Clarinetist Buddy De Franco has had a series of astonishing careers. He has been a leading swing era musician, a big band leader, a bebop headliner, an early participant in merging small-group jazz with the American Songbook, a polytonal experimenter, and champion of all forms of the music. Buddy's first 10 years alone are remarkable. In 1943 he recorded with Gene Krupa, then joined Tommy Dorsey and...
Had Charlie Christian not died of tuberculosis at age 25 in 1942, he certainly would have been the first guitarist to record bebop. His single-string attack on Up on Teddy's Hill with Dizzy Gillespie, captured live at Minton's in 1941, was clearly ahead of its time. But the solo was more blues than bop, a jazz form that hadn't been fully formed yet. The first bebop guitar solo recorded in a studio...
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith Let me first say that if you have access to a cable/satellite system that has Ovation, make certain...
My father, Ian Warren, who has died aged 96, enjoyed the fine things in life: fast cars, dashing clothes, good food, fine wine and entertaining friends. He also loved music and rugby. He was one of the earliest jazz fans in Britain, had his own band while still a schoolboy (he played the saxophone and clarinet) and jammed with many of the big names of the day at his parents' house in Kensington, west...
Takis Lykotrafits added 4 songs. 08 Whiskey, Mystics and Men 17 The Fall of Adam George Shearing - Personal Collection - 01 - The Shadow Of Your Smile 13 Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor
As a Beatles cover fanatic I had to get this one (and share the link). This one has a nice setlist: 1. Howard Roberts - A Hard Day's Night 2. Stanley Jordan - Eleanor Rigby 3. Bobby McFerrin - Drive My Car 4. Grant Green - A Day in the Life 5. Lee Morgan - Yesterday 6. George Shearing -The Fool on the Hill 7. Bud Shank - Michelle 8. Richard Elliot - Imagine 9. Mel Torme - She's Leaving Home 10. Roy...
Albert Ayler - Greenich Village (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Amanda Martinez - Amor (Phantom ) Anita O'Day - Sings Winners (Universal ) Anita Spring - Let Them Talk (Phantom ) Art Blakey - Jazz Message (Universal ) Art Sherrod Jr. - Seasons (Pacific Coast Jazz ) Benny Carter - Further Definitions (Universal Japan/Zoom ) Bernie McGann - Solar (Indies Aus/Zoom ) Bill Evans - With Symphony Orchestra (Universal...
Stephane Grappelli...born January 26, 1908 in Paris, France. Stephane was the son of a philosophy teacher of Italian origin. He first worked as a pianist, accompanying silent films in a cinema to help his father pay the bills. Outstanding jazz violinist with a swinging, sweet-toned style, great technique & finesse, very tasteful. He studied as a classical violinist early in his career & turned...
A couple of years ago I co-wrote/ghosted call it what you will, a biography. Unless you were a real afficionado of mid-40s big band/swing/jazz in this country and South Africa, wrestling, hairdressing and cruise ships (especially the sinking of the Lakonia in 1963 for which he was wrongly blamed) you wouldn't have heard of the subject. Nor had I, it was a commission. Mind you, as I interviewed him...
George Shearing A Perfect Match >>>> Download A Perfect Match <<<< artist: George Shearing album: A Perfect Match Tracklist: 1 Trust in Me mp3 2 Ill Take Romance mp3 3 Body and Soul mp3 4 The Best Thing for You mp3 5 I Remember Clifford mp3 6 On the Sunny Side of the Street mp3 7 Lullaby of Birdland mp3 8 The Second Time Around mp3 9 Falling in Love with Love mp3 10 Thats for
Bill Howland announces the release of his third solo piano CD "Seascape" (Graycat Productions). Seascape features a selection of classic jazz recordings including: "All Blues" and "Nardis", (Miles Davis); "Lullaby of Birdland", (George Shearing); "Seascape", (Johnny Mandel); "On Green Dolphin Street", (Kaper, Washington); "My Favorite...
This morning is my last water aerobics class of the summer. At 5 p.m., the pool will close until next Memorial Day. Usually this makes me a little sad, but this year the pool administration has been such a pain in the ass to deal with that I’m happy to see them go. [...]
A BOY NAMED CHARLIE BROWN is classic West Coast cool jazz, undoubtedly some of the most famous music of its kind. After all, who doesn't know the "Charlie Brown Theme?" This soundtrack will bring back memories you may have of the television show, as well as your own recollections from childhood. It's also a good starting place for non-jazz fans to get acquainted with this art form. A BOY...
George Shearing A Perfect Match >>>> Download A Perfect Match <<<< artist: George Shearing album: A Perfect Match Tracklist: 1 Trust in Me mp3 2 Ill Take Romance mp3 3 Body and Soul mp3 4 The Best Thing for You mp3 5 I Remember Clifford mp3 6 On the Sunny Side of the Street mp3 7 Lullaby of Birdland mp3 8 The Second Time Around mp3 9 Falling in Love with Love mp3 10 Thats for Me mp3 11 I Won't Dance...
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