Results for "Howard University"

Howard University

Kevin Toney

Born: January 1, 1953

Let it be stated – no shouted from the highest mountaintop – that the root source of piano virtuoso Kevin Toney’s dynamic musical artistry has ALWAYS been hardcore straight-ahead Jazz. As an A+ disciple of the Art Tatum’s, Oscar Peterson’s, McCoy Tyner's, Errol Garner’s, and Herbie Hancock’s of the idiom (as well as Detroit-born schoolmate of Geri Allen), Kevin Toney began his journey into the dexterous essence of Jazz absorbing the richness and excellence of its most exploratory players. Though as a child of the `60s, Kevin additionally enjoys and throttles the thrilling sounds of raw, unbridled Blues, Soul, and Rock ‘n Roll – and as a deeply spiritual man serves GOD in Gospel – Jazz is the music Toney has returned to time and time again to flex the freedoms and disciplines it offers in quantifiably equal measure.

Journey of a Friend

By Howard University

Label: HUJE
Released: 2013

Here's to Life!

By Howard University

Label: HUJE
Released: 2007
Track listing: Quiet Sophistication; Here

Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Here's to Life!

by Jack Bowers
June 25, 2007

Every year, almost like clockwork, director Fred Irby III sends me a copy of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble's latest recording, and I am always pleased and happy to be reminded that an undergraduate big band of this caliber resides and plays in my hometown (as a boy growing up in Washington, DC, I lived within ...

Grace Notes: HUJE 2004

By Howard University

Label: HUJE
Released: 2005
Track listing: I Could Write a Book; Verzierungen (Grace Notes); Nobby Jobby; It

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble: Grace Notes: HUJE 2004

by Jack Bowers
June 19, 2005

There's a lot to be said for continuity. The Howard University Jazz Ensemble, formed thirty years ago, has had only one director, Fred Irby III. For 29 of those years, Irby has taken the ensemble into a recording studio to produce an album, the most recent of which is Grace Notes, or HUJE 2004. Although the ...

Come Sunday: A Tribute to Duke Ellington

By Howard University

Label: HUJE
Released: 2000

The Howard University Jazz Ensemble '99: Come Sunday: A Tribute to Duke Ellington

by Jack Bowers
June 1, 2000

Edward Kennedy “Duke” Ellington, the most influential composer / arranger / bandleader in the history of Jazz, was born April 29, 1899, in Washington, DC. As it happens, our nation’s capital is also home to Howard University, which boasts one of the country’s foremost undergraduate Jazz ensembles and most respected Jazz Studies programs. In 1971 Ellington ...