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Jazz Musician of the Day: Eddie Locke
All About Jazz is celebrating Eddie Locke's birthday today! Eddie Locke was an American jazz drummer. Eddie Locke was a part of the fertile and vibrant Detroit jazz scene during the 1940s and 1950s, which brought forth many great musicians including the Jones brothers (Hank, Thad, and Elvin), Kenny Burrell, Lucky Thompson, Tommy Flanagan, Barry Harris, ...
A Great Day in Harlem: The Spirit Lives - 50 Years On
by Ian Patterson
This encore presentation from January 2009 celebrates Jean Bach, director of A Great Day in Harlem. Ms. Bach died on May 27th at her home in Manhattan. She was 94.It is probably the most celebrated ensemble jazz portrait of all time. Fifty-seven of the greatest jazz musicians gathered together on the steps of a ...
Maxine Gordon: The Legacy of Dexter Gordon
by Victor L. Schermer
Legendary tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon was a focal point of the bebop and hard bop revolutions. Later in his career, he achieved the status of an American icon with his lead role in Bernard Tavernier's 1986 film, Round Midnight, which garnered him an Academy Award nomination. His “homecoming" in New York City, after living in Europe ...
The Eddie Locke Memorial
Among the friends of Eddie Locke who took part in his memorial service in Manhattan on November 22 was bassist and author Bill Crow. Locke, a stalwart drummer based in New York for more than five decades, died last September at the age of 79. Bill prepared this report for Rifftides. At St. Peter's Church, ...
Happy Time
By Roy Eldridge
Label: Original Jazz Classics
Released: 1975
Track listing: Sweethearts On Parade; Willow Weep For Me; Makin' Whoopee; Gee Baby Ain't I Good To You; All Of Me; I Want A Little Girl; On The Sunny Side Of The Street; I Can't Get Started; Stormy Monday; Let Me Off Uptown;
Desafinado
Label: Impulse! Records
Released: 1962
Track listing: Desafinado, I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover, Samba Para Bean, I Remember You, One Note Samba, O Pato, Un Abraco No Bonfa, Stumpy Bossa Nova.
