davies, Dennis Russell
entry |4 pages
Davies, Peter Maxwell
entry |2 pages
Davis, Andrew
entry |3 pages
Davis, Colin
entry
Dekker, Desmond
entry |1 pages
Delio Joio, Justin
entry |3 pages
Dello Joio, Norman
entry |3 pages
Del Tredici, David
entry |4 pages
DePreist, James
entry |3 pages
Diamond, David
entry |3 pages
Dibango, Manu
entry |1 pages
Dimitrova, Ghena
entry |3 pages
Dohnányi, Christoph von
entry |3 pages
Domingo, Placido
entry |2 pages
Domino, Fats
entry |1 pages
Donaldson, Lou
entry |2 pages
Dr. Dre
entry |2 pages
Dural, Stanley Jr.
entry |3 pages
Dutoit, Charles
entry |5 pages
Dylan, Bob
entry |1 pages
Edison, Harry “Sweets”
entry |4 pages
Eno, Brian
entry |4 pages
Eschenbach, Christoph
entry |3 pages
Etheridge, Melissa
entry |1 pages
Evora, Cesaria
entry |3 pages
Ewing, Maria
entry |2 pages
Faithfull, Marianne
entry |2 pages
Farmer, Art
entry |3 pages
Ferguson, Maynard
entry |3 pages
Flack, Roberta
entry |4 pages
Flanagan, Tommy
entry |2 pages
Flav, Flavor
entry |2 pages
Fleming, Renée
entry |4 pages
Fogerty, John
entry |2 pages
Foss, Lukas
entry |4 pages
Franklin, Aretha
entry |3 pages
Freni, Mirella
entry |4 pages
Gabriel, Peter
entry |3 pages
Galway, James
entry |3 pages
Gardiner, John Eliot
entry |3 pages
Garfunkel, Art
entry |2 pages
Garrett, Kenny
entry |1 pages
Gaughan, Dick
entry |2 pages
Gayle, Crystal
entry |2 pages
Gedda, Nicolai
entry |3 pages
Gergiev, Valery
entry |2 pages
Ghiaurov, Nicolai
entry |1 pages
Gil, Gilberto
entry |2 pages
Giulini, Carlo Maria
entry |6 pages
Glass, Philip
entry |2 pages
Golson, Benny
entry |4 pages
Goode, Richard
entry |3 pages
Górecki, Henryk
entry |2 pages
Grant, Amy
entry |1 pages
Graves, Denyce
entry |3 pages
Green, Al
entry |4 pages
Guthrie, Arlo
entry |4 pages
Hadley, Jerry
entry |5 pages
Haggard, Merle
entry |2 pages
Haitink, Bernard
entry |3 pages
Hammer
entry |8 pages
Hampson, Thomas
entry |4 pages
Hancock, Herbie
entry |4 pages
Harbison, John
entry |3 pages
Harris, Emmylou
entry |1 pages
Harris, Larnelle
entry |5 pages
Harrison, George
entry |3 pages
Harrison, Lou
entry |4 pages
Hart, Mickey
entry |1 pages
Hawkins, Tramaine
entry |3 pages
Hayes, Isaac
entry |2 pages
Heath, Percy and Jimmy
entry |3 pages
Henderson, Joe
entry |3 pages
Hendricks, Barbara
entry |4 pages
Henze, Hans Werner
entry |2 pages
Hiatt, John
entry |1 pages
Hines, Jerome
entry |4 pages
Hooker, John Lee
entry |1 pages
Horn, Shirley
entry |3 pages
Horne, Marilyn
entry |3 pages
Houston, Cissy
entry |3 pages
Houston, Whitney
entry |1 pages
Hubbard, Freddie
entry |2 pages
Hütter, Ralf
entry |4 pages
Ice Cube
entry |4 pages
Ice-T
entry |3 pages
Idol, Billy
entry |3 pages
Imbrie, Andrew
entry |3 pages
Isley, Ronald
entry |3 pages
Jackson, Janet
entry |3 pages
Jackson, Joe
entry |4 pages
Jackson, Michael
entry |3 pages
Jagger, Mick
entry |1 pages
Jamal, Ahmad
entry |3 pages
James, Etta
entry |3 pages
Jarreau, Al
entry |3 pages
Jarrett, Keith
entry |3 pages
Järvi, Neeme
entry |4 pages
Jennings, Waylon
entry |4 pages
Jerusalem, Siegfried
entry |5 pages
Jett, Joan
entry |4 pages
John, Elton
entry |2 pages
Johnson, J. J.
