Results for "Tony Crombie"

Tony Crombie

Born: August 27, 1925

Ginger Johnson and his African Messengers: African Party (Deluxe Edition)

by Tony Poole
January 28, 2025

George Folunsho Johnson (1916-1975) was born in Nigeria and earned the nickname Ginger due to his reddish hair and freckles. At 18, Ginger Johnson joined the Nigerian Navy, which took him around the world and exposed him to a variety of musical styles and percussion techniques. After World War II, he settled in London, where he ...

The 1959 Sessions

By Stan Tracey

Label: Resteamed
Released: 2022
Track listing: Sometimes I'm Happy; Just You Just Me; Moonlight In Vermont; Jumpin' With Symphony Sid; Mood 13; Little Girl Sadly; Street Of Themes; Pittar Patter Panic.

Stan Tracey Trio: The 1959 Sessions

by Chris May
January 23, 2022

Sonny Rollins summed up the outsize talent of British pianist Stan Tracey in a remark he made sometime in the early 1960s. Tracey was then the house pianist at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, where Rollins was playing a season. “Does anyone over here realise how good this guy is?" Rollins asked the audience. ...

New Stories: Speakin' Out

by Jack Bowers
March 6, 2020

New Stories is a seasoned piano trio (and a very good one) rendered even more persuasive on Speakin' Out by the singular presence (on five of nine tracks) of renowned saxophone maestro Ernie Watts. The trio itself consists of pianist Marc Seales, bassist Doug Miller and drummer (and Origin Records founder) John Bishop. The wide-selling album, ...

Will The Real Joe Harriott Please Stand Up?

by Duncan Heining
April 10, 2012

The Jamaican saxophhonist Joe Harriott was, without doubt, one of the most important and innovative jazz musicians to emerge in Britain in the fifties and early sixties. He arrived in Britain in 1951 with Ozzie Da Costa's band, which was en route for an engagement in Germany playing US army bases. Much to his erstwhile boss's ...

Webster's Dictionary

By Ben Webster

Label: Ronnie Scott Records
Released: 1970
Track listing: Love Is Here to Stay; Where Are You?; Willow Weep for Me; For All We Know; That's All; Someone to Watch Over Me; The Shadow of Your Smile; Come Sunday; For Heaven's Sake; Old Folks.

Big Ben Time!

By Ben Webster

Label: Fontana North/Universal
Released: 1967
Track listing: How Deep Is The Ocean?; My One And Only Love; Honeysuckle Rose; Wrap Your Troubles In Dreams; Exactly Like You; Where Or When; Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin'; Solitude; You Forgot To Remember; The Jeep Is Jumpin'.

Four Favourite Film Themes

By Tony Crombie

Label: TES
Released: 1961

Whole Lotta Tony

By Tony Crombie

Label: TES
Released: 1961