Results for "Joe Benjamin"

Joe Benjamin

Born: November 4, 1919

My Early Years With Bill Evans, Part 3

by Chuck Israels
July 27, 2020

Bassist and composer, Chuck Israels was raised in a musical family. Paul Robeson, Pete Seeger and The Weavers were visitors to his home and the appearance of Louis Armstrong's All Stars in a concert series produced by his parents in 1948 gave Chuck his first opportunity to meet and hear jazz musicians. Chuck studied the cello ...

My Early Years with Bill Evans, Part 2

by Chuck Israels
July 10, 2020

Bassist and composer Chuck Israels was raised in a musical family. He studied the cello and played guitar in junior high school. Later musical training took place at Indian Hill, a summer workshop in the arts directed by his parents, and at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. A year at Massachusetts ...

Fresh Sound Records and the Legacy of Recorded Jazz

by Bruce Klauber
November 22, 2012

If the importance and the contributions of jazz are measured by its recorded legacy, then Fresh Sound Records--and its founder, Jordi Pujol--must be duly recognized for rescuing a legacy that might otherwise be lost or nearly impossible to find, and for making it available to the public. Specifically, this legacy includes recorded works by ...

Billie Holiday: Four Classic Albums Plus

by David Rickert
May 22, 2011

Billie HolidayFour Classic AlbumsAvid Records2011 Back in the 1950s, when the American people were buying television sets and driving gas guzzlers on brand new superhighways under the threat of nuclear war, singer Billie Holiday was still turning out fine performances on record and on stage, defying a ...

Color Changes

By Clark Terry

Label: Candid Records
Released: 1961
Track listing: Blue Waltz (La Valse Bleue); Brother Terry; Flutin' and Fluglin'; No Problem; La Rive Gauche; Nahstye Blues; Chat Qui Peche (A Cat That Fishes);