Results for "Jazz History"

Christy Bennett

Born: November 15, 1983

Chicago singer Christy Bennett has been influenced by and performed the work other share of jazz legends, but her specialty is uncovering the gifts of lesser known songwriters, especially women. On her new album, Good Morning Heartache: the Music of Irene Higginbotham, she explores the work of an overlooked ‘40s composer (nice of the great swing trombonist J.C. Higginbotham) who is perhaps best known for her work with Billie Holiday but also wrote songs recorded by Anita O’Day, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee and Nat King Cole.

Top 10 Moments in Jazz History

by Jeff Fitzgerald, Genius
November 12, 2018

10. In 1956, while in the throes of kicking his heroin addiction and late for a gig, Miles Davis picks up a small black snake that had wandered into his Missouri home and--thinking it is just a hallucination--mistakes for a clip-on tie. He completed the gig wearing the snake, which started a trend of Jazz musicians ...

Shawnn Monteiro

Exciting, captivating and completely distinctive” is how most jazz cognoscenti describe Shawnn's pulsating lyric style. Whether in the intimacy of a club date or the glitter of a Las Vegas showroom, Shawnn has delighted audiences from USA to Europe with her highly popular jazz repertoire laced with blues-oriented improvisations. Evident in Shawnn's liveliness of lyrical phrasing and intermittent scat variations is the influences of Carmen McRae and Sarah Vaughan, from whom she draws that inner core of creative energy. But good genes help, too. Shawnn's father was the late renowned bassist Jimmy Woode, veteran of the Duke Ellington band

The New York Jazz Museum: 1972-1977

by Howard E. Fischer
August 13, 2021

As a lawyer with a new office in 1967, I was sitting there trying to figure out how I was going to get clients. At that time, lawyers were not permitted to advertise. How different from today! I started reading the Village Voice newspaper and saw a two-line ad on the back ...

Robert Pitzer

Born: March 10, 1959

Robert Pitzer, bass trombonist and music educator, has taught music in the public schools of Washington state for more than 30 years, including 18 years as the instrumental music director at Franklin High School in Seattle, and 10 years as musical director and program coordinator for the Seattle Schools All-City Band. Mr. Pitzer currently teaches band and jazz ensemble for the Mount Vernon School District in Washington state and serves as the Fine and Performing Arts Coordinator for the district. He has previously served as a Music Education instructor at Western Washington University, Student Teaching Coordinator for the University of Washington School of Music, and is a frequent presenter at conferences throughout the United States

Jazz History

By Stan Getz

Label: Point Entertainment
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