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Bill Johnson

Born: September 30, 1912

Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View

by Harvie S
February 25, 2024

Bass Notes: Bass Notes: Jazz In American Culture, A Personal View Chuck Israels 240 Pages ISBN: 1493074849 Backbeat Books 2024 Chuck Israels developed musically in what many would say was an extremely fertile time in Jazz. I'm talking about the 1960s. Of course, his stint with Bill Evans during ...

Fit As A Fiddle: How The Violin Helped Shape Jazz, Part 1

by Peter Rubie
December 23, 2021

Part 1 | Part 2 That was then... Considering jazz is an art form that mostly makes it up as it goes along, it's ironically appropriate that printed records--i.e., data--from the days of its birth are decidedly sparse. We know, at least, that during the 18th and 19th Centuries in New Orleans white plantation ...

Bria Skonberg: Rising Star On Hot Jazz Scene

March 10, 2015

"If Louis Armstrong and Doris Day could somehow be the same person, they'd be Bria Skonberg." —Wall Street Journal Jazz lovers in jny: Oakland and Mill Valley, Calif. Are in for a real treat in late March as Bria Skonberg brings her unique talents to the jny: San Francisco Bay area. She calls her music Hot ...

Bria Skonberg Quartet On SF Bay Area Stages

February 23, 2015

Bria Skonberg Hot NYC Jazz Trumpeter on SF Bay Area Stages OAKLAND/MILL VALLEY, CA: Chanteuse Bria Skonberg has been called the beautiful jazz singer with a golden horn and that’s certainly apropos. “If Louis Armstrong and Doris Day could somehow be the same person, they'd be Bria Skonberg. With her outstandingly ‘Satchelmouthed’ trumpet solos, charismatic singing ...

Swinging On The South Side: The Heartbeat Of Chicago Jazz This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

May 30, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, vocalists Topsy Chapman and Vernel Bagneris, trumpeter Duke Heitger and pianist Dick Hyman join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band—club-hopping on the South Side of Chicago from the “black and tans" of the ’20s to the grand ballrooms of the ’30s. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, ...

Barbary Coast This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

March 21, 2013

This week on Riverwalk Jazz we hear rare recordings of Sid LeProtti playing piano and actor Vernel Bagneris bringing LeProtti’s words to life. The Jim Cullum Jazz Band plays classic tunes that might have been danced to in the night spots of Pacific Street. The program is distributed in the US by Public Radio International, on ...

Tribute To Bass Legend Milt Hinton This Week On Riverwalk Jazz

April 19, 2012

This week, Riverwalk Jazz presents a legacy broadcast featuring the iconic bassist Milt Hinton in a 1991 performance with The Jim Cullum Jazz Band, live at The Landing in San Antoniio. Milt was 81. Milt Hinton used to say, “A person has to have lived to play great jazz…Unless you’ve lived, what could you say on ...

Steve Brown: Atlas Slapped

by Andrew J. Sammut
June 7, 2011

The word bass means bottom. It means support. That's the prime requisite of a bassist, support. Architecturally, it has to be the lowest part of the building, and it has to be strong, or the building will not stand. Musically, it is the lowest human voice. It is the lowest musical voice in the orchestra. It's ...

Face of the Bass: The Atlas of Jazz

May 10, 2011

The great Milt Hinton often said that the bass is the “Atlas of jazz" because its role in the jazz band is to “carry the other instruments on its shoulders." “Bass" is often misspelled as “base" but the meaning is very similar in music, that of “foundation." In early jazz bands, bassists played the bass fiddle, ...