Results for "Fred Irby"

Fred Irby

A Tribute to Donald Byrd

By Fred Irby

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2014
Track listing: In Walked Bud; Morning; Alice in Wonderland; Una Mas (One More Time); Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat; Nai Nai; Evening Star; I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face; One by One; Silver’s Serenade.

Howard University Jazz Ensemble 2013: A Tribute to Donald Byrd

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2014

When Fred Irby III took the reins as director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble in 1975, one of his earliest and most pivotal decisions was to usher the ensemble into a recording studio once each year to produce an album designed to offer a musical vignette of its proficiency at that point in time. From ...

Take Five With James Brandon Lewis

by AAJ Staff
March 24, 2012

Meet James Brandon Lewis: Saxophonist/composer James Brandon Lewis was exposed to jazz, gospel, and R&B and at an early age began his journey into the realm of music. He attended Buffalo Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts located in Buffalo NY. Upon graduating, James would continue his musical pursuit At Howard University, where ...