Regarded by many as dedicated to jazz greats is almost as distinguished as the track record of the man to whom Oris dedicates its latest jazz the greatest jazz pianist of all time, his career and chosen instrument inspired the special design features of this elegant watch. The delicately applied indices take the form of piano keys and sit atop a central dial ring with concentric grooves. This
Grammy® Nominated for Jazz Instrumental Album and Improvised Jazz Solo: A quarter of the age of Jazz, Gerald Clayton stakes his claim in the history and the present of this vital music with the following words, Tradition and innovation can peacefully coexist. In libraries and on drawing-boards around the country this statement might be true, but with Gerald behind the piano this coexistence is...
R.I.P. “The First Knight of British Jazz,” saxophonist/clarinetist/arranger John Dankworth, who died on Saturday at age 82. Dankworth studied at the Royal Academy of Music in the ’40s and formed his first band, the Johnny Dankworth Seven, in 1950. Later that decade, Dankworth formed a big band and married jazz singer Cleo Laine. Along with [...]
Johnny Dankworth, who has died aged 82, was one of the few British musicians who not only were world-class but were recognised as such, taking to the stage on clarinet or sax with the proverbial Who's Who of jazz, from Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock to Gerry Mulligan, Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald.
British jazz star John Dankworth, who worked with legends like Ella Fitzgerald and was married to singer Cleo Laine, has died at the age of 82, the BBC reported Sunday, quoting his agent. Dankworth, a saxophonist and clarinettist, and Laine were one of the best known couples in jazz and had been married for over 50 years. Earlier in his career, Dankworth had worked as musical director for the likes...
LONDON – Sir John Dankworth, the British jazz composer, saxophonist and band leader, has died. He was 82. Jazz singer Dame Cleo Laine — who married Dankworth in 1958 after meeting during an audition for a spot with his band — announced her husband's death before the finale of an anniversary concert at The Stables, the theater they founded together. Monica Ferguson, the theater's chief...
Sir John Dankworth dies at the age of 82. He was the most prominent saxophonist and a leading figure of British jazz who ruled the genre for almost five decades. Sir John Dankworth had been working closely with legends like Nat King Cole and Oscar Peterson. He also composed music for a number of films and [...] Related posts: John Hughes Famous American musical band, Death Cab for Cutie paid a... John...
Continuing down the N'awlins path, we stumble across a man who was sadly lost to us just this year at the age of 78. Mr. Eddie Bo was a singer and pianist who took the funk/jazz world by storm through a number of different names. Like Dorsey, he too went into service after high school, joining the army. Unlike Dorsey, however, Bo studied music after his spell in the army and actually studied classical...
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Toronto – So theres a charity single for Haiti. Lets recall previous charity singles. I find the videos to be pretty funny, lets take a look. Do They Know It’s Christmas Queen, Phil Collins, Duran Duran, Bono (of course), Paul Weller, George Michaels, Sting, David Bowie, Boy George, Paul McCartney, Kool & The Gang The one that started [...] Related posts: Friday Night Dance Party –...
One of the hardest working men in jazz, bassist Christian McBride, leads a big band at the Iridium in New York City for the last episode of season 2 of Jazz it Up! In the first of two feature songs, tenor saxophonist Todd Williams caresses a blues as McBride co-signs on bass and voice; during the second, McBride's uptempo composition "The Shade of the Cedar Tree," the big band lifts the groove...
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The album Electric Music for the Mind and Body by Country Joe and the Fish is probably one of the 10 best albums of genuine 60's West Coast psychedelic rock . And we are talking some pretty heavy company: Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Love, Moby Grape, The Doors, The Byrds, Steppenwolf and on and on. " Not So Sweet Lorraine", this week's featured track...
Count Basie Live in Berlin and Stockholm 1968 Impro Jazz 2009 Every jazz fan, while listening to an album by one of their favorite legends of the genre, occasionally closes their eyes to imagine what it might have been like actually to be there for the recording itself. Due to the fact that jazz performances and recording sessions were in the past so rarely filmed (and because time travel has yet to...
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...
It's Complicated is a 2009 upcoming American romantic comedy feature film written and directed by Nancy Meyers, starring Meryl Streep , Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin . Filming had commenced in New York City as early as April 2009, and completed in August 2009. Universal Pictures announced that It's Complicated will be released on December 25, 2009. Lyrics soundtrack suite: judy blue eyes (crosby stills
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