Results for "Fred Irby III"

Fred Irby III

Howard University Jazz Ensemble 2023: Nefertiti

by Jack Bowers
January 13, 2024

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble was formed almost half a century ago, in 1975, by Fred Irby III, its first--and, so far, only--music director. Every year since 1976, the ensemble has recorded and released an album to showcase its prowess and growth under Irby's baton. This year's entry, Nefertiti, is a tribute to ...

Nefertiti

By Fred Irby III

Label: HUJE
Released: 2023
Track listing: Nefertiti; Hindsight; Send One Your Love; Portrait of a Breath; Heart of Brazil; Green Chimneys; Gymnopedie #1; Pretty Eyes; Remember; How Deep Is Your Love.

HUJE 2022

By Fred Irby III

Label: HUJE
Released: 2022
Track listing: My Women (Mes Hommes); To Wisdom, the Prize; Chan’s Song (Never Said); Holy Land; Funk in Deep Freeze; Romantic Night; Old Folks; Frim-Fram Sauce; A Sassy Samba.

Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2022

by Jack Bowers
December 21, 2022

Recordings by the superb Howard University Jazz Ensemble have been surfacing like clockwork each year since shortly after the orchestra was formed in 1975 by its first (and only) music director, Fred Irby III. Sometimes the albums have overall themes, while others (such as this one) are dedicated to one or more of the university's distinguished ...

HUJE 2018

By Fred Irby III

Label: HUJE
Released: 2019
Track listing: I Concentrate on You; Driftin’; Dear Lord; For the Love of Money; Blue Monk; Sweet Cakes; They Can’t Take That Away from Me; Sweet Georgia Peach; Frankie and Johnny.

Howard University Jazz Ensemble: HUJE 2018

by Jack Bowers
April 19, 2019

One sure sign of spring is the arrival of the latest yearly recording by the superb Howard University Jazz Ensemble, a tradition that dates without pause from the days of vinyl in 1976, one year after the ensemble was formed by its first and only music director, Fred Irby III. For archivists and numbers-crunchers, that's forty-four ...

A Tribute to Geri Allen

By Fred Irby III

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2018
Track listing: Bye Ya; Easy Walker; This I Dig of You; Little B’s Poem; Doodlin’; The JAMF’s Are Coming; Kathelin Grey; A Communion of My Soul; For Real Moments; Give the Band a Hand.

2017 Howard University Jazz Ensemble: A Tribute to Geri Allen

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2018

Pianist / composer Geri Allen, one of the Howard University Jazz Studies program's distinguished alumnae, left us far too soon, succumbing to cancer on June 27, 2017, two weeks after her sixtieth birthday. During a career that spanned more than thirty-five years, Allen performed and recorded with a who's who of renowned jazz artists from Ron ...

Beatrice

By Fred Irby III

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2017
Track listing: Beatrice; Central Park West; On Broadway; A Ra (The Toad); Evidence; Alfie; Nostalgia; Una Muy Bonita.