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All About Jazz is celebrating Illinois Jacquet's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Illinois JacquetIllinois Jacquet is considered to be one of the most influential tenor saxophonists in the history of jazz music. Born on October 31, 1922, in Broussard, Louisiana, Jean Baptiste Illinois Jacquet... more...
Larry Ham Just You, Just Me Arbors 2008 Louis Mazetier Tributes, Portraits and Other Stories (Arbors Piano Series, Vol. 18) Arbors 2008 Marcos Jimenez I Thought About You Altrisuoni 2008 Bert van den Brink Bert's Bytes Challenge 2007 There never seems to be a shortage of brilliant solo piano releases; here are four by some players you may have never heard before...
For most of his career, tenor saxophonist Bill Easley has worked as a sideman, including sessions for the Stax label. For just his fourth CD as a leader, his band includes pianist Larry Ham, bassist Hassan JJ Shakur and the seasoned drummer Michael Carvin on selections which draw from different eras of jazz...
Jazz90.1 members (i.e., those of us who forked over a donation in the past year and have a MemberCard) can enjoy some great jazz in and on films this weekend in "A Prelude to the Jazz Festival" at the Eastman...
This week saw
the passing of the great Earle Hagen
. His name may not be a household word, but his music is burned into your brain. He was a TV theme writer extraordinaire, whose credits include catchy ditties for The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl, and The Mod Squad to name a few. A bunch of his themes are available at
AM Then FM's
Hagen tribute post.
Hagen is also...
Lester Willis Young (1909 – 1959) was an America jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinetist. He rose to prominence playing with Count Basie during the 1930’s and early 1940’s. He also played with a number of small bands. He is remembered for playing with a cool tone and sophisticated harmonies. He also became a jazz legend, inventing or establishing much of the hipster ethos which came to be associated...
A tenor saxophonist standing foursquare and unreconstructed in the tradition established by Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster and Illinois Jacquet, Scott Hamilton is considered so uncool in some quarters that to admit you enjoy him is to risk being shunned by hip society. Now in his mid-fifties and playing a brand of jazz that was at its peak before he was born, Hamilton hasn't deviated from his style since...
Scott Hamilton & Friends - Across The Tracks - In Stores May 6, 2008 Scott Hamilton has long been known as keeper of the flame for swinging tenor saxophone in the tradition of such icons as Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Gene Ammons, Illinois Jacquet, and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis. He has also been a Concord Jazz recording artist since 1977!—some thirty years, longer than any other Concord artist recorded...
To the Pacific Grove Library and back, accompanied this time by Illinois Jacquet. The library’s a good destination: it has a water fountain, restrooms, and, of course, books. The only problem is that when you check out books—say, four by Dan Festerman—you have to schlep them home. So I took the flat route home rather [...]
Patti Bown died last Friday in a Pennsylvania nursing home, little known not only to the general public but also to many jazz listeners. Despite her talent as a pianist, Miss Bown never became celebrated to the degree that she...
Opening with Ellington's "Take the Coltrane," David "Fathead" Newman's late-1999 Chillin' brims with his band's talents and his own pressed, soulful tone. Newman shares geographical origins with fellow Texan saxophonists like James Clay, Booker Ervin, Illinois Jacquet, and Herschel Evans, with shades of each present in Chillin'. Also present, very frontally in the audio mix, is vibraphonist Bryan...
The Inaugural BET HONORS, ground-breaking documentary series HISTORY
MAKERS, and The Premiere of Two DAVID E. TALBERT STAGE PLAYS Are Featured
During February
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- This February, BET Networks and BET
J will feature a spectacular lineup of programming that highlights the
amazing accomplishments of modern-day history makers, chronicles the
influence and contributions...
This was a rough week (even for the Bears). So for this evening's FNJ, I am going to focus on a specific album that you should pop into your musical device of choice and enjoy: John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman I have mentioned each of these fine gentlemen over the past few years. Hartman has a dark, rich voice. His sense of pitch is superb, his diction outstanding. If you want a mellifluous, honey-toned...
Baritone saxophonist CECIL PAYNE has died at the age of 84. Payne, who is credited as a prime mover in mastering the bebop style of jazz, passed away at a nursing home in Stratford, New Jersey on 27 November (07). The cause of death has not been announced. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Payne made his name [...]
