SqueezeMyLemon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
In 1986 LILLIAN was honoured by her city with the official title of 'Musical Ambassador' which had not been bestowed on a New Orleans musician since the world famous Louis Armstrong. LILLIAN has been compared with the legendary female voices of Jazz music as Bessie Smith, Dinah Washington, Aretha Franklin and Mahalia Jackson and she has had the unique distinction of being one of the only performers...
bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Jon Taylor (ten/flt/harm/vcl), Jim Birkett (gtr), Jeremy McMurray (pno), Andy Champion (bs), Bill Shield (dms). Good, honest, straight down the middle swing from Leeds based Jon Taylor. From the opening "Zing Went The Strings of my Heart" to the penultimate "Cheek to Cheek" Jon Taylor dug in and swung out on tenor, flute. and blues harp. His sax playing relates to the tough tenor...
Cameron K's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Curtis Ousley was born in Fort Worth, Texas in 1934. He learned to play the saxophone and was influenced by alto sax players; Earl Bostic and Louis Jordan; and tenor sax players; Illinois Jacquet, and Arnett Cobb. He started his professional career playing sax with Lionel Hampton before moving to New York City in 1953. Curtis worked under his own name and played tenor sax with Horace Silver’s...
with both hands (Free subscription) | 06/25/2009
Ms. Terry Sullivan is a writer ( Cultural & Arts Editor for Chicago Daily Observer, choral director of St. Cecelia Chorus of St. John Cantius Catholic Church, and a seasoned Jazz singer, who Chicago nightlife pioneer and jazz enthusiast Mr. Nick Novich ( Nick's Place & etc.) likened to ' the sweet voice of Blossom Dearie.' Terry Sullivan Trio will grace the stage of Gallery Cabaret in Bucktown...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 01/26/2009
Between his two performances at the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower Theater on Saturday night, Bill Cosby dropped by long enough to fashion a comically discordant, ham-fisted piano improvisation during the 80th birthday bash for NEA Jazz Master Benny Golson. Standing a few feet away, Golson appeared ...
AM, Then FM (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
We are back at Ray’s Corner, but doing it a little differently tonight. We usually dig through tunes from my dad’s collection, but tonight’s tune — one of mine — popped up on shuffle play and struck me instantly as one he probably digs. As our regular readers know, Ray’s Corner is the apartment with the loud [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
Benny Golson, tenor saxophone stylist and jazz composer of first rank, refuses to rest on his laurels. At almost 80, he's an elder statesman of jazz who could easily cruise and live off the royalties of "I Remember Clifford," "Whisper Not," "Along Came Betty" and others among his 300 compositions. But such a notion is anathema to him...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 03/15/2008
Listening to the music of tenor saxophonist Paul Carr, one recognizes that he has completely imbued the music of the late Joe Henderson, to whom he pays tribute on Musically Yours: Remembering Joe Henderson. Growing up in Texas under the spell of such "Texas Tenors" as Don Wilkerson and Arnett Cobb, Carr developed a big blusey tone...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 09/30/2007
The Hague (Netherlands), Sept 30 - Cees Slinger (jazz pianist) has died yesterday of heart problems at the age of 77. Cees has played with innumerable American and European jazz greats, such as: trumpet players: Dizzy Gillespie, Freddie Hubbard, Clark Terry, Dusko Goykovich and Benny Bailey trombonists: Slide Hampton, Al Grey, Bob Brookmeyer, Curtis Fuller, Bart van Lier, Bert Boeren, and Jimmy Knepper...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/23/2007
It's twilight, the evening before Labor Day, and the weather is ideal. Odean Pope's tenor sax resounds in the verdant hills of the Awbury Arboretum, the site of Germantown's second annual John Coltrane Jazz Festival.
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 06/23/2007
Aisha Duo - Quiet Songs (Obliqsound) Akio Sasaki - Fly By Night (3D) Alexa Weber Morales - Vagabundeo / Wanderings (R.N.L.G. Llc) Alexa Weber Morales - Wanderings (R.N.L.G. ) Alligator Bayou Club - Live Au Comptoir Du Jazz (Black & Bl ) Ambrose & His Orchestra - Ambrose & His Girls (Pulse) Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (P-Vine) Andy Milne - Scenarios (HBD ) Andy Milne & Gregoire...
Do the Math (Free subscription) | 05/17/2007
Dewey Redman died last year. [Wikipedia.] At that time, we wrote an obituary. Today is his birthday. --- One of the less satisfactory aspects of the art form known as jazz is how some of its greatest exponents are overlooked....
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