Results for "Chuck Wayne"

Chuck Wayne: String Fever

January 28, 2010

Had Charlie Christian not died of tuberculosis at age 25 in 1942, he certainly would have been the first guitarist to record bebop. His single-string attack on Up on Teddy's Hill with Dizzy Gillespie, captured live at Minton's in 1941, was clearly ahead of its time. But the solo was more blues than bop, a jazz ...

Bern Nix: A History In Harmolodics

by AAJ Staff
August 24, 2009

New York-based free jazz guitarist Bern Nix is one of the few people who are well-versed in Ornette Coleman's “harmolodics" style. He played with Coleman from 1975-1987, and now leads the Bern Nix Trio in New York City. In his compositions and his intriguing covers of standards, he is always looking in the corners of the ...

Queens: Home of Jazz and Flushing Town Hall

by Greg Thomas
May 1, 2009

When most people think of jazz in New York City, Manhattan readily comes to mind. The “East Coast" stride piano style was developed in Harlem, where venues such as the Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, the Cotton Club and Minton's Playhouse presented the big bands and small groups of jazz lore. 52nd Street became known for its ...

Morning Mist

By Chuck Wayne

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: 1. Goodbye 2. See Saw 3. Li'l Darlin' 4. I'll Get Along 5. Things Ain't What They Used To Be 6. Shalimar 7. Someone to Watch Over Me 8. The Song Is You 9. Alone At Last 10. Lovely

Chuck Wayne: Morning Mist

by Russell Moon
March 1, 2004

What a find! Guitarist Chuck Wayne was a member of George Shearing's original quintet, and he played on Shearing's 1949 breakthrough hit “September in the Rain." For much of the '50s he was Tony Bennett's musical director. He later was a staff musician for CBS television and radio. 1964's Morning Mist was one of ...

Morning Mist

By Chuck Wayne

Label: Prestige Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Morning Mist 2. See Saw 3. Lil Darlin 4. I'll Get Along 5. Things Ain't What They Used To Be 6. Shalimar 7. Someone To Watch Over Me 8. The Song Is You 9. Alone At Last 10. Lovely.

Chuck Wayne: Morning Mist

by Mike Neely
December 8, 2003

Chuck Wayne has long been a jazz connoisseur’s musician whose ability and technique has always outclassed guitarists with much larger reputations. Popularity seems never to have been Wayne’s primary focus; for decades he simply consistently did a first rate job in the studios and on stage, as both a sideman and as a leader. His music ...

Chuck Wayne: Morning Mist

by David Rickert
October 24, 2003

Chuck Wayne was one of many jazz musicians who made their living primarily in studio orchestras, forgoing any sort of fame they might have achieved as a recording artist or club fixture. Thus he falls into the perilous realm of being a “guitarist’s guitarist,” which is just a polite way of saying that his records weren’t ...

String Fever

By Chuck Wayne

Label: Unknown label
Released: 2001

String Fever

By Chuck Wayne

Label: BMG
Released: 2000
Track listing:

Lullaby In Rhythm; Embraceable You; Love For Sale; Along With Me; Carmel; Body And Soul; Snuggled On Your Shoulder; How About You; Lover Man; What A Difference A Day Made; Rock-A-Bye Bay.

Available: through Cadence (315-287-2852), Trueblue Music on the Mosaic website, and Amazon, among many other sources.