Results for "Herb Hall"

Herb Hall

Born: March 28, 1907

Wild Bill Davison: The Jazz Giants

by Hrayr Attarian
October 10, 2015

Cornetist Wild Bill Davison had a fiery, extroverted approach to playing that originated in the 1920s Chicago and mirrored his hard living. By 1968, when he recorded The Jazz Giants for the Canadian label Sackville, he had mellowed and his tone had become more melodic. A democratic leader, Davison allows the five, underrated practitioners of “prebop ...

Salute To San Antonio Bandleader Don Albert This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

October 11, 2012

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—augmented by five horn players—takes the stage of the Jo Long Theatre at San Antonio’s Carver Cultural Center to re-create the sounds of the territory bands of the '30s and San Antonio swing. Much of this music has not been heard in 70 years or more. In ...

John Burnett Swing Orchestra: West Of State Street / East Of Harlem

by Nic Jones
March 22, 2009

Accolades from the likes of Buddy De Franco and Louie Bellson might lend this band additional legitimacy as keeper of the flame, but its sheer love for the music, as manifested in countless ways here, is more than sufficient in itself. In times like these it takes love as much as anything else to put music ...