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Jazz Musician of the Day: Bob Brookmeyer
All About Jazz is celebrating Bob Brookmeyer's birthday today! Bob Brookmeyer has an unusually varied and extensive background in all forms of improvised and composed music. He was born December 19, 1929, attended Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he won the Carl Busch Prize for Choral Composition. He arrived in New York playing piano with ...
Bob Brookmeyer: 1929-2011
Bob Brookmeyer died in his sleep Thursday night in a hospital near his home in Grantham, New Hampshire. He would have been 82 on December 19. The cause is reported as congestive heart failure. Several weeks ago, Bob sent me a test pressing of the next album by his New Art Orchestra. He attached a note: ...
Bob Brookmeyer: 1929-2011
From bobbrookmeyer.com: It's with great sadness that we share the news that Bob Brookmeyer passed away last night, just three days shy of his 82nd birthday. Bob was an integral force in music, making some of the greatest groups in jazz history what we know and admire today. Whether as a composer, arranger or trombonist, ...
Bob Brookmeyer (1929-2011)
Bob Brookmeyer, whose emotionally strained youth in Kansas City helped him become arguably the most soulful, peppery and lyrical valve trombonists of the 1950s and '60s, died December 15 in New Hampshire. He was 81. In the 1950s, there certainly was no shortage of great trombonists—J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding, Urbie Green, Carl Fontana, Frank Rosolino, Curtis ...
Mosaic Select 9: Bob Brookmeyer
by C. Andrew Hovan
Bob BrookmeyerMosaic Select 9 Mosaic Records Although he continues to be a valued jazz artist recording occasionally, the state of Bob Brookmeyer's early catalog until recently was inexplicably in a state of disarray. Of course, we still haven't seen CD reissues of such vintage Verve sides like The Blues, ...
"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor
by Jack Bowers
From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra: Forever Lasting - Live in Tokyo
by Edward Blanco
The Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra, the New York big band founded in 1966, loved to tour Japan resulting in its popular 1974 release of Live In Tokyo (Denon). Continuing the tradition of playing Monday nights at New York's Village Vanguard, as well as performing in Japan, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra--as the Thad Jones / ...
Gerry Mulligan / J.J. Johnson / Sarah Vaughan / Misha Mengelberg & Piet Noordijk: Live At Concertgebouw
by David Rickert
The Concertgebouw in Amsterdam was a stop for quite a few notable jazz musicians during the 1950s and '60s, and for the past few years the Dutch Jazz Archive has released a concert from their archive at the rate of one per year. Judging by what has been released, it seems that many of these musicians ...
Bob Sheppard Quartet: Half Moon Bay, CA, August 7, 2011
by Bill Leikam
Bob Sheppard QuartetDouglas Beach HouseHalf Moon Bay, CaliforniaAugust 7, 2011 Gradually, the Douglas Beach House (aka Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society) filled with people coming in for a jazz treat for that Sunday afternoon. On the lineup was Bob Sheppard on tenor sax, flute, and soprano sax, Larry Koonse on ...
Half Note Records Announces Harrison, Mela, Werner Releases, Brecker Events
Half Note Records Announces Three New Recordings: Kenny Werner & Brussels Jazz Orchestra: Institute of Higher Learning available August 26 Donald Harrison, Ron Carter, Billy Cobham: This Is Jazz available September 6 Francisco Mela & Cuban Safari with Special Guest Esperanza Spalding: Tree Of Life available September 6 The Brussels Jazz Orchestra (BJO), led by founder ...
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