Results for "Earl May"

Roni Ben-Hur: Fortuna

by J Hunter
November 17, 2009

The most famous lyric from Charlie Chaplin's bittersweet song “Smile" is, “Smile, though your heart is aching/Smile, even though it's breaking." Roni Ben-Hur knows that methodology, and how: Smile (Motema, 2008), Ben-Hur's benefit disc with fellow guitarist Gene Bertoncini, was originally conceived as a duet with Ben-Hur's longtime bassist Earl May, who died before recording began. ...

Earl May Memorial Monday Feb 4th 7PM St. Peter's Church

January 23, 2008

Swinging the Blues

By Earl May

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Swinging the Blues; Blame It on My Youth; My Foolish Heart; Tea for Two; Blue Iridescence; Make Someone Happy; Under African Skies; Sioux Suite; My Old Flame; Confirmation; Wishes Are Starting to Don

Earl May at the Smithsonian's Jazz Cafe

by Erik R. Quick
November 9, 2007

Earl May Jazz Café, Smithsonian Institute Washington, D.C. October 19, 2007 The Smithsonian Institution hates jazz; at least, their actions may so intimate. For the past few years, Randall Kremer, the intrepid Director of Public Affairs at the National Museum of Natural History and an amateur jazz guitarist, has been ...

Earl May Quartet: Swinging the Blues

by Mike Neely
August 31, 2007

He may not have recorded much as a leader, but there are few jazz greats over the past forty years or so that haven't played or recorded with bassist Earl May, including Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. His duet recordings with John Coltrane are unusual in the great saxophonists discography; his recordings with Sonny Stitt and ...

Swinging The Blues

By Earl May

Label: Arbors Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: Swinging The Blues; Blame It On My Youth; My Foolish Heart; Tea For Two; Blue Iridescense; Make Someone Happy; Under African Skies; Sioux Suite; My Old Flame; Confirmaton; Wishes Are Starting To Don't Come True; It's So Divine; Lester Leaps In.

The Earl May Quartet: Swinging The Blues

by Michael P. Gladstone
April 20, 2006

Over the course of the last half-century, Earl May has been one of the busiest bass players in the New York Area. He spent just about the entire decade of the 1950s with the long-running Billy Taylor Trio. Dr. Taylor arranged for a reunion recording of the original trio (with Percy Brice on drums), which was ...