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Large Ensembles: Is There a Place in This Large Music World?
by R.J. DeLuke
The big band in jazz has a long and glorious history. It was a prevalent form in jazz music in the '20s and '30s, comprising a substantial part of America's popular music heard on radio, spun on gramophones and record players, and enjoyed in dance halls. It gave rise to iconic band leaders like Fletcher Henderson, ...
Garvin Bushell: One Steady Roll
by Nic Jones
Garvin Bushell's autobiography, published in 1988, is called Jazz From The Beginning. There's no hyperbole about that title considering he was a musician who worked with both Fletcher Henderson and John Coltrane. This session was recorded later in his life--in California in 1982--and the music hews closer to the Henderson model than it does the Coltrane, ...
Jazz Musician of the Day: Fletcher Henderson
All About Jazz is celebrating Fletcher Henderson's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Fletcher HendersonFletcher Henderson - piano, bandleader, arranger, composer, (1987-1952) The bands Fletcher Henderson led in the 1920s and 1930s were vitally significant incubators of new developments in jazz... more Website | Videos | ...
The Uncrowned King of Swing: Fletcher Henderson and Big Band Jazz
by Nic Jones
The Uncrowned King Of Swing: Fletcher Henderson And Big Band Jazz Jeffrey Magee Oxford University Press Paperback; 244 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-534065-5 2008 This book first came out in hardback in 2005, but the intervening years have done nothing to diminish its status as the volume ...
The Fletcher Henderson Museum in Atlanta
The Fletcher Henderson Museum, Inc. Atlanta, GA 30301 Keeper of the Culture Opening 2008 “If you consider yourself culturally literate, you'd better know your Fletcher Henderson." --Kevin Whitehead, Author, Jazz Critic & NPR's Fresh Air Contributor The Museum's Unique Collection includes displays of Bandleader Fletcher Henderson's Baton, One Baby Shoe ...
Dave Douglas: Brave New World
by AAJ Staff
Trumpeter / composer Dave Douglas has been creating new worlds for listeners for the past decade. His ethereal writing style for unconventional configurations transports audiences into unfamiliar territory. These distinctive compositions combined with his astonishing technique and expressionist improvisations have brought him critical and public acclaim as a visionary of his generation. The diversity of his ...
