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Maxine Gordon on Dexter Gordon
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Dexter Gordon was a remarkable tenor saxophonist. A towering, dashing figure with an embracing smile and a wry sense of humor, Gordon was a powerful player whose bebop approach was equally assertive and romantic. [Photo above of Maxine Gordon by Fiona Ross, courtesy of Maxine Gordon] A bebop star in Los Angeles in the late 1940s, Gordon didn't tour or record for much of the 1950s due to incarceration for heroin use. Nevertheless, Gordon made up for lost time in ...
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Maxine Sullivan in 10 Clips
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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 ...
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Maxine Gordon Reminisces About Dexter Gordon and More at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
More than just the wife, manager and posthumous advocate for the late tenor giant Dexter Gordon, Maxine Gordon is a scholar, researcher, and archivist who has done pioneering research on jazz in Harlem in the 1930s and the history of jazz in the Bronx, NY. A lifelong jazz fan who is currently working on a new book that will profile three important women in jazz—trombonist Melba Liston, organist Shirley Scott, and singer Maxine Sullivan, Maxine Gordon is a force in ...
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Maxine Sullivan's 100th Birthday Celebration on Riverwalk Jazz This Week
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Don Mopsick
This week on Riverwalk Jazz, Arbors recording artists Rebecca Kilgore and John Sheridan join The Jim Cullum Jazz Band for a program devoted to Maxine Sullivan's 100th birthday called Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm. Over a five decade career, Maxine Sullivan brought a light, subtle approach to jazz vocals that paved the way for the “Cool School" of singing. Sullivan first came to New York in the summer of 1937. She said, “I auditioned every gin mill from 155th Street to ...
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Wenonah Brooks, Jazz Vocalist and Jared Gold, B-3 Organist at Maxine's2 6-9pm Wed 21 Sep 05
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All About Jazz
Maxine Nightingale sings Jazz at the Cafe Cordiale in Sherman Oaks, California on Thursday October 28, 2004
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All About Jazz
Grammy Nominated Pop/Soul and Jazz performing and recording artist MAXINE NIGHTINGALE will be coming to the Cafe Cordiale - 14015 Ventura Boulevard- Sherman Oaks- California- USA on Thursday October 28, 2004. The show starts 9.30 pm. Maxine will be performing selections from her new forthcoming CD “ L I F E “. For more information about Maxine please check out her website www.maxinenightingale.biz For more information on the Cafe Cordiale, check out their website www.cafecordiale.com For detailed information and/or BOOKINGS ...
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Maxine Nightingale live at the Cafe Cordiale in Sherman Oaks, CA on June 24, 2004
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All About Jazz
A Jazzy Evening with Maxine Nightingale at the Catalina Bar & Grill, Thursday, May 13
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All About Jazz
