Music Gifts

AlbertsGifts.com has wonderful new music gift ideas, that will make any occasion simply rockin’!  AlbertsGifts.com proudly presents to you our new shirts that just came in time for summer!  Why not wear these to your favorite sporting event or bring them out for your favorite concert!  Check out these new designs and get ready to welcome summer in style!

WINGED GUITAR-BLACK

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GUITAR CIRCLE-WHITE

This shirt is not for the faint of heart!  But AlbertsGifts.com wants you to own it anyways.

GUITAR ROW-GRAY

This shirt has it all!  Style, edge, and classic guitars! You simply can’t beat it!

Another notably important Jazz musician has passed away.  Svensson, 44, passed away during a diving accident off Stockholm.  Reports say he was diving with a group of friends, and then suddenly dissappared.  They had found him later injured badly on the sea bed, and was pronounced dead from injuries shortly before midnight on Saturday.

This quote taken from Yahoo’s post explains his impact on the Jazz musical genre.

“Svensson, a genre-defying musician who reached audiences far beyond the traditional jazz crowd, was “the most important figure in jazz in this decade,” said Burkhard Hopper, manager of the Esbjoern Svensson Trio (E.S.T.).

“By all standards he was one of the biggest European acts. He was a jazz musician with pop status,” Hopper told AFP, comparing his influence to that of Miles Davis.”

“Esbjoern Svensson was extremely important for jazz in Sweden, and even abroad,” said Bosse Persson, the head of the Stockholm jazz festival, where E.S.T. had been scheduled to perform in mid-July.

“He virtually revitalised jazz and created new audiences and inspired musicians,” Persson told the Svenska Dagbladet daily.”

Another day of grief in the Jazz industry is sure to be upon us all.  We here at AlbertsGifts.com certainly recognize his attributes to the Jazz industry, and wish everyone who he affected around him the best.

Bo Diddley passed away of heart failure.  He was 79.  I feel like I must write something about it as AlbertsGifts.com deals with musical oriented gifts, and Diddley was certainly a rock icon, who must be mentioned in the shaping of modern rock and other musical genres of today.

Although not as famous as his label mate Chuck Berry, he arrived on the music scene with his musical adaptation Bo Diddley- I’m A Man at the age of 26.  Already present in these recordings was his attitude and his swagger.  Often his musical writings dealt with himself in third person, and desribing himself as “a lover, a gunslinger, a lumberjack, and more.”  As influential to the music industry as he was, Bo Diddley, never broke the top 20, but had 10 R&B hits in his lifetime.

Diddley has also been givin certain credits in his life that have impacted other facets of the music indrusty.  In his song Say Man which was his biggest pop hit, Diddley, and his Maraca player Jerome Green traded insults and bragged about each other.  This was the first known lyrical progression to the larger than life style rap that we have today.  Also, he was known for playing his own custom guitars and designing them to how he see fit.  Which led to newer generation artists making custom guitars and showing off more of creative style.

Bo Diddley certainly will be missed and will always be hailed as an artist that led to advancements in progression with rock music and other genres.   Bo Diddley 1928-2008