Results for "Harold Ashby"

Harold Ashby

Born: March 27, 1925

Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Rotterdam 1969

by Jack Bowers
October 11, 2016

Here's a succulent and long-hidden treat for Duke Ellington aficionados: a wide-ranging and reasonably well-recorded concert performance by the Ellington orchestra from 1969 at the Do Doelen Concert Hall in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Many of Ellington's tried-and-true favorites are here, along with a number of lesser-known themes such as tenor Paul Gonsalves' feature, “Up Jump"; “Come ...

Duke Ellington: My People - The Complete Show and The Treasury Shows, Volume 16

by Chris Mosey
September 21, 2012

Duke Ellington stood aloof from the Civil Rights movement. As a self proclaimed patriot he was extremely uneasy about the street protests and civil disobedience sweeping America the 1960s. He didn't participate in Martin Luther King's 1963 Great March on Washington. He would deal with the issue his way, he said, and went ...

Duke Ellington Film

Featuring the music of Harold Ashby
Duration: 1:16
March 21, 2011

Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection

by AAJ Staff
December 7, 2010

Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...

Tenor Legacy

By Benny Golson

Label: Arkadia Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Lester Leaps In (for Lester Young); Body and Soul (for Coleman Hawkins); St. Thomas (for Sonny Rollins); Cry Me a River (for Dexter Gordon); My Favorite Things (for John Coltrane); Whisper Not (for Benny Golson); The Girl from Ipanema (for Stan Getz); My Old Flame (for Zoot Sims); Lover Come Back to Me (for Ben Webster); In Memory Of (for Don Byas).

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

By Harold Ashby

Label: Timeless
Released: 1992

The Viking

By Harold Ashby

Label: Timeless
Released: 1989

Tasty/Lullaby For Ben

By Harold Ashby

Label: Timeless
Released: 1977