Results for "Milt Jackson"

Ray Brown Defined the Modern Jazz Rhythm Section

April 16, 2009

Grammy Award-winning double-bassist Ray Brown was a leader in defining the modern jazz rhythm section -- in addition to being a first-rate soloist. His unique dynamic and innate sense of swing graced performances by Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Oscar Peterson and countless others. Raymond Matthews Brown was born October 13, 1926, in Pittsburgh, PA ...

Woodlawn Cemetery Honors Jazz Appreciation with Concert

March 30, 2009

A free concert celebrating the jazz greats memorialized at Woodlawn, hosted by saxophonist Victor Goines. In honor of Jazz Appreciation Month (April), The Woodlawn Cemetery is hosting weekend concerts and tours to celebrate in style and pay tribute to some of history's great American jazz musicians, including Duke Ellington, Illinois Jacquet, Miles Davis, Jackie McLean, Max ...

Lament

Featuring the music of Milt Jackson
Duration: 8:13
January 1, 2009

Cal Tjader: Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1958-1980

by David Rickert
November 5, 2008

Cal Tjader began his career as a stalwart member of the West Coast jazz scene, swinging his vibes through breezy versions of standards with the likes of Vince Guaraldi and Stan Getz. Along the way he delved into Latin music and after that it colored almost everything he did. His progression as an artist is explored ...

Come To Me

Featuring the music of Milt Jackson
Duration: 5:36
January 1, 2008

Blues & Beyond

By Joe Williams

Label: BHM Productions
Released: 2007
Track listing: Everyday I Have The Blues; Ol' Man River; I've Got It Bad; Bag's Groove; Since I Fell For You; Dearly Beloved; You Are So Beautiful; Smack Dab In The Middle; Reverence; It Don't Mean A Thing; If I Were A Bell; Honeysuckle Rose; Jimmy's Blues; Hallelujah I Love Her So;

Da Capo

By Milt Jackson

Label: FiveFour
Released: 2007
Track listing: Baggy Eyes; Autumn Breeze; I

Milt Jackson: Da Capo

by Nic Jones
February 19, 2007

Milt Jackson was to the vibraphone what Bud Powell was to the piano, in terms of how he disseminated the expansive harmonic vocabulary of bebop. This set, featuring both his early small group work and a fledgling Modern Jazz Quartet, indicates just how expansive his music was in the first decades of his career. “Baggy Eyes" ...

Groovin' With Diz & Co.

By Dizzy Gillespie

Label: in-akustik
Released: 2006
Track listing: Shaw Nuff ; Hot House ; Mean To Me ; Loverman (Oh Where Can You Be) ; East Of The Sun ; One Bass Hit No. 1 ; That's Earl Brother ; Opp Bop Sh'bam ; A Hand Fulla Gimme ; My Melancholy Baby ; Cherokee ; On The Alamo ; All The Things You Are ; Dizzy Atmosphere ; Blue 'N' Boogie ;

Milt Jackson: Things are Getting Better; Bags Meets Wes

by Donald Elfman
October 21, 2005

Milt “Bags Jackson gained international notoriety as the vibraphonist and co-leader of the Modern Jazz Quartet, in which setting his rich and warm sense of the blues, his solid swing and his mastery of technique on his instrument provided a somewhat more animated complement to the slightly more delicate and ethereal playing of pianist John Lewis ...