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Danny Bank
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American jazz baritone saxophonist, clarinetist, and flutist, born July 17, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, died June 5, 2010 in Queens, New York City, New York. Bank is one of the most recorded baritone saxophonists of all time, best known for his association with Miles Davis in Gil Evans' orchestra. Later in the 1960s he recorded with the big bands of Charles Mingus, Sonny Rollins, and Stanley Turrentine
Art Farmer: Work of Art
by Jon Block
My favorite (jazz) album is The Art Farmer Septet (1956 Prestige PRLP 7031 of 1953-54 sessions previously released on 10" disks). It features the arrangements and compositions of Art Farmer, Gigi Gryce and Quincy Jones. It still makes me move and groove, from the first clave click on the steaming hot Afro-Cuban “Mau Mau" all the ...
Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...
Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Rekindles Cuban Fire Suite
by Jack Bowers
On June 5, 2010, with the temperature in Albuquerque hovering around 100 degrees, the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra couldn't have wished for a better time to perform Johnny Richards' incendiary Cuban Fire suite, first recorded in 1956 by the Stan Kenton Orchestra. The sold-out concert was the opening event in the city's annual Jazz and Blues Under ...
Nica's Tempo
By Gigi Gryce
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1974
Track listing: Speculation; In A Meditating Mood; Social Call; Smoke Signal; (You'll Always Be) The One I Love; Kerry Dance; Shuffle Boil; Brake's Sake; Gallop's Gallop; Nica's Tempo.
3 Shades Of Blue
Label: Flying Dutchman
Released: 1970
Track listing: Empty Ballroom Blues;
Duke's Place;
Echoes of Harlem;
Disillusion Blues;
Yearning;
Welcome to New York;
Black, Brown and Beautiful;
Rockin' in Rhythm;
Creole Love Call;
It's Glory.
Latin Mann (Afro To Bossa To Blues)
By Herbie Mann
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1965
Track listing: Lets Boom Chitty Boom Herbie Mann 323; Whatd I Say Ray Charles 459; Seor Blues Horace Silver 352; Bijou Ralph Burns 325; Jungle Fantasy Esy Morales 354; Watermelon Man Herbie Hancock 409; Interlude Pete Rugolo 414; The Jive Samba Nat Adderley 503; Ave Maria Morena Fausto Curbelo 436; Manteca Dizzy Gillespie Chano Pozo Gil Fuller 435.
Miles Ahead
By Miles Davis
Label: Columbia Records
Released: 1958
Track listing: Springsville;
The Maids of Cadiz;
The Duke;
My Ship;
Miles Ahead;
Blues for Pablo;
New Rhumba;
Medley Pt. 1: The Meaning of the Blues;
Medley Pt. 2: Lament;
I Don't Wanna Be Kissed.
The Art Farmer Septet
By Art Farmer
Label: Prestige
Released: 1956
Track listing: Mau Mau; Work Of Art; The Little Bandmaster; Up In Quincy's Room; Wildwood; Evening In Paris; Elephant Walk; Tiajuana.
Showcase
Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 1954
Track listing: Frankie And Johnnie;
Baby Grand;
Christina;
Summertime;
Festival;
Bumpkins.
