Results for "Bill Holman"

Vic Lewis (1919-2009)

February 12, 2009

Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...

Kingfish

Featuring the music of Bill Holman
Duration: 3:54
May 21, 2008

Bill Holman: Hommage & The Lost Bill Holman Charts

by Fred Bouchard
March 12, 2008

Bill Holman's varied and florescent career as composer-arranger shines on in the vanguard of a pack of scribes for Stan Kenton, Maynard Ferguson, Gerry Mulligan and Woody Herman. Playing tenor through the '50s for Kenton, Charlie Barnet and Shorty Rogers, Holman quit horn for pen in the '60s and has since proven a unique voice on ...

Bill Holman Band - Hommage

By Bill Holman

Label: Birdology
Released: 2007

Hommage

By Bill Holman

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2007
Track listing: Raincheck; Zamboni; Bemsha Swing; If You Could See Me Now; Woodchopper

Jazzed Media's Bill Holman Band "Hommage" CD Receives a Grammy Nomination

December 6, 2007

The Bill Holman Band “Hommage" CD on Jazzed Media has received a Grammy nomination for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Recording in the 50th annual Grammy Awards. Bill Holman is recognized as one of the premier jazz writers and arrangers and The Bill Holman Band has been an active part of the big band jazz scene since ...

Bill Holman Band: Hommage

by Jack Bowers
May 19, 2007

Sometimes it's a matter of perspective. Having attended the concert in May 2006 at which most of Bill Holman's latest album, Hommage, was recorded, I must acknowledge a modest level of disappointment. It didn't seem up to the maestro's usual standards, an opinion I later shared with Graham Carter, head of Jazzed Media Records. Okay, so ...

Let Me Off Uptown

By Cheryl Bentyne

Label: Telarc Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Let Me Off Uptown; Pick Yourself Up; Honeysuckle Rose; Skylark; Let

The Bill Holman Band Live

By Bill Holman

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2005
Track listing: Introduction; Woodrow; A Day in the Life; Bary Me Not; Band Introductions; Donna Lee; Blue Daniel; Press One; The Bebop Love Song; Zoot

Live

By Bill Holman

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2005
Track listing: Woodrow; A Day in the Life; Bary Me Not; Donna Lee; Blue Daniel; Press One; The Bebop Love Song; Zoot 'n' Al.