Results for "Benny Goodman"

Terry Gibbs: Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959

by Richard J Salvucci
October 13, 2024

Someone once asked Terry Gibbs how it was possible that if you took his side men, or some subset of them, and put them together in another band, they never quite sounded as good. Gibbs replied, modestly, that it was all in the arrangers. He got the best arrangers, like Bill Holman, Marty Paich and Med ...

Benny Goodman: The King of Swing

by Monk Rowe
September 28, 2024

A Conversation with Benny Golson

by AAJ Staff
December 24, 2000

One of the most successful talents on the Arkadia Jazz label is without a doubt the phenomenal Benny Golson. The tenor saxophonist, composer, lyricist, arranger, educator and jazz icon, holds the distinction of being the only living jazz legend to have written eight standards for jazz repertoire: “Killer Joe," “Along Came Betty," “Whisper Not" “Step Lightly," ...

Franco D'Andrea Trio: Something Bluesy and More

by Giuseppe Segala
September 23, 2024

Lungo il percorso artistico di Franco D'Andrea si incrociano continuamente tappe significative, compiutamente collocate nella vasta mappa che il musicista concepisce come un affresco unitario e coerente. Con questo titolo, allusivo in modo stuzzicante, Something Bluesy and More, si affaccia nuovamente l'organico del piano trio, già praticato da D'Andrea abbondantemente nelle sue molteplici declinazioni, dalle più ...

Sun Ra: At the Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)

by Giuseppe Segala
September 9, 2024

Moltissime sono le registrazioni di Sun Ra, alcune memorabili. In ognuna si nasconde una tessera, un elemento della sua vitalità inesauribile, della sua ricerca cosmica di torcere, frammentare, lacerare le convenzioni. Di toccare con mano meravigliata i materiali di cui dispone, quasi venissero da altri mondi, da altre dimensioni, da logiche differenti. Sun Ra trascende le ...

Louis Stewart & Jim Hall: The Dublin Concert

by Ian Patterson
September 8, 2024

When Jim Hall decided to spend the 1982 Christmas holidays in Ireland, did he really think that one of the most influential jazz guitarists in history could pass through incognito? The master of modern jazz guitar who had played with Chico Hamilton, Jimmy Giuffre, Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Sonny Rollins and Art Farmer, who was celebrated ...

Bob Brookmeyer: Live at Sandy’s

by Sam Sherry
September 7, 2024

What if a tree fell in the woods, and no-one heard? More to the point, what if, for one weekend, four Guys With Ties wrote the book about how play jazz that balances drive with subtlety, improvisational joy with compositional intelligence, self-awareness with musical wit--and what if the record was released on the You'll Never Hear ...

Jack Pyle's Son

by Richard J Salvucci
August 23, 2024

Jack Pyle's Son Ralph (Randy) Pyle 254 Pages ISBN: # 13:9798326940865 Ralph Pyle publisher 2024 One must be of a certain age to remember when life in an automobile was inevitably accompanied by AM radio. You must be even older (and probably a centenarian) to remember when the home ...

Hank Roberts, Charles Lloyd, and Robert Wyatt

by Jerome Wilson
June 19, 2024

This episode includes fresh sounds from Hank Roberts and Robert Wyatt, Swing-era jazz performed by Air and Benny Goodman, and vocals by Kosi and Patty Carpenter. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Bill Cunliffe “Afluencia" ...

New Releases By Ellie Lee, Kerry Politzer, the Jihye Lee Orchestra, Peggy Lee and Miles Davis Share A Birthday & More

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 3, 2024

This broadcast includes new releases from Ellie Lee, Natasha Blackwood, Lauren Henderson, Kerry Politzer, John Ambrosini and the Jihye Lee Orchestra, with birthday shoutouts to Peggy Lee, Miles Davis, Fats Waller, Carmen Souza, Cynthia Sayer, Denise Donatelli, Sheryl Bailey and Darcy James Argue, among others. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear by seeing ...