Results for "Peck Morrison"

Peck Morrison

Born: September 11, 1919

2019: The Year in Jazz

by Ken Franckling
January 2, 2020

The year 2019 was robust in many ways. International Jazz Day brought its biggest stage to Australia. An important but long-shuttered jazz mecca was revived in a coast-to-coast move. ECM Records celebrated a golden year. The music and its makers figured prominently on the big screen. The National Endowment for the Arts welcomed four new NEA ...

Gerry Mulligan: The Emarcy Sextet Recordings

by C. Andrew Hovan
June 2, 2016

While there are many reasons why the cool jazz movement on the west coast was a somewhat short-lived era, one of the key aspects of its quiet demise was the decidedly harder-edged music coming out of New York at about the same time period. Back around 1955, hard bop was making its ascendency and this might ...

Lou Donaldson: Blues Walk – 1958

by Marc Davis
November 2, 2015

There's a tendency among some jazz purists to poo-poo Lou Donaldson. Not flashy enough, they say. Not groundbreaking. Too bluesy, too simple. Predictable. Derivative. A notch below the best Blue Note saxmen. A craftsman, not an artist. Aw phooey! I like Lou Donaldson and I don't mind anyone knowing. It has always ...

Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul

By Norman Mapp

Label: Epic Records
Released: 1961
Track listing: 01. In the Night (Mapp) 4:29; 02. Blues in Bloom (Mapp) 3:49; 03. I Worry About You (Mapp) 4:53; 04. Who Do You Think You Are (Mapp) 2:02; 05. Dream Girl (Mapp-De Jesus) 2:04; 06. Daddy Knows (Mapp) 3:28; 07. Jazz Aint Nothin But Soul (Mapp) 2:47; 08. Moanin (Timmons-Hendricks) 3:49; 09. When Im With You (Mapp) 3:40; 10. Free Spirits (Mapp) 3:18.