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Clive Chaman was born in Trinidad and is a UK - based bass guitarist and session musician . London is the capital and most populous city of England and the ___MASK86___ , as well as the most populous city proper in the ___MASK14___ . Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain , London has been a major settlement for two millennia . It was founded by the Romans , who named it " Londinium ". London ' s ancient core , the City of London , largely retains its medieval boundaries . Since at least the 19th century , " London " has also referred to the metropolis around this core , historically split between Middlesex , Essex , Surrey , Kent , and Hertfordshire , which today largely makes up Greater London , governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly . An electric piano is an electric musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of the piano - style musical keyboard . Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings , metal reeds or wire tines , leading to vibrations which are converted into electrical signals by magnetic pickups , which are then connected to an instrument amplifier and loudspeaker to make a sound ___MASK24___ enough for the performer and audience to hear . Unlike a synthesizer , the electric piano is not an electronic instrument . Instead , it is an electro - mechanical instrument . Some early electric pianos used lengths of wire to produce the tone , like a traditional piano . Smaller electric pianos used short slivers of steel to produce the tone . The earliest electric pianos were invented in the late 1920s ; the 1929 " Neo - Bechstein " electric grand piano was among the first . Probably the earliest stringless model was Lloyd Loar ' s Vivi - Tone Clavier . A few other noteworthy producers of electric pianos include Baldwin Piano and Organ Company and the Wurlitzer Company . Eric Patrick Clapton , ( born 1945 ), is an ___MASK50___ rock and blues guitarist , singer , and songwriter . He is the only three - time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame : once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and Cream . Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of all time . Clapton ranked second in " Rolling Stone " magazine ' s list of the " 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time " and fourth in Gibson ' s " Top 50 Guitarists of All Time ". He was also named number five in " Time " magazine ' s list of " The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players " in 2009 . A sideman is a professional musician who is hired to perform or ___MASK75___ with a group of which he or she is not a regular member . They often tour with solo acts as well as bands and jazz ensembles . Sidemen are generally required to be adaptable to many different styles of music , and so able to fit smoothly into the group in which they are currently playing . Often aspiring musicians start out as sidemen , and then move on to develop their own sound , a name , and fans of their own , or go on to form their own groups . Some examples of this are : Some sidemen become famous for their musical specialties , and become highly sought - after by ___MASK68___ , rock , blues , jazz and country music bands . Examples of some of these include multi - instrumentalists . David Lindley is a multi - instrumentalist who has worked with such diverse musicians as Curtis Mayfield , Dolly Parton , Jackson Browne , and Hani Naser . Lindley used his time as a sideman to discover and master new instruments while on tour around the world , becoming proficient on ethnic instruments rarely seen in Western music genres . He has mastered so many that he admits to losing count , and instead placed a photo gallery of them on his website . David Maxwell " Max " Middleton ( born 4 August 1946 , Amersham , Buckinghamshire , England ) is an ___MASK50___ composer and keyboardist and was originally a docker on the London docks . Middleton is known for his work on the Fender Rhodes Electric piano , the Minimoog synthesiser and his percussive playing style of the Hohner Clavinet . He started on his professional music career by playing keyboards for Jeff Beck and is best known for his work on Beck ' s " Blow by Blow ". Geoffrey Arnold " Jeff " ___MASK99___ ( born 24 June 1944 ) is an ___MASK50___ rock guitarist . He is one of the three noted guitarists to have played with The Yardbirds ( the other two being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page ). ___MASK99___ also formed The Jeff ___MASK99___ Group and ___MASK99___ , Bogert & Appice . The Jazz Age was a period in the 1920s , ending with the Great Depression , in which jazz music and dance styles became popular , mainly in the United States , but also in Britain , ___MASK48___ and elsewhere . Jazz originated in New Orleans as a fusion of African and European music and played a significant part in wider cultural changes in this period , and its influence on ___MASK68___ culture continued long afterwards . The Jazz Age is often referred to in conjunction with the Roaring Twenties . The Clavinet is an electrically amplified clavichord that was manufactured by the Hohner company of Trossingen , ___MASK62___ from 1964 to the early 1980s . Hohner produced seven models over the years , designated I , II , L , C , D6 , E7 and Duo . Its distinctive bright staccato sound has featured most prominently in ___MASK25___ , jazz - ___MASK25___ , rock , and soul songs . Brian Harold May , ( born 19 July 1947 ) is an ___MASK50___ musician , singer , songwriter and astrophysicist best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen . He uses a home - built electric guitar , called the Red Special . His compositions for the band include " We Will Rock You ", " Tie Your Mother Down ", " I Want It All ", " Fat Bottomed Girls ", " Flash ", " Hammer to Fall ", " Save Me ", " Who Wants to Live Forever " and " The Show Must Go On ". Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans , United States , in the late 19th and early 20th centuries . Since the 1920s jazz age , jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression . It emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles , all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation . Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes , call and response vocals , polyrhythms and improvisation . Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression , and in African - American music traditions including blues and ragtime , as well as European military band music . Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States , different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well . Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as " one of America ' s original art forms ". Colin Trevor " Cozy " Powell ( 29 December 1947  5 April 1998 ) was an ___MASK50___ rock drummer , who made his name with many major rock bands and artists like The Jeff Beck Group , Rainbow , Robert Plant , Brian May , Whitesnake , Emerson , Lake & Powell , and Black Sabbath . Robert Tench also known as Bob Tench , Bobby Tench and Bobby Gass is a British vocalist , guitarist , sideman and songwriter . West Africa , also called Western Africa and the West of Africa , is the westernmost subregion of Africa . West Africa has been defined as including 18 countries : Benin , Burkina Faso , the ___MASK45___ nation of Cape Verde , Gambia , Ghana , Guinea , Guinea - Bissau , Ivory Coast , Liberia , Mali , Mauritania , Niger , Nigeria , the ___MASK45___ of Saint Helena , Senegal , Sierra Leone , São Tomé and Príncipe and Togo . Polyrhythm is the simultaneous use of two or more conflicting rhythms , that are not readily perceived as deriving from one another , or as simple manifestations of the same meter . The rhythmic ___MASK33___ may be the basis of an entire piece of music ( cross - rhythm ), or a momentary disruption . Polyrhythms can be distinguished from irrational rhythms , which can occur within the context of a single part ; polyrhythms require at least two rhythms to be played concurrently , one of which is typically an irrational rhythm . Session musicians , also called studio musicians , are professional instrumental performers who can be hired to play at live performances or in recording sessions . Many session musicians specialize in playing rhythm section instruments such as electric guitar , piano , electric bass , double bass , or drum kit . Some session musicians " double " on multiple instruments , such as electric bass and double bass or keyboards and guitar , a skill that enables them to play in a wider range of musical styles . Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble with the singers / soloists that they are accompanying and they often do not achieve individual fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders . However , some backing bands of session musicians have become well known ( e . g ., The Wrecking Crew ). Skills and equipment . The term is applied to performers working in many musical styles , ranging from rock , R & B and soul music to ___MASK26___ . Versatility and excellent technique ( having strong rhythmic sense , playing notes and chords correctly , excellent intonation , etc .) are two of the most important skills of session musicians , as they may have to perform songs , tunes and pieces from a range of different styles in a range of different settings , often with little or no rehearsal time or personal practice time . As well , session musicians have an extensive knowledge of musical styles and idioms . Whitesnake are a rock band formed in England in 1978 by David Coverdale , after his departure from his previous band Deep Purple . Their early material has been compared by critics to the blues rock of Deep Purple , but they slowly began moving toward a more commercially accessible rock style . By the turn of the decade , the band ' s commercial fortunes changed and they released a string of UK top 10 albums , " Ready an ' Willing " ( 1980 ), " Come an ' Get It " ( 1981 ), " Saints & Sinners " ( ___MASK90___ ) and " Slide It In " ( 1984 ), the last of which was their first to chart in the US and is certified 2x platinum . The Minimoog is a monophonic analog synthesizer , invented by Bill Hemsath and Robert Moog . It was released in 1970 by R . A . Moog Inc . ( Moog Music after 1972 ), and production was stopped in 1981 . It was re - designed by Robert Moog in 2002 and released as Minimoog Voyager . In May 2016 , Moog announced a limited - run " pilot production " ___MASK36___ of the Model D , to be launched at Moogfest . It has subsequently gone into full production . Rough and Ready is the third ___MASK55___ by The Jeff