Results for "David Matthews"

David Matthews

Born: June 6, 1911

Walter White: BB XL

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 21, 2021

Born in a musical family near Detroit and classically trained at Juilliard, trumpet and flugelhorn player Walter White keeps a hectic schedule as leader of Atlantic Bridge, the Walter White Jazz Quartet, Walter White & Small Medium @ Large, and of the fusion ensemble IFUNU; as a member of the Beige Trio; and as lead trumpet ...

Soul Songs, Mose Songs & COVID Aid for Djibouti

by Chris M. Slawecki
January 9, 2021

Bahama Soul Club Bohemia After Dawn Buyú Records 2020 Soulful original music laced with judicious and striking samples, Bohemia After Dawn serves a textbook example of music that packs an impact larger than the sum of its parts. Written, arranged, produced and performed by Oliver Belz ...

Terry Silverlight: Diamond In The Riff

by Douglas Payne
October 24, 2008

Drummer Terry Silverlight's interesting and varied career dates back to his first session on brother Barry Miles' highly-regarded album White Heat (Mainstream, 1971), when he was only 14. He's since gone on to frequently high-profile gigs with Mel Torme, George Benson, David Matthews, Phil Woods, Tom Jones, Roberta Flack and many others as well as appearances ...

Hey Duke!

By David Matthews

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2002
Track listing: It Don

David Matthews & the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra: Hey Duke!

by Jack Bowers
April 12, 2002

To celebrate properly its tenth anniversary in 1999 the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra and conductor / arranger David Matthews turned to the music of Duke Ellington, the centenary of whose birth was that same year, to produce an album whose aim, in Matthews’ words, was to be “unique while maintaining a clear sense of Ellington’s originals.” As ...

Bach 2000

By David Matthews

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Toccata and Fugue; Air on the G String; Invention No. 4; Kyrie; Minuet (A Lover

David Matthews and the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra: Bach 2000

by Jack Bowers
November 1, 2001

So all these years we thought the “J.S.” in J.S. Bach stood for “Johann Sebastian,” when what it really meant was “Just Swingin’!” We had no idea J.S. was so hip — that is, before David Matthews marked the 250th anniversary of the composer’s death by renovating several of his post–Baroque works for the sixteen–member Manhattan ...

Jazz Budget Line Special Sampler

Label: CTI Records
Released: 1996