Results for "Maynard Ferguson"

The Bickel/Marks Group: The Bickel/Marks Group with Dave Liebman

by Jerry D'Souza
August 19, 2010

Doug Bickel and Dennis Marks have been playing together since 1987 when they were at the University of Miami. They formed a band and recorded a demo with alto saxophonist Matt Vashlishan and drummer Marco Marcinko in 1991, but nothing came of it. Both went on to become academics, while keeping music within sight with their ...

Allen Carter Big Band / Lucerne Jazz Orchestra / Joris Teepe Big Band

by Jack Bowers
August 3, 2010

Allen Carter Big BandGiftsAC Muzik2010 If there were any integrity or enlightenment in the music business as we know it in 2010--not to mention among listeners--drummer Allen Carter's debut big-band album, Gifts, would surely go platinum or at least earn a well-deserved Grammy Award. As not much of ...

Toshiko Akiyoshi: The Music Keeps Her Young

by Jack Bowers
August 2, 2010

Pianist Billy Taylor, now in his eighty-ninth year, once recorded an album titled Music Keeps Us Young. I'm a firm believer in that and could point to several notable examples, one of whom is composer / pianist / bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi who was in Albuquerque and Santa Fe last month with husband Lew Tabackin to headline ...

Denis DiBlasio: View from Pikes

by Victor L. Schermer
July 18, 2010

Originally released in 2006, this “sleeper" of an album may not contain breathtaking breakthroughs, but it's so good for what it does that it deserves attention. View from Pikes provides consistent listening pleasure from start to finish. The absence of drums actually facilitates the sweet, laidback playing of the Denis DiBlasio/Steve Varner/Jim Ridl trio, which maintains ...

Jim Manley: Brass Poison

by Nicholas F. Mondello
July 14, 2010

Mythology and its partners--history and literature--are replete with accounts of poisonings of all kinds; romantic, political, and those unfortunately accidental. Most of these tales culminate with unhappy, tragic endings. Someone usually “gets it" in the end. With Brass Poison, star trumpeter Jim Manley shrewdly plays title tongue-in-cheek, and delivers a supremely enjoyable and ...

Lew Tabackin: Jazz na Hrade

by Ken Dryden
June 6, 2010

Lew Tabackin began to make his mark in the '60s, touring or recording with Maynard Ferguson, the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, Duke Pearson, Joe Henderson, Elvin Jones, Donald Byrd and The Tonight Show Band. From 1968-69, he was a main soloist with the Danish Radio Orchestra. He helped his wife, Toshiko Akiyoshi, to form her long-running ...

Sonny Rollins Elected as Member of American Academy of Arts & Sciences

by Jack Bowers
May 7, 2010

This month's most welcome news has nothing to do with big bands but everything to do with artistry and excellence: saxophonist and jazz icon Sonny Rollins has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. The Academy, a center for independent policy research (I don't quite understand what that has to do ...

Andrea Tofanelli: Flamingo

by Nicholas F. Mondello
May 5, 2010

Back in 1974, a French daredevil named Philippe Petit brazenly high-wire walked across the span of New York's Twin Towers. He electrified the pre-internet, pre-YouTube world by spanning the buildings on a ¾" wire cable eight times; a feat of incredible skill, athleticism and bravery later detailed in his book, To Reach the Clouds (North Point ...

Hey Jude

Featuring the music of Maynard Ferguson
Duration: 5:55
May 4, 2010

Earl MacDonald: Re: Visions

by Edward Blanco
May 2, 2010

There are far too few big band albums being recorded these days, so it is with great appreciation that the music of professor Earl MacDonald finds its way to the studio for lovers of the genre to enjoy. Harnessing the talents of a 17-piece, world-class orchestra, MacDonald--a composer/arranger/pianist and director of Jazz Studies at the University ...