Collectively dubbed electronica, techno and its subsequent offshoots have remained primarily underground in the States, but their stealthy influence can be heard all over mainstream radio today. Occasionally eccentric but still blessed with an amazing voice, he is now the Rev. Al Green at a Pentecostal church in Memphis. Tyree Guyton, 1955- Tyree Guyton's Heidelberg Project is rough, raucous and, to some people, little more than junk. By the time Detroit native Tommy Flanagan left Ella Fitzgerald's band in 1978 to form his own trio, he had established himself as a leading jazz pianist. But in recent decades, his musicianship has deepened.
Nobody plays with more finesse, marrying grace and guts, swing and sagacity, wit and warmth.
His touch is like satin, and his book is legendary. Flanagan doesn't know every tune, just the best ones. That broadly popular family comedy series debuted in 1953 and ran for nine seasons on ABC and then CBS, making the onetime nightclub entertainer and comic a beloved household name. He was accused of being a populist, but sculptor Marshall Fredericks reveled in it, creating art that people gladly accepted as part of their lives. Owosso native James Oliver Curwood, the Jack London of Michigan, was a prolific and wildly successful outdoor adventure novelist.