Results for "Frank Wess"

Frank Wess: Basel 1956 Part 1; Once is Not Enough; Hank and Frank II; Plays the Music of Irving Berlin (except one)

by George Kanzler
May 9, 2009

Count BasieBasel 1956 part 1TCB2009 Frank WessOnce Is Not EnoughLabeth Music2009 Hank Jones and Frank WessHank and FrankLineage2009 John BunchPlays the Music ...

Mike Vax Big Band / Dave Siebels / Phil Woods / London Horn Sound

by Jack Bowers
May 4, 2009

Mike Vax Big Band Sounds from the Road Summit Records 2009 As Bob Hope and Bing Crosby entertained millions with their “road" movies in the 1940s, so the Mike Vax Big Band has its own “road show," arguably as entertaining but playing to much smaller audiences than Hope ...

Queens: Home of Jazz and Flushing Town Hall

by Greg Thomas
May 1, 2009

When most people think of jazz in New York City, Manhattan readily comes to mind. The “East Coast" stride piano style was developed in Harlem, where venues such as the Savoy Ballroom, Small's Paradise, the Cotton Club and Minton's Playhouse presented the big bands and small groups of jazz lore. 52nd Street became known for its ...

Frank Wess Nonet: Once Is Not Enough

by Woodrow Wilkins
April 23, 2009

In the musical numbers game, trios and quartets are a dime a dozen, with occasional duos and quintets. Anything larger than the latter is usually presented as a group, big band or orchestra, if anything at all, with Frank Wess Nonet defying that model.Wess is an NEA American Jazz Master, and a veteran of ...

April 2009

by AAJ Staff
April 4, 2009

Edward SimonEd Simon TrioVillage VanguardNew York City March 1, 2009In any circumstance, it would be worth hitting the Village Vanguard to hear Edward Simon (Mar. 1st), one of the most gifted pianists of our day. But the presence of guest saxophonist Mark Turner--back in undiminished form after a ...

John Bunch: The John Bunch Trio Plays the Music of Irving Berlin (except one)

by John Fidler
March 28, 2009

If it takes a while to notice that there's no drummer on The John Bunch Trio Plays the Music of Irving Berlin (except one), that's OK. Recalling the classic Nat King Cole Trio, Bunch's music embraces the same combination of tradition and freshness, of rock-solid technique and flight-of-fancy exploration. Tradition might be the ...

Forget The Woman

Featuring the music of Frank Wess
Duration: 2:58
February 25, 2009

Cab Calloway Home a New Landmark?

by Fradley Garner
November 17, 2008

“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

May 10, 2008

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
June 2, 2005

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 ...