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Showtime at the Spotlite
Label: Uptown Records
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Shaw 'Nuff/I Waited For You; Our Delight; Groovin' High; The Man i Love; Ray's Idea; Cool Breeze; Oo Bop Sh'Bam; 'Round Midnight; Second Balcony Jump; Day By Day; Convulsions; Woody 'n You; Lazy Mood; One Bass Hit; Things To Come; I Waited For You. CD2: Shaw 'Nuff/I Waited For you; Our Delight; Second Balcony Jump; Things To Come; The Man I Love; Don't Blame Me; Grosvenor Square; One Bass Hit; Things To Come; I Waited For You.
Curtis Fuller: Motor City Messenger
by Russ Musto
The most recorded jazz trombonist of his lifetime, Curtis Fuller's illustrious career spans six decades and includes tenures with many of the greatest names in this music. Born Dec. 15th, 1934 in Detroit, Fuller was orphaned at an early age, but found family in the close-knit jazz community of the musically fertile Motor City. He first ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Bebop Birthday
by Marcia Hillman
The bent trumpet, the beret, the horn-rimmed glasses and ballooning cheeks when he played--these alone are enough to identify trumpeter, bandleader, singer and composer “Dizzy" Gillespie. Born John Birks Gillespie in rural Cheraw, South Carolina on October 21st, 1917, he was the youngest of nine children. His father was a musician, so he was exposed to ...
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band: Showtime at the Spotlite
by David Rickert
Dizzy Gillespie's big band fused the intricacies of bebop with the high-powered riffing into a short lived but exciting outfit. This concert, recorded on 52nd Street in 1946, is one of few occasions to hear the trumpeter's band live and in its prime. A word of caution, though: this CD is a result of amateur taping ...
Jazz Icons Series 3: Lionel Hampton Live in '58
by C. Michael Bailey
Lionel Hampton Jazz Icons Series 3: Lionel Hampton Live in '58 Jazz Icons 2008Jazz ambassadors are hard to come by. The first was Louis Armstrong, whose personality was so big and warm it couldn't help spilling out on everyone close to him. Then there was Dizzy Gillespie, the ...
Rare Jazz Films Restored
by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
The Los Angeles Museum of Films One Watches In Order to Make Themselves Feel Intellectually Superior (or LAMFO, to its friends) will be unveiling a series of long-forgotten jazz-related films sure to please both jazz snobs and film snobs, if such a thing is possible. The Swing Forward, Fall Back Series follows in the tradition of ...
Dizzy Gillespie Concert Now Available Online
Dizzy Gillespie Concert from New York's Fillmore East, recorded in 1970 has just been released for free streaming on WolfgangsVault.com, the world's largest live music archive and website. The concert features: Matrix Brother King Closer Bye Bye Blues and more American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, singer, and composer Dizzy ...
John Taylor's Jazz Caricatures: Dizzy Gillespie
by John Taylor
Dizzy Gillespie About John Taylor For me, art and music flow into a creative confluence. Encouraged by my family to draw and play the drums at an early age, I continue to find expression in these art forms.Motivation for a career in art and music developed in the ...
Dizzy Gillespie's Career CD
Dizzy Gillespie is the greatest post-war musician never to make a truly great album. Career: 1937-1992 (2 Disc Set) Before bebop, of course, musicians did not make “albums", but merely 78 RPM singles. They recorded these “sides" in batches certainly, but they were not conceived of as groups of songs, and so the great ...
