Results for "Shelley Carrol"

Shelley Carrol

James Clay: Texas Tenor, Second Generation

by David Perrine
August 13, 2015

The term “Texas tenor" was originally coined to describe the sound and style of such swing era players as Herschel Evans, Illinois Jacquet, Buddy Tate, Budd Johnson, Arnett Cobb and others, and has subsequently been applied to second generation players from Texas that included James Clay, David “Fathead" Newman and Marchel Ivery. What these players had ...

Westchester Jazz Orchestra / Sandvika Storband / Band of Bones

by Jack Bowers
November 13, 2011

Westchester Jazz OrchestraMaiden Voyage Suite WJO2010 The heavy-hitting Westchester Jazz Orchestra, one of whose ambitions under artistic director Mike Holober is to broaden its musical horizons, devotes its second album to renovating for a sixteen-member ensemble the music of pianist Herbie Hancock's classic recording Maiden Voyage (Blue Note, ...

Shelley Carrol: A Distant Star In View

by Michael L. Nelson
March 22, 2003

On this night, she requested that Shelley play her favorite tune that he plays. Amongst the reverberated shouts of 'yeah', she leans over to a companion to remark, 'that's so sexy'! Carrol plays in sub tones and drains every bit of emotion out of the horn as he whispers 'My Funny Valentine'. As the music plays ...