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Backgrounder: Frank Wess - Trombones + Flute (1956)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In July 1956, during a brief summer break by the Count Basie band, the trombone section went into Rudy Van Gelder's Hackensack, N.J., studio and, with the addition of trombonist Jimmy Cleveland, recorded five pieces. Two were composed by Basie tenor saxophonist Frank Foster, who arranged by all five. What made the session for Savoy special was that Basie-ite Frank Wess was the lead player on flute on four of the tracks. Added was a superb four-man rhythm section that ...
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Backgrounder: Frank Wess's 'Trombones & Flute'
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Frank Wess was a powerhouse big-band tenor saxophonist and flutist and a lyrical player in small groups, especially those he led. One of my favorite ensemble albums by Wess is Trombones & Flute, which he recorded for Savoy in July 1956. The personnel featured a chunk of Count Basie's band, for which Wess played at the time. The lineup included Jimmy Cleveland, Henry Coker, Benny Powell and Bill Hughes (tb), Frank Wess (fl), Ronnell Bright (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie ...
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Tutti's Trumpets and Trombones
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Brass heads, listen up. If you aren't familiar with the two albums I came across yesterday, you'll be thanking me by the end of this post. The albums are Tutti's Trumpets (1957) and Tutti's Trombones (1966). Tutti was Salvador “Tutti" Camarata—co-founder of London Records, the American arm of English Decca. He also was co-founder of Disneyland Records. London, of course, cleaned up in the 1960s marketing top-selling European Decca artists on the London label in America, from Mantovani to the ...
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Bud Shank and Three Trombones
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Bud Shank was among the most recorded West Coast jazz reed players. He was on more than 600 known sessions, according to Tom Lord's Jazz Discography. Heard most often on alto saxophone, Bud began his recording career in 1947 with Ike Carpenter and then with Charlie Barnet in 1948 before joining Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra in 1950. He left the band with Shorty Rogers and others in 1952 to pioneer a more swinging West Coast jazz style in small ensembles, ...
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Frank Wess: Trombones & Flute
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my favorite small-group jazz albums of the mid-1950s is Frank Wess's Trombones & Flute. The album, recorded for Savoy in July 1956, paired Wess on flute with four trombonists—Jimmy Cleveland, Henry Coker, Benny Powell and Bill Hughes. They were backed by Ronnell Bright (p), Freddie Green (g), Eddie Jones (b) and Kenny Clarke (d). The gorgeous arrangements were by Frank Foster. At the time, Wess, Foster, Coker, Powell, Hughes, Green and Jones were all members of Count Basie's ...
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If Not 76 Trombones, Everything else a One-Man Band Can Handle
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Michael Ricci
Imagine a player piano. Now imagine you're a guitarist and composer named Pat Metheny and that you have a kind of player piano that can both play what you've composed for it.
Not through perforated paper but digital technology and also replicate whatever you're playing on the guitar. You can also play a long phrase on the guitar and command the piano to loop the phrase, so that you can play against the loop. Now for the big leap. There's ...
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Bud Shank and Valve Trombones
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1954 and 1955, Bud Shank recorded two 10-inch albums for the Pacific Jazz label that teamed him with valve trombones. The LPs were Bud Shank and Three Trombones and Bud Shank and Bob Brookmeyer. These recordings remain potent early examples of West Coast optimism, technical prowess and a sound that still raises hairs. What you hear in these artists is a hunger and excitement for the new music as well as swinging personal ambition. After all, the West Coast ...
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Shaynee Rainbolt Sings Russ Garcia - The Four Trombones Ride Again in NYC
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Carolyn McClair Public Relations
CHARMED LIFE: SHAYNEE RAINBOLT SINGS RUSSELL GARCIA
Shaynee Rainbolt and her Four Trombone Band
Barry Levitt (piano) Tom Hubbard (bass) Ray Marchica (drums) and the FOUR TROMBONES: John Allred, Nate Mayland, Isrea Buttler & George Flynn
SATURDAY APRIL 4TH 5PM THURSDAY MAY 7TH 9:45PM Cover $20 (MENTION ALL ABOUT JAZZ WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR RESERVATION AND GET 1/2 OFF!) 2 Drink Min.
Metropolitan Room 34 West ...
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The Trombones Inc.: 1958
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you're as nuts for trombone as I am, The Trombones Inc. is an absolute dream album. Recorded in New York and Los Angeles over several sessions in December 1958, the concept was staggeringly ambitious: Twenty-seven leading trombonists of the day were assembled on two coasts. And like many record company gimmicks back in the 1950s, this album was packaged as a shoot out between East Coast and West Coast bonemen--10 on each coast, with 7 more substituting on different ...
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Craig Harris' God's Trombones Thu-Sat Dec 13-16 8PM at the Apollo
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Acclaimed jazz trombonist Craig S. Harris has performed with a veritable Who's Who of jazz' most important figures, including Sun Ra, Lester Bowie, Don Pullen, Abdullah Ibrahim, and even Lena Horne, among many others. With God's Trombones, Harris has realized a longstanding dream - to create a music- theatre work that reinterprets and reinvigorates James Weldon Johnson's 1927 classic collection of poems based on the inspirational sermons of Negro preachers. Johnson was one of the giants of African-American cultural history ...
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