Results for "Herb Ellis"

The State of the Tenor 2009: AJ Kluth and Ricky Sweum

by C. Michael Bailey
August 28, 2009

Saxophonists AJ Kluth and Ricky Sweum look more like the backfield from Friday Night Lights than they do jazz musicians. But jazz musicians they are, playing what may be heard as the logical, evolutionary result of post-bop: a dry ice eutectoid of smooth, free, avant-garde, cool and modal jazz. Their music is characterized by open composition ...

Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Sessions of the Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Michael Steinman
July 25, 2009

Oscar Peterson The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953) Mosaic Records 2008 The late Oscar Peterson was technically dazzling, harmonically sophisticated and indefatigably rhythmic. His virtuosic command of the piano has never been questioned. Because of Norman Granz' enthusiasm for his work, Peterson recorded ...

Take Five With Amy Barlow Liberatore

by AAJ Staff
July 23, 2009

Meet Amy Barlow Liberatore: Born in Binghamton, raised among jazz musicians who mentored her from her first club appearance at 17, Amy Barlow Liberatore began her vocal/piano career (New York, Los Angeles, Bermuda, Puerto Rico) playing jazz standards. A lucky break put her on the road with Rickie Lee Jones' first national tour. She later began ...

Jim Hall: The Elegant Guitarist

by R.J. DeLuke
March 16, 2009

There's good news and better news for the many fans of guitar great Jim Hall--counted among them a number of established guitarists who are, themselves, eminent. It would be hard to find a guitarist who doesn't look up to Hall and whose playing has not been influenced by him in some way. Players relish Hall's rich ...

The Story of Jazz Guitar

by AAJ Staff
January 27, 2009

While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Samuel Chell
October 27, 2008

How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...

I Love You

Featuring the music of Herb Ellis
Duration: 6:07
August 4, 2007

Ellis In Wonderland

By Herb Ellis

Label: Concord Jazz
Released: 2006

Arrival

By Herb Ellis

Label: Concord Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Look for the Silver Lining; Shadow of Your Smile; Good News Blues; Honeysuckle Rose; Happiness Is a Concord Jazz Festival; Stuffy; Georgia; Love for Sale; Bad News Blues; In a Mellow Tone; Seven Come Eleven; Prelude to a Kiss; Perdido; I'm Confessin' (That I Love You); Easy Living; Concord Blues.

Soulville

By Ben Webster

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2003
Track listing: Soulville; Late Date; Time on My Hands; Lover, Come Back to Me; Where Are You?; Makin' Whoopee; Ill Wind; Who?; Boogie Woogie; Roses of Picardy.