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Mar 7, 2024 · 1. Lawrence Welk. https://youtu.be/Ejiw9J3XkgQ. Lawrence Welk (left) with Myron Floren (right) Lawrence Welk was one of nine children raised on his parents’ Strasburg, North Dakota farm. His parents only spoke German, and Welk didn’t begin speaking the English language until young adulthood.
- Lawrence Welk. Welk was one of the wealthiest accordionists all throughout America, mainly because of The Lawrence Welk Show that aired on TV from the 1950s to the 1980s every Saturday night.
- Myron Floren. Floren is an American musician who shares in Welk’s fame, being the principal accordion player in the latter’s show. He was a self-taught player born in Roslyn, Day County, South Dakota, starting at only six years old.
- Guido Deiro. Guido Deiro, along with his brother Pietro, was instrumental in making the piano accordion known. He was internationally acclaimed by people, having performed in the United States, Canada, France and Germany in the 1900s.
- Nick Ariondo. Ariondo plays not just the accordion but also the piano, and is also an American composer. He bagged two Grammy Awards during his period of collaboration with the Los Angeles Orchestra, and boasts of over 20 awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers or ASCAP.
- Adolphe Sax. The first-ever saxophone player was the man who invented it — Adolphe Sax, a Belgian musical instrument maker in the 1800s. The son of both mother and father instrument makers, Sax started making instruments as a young boy, making his own flute and clarinet by the age of 15 and then performing on them at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels.
- John Coltrane. Up next is the legendary composer and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane. He was influenced by the blues music of the small town he grew up in and the gospel music of his church.
- Charlie Parker. Known as “Bird” or “Yardbird,” Charlie Parker was a trailblazer in the world of jazz, credited with the invention of bebop. He was born in 1920 in Kansas and took music lessons at public schools.
- Candy Dulfer. Jumping forward a few decades, we have up next the famous female saxophonist Candy Dulfer, daughter of well-known Dutch jazz tenor saxophonist Hans Duffer, who is a modern pop saxophonist from the Netherlands.
- Brian May. Arise, Sir Brian Harold May, the greatest guitarist of all time, the player most regal, and the one whose pathway to the summit began in the most unorthodox fashion, with a father-and-son woodcraft project converting a fireplace into one of the most inventive electric guitars ever made, the Red Special.
- Jimi Hendrix. Jimi Hendrix was the supernova of creativity that the electric guitar had been waiting for. It’s tempting to say that Hendrix was ahead of his time, and yes, it’s true, he was.
- Jimmy Page. Years honing his chops as an on-call session musician had prepared Jimmy Page for what was to come, namely being guitarist and producer of the biggest rock band on the planet, a band whose creative ambition matched the scale of their success.
- Eddie Van Halen. We can argue over who is the greatest guitarist of all time but surely none have been more entertaining than Eddie Van Halen, whose hot-wiring of hard rock norms was like a power-up for electric guitar culture, making a spectacle of the instrument that could rival the Super Bowl, Hollywood, the aurora borealis… great herds of wildebeest migrating across the Serengeti.
- Astor Piazzolla. Astor Piazzolla revolutionized traditional Argentine tango music into a new genre called nuevo tango by incorporating elements from jazz and classical music.
- Richard Galliano. Richard Galliano is a French jazz accordionist who has successfully bridged the gap between classical music and jazz with the accordion, bringing it into the limelight as a respected solo jazz instrument.
- Frank Marocco. Frank Marocco was an American jazz accordionist renowned for his exceptional skill and versatility, which made him one of the most recorded accordionists in the world.
- Myron Floren. Myron Floren was best known as the spirited accordionist on “The Lawrence Welk Show,” where his performances introduced the joy of accordion music to millions of American households.
Oct 19, 2023 · An RTS expert, Grubby has won more than 38 LAN tournaments. Known primarily for his Orc skills in Warcraft III, he's easily among some the greatest players of all time. From 2003 to 2008 he was a prominent member the British 4Kings, and is even included in the World Cyber Games's hall of fame.
