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Claude Williamson 1926-2016
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Claude Williamson, a piano mainstay of jazz in California for seven decades, died on July 16 in Los Angeles. He had been in decline since he fell in his home in 2015 and broke a hip. After Williamson moved from Boston to L.A. in 1947, he played with Charlie Barnet’s band for two years and was the featured soloist on the widely popular recording “Claude Reigns.” Barnet named the piece after him. Williamson’s harmonic sophistication and responsive timing made him ...
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Claude Williamson (1926-2016)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Claude Williamson, a West Coast jazz pianist who was deeply influenced by the bebop piano of Bud Powell and was perhaps the last surviving member of the Lighthouse All Stars, often unleashing centipede-like speed on the keyboard along with sinewy improvisational lines, died July 16. He was 89. His son, Marc, said last night that his father never fully recovered from a bad fall in February 2015 and had been in hospice care for about a year. Like many jazz ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Claude Marc Bourget
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Claude Marc Bourget's birthday today! Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising improvisations, with the frays influences of modern jazz and classical, often virtuosos and where resound as in memory the landscape of the music of the 20th century. “An energetic music, extremely dense, as well as uncommon harmonic richness. Autodidact, Bourget displays impressive technical qualities and shows nexhaustible creative inspiration." —Pierre Boulet, LE SOLEIL... Read more. Place our Musician of the Day ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Claude Marc Bourget
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Claude Marc Bourget's birthday today!
Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising improvisations, with the frays influences of modern jazz and classical, often virtuosos and where resound as in memory the landscape of the music of the 20th century. “An energetic music, extremely dense, as well as uncommon harmonic richness. Autodidact, Bourget displays impressive technical qualities and shows nexhaustible creative inspiration." —Pierre Boulet, LE SOLEIL... Read more.
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Claude Thornhill: 1941-42
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
For me, music doesn't spin in a vacuum. As a historian, once I know the date of a recording, a series of mental overlays drop into place—including the period's socio-political events, technological and economic developments, cultural trends, and the country's overall mood. Processing music this way comes in particularly handy when listening to Claude Thornhill's recordings between 1940 and '53, many of which have been overlooked today or written off by big-band and jazz fans. [Pictured above: Claude Thornhill in ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Claude Marc Bourget
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Michael Ricci
All About Jazz is celebrating Claude Marc Bourget's birthday today!
Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising improvisations, with the frays influences of modern jazz and classical, often virtuosos and where resound as in memory the landscape of the music of the 20th century. “An energetic music, extremely dense, as well as uncommon harmonic richness. Autodidact, Bourget displays impressive technical qualities and shows nexhaustible creative inspiration." --Pierre Boulet, LE SOLEIL... Read more.
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Claude Williamson: Kenton Presents
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the very early 1950s, Los Angeles was awash in jazz pianists who could play with ferocious speed and delicate grace. The names that spring to mind include Russ Freeman, Marty Paich, Hampton Hawes, Dodo Marmarosa, Carl Perkins, Pete Jolly, Lorraine Geller, Victor Feldman, Sonny Clark and Jimmy Rowles. But perhaps the most overlooked member of this silky-swinger set is Claude Williamson. Back in 1954 and '55, Williams recorded two perfect trio albums for Capitol when Stan Kenton briefly headed ...
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Jazz Musician of the Day: Claude Marc Bourget
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All About Jazz is celebrating Claude Marc Bourget's birthday today!
Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising improvisations, with the frays influences of modern jazz and classical, often virtuosos and where resound as in memory the landscape of the music of the 20th century. “An energetic music, extremely dense, as well as uncommon harmonic richness. Autodidact, Bourget displays impressive technical qualities and shows nexhaustible creative inspiration." --Pierre Boulet, LE SOLEIL...Claude Marc Bourget gives us with the piano surprising ...
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Claude Marc Bourget's New Release "Musiques de Ballet"
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Claude Marc Bourget MUSIQUES DE BALLET / PIANO After offering us Second Time, Claude Marc Bourget is back with a second solo album, Musiques de Ballet (Ballet Music). Second Time, published under a New-York label in 2008, was quickly noticed by American and Italian Critics. Jazz review, Jazz Times, All About Jazz Italia have praised the work of Bourget. Susan Frances, from Jazz Review, wrote: “Bourget conveys deep emotions in his compositions allowing the notes to speak from ...
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