Results for "Bud Shank"

Bud Shank: A Voice for the Ages

by Jack Bowers
April 29, 2009

I'll always have fond memories of the 2007 Prescott (Arizona) Jazz Summit, as it was the last time I had the great pleasure of seeing and hearing the phenomenal alto saxophonist Bud Shank doing what he did best: enfolding an entire audience in the palm of his hand with a seemingly endless stream of irrepressible notes ...

Misty

Featuring the music of Bud Shank
Duration: 8:08
April 22, 2009

Reflections on Bud

by Graham Carter
April 13, 2009

During the past few years I have had the honor to work with many famous jazz musicians, but without a doubt the nicest one of that group was Bud Shank. In thinking about Bud, and his contributions to the jazz world the past 60 years or so, one must rank his demeanor right next to his ...

Bud Shank, 1926-2009

April 6, 2009

Bud Shank's honesty, forthrightness and cheerfulness came through in his playing. Those qualities and his transcendent musicianship were evident to all but those deafened by categorical imperatives having to do with geography, race and style. He lived to be 82, and he worked to the end, one of the great alto saxophonists in jazz. Shank died ...

Bud Shank Alto Saxophonist Was Immersed in West Coast Jazz Scene

April 6, 2009

Bud Shank, the alto saxophonist who was a key figure in the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, has died. He was 82. Shank died Thursday night at his home in Tucson of pulmonary failure, friends said. A versatile musician with an adventurous nature, Shank also played flute and -- during a productive period of ...

Bud Shank: California Dreamin'

April 5, 2009

The great jazz musician Bud Shank has died at the age of 82. He had one of the most unlikely backgrounds for any jazz musician, growing up not in the urban welter of cultural ferment or in the musically rich backwaters of the South -- but on a farm in Ohio. He may not have been ...

Ex-Centrum Jazz Port Townsend Artistic Director Bud Shank Dies at 82

April 5, 2009

PORT TOWNSEND -- Bud Shank, former artistic director of Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend program and a renowned alto jazz saxophonist whose career spanned 60 years, has died at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 82. Cause of death was listed as pulmonary failure. While Shank had “some ongoing health issues," according to JazzTimes.com, the Web ...

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2009

The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...

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 ...

Bud Shank: Never at a Standstill

by Ken Dryden
January 23, 2009

Bud Shank has long been labeled as a cool or “West Coast Jazz" stylist, though the veteran alto saxophonist, now in his seventh decade as a performer, has long evolved past such labels. An alum of Charlie Barnet, Stan Kenton and Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars, Shank first began leading his own quartet during the '50s ...