Results for "Chet Baker"

Sings & Strings

By Chet Baker

Label: Pacific Jazz Records
Released: 2010

Bill O'Connell: Rhapsody In Blue

by Jerry D'Souza
December 27, 2010

Pianist Bill O'Connell has a varied career as a musician. After studying classical music he found inspiration in jazz and salsa. He shaped his instincts for the latter with Mongo Santamaria with whom he played for two years. From there he gravitated to Sonny Rollins and Chet Baker. This wide spectrum served to expand his skills ...

Bill O'Connell: Rhapsody In Blue

by Dan Bilawsky
December 24, 2010

Pianist Bill O'Connell is no stranger to the world of Latin jazz. O'Connell has played for greats like Mongo Santamaria and Dave Valentin, but his range as an artist has taken him well beyond a Latin-only orbit. He's worked with jazz heavyweights like Sonny Rollins and Chet Baker, too, but his greatest asset isn't his résumé. ...

Jazz Musician of the Day: Chet Baker

December 23, 2010

All About Jazz is celebrating Chet Baker's birthday today! Chet BakerChesney Henry “Chet" Baker Jr. (December 23, 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma, died May 13, 1988 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands) was an American jazz musician. Raised in a musical household in Oklahoma (his father was a guitar player)... more Website ...

Various Artists: CTI Records - The Cool Revolution

by John Kelman
December 23, 2010

Various ArtistsCTI Records--The Cool RevolutionCTI Masterworks2010 The late 1960s was, in many ways, a time of reckoning for jazz. While the music had continued to evolve over the previous half century, it was coincident with the emergence of rock music as a serious force that jazz began to ...

Arrivederci

Featuring the music of Chet Baker
Duration: 5:16
December 23, 2010

Jerome Sabbagh / Ben Monder / Daniel Humair: I Will Follow You

by Mark Corroto
December 22, 2010

How do you cook up innovative and inspiring jazz these days? Take a standard quintet and peel away the bassist (time keeper), then eliminate the pianist or chordal steward, and you are left with maybe the purest form of improvisation and interaction: the jazz trio. Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's trinity, heard on I Will Follow You, includes ...

Take Five With Scott Lee

by AAJ Staff
December 19, 2010

Meet Scott Lee:Scott Lee switched from a career in tennis at UNC-CH to jazz, after hearing the Bill Evans Trio. Arriving in NY in the '70s, he worked with Chet Baker, Lee Konitz, Al Cohn, Red Rodney, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Lovano, Kenny Werner, Andy Statman, Chris Conner, Morgana King, Helen Merrill, Betty Buckley, and ...

Take Five With Jason Parker

by AAJ Staff
December 18, 2010

Meet Jason Parker:Seattle trumpeter Jason Parker leads the Jason Parker Quartet, who will release their second CD on October 24, 2009 on Broken Time Records. No More, No Less features some of Seattle's finest young jazz musicians. Stream and download now at Jason Parker's website.Instrument(s):Trumpet.Teachers and/or influences?

Ray Brown’s Great Big Band: Kayak

by Robert J. Robbins
December 16, 2010

Not to be confused with the late, legendary bassist of the same name, San Francisco-based bandleader/arranger Ray Brown, an ex-trumpeter with the Stan Kenton and Full Faith and Credit big bands, drives his own nineteen-piece ensemble populated by the Bay Area's A-list musicians. Brown, whose percussionist father pioneered jazz education in the public schools of Long ...