Results for "Bill Berry"

Bill Berry

Born: September 14, 1930

Percy France: Live from the West End

by Daniel Gould
August 27, 2026

 If you know Percy France, most likely you are a fan of “greasy" organ jazz, particularly on Blue Note Records during their classic era. He was an integral part of Jimmy Smith's Home Cookin' (1959) and Freddie Roach's Down to Earth (1962). Or perhaps you came to jazz through r&b acts like the Bill Doggett combo. The ...

The Duke Ellington Story

by Monk Rowe
September 14, 2024

June Means Jazz as Festivals Flourish

by Jack Bowers
July 12, 2012

June, as always, is a harbinger of exciting things to come as the jazz festival season springs forth in earnest, causing even the most ardent couch potatoes to bestir themselves and start perusing the calendar to locate interesting events in their neck of the woods. Here in New Mexico, the “outdoor" season comes to life with ...

Band In Boston

By Herb Pomeroy

Label: United Artists
Released: 2010
Track listing: A Down Home Outing; The Friar And Dr. Goulding; On The Other World; The Blue Charles; Where's Charlie?; Where's Paul?; Woodyn' You; Lush Life; The Green Horn; Gypsy In My Soul.

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 ...

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

For Duke

By Bill Berry

Label: M&K RealTime Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Take the

Bill Berry and his Ellington All-Stars: For Duke

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2001

Originally released on LP when it was recorded in 1978, this album features a true all-star lineup. Each artist solos in this heartfelt tribute session. The harmony of “Mood Indigo" serves as a strong reminder of how each member of Duke Ellington's orchestra was allowed his own say. Marshal Royal lifts spirits with his bouncing alto ...

Shortcake

By Bill Berry

Label: Birdology
Released: 1994