Results for "Harry Babasin"

Harry Babasin

Born: March 19, 1921

UNT One O'Clock Lab Band: Lab 2021

by Jack Bowers
June 23, 2022

The University of North Texas' flagship ensemble, the One O'Clock Lab Band, has been producing annual recordings for almost half a century. It has also given rise to a veritable assembly line of world-class jazz musicians, more of whom are no doubt coming of age while honing their chops on the One O'Clock's latest album, Lab ...

Erik Friedlander: A Little Cello?

by Ian Patterson
January 9, 2017

Normally lumped into the 'miscellaneous instruments' category of jazz awards, the cello has been something of a bit player in the colorful history of jazz. That said, today there are arguably more cellists in jazz and contemporary improvised music--and some extraordinary ones at that--than ever before. One of the best known cellists is undoubtedly Erik Friedlander, ...

"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor

by Jack Bowers
November 8, 2011

From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...

The Jazz Session #125: Harry Babasin

December 22, 2009

You'd think that helping to invent a new genre of music and being the first person to play your instrument in a jazz setting would be enough to get you some headlines in the jazz history books. You'd be wrong. Meet Harry Babasin, the bassist who played on the very first recordings of what became bossa ...

The Brothers Nash

By Ted Nash, Sr.

Label: Liberty
Released: 1956
Track listing: I Remember You; We'll Be Together Again; Juntos; Prelude To A Kiss; Theme From The Bad And The Beautiful; I Could Write A Book; Back In Your Own Backyard; For Heaven's Sake; Cuban Verandah; The Nearness Of You; Night Soliloquy; You Are Too Beautiful.