Results for "Charlie Byrd"

The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival: December 3-6, 2009

by Ian Patterson
December 15, 2009

The 6th Penang Island Jazz Festival Bayview Beach Resort Penang, Malaysia December 3-6, 2009 Happy birthday to the Penang Island Jazz Festival, six years old this year! Six years may not seem like a lot, but in small jazz festival terms it probably means that the difficult initial ...

Daniel Bennett Group: The Legend Of Bear Thompson

by AAJ Staff
November 22, 2009

Daniel Bennett GroupThe Legend Of Bear ThompsonBennett Alliance2008Acoustic guitar and alto saxophone form a key part of Boston saxophonist Daniel Bennett's musical recipe, and the combination informs the pleasingly melodic The Legend Of Bear Thompson. The lineup is Bennett on alto saxophone and flute, Brant ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Charlie Byrd

September 16, 2009

All About Jazz is celebrating Charlie Byrd's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Charlie ByrdCharlie Byrd jammed with Django Reinhardt, recorded with Woody Herman, studied with the great Segovia, and with Stan Getz introduced the Brazilian bossa nova to international audiences... more Website | Videos | ...

Fred Hersch: Plays Jobim

by Victor L. Schermer
August 12, 2009

It is a pleasure to follow pianist Fred Hersch's recorded output as he delivers creative and deeply felt solo and small group jazz, seeking to express ideas that sometimes approach the mysterious and ineffable, yet remain rooted in the best of musical expression. In this excellent release, Hersch offers nine solo piano versions of the work ...

Diana Krall: Quiet Nights

by C. Michael Bailey
April 21, 2009

The origin of the phrase Bossa Nova is as complex as the Brazilian culture from which the music sprung in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nominally translated into “Our New Thing," Bossa Nova was developed by Brazilian composers Antônio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and João Gilberto, and is characterized by a samba rhythm with ...

The Nate Najar Trio: I'm All Smiles

by Matthew Warnock
April 6, 2009

Nylon-string guitarist Nate Najar channels the creative and energetic spirit of the late, great guitarist Charlie Byrd on I'm All Smiles. The album features Najar alongside Steve Boisen on bass, Chuck Redd on drums and Duduka Da Fonseca on percussion. While Najar gives ample evidence of his advanced solo guitar ability, those moments are always carefully ...

The Story of Jazz Guitar

by AAJ Staff
January 27, 2009

While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...

Stan Getz: Stan Getz: The Bossa Nova Albums

by Chris May
November 11, 2008

Bossa nova was jazz's final moment in the hit parade sunshine before The Beatles swept across the world in the mid-1960s and changed everything. A blend of chilled- out Brazilian samba and cool jazz created by an emergent generation of Brazilian songwriters led by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Joao Gilberto, bossa nova (meaning “new flair" or ...

Shiny Stockings

Featuring the music of Charlie Byrd
Duration: 6:03
December 21, 2007

Homage To Jobim

By Charlie Byrd

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2005
Track listing: Favela; If You Never Come to Me; Desafinado; Once I Loved; Beyond the Horizon; Chega de Saudade; Watch What Happens.