Results for "Bill King"

Bill King

Bucket List

By Jim Waller

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2020
Track listing: Samba for Suzell; I Love Being Here with You; New Blue Funk; Blues for Los Blues; Georgia on My Mind; Waltz for Laura; Rhapsody in Blue; Why Don’t You Do Right; Funk Suite 109; A Ballad for Bob; Goody Goody; Honky Tonk; God Bless the Child; This Is It.

Jim Waller Big Band: Bucket List

by Jack Bowers
November 5, 2020

One glance at Jim Waller's silver mane is enough to make it clear he is no young lion. In fact, Waller, a veteran composer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist who calls San Antonio, Texas, home, is nearing his eighth decade. Even though Waller's career has been long and successful, there was one item on his Bucket List that ...

Monica Chapman: Small World

by Edward Blanco
April 26, 2017

Romanian-born, Toronto-based vocalist Monica Chapman delivers Small World, her third album since 2013, in a concept recording of songs from some of her favorite movies such as Gypsy, Band Wagon, Goldfinger, and Sweet Charity just to name a few. A classically-trained singer who performed musical theatre, Chapman had always had a passion for movies but was ...

Kinga: Guess Who I Saw Today

by Edward Blanco
July 14, 2016

Born in Poland and eventually settling in Ottawa, Ontario, Canadian songstress Kinga reveals her debut recording Guess Who I Saw Today presenting a terrific selection of standards and reimagined classics produced and arranged by friend and pianist extraordinaire Bill King. Gifted with a dark crisp voice, Kinga's love for jazz was developed at an early age ...

King William Jazz Collective

By Bill King

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: Billy Boy; Syeeda’s Song Flute; Sweet Pumpkin; What a Little Moonlight Can Do; Too Young to Go Steady; Over the Rainbow; Beatrice; Tenor Madness; The Night Has a Thousand Eyes; You Are Too Beautiful; Eastern Blues; A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square.

King William Jazz Collective: King William Jazz Collective

by Jack Bowers
May 30, 2014

About four years before this splendid album was recorded, the King William Jazz Collective performed its first gig in San Antonio's historic King William district. While that alone could be impetus enough on which to hang a name, there's more, as the band's baritone saxophonist / music director happens to be King, William (at least in ...

Dave Liebman: What It Is - The Life of a Jazz Artist

by Lewis Porter
June 22, 2012

[The following is an excerpt from Chapter 4 of What It Is: The Life of a Jazz Artist (Scarecrow Press, 2012), by saxophonist Dave Liebman, in conversation with Lewis Porter, author of John Coltrane: His Life and Music (University of Michigan Press, 2000). In it, Liebman and Porter discuss the saxophonist's involvement in the loft scene ...

Keiko Matsui: And The Road...Goes On

by Jeff Winbush
March 9, 2011

Keiko Matsui has been out of the studio but relentlessly trotting the globe since 2007's Moyo (Shout! Factory), her acclaimed South African-inspired recording that featured the Japanese-born pianist/composer/producer collaborating with trumpeter Hugh Masakela, among others. The Road... (Shanachie, 2011) marks the further evolution of her signature sound and demonstrates a new chapter in her artistic growth. ...

Stanley Clarke: Path Maker

by Esther Berlanga-Ryan
February 22, 2011

Innovation is a cherished quality in any art form and, truth be told, some follow greatness while others create the patterns that make that same greatness possible. There are teachers, and then, there are students. In jazz, musicians skilled in all sorts of instruments tend to look at their older peers in amazement, and challenges within ...