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Jimmy Dorsey
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James "Jimmy" Dorsey the older of the two Dorsey brothers was a child prodigy who began his musical career at the age seven playing the slide trumpet and cornet with his father's brass band at local parties. His father was a working class man who wanted a better life for his children and made them study music, diligently. By the time he was 17, Jimmy was playing with the Jean Goldkette band with Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer. During the 1920's the Goldkette Orchestra had broken up, and Jimmy, along with Bix and Trumbauer joined Paul Whiteman's group. Jimmy left Whiteman's group and freelanced around playing with Red Nichols
Perfection: The Dorseys - Just Swingin' (1955)
In 1954, at the dawn of the 12-inch LP era and hi-fidelity sound, Tommy Dorsey and his brother, Jimmy, joined forces. Billed as the Fabulous Dorseys, the two bands were combined and great songwriters and arrangers were called in to compose for the superband. Both orchestras were enormously elegant, largely because the brothers had spent a ...
Michelle Nicolle & Larry Koonse: The Silent Wish
by Pierre Giroux
In The Silent Wish, Australian vocalist Michelle Nicolle collaborates with American guitar virtuoso Larry Koonse in a duo setting that removes all excess, revealing the essence of musical conversation. This recording is both daring and intimate, as it marks Nicolle's entry into a new chapter of vocal exploration, driven by a desire to awaken her creative ...
Terry Waldo: Treasury Volume 1
by Nicholas F. Mondello
Simply stated, and without hyperbole, Terry Waldo is an American musical treasure. He's also a treasure purveyor. A protégé of and mentored by Eubie Blake, Waldo is a player, composer, arranger, author, podcaster, theatrical director, and the noted oracle for ragtime and early American popular music. With Treasury Volume 1 (the first of a three-volume set), ...
Keeping Alive That Big-Band Swing And Spirit
The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, led by trumpeter and singer David Pruyn, drew the Charlotte County Jazz Society's largest audience of the 2021-22 season for its hard-swinging concert on Monday, March 14. For the audience, and the players, it was a journey back in musical time to the big band era of the 1930s, '40s and early ...
Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2020
by Mark Sullivan
2020 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal Various Venues Montréal, Canada June 27-30, 2020 Above all else the Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is a spectacular ten-day event: with around 2 million visitors and 500 concerts on 20 stages, it is ranked as the world's largest jazz ...
Leslie Pintchik: You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl!
by Angelo Leonardi
Anche in quest'album la sensibile pianista e compositrice di New York, ripropone l'organico degli ultimi due dischi con l'aggiunta del fisarmonicista Shoko Nagai. E nuovamente si rinnova la fragranza delle sue composizioni, dove la tensione jazzistica si alimenta di suggestioni latine o lascia spazio a intime melodie. Dopo essersi esibita professionalmente per un ventennio ...
That Dizzy Cat - Dizzy Gillespie (1945 - 1948)
by Russell Perry
Dizzy Gillespie grew up professionally playing in the big bands of Teddy Hill, Cab Calloway, Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine and writing for Woody Herman and Jimmy Dorsey. The wartime economy with its shortages and the musician's strike of the early 1940s led Gillespie to focus on small combos for his own projects, including his seminal ...
Vijay Iyer, Max Moran and more
by Joe Dimino
This week we begin with Vijay Iyer playing music from Far From Over, the powerful release he has recorded with his Sextet and profiling their show in Kansas City at The Gem Theater headlining a stellar night of jazz that was kicked off by a performance with Hermon Mehari and Logan Richardson. We also focus on ...
Julian Pressley: From The Duke To Ornette In His Own Way
by Victor L. Schermer
Julian Pressley isn't exactly a household name, but it's a name every jazz aficionado should know. When he plays his alto saxophone, ears perk up because he's playing what they came to hear: music that embodies the legacy. Passionate, quick-witted, and full of new ideas, Pressley stands out in the crowd, a genuine original. Yet you ...