entry |2 pages
Jones, Elvin
entry |4 pages
Jones, George
entry |2 pages
Jones, Gwyneth
entry |2 pages
Jones, Hank
entry |1 pages
Jones, Mick
entry |1 pages
Kaasinen, Sari
entry |1 pages
Kane, Ray
entry |1 pages
Khaled
entry |1 pages
Kidjo, Angélique
entry |2 pages
King, B. B.
entry |4 pages
Kirchner, Leon
entry |2 pages
Kissin, Evgeny
entry |1 pages
Kitchener, Lord
entry |4 pages
Knight, Gladys
entry |3 pages
Knopfler, Mark
entry |4 pages
Knussen, Oliver
entry |2 pages
KRS-One
entry |1 pages
Lamm, Robert
entry |3 pages
Lang, k. d.
entry |2 pages
Larmore, Jennifer
entry |2 pages
Larrocha, Alicia de
entry |4 pages
Lee, Peggy
entry |1 pages
Leiferkus, Sergei
entry |4 pages
Levine, James
entry |3 pages
Lewis, Jerry Lee
entry |2 pages
Lewis, Victor
entry |3 pages
Ligeti, György
entry |1 pages
Lin, Cho-Liang
entry |4 pages
Little Richard
entry |4 pages
Lloyd Webber, Andrew
entry |2 pages
Lovano, Joe
entry |3 pages
Lovett, Lyle
entry |3 pages
Ludwig, Christa
entry |1 pages
Lupu, Radu
entry |3 pages
Lydon,John
entry |3 pages
Lynn, Loretta
entry |3 pages
Ma, Yo-Yo
entry |1 pages
Maal, Baaba
entry |3 pages
Maazel, Lorin
entry |3 pages
Mackerras, Charles
entry |2 pages
MacNeil, Cornell
entry |4 pages
Madonna
entry |3 pages
Makeba, Miriam
entry |1 pages
Mapfumo, Thomas
entry |1 pages
Marley, Ziggy
entry |4 pages
Marsalis, Wynton
entry |3 pages
Marton, Eva
entry |4 pages
Masekela, Hugh
entry |4 pages
Masur, Kurt
entry |3 pages
Mathis, Johnny
entry |1 pages
Mattila, Karita
entry |2 pages
May field, Curtis
entry |5 pages
McCartney, Paul
entry |3 pages
McFerrin, Bobby
entry |2 pages
McGuinn, Roger
entry |2 pages
McNair, Sylvia
entry |4 pages
Mehta, Zubin
entry |1 pages
Meier, Waltraud
entry |1 pages
Menard, D. L.
entry |4 pages
Menotti, Gian Carlo
entry |4 pages
Menuhin, Yehudi
entry |3 pages
Metheny, Pat
entry |1 pages
Mighty Sparrow
entry |1 pages
Milanés, Pablo
entry |2 pages
Millo, Aprile
entry |3 pages
Milnes, Sherrill
entry |3 pages
Mitchell, Joni
entry |3 pages
Morris, James
entry |2 pages
Morrison, Van
entry |3 pages
Murray, David
entry |3 pages
Musgrave, Thea
entry |3 pages
Muti, Riccardo
entry |3 pages
N’Dour, Youssou
entry |3 pages
Nagano, Kent
entry |3 pages
Nelson, Willie
entry |3 pages
Neville Brothers
entry |3 pages
Newman, Randy
entry |5 pages
Nicks, Stevie
entry |3 pages
Nørgård, Per
entry |4 pages
Norman, Jessye
entry |5 pages
O’Connor, Sinéad
entry |2 pages
Odetta
entry |2 pages
Olivero, Magda
entry |3 pages
Osbourne, Ozzy
entry |3 pages
Otter, Anne Sofie von
entry |2 pages
Ozawa, Seiji
entry |3 pages
Page, Jimmy
entry |1 pages
Papasov, Ivo
entry |4 pages
Part, Arvo
entry |3 pages
Parton, Dolly
entry |3 pages
Pavarotti, Luciano
entry |1 pages
Peña, Paco
entry |4 pages
Penderecki, Krzysztof
entry |4 pages
Perlman, Itzhak
entry
Perry, Lee
entry |3 pages
Peter, Paul and Mary
entry |3 pages
Peters, Roberta
entry |3 pages
Peterson, Oscar
entry |3 pages
Pickett, Wilson
entry |3 pages
Plant, Robert
entry |4 pages
Pogorelich, Ivo
entry |3 pages
Pop, Iggy
entry |3 pages
Previn, André
entry |3 pages
Prey, Hermann
entry |3 pages
Price, Leontyne
entry |2 pages
Pride, Charley
entry |5 pages
Prince
entry |2 pages
Puente, Tito
entry |4 pages
Raitt, Bonnie
entry |3 pages
Ramey, Samuel
