Results for "Bill McFarland"

Bill McFarland

Glawdys N’Dee: Lyannaj

by Hrayr Attarian
October 15, 2012

The term “world music" takes a new meaning with singer Glawdys N'Dee's debut, Lyannaj, which means to connect or unite in solidarity--and unite, she does. The Guadeloupean-born, Parisian-educated and Chicago-based N'Dee brings together, in three languages--Creole, French and English--various musical styles of the African Diaspora, from Caribbean rhythms to jazz, and from gospel to the blues. ...

Fire Horns

By Bill McFarland

Label: Moonlight
Released: 1999

Bill McFarland and the Chicago Horns: Fire Horns

by Jack Bowers
July 1, 1999

Hard–hitting is the word that springs immediately to mind when listening to trombonist Bill McFarland’s Chicago Horns. Although McFarland and his companions aren’t mired in a time warp, their highly rhythmic, no–nonsense approach often recalls the dynamic hard–bopping groups led by Art Blakey, Horace Silver and others during the swinging ’50s, ’60s and beyond. They are ...