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Ira Sullivan: Modern Music From Chicago

Ira Sullivan: Modern Music From Chicago

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Ira Sullivan's first album as a sideman was on Red Rodney's Modern Music From Chicago. Recorded in June 1955 for the Fantasy label, the album featured Red Rodney (tp,vcl), Ira Sullivan (tp,ts,as), Norman Simmons (p), Victor Sproles (b) and Roy Haynes (d). At the time Rodney was appearing at Chicago's Bee-Hive Club along with the musicians on this record date. It's a bebop session, and what all of these tigers have in common is that they all had played with ...

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Ira Sullivan: Blue Stroll

Ira Sullivan: Blue Stroll

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Ira Sullivan, a trumpeter and saxophonist who played in Chicago in the 1950s and Miami in the 1960s and beyond, recording largely with Red Rodney and Lin Halliday, died September 21, 2020. He was 89. Among his finest albums as a leader was Blue Stroll. Recorded for Chicago's Delmark label in July 1959, Blue Stroll featured Sullivan (tp-1,as-2,ts-3,bar-4,peck hrn-5), Johnny Griffin (as-6,ts-7,bar-8), Jodie Christian (p), Victor Sproles (b) and Wilbur Campbell (d). The tracks are Campbell's Wilbur's Tune, My Old ...

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Ed Sullivan: Jazz and Pop

Ed Sullivan: Jazz and Pop

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Yesterday I posted a new YouTube video clip of Carmen McRae on The Ed Sullivan Show. Today, here are a nine more recent jazz and pop additions to the Sullivan YouTube channel: Here's Nancy Wilson singing Face It, Girl It's Over in 1968 Nancy told me when I interviewed her that she was pregnant when she sang this song on Ed Sullivan and had this dress specially made. As with all Nancy Wilson clips, watch how she arches her mouth... ...

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Maxine Sullivan in 10 Clips

Maxine Sullivan in 10 Clips

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

The female jazz vocal starts with Maxine Sullivan. No knock on Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday or other great vocalists of the 1930s and '40s, but they were really show-time swing singers at the time. Sullivan was first to bring a conversational intimacy to the jazz vocal that was better suited to small rooms than theater stages. She began her singing career in the mid-1930s and her first recordings were in June 1937, with Claude Thornhill. Two months later, she had ...

Career

What’s Working in Indie Music Today: Lessons In Success from New Artist Model Member Mike Sullivan

What’s Working in Indie Music Today: Lessons In Success from New Artist Model Member Mike Sullivan

Source: HypeBot

One of the best ways to get new strategies and ideas for your music career is to look at what other musicians are doing. So Dave Kusek and Lindsey McGrath of the New Artist Model are putting together a series of case studies from talented and successful musicians who are pushing the envelope in the world of indie music.  The first installment is musician Mike Sullivan. By Dave Kusek and Lindsay McGrath of the New Artist Model: Turn your passion for music ...

Award / Grant

Sullivan Fortner

Sullivan Fortner

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

This may come a tad late as news but not too late—I trust—for enjoyment. Last spring, Sullivan Fortner won the Cole Porter Fellow In Jazz award of the American Pianists Association. Fortner is a 28-year-old New Orleanian who attracted favorable notice as the pianist in trumpeter Roy Hargrove’s quintet and for his work with other jazz artists including Christian Scott and Stefon Harris. The award and its $100,000 prize came in competition with four other rising pianists, Christian Sands, Zach ...

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Legendary Multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan Pays Homage To Former Bandmate And Trumpet Great Red Rodney

Legendary Multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan Pays Homage To Former Bandmate And Trumpet Great Red Rodney

Source: Decibel

New York, NY – Legendary multi-instrumentalist Ira Sullivan will make a rare appearance next month (April 22-23) at New York’s Zinc Bar (82 West 3rd Street) to celebrate the life of the late jazz trumpet great Red Rodney. Sullivan, who turns 84 in May, was a longtime colleague of Red's since the early 50s and co-led the Red Rodney/Ira Sullivan Quintet during the 80s recording a handful of critically acclaimed records while touring extensively throughout the US and abroad. Beside ...

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"Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings" By Steve Sullivan

"Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings" By Steve Sullivan

Source: Steve Sullivan

From John Philip Sousa to Green Day, from Scott Joplin to Kanye West, from Stephen Foster to Coldplay, The Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings covers the vast scope of its subject with virtually unprecedented breadth and depth. Approximately 1,000 key song recordings from 1889 to the present are explored in full, unveiling the stories behind the songs, the recordings, the performers, and the songwriters. Beginning the journey in the era of Victorian parlor balladry, brass bands, and ragtime with ...

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Chicago Vocalist Rebecca Sullivan Debuts With "This Way, This Time," June 12

Chicago Vocalist Rebecca Sullivan Debuts With "This Way, This Time," June 12

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity

Rebecca Sullivan came into her own as a jazz vocalist in Chicago, where she’s been based since 2006 and where she’s frequently gigged with guitarist Mike Allemana. Their compelling musical chemistry is the main event on Sullivan’s forthcoming debut recording, This Way, This Time, a duo session that will be released on Rhyme or Reason Records on June 12. “Rebecca has a lovely, liquid instrument, often evocative of Billie Holiday yet completely personal and unpretentious,” says saxophonist Geof Bradfield, who ...

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Easy Over, Sullivan Hall, NYC, 5/13

Source: Cory Ziskind

By Erica Block, Jambands.com It feels awfully good when a band reaffirms your faith in the jam gods and does justice to the genre—especially nowadays, when it can seem like local jazz-funk-rock bands are a dime a dozen. On May 13th, Easy Over had the Friday night crowd at Sullivan Hall feeling exactly this way. Opening for Wyllys & The New York Hustler Ensemble, featuring Jennifer Hartswick & Natalie Cressman (Trey Anastasio Band) , Zac Lasher (U-Melt) & Chris Michetti ...

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