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Forget The Woman
Featuring the music of Frank Wess
Duration: 2:58
Cab Calloway Home a New Landmark?
by Fradley Garner
“A bad happening for the jazz community" is how reedsman Dave Liebman described the demise earlier this year of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Why IAJE filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy is still being asked, but part of the problem was the return to Toronto for this year's conference. Attendance was little more than half ...
Frank Wess Quintet at the Village Vanguard
Saxophone With Subtext Through their sound, some jazz players connote more than what is on the surface. They have a subtext. When Frank Wess plays tenor saxophone his sound can have a delicate, almost courtly veneer. But there's another player underneath that sound with an almost opposite disposition, brawny and bullish. Mr. Wess, who turned 86 ...
Frank Wess Wisdom
by AAJ Staff
One of the first major jazz flutists, Frank Wess has also been a top Lester Young-influenced tenor man, an expert first altoist, and an occasional composer/arranger--certainly a valuable man to have around. Early on he toured with Blanche Calloway, served in the military, and had stints with Billy Eckstine Orchestra (1946), Eddie Heywood, Lucky Millinder, and ...
Frank Wess: The Message of Swing
by Riel Lazarus
The genetic makeup of sax and flute legend Frank Wess is pure jazz. What else could explain over 60 years on the bandstand, dozens of cities seen and conquered, the message of swing spread to all within earshot? Though perhaps best known for his years with Count Basie, bookending those are decades of vigorous development and ...
Frank Wess: The Frank Wess Quartet
by Derek Taylor
Frank Wess, sterling saxophone star of the classic Fifties Count Basie Band, leads a relaxed date eponymous to his chosen band size on this recent Original Jazz Classics reissue. The Moodsville tag should give fairly solid indication of what’s in store. Six standards and an original fill out the set list with an emphasis on balmy ...
First Date
By Frank Wess
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Be Bop (Harris/Parker) - 6:32
2. Ceora (Morgan) - 6:54
3. Sumpn' Went Wrong (Wess) - 6:34
4. Rainesville (Grolnick) - 8:41
5. This I Dig of You (Mobley) - 4:40
6. Pretty Is (Wess) - 5:01
7. Equal Parts (Wess) - 3:36
8. A Child Is Born (Jones) - 4:14
9. Flutopia (Cunliffe) - 6:24
Frank Wess & Flutology: First Date
by Russ Musto
If you like flutes this record may already be familiar; but if you're one of those listeners who's a little shy when it comes to the instrument some feel is too “pretty" for real jazz, this disc could well be the perfect first date. Flutology features veteran flautist Frank Wess - the musician who first popularized ...
