Jazz Articles about Gerald Wilson
About Gerald Wilson
Instrument: Composer / conductor
Article Coverage | Albums | Photos | Similar ArtistsLarge Jazz Ensembles: Gerald Wilson, Sun Ra and Others
by Jerome Wilson
From June of this year, this is a show that features a varied selection of large jazz ensembles that delve into traditional and contemporary styles and sometimes even travel to the outer reaches of this music. Bandleaders and arrangers heard on the program include Gerald Wilson, Christine Jensen, Sun Ra, Bob Crosby, and Maria Schneider. There is also a mini-tribute to the then-recently deceased Astrud Gilberto. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from ...
read moreLeroy Vinnegar: Leroy Vinnegar Walks
by Richard J Salvucci
Chances are good that the name of bassist Leroy Vinnegar does not ring much of a bell among contemporary audiences. He does not have the cachet of a Ray Brown or an Oscar Pettiford, two names that a lot of professional bassists will instantly recognize, along with Scott LaFaro, with whom Vinnegar all too briefly overlapped. It is a bit surprising, although no one ever claimed that Vinnegar was a revolutionary. He was clearly in the ...
read moreRicordiamo Gerald Wilson
by Angelo Leonardi
Era rimasto l'unico grande bandleader della Swing Era, Gerald Wilson, e la sua recente scomparsa (l'8 settembre scorso, a 96 anni) è stata ricordata dai principali media statunitensi con ampi necrologi. Purtroppo in Italia è rimasta quasi inosservata. Superato il picco di popolarità dei primi anni sessanta, con un orchestra che vinse prestigiosi referendum, Wilson ebbe una seconda giovinezza dopo i 75, realizzando vari album e tornando di nuovo sotto i riflettori. A partire da State Street Sweet (Mama Foundation, ...
read moreGerald Wilson Orchestra: Legacy
by AAJ Italy Staff
Sei trombe, sei sax, quattro tromboni più la ritmica. È la formula di un ensemble di all stars, guidato dal magnifico compositore ed arrangiatore Gerald Wilson. Oggi novantatreeene, Wilson rimane il classico “musician's musician," amato da diverse generazioni di colleghi e addetti ai lavori ma poco noto al grande pubblico. Un autentico fuoriclasse che ha già lasciato il segno fin dagli arrangiamenti per Jimmy Lunceford alla fine degli anni '30. Il titolo del CD allude alle tre generazioni della famiglia ...
read moreGerald Wilson: New York, NY, September 30, 2011
by Louis Heckheimer
Gerald Wilson, Anthony Wilson, Eric Otis and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York, NY September 30, 2011 There are jazz players who've had extended careers, and then there's Gerald Wilson. The veteran composer, arranger and big band leader might well be able to claim the longest major recording career in jazz. First recorded in 1939 as a member of Jimmie Lunceford's Orchestra, Gerald Wilson celebrated the release of his most recent CD, ...
read moreGerald Wilson Orchestra: Legacy
by Raul d'Gama Rose
The beauty of listening to an orchestra in fine form is like being treated to an oceanic swell of music that rises and falls, creating great harmonic waves of sound. This further regales the intellect with the swish of brushstrokes as the music changes in color, from sometimes thick, dark dripping shades, evoking brooding emotion to the pale and moist shades of elation in an ever-changing palette. Then there are the timbres that refresh the soul and the rhythms that ...
read moreGerald Wilson Orchestra: Detroit
by AAJ Italy Staff
Alla splendida età di 91 anni l'ultimo dei grandi bandleader del jazz moderno è in piena attività e continua sfornare brillanti lavori. Dopo il successo ottenuto al Chicago Jazz Festival del 1994 Gerald Wilson ha ripreso a incidere con regolarità, attraversando una seconda giovinezza: scrive nuovi brani e nuovi arrangiamenti, reinterpreta con fantasia i vecchi successi e guida con l'energia di un quarantenne differenti formazioni orchestrali. Wilson è uno dei protagonisti del jazz afroamericano di Los Angeles, rimasto a lungo ...
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