Music

Eunice Kathleen Waymon, better known by her stage name Nina Simone (February 21, 1933 ? April 21, 2003), was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist. Although she disliked being categorized, Simone is generally classified as a jazz musician. She preferred the term "Black Classical Music" herself. Simone originally aspired to become a classical pianist, but her work covers an eclectic variety of musical styles besides her classical basis, such as jazz, soul, folk, R&B, cabaret, gospel, and pop music.

Christopher Botti or Chris Botti (born October 12, 1962) is a trumpeter and composer; born in Portland, Oregon and raised in Corvallis, and spent two years of his childhood growing up in Italy. His earliest musical influence was his mother, a classically trained pianist and part-time piano teacher. He plays a Martin Committee Handcraft trumpet made in 1940, and uses a 3 silver plated mouthpiece from Bach made in 1926, having recently retired his 1920 3C Bach mouthpiece. He counts Miles Davis among his influences.

David Warren Brubeck (born December 6, 1920 in Concord, CaliforniaReception honors Concord native son, jazz great Dave Brubeck, ci.concord.ca.us, retrieved on 2007-01-15), better known as Dave Brubeck, is a U.S. jazz pianist. Regarded as a genius in his field, he has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills. Much of his music employs unusual time signatures.

Put a bunch of engineers in a room with their testing equipment add both Tubed Audio and Solid-State Audio and let them test. The results will not suprise anyone but they are missing the point. Listening to music is a "Subjective" experience, it is all about what sounds good to you. When sitting and listening to your favorite piece of music the only thing that matters is the emotional response your get from the sound coming out of your audio equipment, nothing else. So for now lets put away the charts and graphs and listen to the sweet sound of music from Audio Tubes and all agree it's about the sound.

In August 1969 over 500,000 men and women gathered in a pasture on a farm owned by Max Yasgur. The 600 arce farm where it happened was in the small town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969.