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I Grandi Concerti - The Brass Group Palermo - Vol. 2
By Chet Baker
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Released: 2009
Track listing:
01. But Not For Me (Gershwin/Gershwin); 02. Whisper Not (Golson); 03. Orange Was The Color Of Her Dress,Then Silk Blue (Mingus); 04. Remember Rockfeller At Attica (Mingus); 05. Azure (Ellington); 06. Tayamisha (Williams); 07. 'Round Midnight (Monk).
Jazz Musician of the Day: Chet Baker
All About Jazz is celebrating Chet Baker's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY 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 ...
Henry Darragh: Tell Her For Me
by David Rickert
By any standard--no pun intended--"Everything Happens To Me" is a terrific song. It has clever lyrics and a catchy melody, and when both are put together each enhances the other. Henry Darragh's version on his debut, Tell Her For Me, is a reminder of this fact; no one writes songs this great anymore. Darragh is a ...
Take Five With Michaela Rabitsch
by AAJ Staff
Meet Michaela Rabitsch:Michaela Rabitsch, singer, composer and Austria's only and top female jazz trumpet player has released Moods, her third CD together with guitarist Robert Pawlik. Moods presents ten songs that reflect the passion, energy and emotions of their life. This album is their first recording with exclusively original compositions, reflecting the core of ...
Verve Originals: Gato Barbieri / Paul Desmond / Gerry Mulligan / Wes Montgomery
by Chris May
Verve's admirable, no frills, reissue series, “Originals," includes a mixture of masterpieces and also-rans from its own and its associated labels' archives. This trio of albums from the September 2009 batch includes one near masterpiece, saxophonist Gato Barbieri's Chapter Three: Viva Emiliano Zapata; an outstanding blowing session, saxophonists Gerry Mulligan and Paul Desmond's Blues In Time; ...
Henry Darragh: Tell Her For Me
by Bruce Lindsay
On Tell Her For Me, his first album, Texan Henry Darragh sets out of his stall as a fresh and original performer and writer. This is one of the most interesting and refreshing releases of 2009--a collection of standards and self-penned songs which is by turns funny, affecting and even educational. Darragh's fellow ...
Chet Baker's Quiet Sound Endures
by Chris Kompanek
Chet Baker Strollin' Enja 2008 Chet Baker Broken Wing Inner City 2009 John Proulx Baker's Dozen MAXJAZZ 2009 As iconic as any ...
Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin
by Clifford Allen
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...
Claudio Roditi: A Brazilian in Iowa
by Victor Verney
Watching trumpeter Claudio Roditi lead some unfamiliar sidemen through an afternoon rehearsal prior to an evening performance provided a good look at something not readily apparent at concerts. While the audience at that night's show in Ottumwa, Iowa saw Roditi's talents as a player and improviser (and even singer) displayed, most concertgoers could only have a ...
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