entry |3 pages
Rampai, Jean-Pierre
entry |2 pages
Rands, Bernard
entry |4 pages
Rattle, Simon
entry |3 pages
Rawls, Lou
entry |5 pages
Reed, Lou
entry |3 pages
Reich, Steve
entry |5 pages
Richards, Keith
entry |3 pages
Roach, Max
entry |3 pages
Robinson, Smokey
entry |3 pages
Rochberg, George
entry |1 pages
Rodríguez, Silvio
entry |3 pages
Rogers, Kenny
entry |3 pages
Rollins, Sonny
entry |3 pages
Ronstadt, Linda
entry |5 pages
Rorem, Ned
entry |4 pages
Ross, Diana
entry |4 pages
Rostropovich, Mstislav
entry |2 pages
Rouse, Christopher
entry |2 pages
Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
entry |2 pages
Rudel, Julius
entry |2 pages
Run
entry |2 pages
Sade
entry |3 pages
Sainte-Marie, Buffy
entry |1 pages
Salminen, Matti
entry |1 pages
Sangare, Oumou
entry |3 pages
Santana, Carlos
entry |1 pages
Sawallisch, Wolfgang
entry |3 pages
Scaggs, Boz
entry |4 pages
Schuller, Gunther
entry |4 pages
Schwarz, Gerard
entry |1 pages
Scott-Heron, Gil
entry |3 pages
Scruggs, Earl
entry |1 pages
Sebestyén, Márta
entry |3 pages
Seeger, Pete
entry |2 pages
Shabalala, Joseph
entry |3 pages
Shankar, Ravi
entry |2 pages
Shaw, Robert
entry |3 pages
Shearing, George
entry |4 pages
Shorter, Wayne
entry |3 pages
Sills, Beverly
entry |2 pages
Silver, Horace
entry |3 pages
Simon, Paul
entry |3 pages
Simone, Nina
entry |4 pages
Sinopoli, Giuseppe
entry |1 pages
Skaggs, Ricky
entry |4 pages
Slick, Grace
entry |4 pages
Smith, Patti
entry |3 pages
Sondheim, Stephen
entry |2 pages
Sosa, Mercedes
entry |1 pages
Soviero, Diana
entry |3 pages
Spector, Phil
entry |5 pages
Springsteen, Bruce
entry |1 pages
Stanley, Ralph
entry |5 pages
Starr, Ringo
entry |3 pages
Stern, Isaac
entry |2 pages
Stevens, Cat
entry |4 pages
Sting
entry |3 pages
Stipe, Michael
entry |3 pages
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
entry |2 pages
Stoltzman, Richard
entry |3 pages
Stone, Sly
entry |3 pages
Stratas, Teresa
entry |5 pages
Streisand, Barbra
entry |4 pages
Studer, Cheryl
entry |4 pages
Sutherland, Joan
entry |2 pages
Swenson, Ruth Ann
entry |1 pages
Tabor, June
entry |2 pages
Tate, Jeffrey
entry |4 pages
Taylor, James
entry |3 pages
Te Kanawa, Kiri
entry |4 pages
Terfel, Bryn
entry |4 pages
Tilson Thomas, Michael
entry |1 pages
Touré, Ali Farka
entry |1 pages
Tower, Joan
entry |5 pages
Townshend, Pete
entry |3 pages
Travis, Randy
entry |1 pages
Tree, Michael
entry |4 pages
Turner, Tina
entry |1 pages
Turrentine, Stanley
entry |3 pages
Tyner, McCoy
entry |3 pages
Uchida, Mitsuko
entry |3 pages
Upshaw, Dawn
entry |2 pages
Van Dam, José
entry |4 pages
Vandross, Luther
entry |3 pages
Vaness, Carol
entry |4 pages
Vega, Suzanne
entry |4 pages
Verrett, Shirley
entry |3 pages
Waits, Tom
entry |1 pages
Walker, Albertina
entry |2 pages
Waters, Roger
entry |2 pages
Weissenberg, Alexis
entry |2 pages
White, Barry
entry |2 pages
Williams, Hank, Jr.
entry |3 pages
Williams, Joe
entry |7 pages
Wilson, Brian
entry |2 pages
Wilson, Nancy
entry |4 pages
Wonder, Stevie
entry |4 pages
Wuorinen, Charles
entry |3 pages
Wynonna
entry |4 pages
Xenakis, Iannis
entry |3 pages
Young, Neil
entry |2 pages
Zawinul, Joe
entry |3 pages
Zimerman, Krystian
entry |3 pages
Zukerman, Pinchas
entry |3 pages
Zwilich, Ellen
