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Interview: Herb Geller (Part 2)
From his earliest small-group recording session with trumpeter Tony Fruscella in February 1952, Herb Geller's sound on the alto saxophone was distinct and vibrant. There was enormous power, spidery speed, seamless ideas and a soaring tone that immediately commanded attention. Though he would be thought of as a West Coast musician in the years to follow, ...
Interview: Herb Geller (Part 1)
Herb Geller is something of a mystery to many jazz fans. For one, the alto saxophonist who recorded steadily on the West Coast in the 1950s has lived in Germany since 1962, returning to the U.S. only sporadically to perform. For another, Herb rarely grants interviews, preferring to maintain his privacy while teaching and touring in ...
Take Five With Jerry Tilitz
by AAJ Staff
Meet Jerry Tilitz: Jerry Tilitz is an American trombonist, composer and vocalist from New York City presently ensconced in Hamburg, Germany. In the course of his career Mr. Tilitz has performed and recorded with many exceptional artists including Gerry Mulligan, Horace Parlan, Hank Jones, Roy Eldridge, Herb Geller, Tommy Flanagan, Warren Vache, Adam Nussbaum, Benny Bailey, ...
Salute to Stan Kenton: Artistry in Contrast
by Jack Bowers
Artistry in Rhythm, the Ken Poston / Los Angeles Jazz Institute's 2009 homage to the renowned bandleader Stan Kenton, was held October 8-11 at the Sheraton LAX Four Points Hotel. As always, there was much to see, hear and admire: films, panel discussions, special presentations and, last but not least, no fewer than nineteen concerts by ...
Intervista a Herb Geller
by AAJ Italy Staff
All'età di 81 anni Herb Geller è in piena attività ed il suo stile creativo, variopinto e luminoso, è inossidabile al trascorrere del tempo: sembra voler ripercorrere le orme del suo primo modello, Benny Carter, in gran forma ben oltre i novant'anni. La sua biografia è esemplare, come lo è quella di un grande protagonista della ...
Herb Geller, Activist
At eighty, Herb Geller is playing alto saxophone even better than when he was a key jazz figure in the 1950s and '60s. He is performing not with the gravity of Brahmsian old age but with full vigor. Nor has he lost the force of his convictions, witness this political song for which he wrote words and ...
Il bello del jazz
By Herb Geller
Label: Soul Note
Released: 2006
Track listing: 01. No Sadness (Magris) - 05:50; 02. Stray Form (Geller) - 04:36; 03. Some Other Spring (Kitchings/Herzog) - 05:16; 04. Key Largo (Carter) - 04:38; 05. A New Town is a Blue Town (Adler/Ross) - 07:08; 06. Here I'll Stay (Weill/Lerner) - 05:33; 07. Ah Moore (Cohn) - 05:03; 08. Il bello del jazz (Magris) - 05:14; 09. Pretty Woman (Sondheim) - 06:04; 10. Parker's Pen (Magris) - 05:07; 11. Deception (Geller) - 06:48.
Roberto Magris Europlane (feat. Herb Geller): Il bello del jazz
by AAJ Italy Staff
Qui nella versione quintetto, il Roberto Magris Europlane prosegue nel viaggio attorno al pianeta jazz, interpretato con sensibilità spiccatamente europea. Se in Check In, sempre per Soul Note, la guest star di turno era Tony Lakatos in questo Il Bello del Jazz il pianista e compositore triestino ricorre ai preziosi servigi di Herb Geller e in ...
