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Jazz Musician of the Day: Von Freeman
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today!
Earl Lavon Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra's band in the early '50s. During that period, he also played with his musical brothers, drummer Bruz (Eldrige) Freeman and guitarist George Freeman, (with pianists including Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams). Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich says, “...For technical brilliance, musical intellect, harmonic sophistication ...
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Southport Records Announces The Release Of George Freeman's 'Everybody Say Yeah!'
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Joanie Pallatto
In celebration of guitar legend George Freeman’s 95th birthday on April 10, 2022, Southport Records is pleased to announce the release of Everybody Say Yeah!, a new compilation of recordings documenting 26 years of Freeman’s music from our “Real Jazz Made in Chicago" catalog. Eleven of the fourteen songs are Freeman's originals including a new recording of “Perfume.” The Chicago Tribune’s Howard Reich describes the live premiere of the tune at The Green Mill, Chicago in 2019: “Freeman toned everything ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Von Freeman
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today!
Earl Lavon Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra's band in the early '50s. During that period, he also played with his musical brothers, drummer Bruz (Eldrige) Freeman and guitarist George Freeman, (with pianists including Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams). Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich says, “...For technical brilliance, musical intellect, harmonic sophistication ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Von Freeman
Source:
Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today!
Earl Lavon Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra's band in the early '50s. During that period, he also played with his musical brothers, drummer Bruz (Eldrige) Freeman and guitarist George Freeman, (with pianists including Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams). Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich says, “...For technical brilliance, musical intellect, harmonic sophistication ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Von Freeman
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today!
Earl Lavon Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra\'s band in the early \'50s. During that period, he also played with his musical brothers, drummer Bruz (Eldrige) Freeman and guitarist George Freeman, (with pianists including Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams). Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich says, “..... Read more.
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A Jazzman's Tale - A Jazz Story About Charles Freeman Lee, Bebop Trumpeter And Pianist - Author Interview
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Annette Johnson
A Jazzman’s Tale about trumpet player Charles Freeman Lee is a heady mélange of a book that starts off with the unique perspective of a screenplay. Part one delves deeply into the gritty life of a jazz musician whose gigging takes him from the Midwest to New York and New Jersey. It segues into a down-and-dirty, honestly spoken interview of Freeman, then wraps a bow around it with a brief study of his collegiate experiences at Wilberforce University and the ...
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A Jazzman's Tale - A Jazz Story About Charles Freeman Lee, Bebop Trumpeter And Pianist
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Annette Johnson
A Jazzman’s Tale is a screenplay memoir of bebop trumpeter and pianist Charles Freeman Lee. Freeman, as he was better known, was one of the jazzmen who joined the jazz revolution called bebop at Minton's Playhouse and the Paradise Club in Harlem, New York City in the 1950s. Freeman came out of Wilberforce Collegians, an important band in jazz history formed in 1926 at Wilberforce University in Ohio, with famous alumni like Benny Carter, Frank Foster and Ben Webster. He ...
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George Freeman CD Release And Listening Party At Chicago's Lange's On April 26th at 6:00pm
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Lampkin Publicity Service
From SOUTHPORT RECORDS Radio Sponsor WDCB 90.9 FM FRIDAY APRIL 26, 2019 from 6 to 9 PM CD Release and Listening Party at Lange's! GEORGE THE BOMB! “Meet and Greet" George Freeman will be on hand at the bar to sign CDs! Live Music from John Devlin! George The Bomb! drink specials... and Cornbread! Listen to the New SOUTHPORT CD George The Bomb! all night! Chicago guitarist and ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Von Freeman
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Von Freeman's birthday today!
Earl Lavon Freeman jazz tenor saxophonist, originally became known for his work with the Horace Henderson Group during the Late 1940s, and Sun Ra\'s band in the early \'50s. During that period, he also played with his musical brothers, drummer Bruz (Eldrige) Freeman and guitarist George Freeman, (with pianists including Ahmad Jamal, Andrew Hill, and Muhal Richard Abrams). Chicago Tribune critic Howard Reich says, “..... Read more.
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Frank Sinatra and Ernie Freeman
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
As I recall growing up in Manhattan in the mid-1960s, the Beatles were only big in bedrooms. Kids listened to Fab Four 45s on their portable phonographs sitting on the floor next to their beds or heard the group on AM radios under their pillows. Outside the bedroom, in the world I encountered—the living rooms of friends' apartments, barber shops and distant open windows—what I heard most was Frank Sinatra. Albums were still an adult purchase, and even in the ...
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