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Roni Ben-Hur: Fortuna
by J Hunter
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. ...
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
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
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
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 ...
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.
My Fair Lady Loves Jazz
By Billy Taylor
Label: ABC Jazz
Released: 1956
Track listing: Show Me;
I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face;
With a Little Bit of Luck;
The Rain in Spain;
Get Me to the Church on Time;
Wouldn't It Be Loverly?;
I Could Have Danced All Night;
On the Street Where You Live.
