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Brian Rolland
Brian Rolland (April 16, 1954 - April 14, 2018) was an American guitarist, composer, and songwriter raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, Massachusetts. His instrumental sound is characterized by a mix of Latin and North American guitar styles. Background Starting out on the piano and clarinet as a child, switching to folk guitar at age 12, and continuing as a largely self-taught blues and rock music, rock player, Rolland moved into formal training in jazz through summer programs and lessons at New England Conservatory and Berklee School of Music while attending Cambridge Rindge and Latin high school. His first live performance was at age 14 with a rock band at the Club Casablanca in Harvard Square. Youthful influences included frequenting the Club 47 and The Boston Tea Party (concert venue), Boston Tea Party in the later 1960s, and an appearance at the 1976 Montreux Jazz Festival backing jazz trumpeter Clark Terry in a big band setting. His father was an amateur piano ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge ( ) is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. As part of the Boston metropolitan area, the cities population of the 2020 U.S. census was 118,403, making it the fourth most populous city in the state, behind Boston, Worcester, and Springfield. It is one of two de jure county seats of Middlesex County, although the county's executive government was abolished in 1997. Situated directly north of Boston, across the Charles River, it was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, once also an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Lesley University, and Hult International Business School are in Cambridge, as was Radcliffe College before it merged with Harvard. Kendall Square in Cambridge has been called "the most innovative square mile on the planet" owing to the high concentration of successful startups that have emerged in the vicinity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
