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Simon Jay Harper
Composer and singer, also writer, grew up listening to Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Louis Armstrong and various classical music, discovered rock and vocal music at 15, began writing music after listening to The Beatles. Studied orchestration and composition at UCLA, also a writer of music history. Favorite singers: Frank Sinatra, Lennon, Elvis Presley, Bobby Bland, Robert Johnson, Paul McCartney, Johnny Hodges's sax, Charlie Parker's sax Favorite writers: Robert Johnson, Michel Legrand, Duke Ellington, Borodin, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner (Meistersingers and Tristan), Stravinsky, Hindemith, Fats Waller, Charlie Parker, the new music fusing jazz, rock and classical music. Also plays electric guitar (Stratocaster), and acoustic guitars including twelve string.
Darius Jones: From Johnny Hodges To Noise Jazz
by AAJ Staff
Alto saxophonist Darius Jones--who won most critics' nomination for the best jazz newcomer album of 2009 for Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009)--is a great fan of Johnny Hodges. He says that the lyrical Duke Ellington altoist is his hero, and this is pleasantly noticeable at the beginning of Man'ish Boy. It ...
"Man'ish Boy" Saxophonist Darius Jones Interviewed at All About Jazz
Alto saxophonist Darius Joneswho won most critics' nomination for the best jazz newcomer album of 2009 for Man'ish Boy (A Raw And Beautiful Thing) (AUM Fidelity, 2009)is a great fan of Johnny Hodges. He says that the lyrical Duke Ellington altoist is his hero, and this is pleasantly noticeable at the beginning of Man'ish Boy. It ...
From The Download Den: Martha Tilton "And The Angels Sing"
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Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
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Bill Frisell At The Stone
by AAJ Staff
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The National Jazz Museum In Harlem
by AAJ Staff
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