July 8th, 2013
Jazz Tracks
June 14th, 2012
Louis Armstrong – Basin Street Blues – 1964
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I think the personell in the video is as follows:
Armstrong, Louis (Trumpet, Vocal)
Moore, Russell “Big Chief” (Trombone)
Darensbourg, Joe (Clarinet)
Kyle, Billy (Piano)
Shaw, Arvell (Bass)
Barcelona, Danny (Drums)
Louis Armstrong(August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971),[2] nicknamed Satchmo or Pops, was an American trumpeter and singer from , .
April 4th, 2012
Pat Metheny & Joshua Redman “Wish” Quartet – Turnaround (Live by The Sea 1997)
Life and career
Redman was born in to jazz saxophonist and dancer Renee Shedroff. His father was and his mother was Jewish. He was exposed to many kinds of music at the Center for World Music in Berkeley, where his mother studied South Indian dance. Some of his earliest lessons in music and improvisation were on recorder with player . He was exposed at an early age to a variety of musics (jazz, classical, rock, soul, Indian, Indonesian, Middle-Eastern, African) and instruments (recorder, piano, guitar, gatham, gamelan), and began playing clarinet at age nine before switching to what became his primary instrument, the tenor saxophone, one year later.
February 12th, 2012
Thomas “Fats” Waller bio and Video “Your Feet’s Too Big”
Thomas “Fats” Waller was so universally loved, even the young Beatles auditioned with Decca Records by recording Fat’s Waller tune, “Your Feet’s Too Big”
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Waller’s touch varied, and he was a master of dynamics and tension and release. He played with many performers, from (on Victor 21298-A) and to Erskine Tate to , but his greatest success came with his own five- or six-piece combo, “Fats Waller and his Rhythm”.
His playing once put him at risk of injury. Waller was kidnapped in Chicago leaving a performance in 1926. Four men bundled him into a car and took him to the Hawthorne Inn, owned by gangster . Fats was ordered inside the building, and found a party in full swing. Gun to his back, he was pushed towards a piano, and told to play. A terrified Waller realized he was the “surprise guest” at Al Capone’s birthday party, and took comfort that the gangsters didn’t intend to kill him. According to rumor, Waller played for three days. When he left the Hawthorne Inn, he was very drunk, extremely tired, and had earned thousands of dollars in cash from Capone and other party-goers as tips.
January 22nd, 2012
Don Redman & His Orchestra with Red & Struggie (1934)
Don Redman:
originator of the Big Band Swing sound
Donald Matthew Redman (July 29, 1900 – November 30, 1964) was an American musician, , bandleader and composer.
Redman was announced as a member of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame on May 6, 2009.
Redman was born in . His father was a music teacher, his mother was a singer. Don began playing the trumpet at the age of 3, joined his first band at 6 and by age 12 he was proficient on all wind instruments ranging from trumpet to oboe as well as piano. He studied at Storer’s College [He was the first African American to have a bachelors degree in music and played 28 instruments] in Harper’s Ferry and at the , then joined
January 7th, 2012
Sonny Rollins bio and Video playing “Oleo”
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Theodore Walter “Sonny” Rollins (born September 7, 1930 in ) is a -winning tenor . Rollins is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazzmusicians. A number of his compositions, including ““, ““, ““, and ““, have become .
Early Life and Career
January 2nd, 2012
Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra play Cherokee
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Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an , composer, and .
His major recordings were “Skyliner”, ““, “The Wrong Idea”, “Scotch and Soda”, “In a Mizz”, and “Southland Shuffle”.
Barnet attended various boarding schools, both in the New York and Chicago areas. He learned to play piano and saxophone as a child. He often left school to listen to music and to try to gain work as a musician.Charlie Barnet was born in . His parents divorced when he was two, and he was raised by his mother and her grandparents. His grandfather was Charles Frederick Daly, a vice-president for the , banker, and businessman.
Although he began his recording career in October 1933, Charlie Barnet was at the height of his popularity between 1939 and 1941, a period that began with his hit version of ““, written by and arranged by . In 1944, Barnet had another big hit with “Skyliner”. In 1947, he started to switch from to . During his swing period his band included , , , , , , , and Art House, while later versions of the band included , , and . Trumpeter was an arranger in the Charlie Barnet Orchestra before joining in 1940.
–Wikipedia
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December 23rd, 2011
Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross bio and video
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Wikipedia:
The group formed in 1957 and recorded their first album for . The album featured versions of standards and was successful enough that the Count Basie Orchestra collaborated with them on Sing Along With Basie (1959), which was awarded a in 1998.
Beginning in 1959, the trio recorded three LPs with . They recorded a version of Ross’ 1952 song ““, featuring her lyrics set to a melody. Their High Flying won a in 1962. Lambert, Hendricks & Ross were voted Best Vocal Group in the Readers Poll from 1959 to 1963.
Annie Ross left the group in 1962, replaced by vocalist . The renamed Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan made three live albums before disbanding in 1964. Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan appeared at the 1962 Newport Jazz Festival, and their performance of “Comin’ Home” and “Moanin’” can be seen in ‘s film The 1962 Newport Jazz Festival.
The group was also known as Lambert, Hendricks and Moss when Canadian jazz singer Anne Marie Moss briefly replaced Annie Ross.
Any hopes of a reunion of the original trio ended with Lambert’s death in a road accident in in 1966.
