Results for "Maurice Hines"

Maurice Hines

3Divas: 3Divas

by Geannine Reid
June 1, 2017

Sherrie Maricle is the leader and drummer for The DIVA Jazz Orchestra, FIVE PLAY, and The DIVA Jazz Trio, co-leader of the 3Divas, percussionist with The New York Pops, and a published composer/arranger. The other 2Ds of the 3Divas are pianist Jackie Warren and bassist Amy Shook. Warren is known for her abilities in jazz, Latin ...

Band Ambition: Sherrie Maricle and Diva

by Richard J Salvucci
March 13, 2015

In the iconic photo A Great Day in Harlem (1958), bandleader and pianist Count Basie has taken a seat on the curb. Eleven neighborhood kids and one ringer, Taft Jordan Jr, are seated single file to Basie's right. Marian McPartland and Mary Lou Williams stand behind the kids, chatting. They are bookended, appropriately, by Oscar Pettiford ...

Big Band Jazz: It's Not Just for Guys Anymore

by Jack Bowers
August 4, 2011

Back in the early '90s, Stanley Kay, one-time back-up drummer for the incomparable Buddy Rich, later a manager of such artists as Maurice Hines, Michelle Lee and Paul Burke and the entertainment director for the New York Yankees, had a good idea: the time had come, he reasoned, to assemble an all-woman big band that would ...

Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Rekindles Cuban Fire Suite

by Jack Bowers
July 4, 2010

On June 5, 2010, with the temperature in Albuquerque hovering around 100 degrees, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra couldn't have wished for a better time to perform Johnny Richards' incendiary Cuban Fire suite, first recorded in 1956 by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. The sold-out concert was the opening event in the city's annual Jazz and Blues Under ...

I've Never Been in Love Before

By Maurice Hines

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: I've Never Been in Love Before*; Taking a Chance on Love; Exactly Like You; This Heart of Mine; Sweet Lorraine; My Romance; But Beautiful; Imagination; It Had to Be You*; Body and Soul; You've Changed; How Insensitive*; Medley: A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes; Never Never Land

Maurice Hines: I've Never Been in Love Before

by Dave Nathan
May 1, 2001

Maurice Hines is the well-known dancer and choreographer having worked in such Great White Way musicals as Eubie. This album is his debut as a singer, using only his first name. Maurice has a light voice, somewhere in between Nat King Cole and Jimmy Scott with a nod toward Leon Thomas thrown in from time to ...