Results for "Billy Eckstine"

La nicchia del canto jazz maschile

by Angelo Leonardi
August 20, 2019

A eccezione di pochi nomi--in particolare Kurt Elling, Gregory Porter, Bobby McFerrin e il veterano Tony Bennett--il canto jazz maschile è nettamente sottoesposto rispetto a quello femminile. Esempi eclatanti di questo sono stati Jon Hendricks e Mark Murphy, scomparsi di recente senza aver avuto la considerazione che meritavano. Allan Harris e Fred Farell ...

That Dizzy Cat - Dizzy Gillespie (1945 - 1948)

by Russell Perry
April 30, 2019

Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. The wartime economy with its shortages and the musician's strike of the early 1940s led Gillespie to focus on small combos for his own projects, including his seminal ...

Bebop Big Bands - Earl Hines, Billy Eckstine, & Woody Herman (1940 - 1947)

by Russell Perry
April 2, 2019

Although Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Woody Herman soldiered on, mostly keeping bands on the road into the 1970s (Ellington) and 1980s (Basie and Herman), the era of the big band effectively ended with the American Federation of Musicians' strike and World War Two shortages of gas, rubber and players. A leaner combo-oriented music emerged in ...

Brad Goode: That's Right!

by Nicholas F. Mondello
February 13, 2019

The first collaboration between trumpeter Brad Goode and saxophonist Ernie Watts is a case study in superior musicianship and improvisation. It also illustrates how two frontline performers and their supporting band can achieve excellence as a creative ensemble. The kickoff, “Half Moon," an original from pianist Adrean Farrugia, is reminiscent of the popular ...

Sonny Buxton: Strayhorn’s Last Drummer, A Radio Master Class Mid-Day Saturdays

by Arthur R George
February 11, 2019

Sociologist, anthropologist, historian: storyteller, raconteur, entrepreneur and griot, in the guise of a deejay. Registrar, dean, professor: The jazz class of Sonny Buxton is barely concealed as entertainment within his weekly radio program every Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Pacific time on San Francisco Bay Area FM station KCSM 91.1, streaming live on kcsm.org.

Billy Eckstine: Mr. B in Paris

December 27, 2018

One of the least known albums recorded by singer Billy Eckstine is one of his best—Mr. B in Paris. Recorded for Britain's Felsted label while Eckstine was on tour in Europe between releases for Roulette, the album features the baritone singing 12 songs in French backed by the Bobby Tucker Orchestra. Mr. B in Paris was ...

More Than A Jazz Legend: Dexter Gordon and His Search For Personal Integrity

by Victor L. Schermer
November 1, 2018

Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon Maxine Gordon 261 Pages ISBN: #9780520280649 University of California Press 2018 Dexter Gordon became a jazz legend in his own time. He played a key role in the bebop and hard bop movements, created an instantly recognizable style that ...

Brad Goode: That's Right!

by Jim Trageser
October 29, 2018

With a fat, rich tone somewhere between French classical trumpeter Maurice André and the flugelhorn of Chuck Mangione, Brad Goode has the ultimate calling card for a jazz player: An immediately recognizable sound. The fact that he's also got an upper register to rival Maynard Ferguson makes Goode one of the most underknown of jazz players. ...

Michael Moody

Born: April 16

Michael Moody is a New York-based jazz vocalist whose voice is both a vessel of tradition and a force of modern expression. Moody has graced the stages of premier jazz venues including “Dizzy’s Club” ”Mezzrows” and “Smalls”captivating audiences with performances marked by emotional depth and technical brilliance. 

“Influenced by Carmen McRae, Billie Holiday, Sonny Stitt, and Dexter Gordon, Moody has cultivated a distinct voice of his own, Infusing jazz standards with intricate melodic variations and a signature interpretive style.

Dexter Gordon: Tokyo 1975

by Mike Jurkovic
August 6, 2018

Though in many regards a standard, none-too-frenetic quartet setting, Dexter Gordon Quartet Tokyo 1975 is still as grand a starting point for Elemental Music's inaugural launch of previously unreleased jazz performances as can be. Gordon found himself exuberantly liberated from the antiquated (and sadly all too present) prejudices of America during his fourteen-year expatriation ...