Bang is the kind of musical innovator and bridge-builder who consistently manages to balance progressive thinking with popular appeal.

Said rock goddess Joan Jett: "He was a genius inventor, musical innovator, and a wonderful person.

Born between 1985 and 1988, the groups youthful energy and brilliant virtuosity has put them among America's most talented musical innovators.

She has become one of pop's primary musical innovators by connecting electronic dance music to vocal traditions ranging from folk ballads to torch songs.

Their musical director, and an important musical innovator, was Mario Bauza, Machito's brother-in-law.

Soviet rockers see themselves as poets rather than musical innovators - so what is most original in their work may be least accessible to a Westerner.

Meanwhile, the club's coming-attractions listings magazine, K-Notes, is an only mildly self-serving guide to musical innovators across genres.

This is where the pulse of Cuba's young musical innovators beats the strongest.

It is often forgotten today that Grieg commanded respect as a musical innovator during the early part of this century.

They were less concerned with the impact of his music or with his role as a musical innovator.