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Gerald Wilson

Born: September 4, 1918

Back in 1939, Gerald Wilson joined the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra as a trumpet soloist and an arranger. 66 years later, Wilson is still very active, having long been considered one of the top arrangers, composers and big band leaders in the history of jazz. 86 as of this writing, he has lost none of his enthusiasm, skills or creativity, and still manages to sound quite modern. Throughout his career, Gerald Wilson has received incredible acclaim, including winning the Downbeat International Critics Poll both as a composer/arranger and for his big band, and winning the Paul Robeson Award, the NEA American Jazz Masters Fellowship, and a pair of American Jazz Awards

Leroy Vinnegar Walks

By Leroy Vinnegar

Label: Craft Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Walk On; Would You Like to Take a Walk; On the Sunny Side of the Street; Walking; Walking' My Baby Back Home; I'll Walk Alone; Walking' By The River

Gerald Wilson, Wayne Shorter, Charles Gayle & Danny Jonokuchi

by Joe Dimino
October 8, 2023

We begin the 823rd Episode of Neon Jazz with big band leader Danny Jonokuchi and music from 2023 album Big Band Voices. From there, we hear music from his greatest influence, Gerald Wilson. We also hear from Audrey Silver, Linda Purl and Gordon Lee. We play an early Wayne Shorter tune in honor of the new ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Tribute to a Great Jazz City

by Paul Rauch
September 11, 2023

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023 Hart Plaza & Campus Martius Detroit, MI September 1-4, 2023 Opening night is always a gas. Whether it takes the form of the annual rite of spring in baseball, the long anticipated opening of a Broadway play, or for that matter, the opening salvo of a world ...

Detroit Jazz Festival 2023: A Celebration of Home

August 13, 2023

The 2023 Detroit Jazz Festival is almost upon us, taking place in its annual Labor Day weekend slot on the yearly jazz festival calendar. The largest free jazz festival in the world brings the music to the people of Detroit, and the world, on September 1-4 in downtown Detroit and in Hart Plaza along the Detroit ...

Large Jazz Ensembles: Gerald Wilson, Sun Ra and Others

by Jerome Wilson
August 2, 2023

From June of this year, this is a show that features a varied selection of large jazz ensembles that delve into traditional and contemporary styles and sometimes even travel to the outer reaches of this music. Bandleaders and arrangers heard on the program include Gerald Wilson, Christine Jensen, Sun Ra, Bob Crosby, and Maria Schneider. There ...

Leroy Vinnegar: Leroy Vinnegar Walks

by Richard J Salvucci
July 6, 2023

Chances are good that the name of bassist Leroy Vinnegar does not ring much of a bell among contemporary audiences. He does not have the cachet of a Ray Brown or an Oscar Pettiford, two names that a lot of professional bassists will instantly recognize, along with Scott LaFaro, with whom Vinnegar all too briefly overlapped. ...

Dorothy Ashby: With Strings Attached, 1957-1965

by Angelo Leonardi
May 30, 2023

Questo lussuoso cofanetto di sei LP in edizione limitata dedicato all'arpista Dorothy Ashby è un importante contributo che colma l'attuale vuoto di registrazioni e rende giustizia a un'artista tanto importante quanto dimenticata. Non troverete il suo nome sulle massime storie ed enciclopedie del jazz, e la sua morte prematura dell'aprile 1986 (aveva 55 anni) fu data ...

Joe Pass: Meditation

by Ken Dryden
February 16, 2023

Although a few jazz guitarists still perform solo concerts in the early days of the 21st century, none of them has produced anything approaching the series of live recordings by Joe Pass during his two decades as a Pablo artist. Incredibly, Pass maintained that playing unaccompanied on stage wasn't even his idea. During my November 1993 ...

Swing

by Monk Rowe
February 15, 2023