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Bill Green
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William Earnest Green was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist.
Green learned to play alto saxophone at age ten and picked up clarinet when he was twelve; he eventually learned to play most varieties of saxophone, clarinet, and flute. He served in the military until 1946, then began working at a club called Small's in Kansas City. In 1947 he relocated to Los Angeles and enrolled at the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music and Arts, graduating in 1952; he remained on staff as an educator there until 1962. He also ran a music education studio on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles for many years.
Still I Rise
Label: Impact Jazz
Released: 2020
Track listing: Push Come da Shove; Still I Rise; Soulful Brother Gelispie; Melody for Trayvon; Blues a la Burgess; 8 Ball, Side Pocket;
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
Gold Medalists Abound at Big Band Olympics
by Jack Bowers
As this is being written, Betty and I are just back from a ten-day visit to California, the first six days of which would be of absolutely no interest to readers of this column. The last four, however, were spent at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel attending the L.A. Jazz Institute's “Big Band Olympics," which ...
Toni Tennille and the Matt Catingub Big Band - Things are Swingin’
Label: Purebred
Released: 1994
Track listing: I Wish I were in Love Again (Hart/Rodgers); Things are Swingin’ (Peggy Lee/Jack Marshall); Making Whoopee
(Donaldson/Kahn); You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby (Mercer/Warren); Alright, Okay, You Win (Wyche/Watts);
Teach Me Tonight (Cahn/DePaul); Caravan (Ellington/Mills/Tizol); Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries (Brown/Henderson); It’s
So Nice to have a Man Around the House (Spina/Elliott); I Got Rhythm (Gershwin/Gershwin); Pardon My Southern
Accent (Mercer/Malneck); Memphis in June (Carmichael/Webster); Hard Hearted Hannah (Bates/Yellen/Ager/Bigelow);
This Can’t Be Love (Rodgers/Hart); That Old Black Magic (Mercer/Arlen); Mañana (Peggy Lee/Dave Barbour)
The Matt Catingub Big Band featuring Mavis Rivers “I’m Getting Cement All Over Ewe”
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1991
Track listing: I’m Getting Cement All Over Ewe (Matt Catingub); Even More Blues, but My Abscessed Tooth in Fine (Matt Catingub);
Miss Ella (Albert Alva); Dearly Beloved (Kern/Mercer); Change Partners (Irving Berlin); Sciatica Stomp featuring Chris
Doc Stewart (Matt Catingub); Funny (Broughton/Merrill); Prelude ‘N Blues (Matt Catingub); I Got Rhythm (George & Ira
Gershwin); Simple Pleasures ( Matt Catingub); Donna Lieb (Matt Catingub)
The Matt Catingub Big Band “My Mommy and Me”
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1990
Track listing: Blues and the Abscessed Tooth (Matt Catingub); When You Fall in Love (Matt Catingub); Nobody Else But Me
(Kern/Hammerstein); A Salute to Elvis Costello (Matt Catingub) soloists Buddy Childers & Chris Doc Stewart; Stomping
at the Savoy (Good an/Sampson/Webb); I Got it Bad and That Ain’t Good (Ellington/Webster); Medley : School Days
(Edward’s/Cobb) - Teach Me Tonight (Cahn/DePaul); Bopularity (Matt Catingub)
Your Friendly Neighborhood Big Band
Label: Reference Recordings
Released: 1989
Track listing: Don’t Be That Way (Goodman/Sampson/Parish); Honeysuckle Rose (Waller/Razaf); Bloozball (Matt Catingub); Work
Song (Nat Adderley); Easy Living (Robin/Ranger); Jeanine (Wolfe/Filkret); You Leave Me Breathless (Fried/Hollander);
Donna Lee (Charlie Parker); Baubles, Bangles, and Beads (Wright/Forest); Ballad (Matt Catingub); Your Friendly
Neighborhood Big Band (Matt Catingub)
Matt Catingub High Tech Big Band
Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 1986
Track listing: More Blues and the Abscessed Tooth (Matt Catingub); Thad-ish (Matt Catingub); The Umpire Strikes Back (Matt
Catingub); Don’t Blame Me (Fields/McHugh); Donna Lee (Charlie Parker); Don’t Be That Way
(Goodman/Sampson/Parish); Honeysuckle Rose (Razaf/Waller); Back to Basieques (Matt Catingub); Somoana (Matt
Catingub); Indian Riffs (Steve Rosenblum/Albert Alva/Matt Catingub); Every Breath You Take (Sting)
