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Bill Frisell
NashvilleNonesuch By signing to an artsy-fartsy label like Nonesuch (which carries Richard Goode's Beethoven and historic stuff like George Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton piano roll…Biographies: Notable Jazz Musicians
Notable Jazz Musicians Bessie Smith See also Notable Women Musicians and Dancers Notable African-American Musicians Notable African-American Visual and Performing Artists Asian…Significant Recordings of 1996–1997
AerosmithThe Artist Formerly Known as PrinceBach — Angela HewittErykah BaduBeethoven — Emerson String QuartetBen Folds FiveBR5-49Dale Ann BradleyBrahms — Houston Symphony Orchestra Christoph…On the Road Again—2000
Archival Material Jump on the festival bandwagon this summer by Beth Rowen Chicago Blues Festival | Glastonbury Festival | JVC Jazz Festival | Monterey Jazz Festival | Newport Folk Festival |…Wilmot Proviso
(Encyclopedia) Wilmot Proviso, 1846, amendment to a bill put before the U.S. House of Representatives during the Mexican War; it provided an appropriation of $2 million to enable President Polk to…Nye, Edgar Wilson
(Encyclopedia) Nye, Edgar WilsonNye, Edgar Wilsonnī [key], known as Bill Nye, 1850–96, American humorist and journalist, b. Shirley Mills, Maine. He lived in Wisconsin from 1852 to 1876, when he went…Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act
(Encyclopedia) Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 1909, passed by the U.S. Congress. It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897; the issue had been ignored by President Theodore…geranium
(Encyclopedia) geranium, common name for some members of the Geraniaceae, a family of herbs and small shrubs of temperate and subtropical regions. Their long, beak-shaped fruits give them the popular…Bill Bradley
Outsider vs. insider: Gore's toughest challenger by Beth Rowen This article was posted on August 27, 1999. Bill Bradley has proposed strict hand-gun regulations as well as campaign-finance…Bill Gates
Gates, Bill (William Henry Gates 3d), 1955–, American business executive, b. Seattle, Wash. At the age of 19, Gates founded (1974) the Microsoft Corp., a computer software firm, with Paul…