Beck Group and the first of two by the second Jeff Beck Group . Released in 1971 , it featured more of a jazz , soul and R & B edge to counter Beck ' s lead guitar . As a songwriter , Beck contributed more pieces to Rough and Ready than he had before , or ever would again . Beck enlisted Bobby Tench as vocalist and it is also the first time keyboardist Max Middleton is heard . Other members of this line up are drummer Cozy Powell and bassist Clive Chaman . James Patrick " Jimmy " Page , ( born 9 January 1944 ) is an ___MASK50___ musician , songwriter , and record producer who achieved international success as the guitarist and founder of the rock band Led Zeppelin . The Jeff ___MASK99___ Group was an ___MASK50___ rock band formed in London in January 1967 by former The Yardbirds guitarist Jeff ___MASK99___ . Their innovative approach to heavy - sounding blues and rhythm and blues was a major influence on popular music . Blow by Blow is the second solo ___MASK55___ by British guitarist Jeff Beck , released on ___MASK79___ in 1975 , and recorded in October 1974 . It was the first under his name alone . An instrumental ___MASK55___ , it peaked at No . 4 on the " Billboard " 200 and has been certified platinum by the RIAA . Robert Anthony Plant , ( born 20 August 1948 ) is an ___MASK50___ musician , singer , and songwriter best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the rock band Led Zeppelin . A powerful and wide vocal range ( particularly evident in his high - pitched vocals ) has given him a successful solo career spanning over 30 years . Plant is regarded as one of the greatest singers in the history of rock and roll ; he has influenced fellow rock singers such as Freddie Mercury , Axl Rose and Chris Cornell . In 2006 , Heavy Metal magazine " Hit Parader " named Plant the " Greatest Metal Vocalist of All Time ". In 2009 , Plant was voted " the greatest voice in rock " in a poll conducted by " Planet Rock ". In 2008 , " Rolling Stone " editors ranked him number 15 on their list of the 100 best singers of all time . In 2011 , " Rolling Stone " readers ranked Plant the greatest of all lead singers . Rhythm and blues , often abbreviated as R & B or RnB , is a genre of popular African - American music that originated in the 1940s . The term was originally used by ___MASK75___ companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans , at a time when " urbane , rocking , jazz based music with a heavy , insistent beat " was becoming more popular . In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s , the bands usually consisted of piano , one or two guitars , bass , drums , saxophone , and sometimes background vocalists . R & B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African - American experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy . Lyrics focus heavily on the themes of triumphs and failures in terms of relationships , freedom , economics , aspirations , and sex . Ragtime  also spelled rag - time or rag time  is a musical genre that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918 . Its cardinal trait is its syncopated , or " ragged ", rhythm . The genre has its origins in African - American communities like St . Louis years before being published as popular sheet music for piano . Ernest Hogan ( 1865  1909 ) was a pioneer of ragtime music and was the first to compose ragtime into sheet music . The composition was called " LA Pas Ma LA " and it was released in 1895 . Hogan has also been credited for coining the term " ragtime ". The term is actually derived from his hometown " Shake Rag " in Bowling Green , Kentucky . Ben Harney , who is also a Kentucky native has often been credited for introducing the music to the mainstream public . His first ragtime composition " You ' ve been a good old wagon but you done broke " helped popularize the musical genre . The composition was published in 1895 but released in 1896 . Ragtime was also a modification of the march made popular by John Philip Sousa , with additional polyrhythms coming from African music . The ragtime composer Scott Joplin (" ca ." 1868  1917 ) became famous through the publication of the " Maple ___MASK70___ Rag " ( 1899 ) and a string of ragtime hits such as " The Entertainer " ( 1902 ), although he was later forgotten by all but a small , dedicated community of ragtime aficionados until the major ragtime revival in the early 1970s . For at least 12 years after its publication , " Maple ___MASK70___ Rag " heavily influenced subsequent ragtime composers with its melody lines , harmonic progressions or metric patterns . Black Sabbath are an ___MASK50___ rock band , formed in Birmingham in 1968 , by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi , bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler , singer Ozzy Osbourne , and drummer Bill Ward . The band have since experienced multiple line - up changes , with guitarist Iommi being the only constant presence in the band through the years . Originally formed as a blues rock band , the group soon adopted the Black Sabbath moniker and began incorporating occult themes with horror - inspired lyrics and tuned - down guitars . Despite an association with these two themes , Black Sabbath also composed songs dealing with social instability , political corruption , the dangers of drug abuse and apocalyptic prophecies of the horrors of war .