Biography: Keith Nichols, Keith Tippett, Kahil El'Zabar, Kelley Johnson, Kelly Johnson, Kelsey Grammer, Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, Ken Baker, Ken Baldock, Ken Clark,

Browse Celebrities by Category

Video Clips

Celebrities A-Z

Celebrities - k

Keith Nichols Biography, Photos, Pictures

One of the top British classic jazz musicians of the 1980s and ’90s, Keith Nichols, who also plays trombone and (occasionally) vibes, led his first jazz band while in high school

Keith Tippett Biography, Photos, Pictures

For a time during the 1970’s, there were two “Keiths” who played prominent-though never overlapping-roles in the world of art-rock and progressive rock music

Kahil El'Zabar Biography, Photos, Pictures

Kahil El’Zabar is one of Chicago’s jazz treasures A member of the AACM, music holds no boundaries for El’Zabar, who has not only played alongside a myriad of jazz greats, but was in the bands of Stevie Wonder, Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, and Nina Simone (who he also designed clothes for), as well as recording with rock bands like Sonia Dada and Poi Dog Pondering and heading up the jazz/house outfit the JUBA Collective

Kelley Johnson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Not to be confused with British heavy metal/hard rock guitarist Kelly Johnson (who was a member of the all-female headbanger combo Girlschool back in the late-’70s and early-’80s), the Kelley Johnson profiled in this bio is an American jazz vocalist who has been active in Seattle since the late ’80s

Kelly Johnson Biography, Photos, Pictures

The 1998 release of Make Someone Happy by the Chartmaker label was the recording debut of a bright new jazz singer, Kelly Johnson On the set, Johnson displays her abilities to swing, scat and uplift ballads

Kelsey Grammer Biography, Photos, Pictures

Actor Kelsey Grammer is, of course, synonymous with the character of psychologist Dr Frasier Crane, the pompous, effete snob he portrayed on the TV sitcom Cheers and later on its wildly successful spin-off Frasier

Ken "Snakehips" Johnson Biography, Photos, Pictures

Bandleader Ken “Snakehips” Johnson was the premier star of Britain’s black swing movement of the World War II era Born Kenrick Reginald Hymans Johnson in Georgetown, British Guiana, on September 10, 1914, he attended Queens College until the age of 15, when his wealthy parents sent him to study at the William Borlase School in Buckinghamshire

Tenor vocalist Kenny Baker, sometimes credited as the more formal Kenneth Baker, had a lengthy career on Broadway and in television and radio, including associations with performers such as Judy Garland, Jack Benny, and Fred Allen

Ken Baldock, sometimes credited as the chummier Kenny Baldock and also apt to be mutated into Kenny Blalock or variations thereof, had a background as a child in both piano and bass

Not to be confused with country/bluegrass artist Ken Clark or the late bebop drummer Kenny Clarke, the Ken Clark profiled in this bio is a jazz-oriented organist who is also comfortable playing R&B, funk and blues

Browse by Genre