Results for "Vic Lewis"

Vic Lewis

Born: July 29, 1919

Backgrounder: Vic Lewis - Plays Bossa Nova

June 16, 2023

Vic Lewis was a British jazz guitarist and bandleader with enormous taste and ease. In 1963, he recorded a superb album entitled Vic Lewis Plays Bossa Nova at Home and Away (CSD). The first side was recorded in London in February and the second side was recorded in Hollywood in January. What's remarkable about this album ...

Vic Lewis Plays Bossa Nova

May 3, 2018

One of my favorite little-known bossa nova albums was recorded by a British big-band leader born in 1919. Inconceivable, but true. Vic Lewis Plays Bossa Nova at Home and Away was recorded in Los Angeles in January 1963 and in London for EMI in February as an RCA-EMI joint venture. The L.A. tracks were done with ...

British Jazz

by Graham L. Flanagan
June 12, 2010

Stan TraceySenior MomentReSteamed2009 Stan TraceyThe Later WorksReSteamed2010 Various ArtistsThe Flamingo Connection: Great British Modern JazzEmber-Future Noise2009 The United Kingdom's recent political crisis ...

Play Bill Holman

By Vic Lewis

Label: Candid Records
Released: 2009
Track listing: Oleo (First Version); Yesterdays; Sizzler Before Lunch; When I Fall in Love; Easter Parade; As We Speak; Sizzler After Lunch; Olea (Second Version).

The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2009

The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...

Vic Lewis (1919-2009)

February 12, 2009

Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...

With Love to Gerry

By Vic Lewis

Label: Sea Breeze Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: Noblesse; I'm Gonna Go Fishin'; Go Home; Walkin' Shoes; Ballade; Bwebidda Bobbida; I Heard the Shadows Dancing; Noblesse.

The Vic Lewis West Coast All-Stars: With Love to Gerry

by Jack Bowers
October 1, 2001

If by “All--Stars" Vic Lewis means a world--class rhythm section backing three superb front--liners, then he's squarely on the mark, as With Love to Gerry (Mulligan, of course) embodies exactly that. There are two exceptions, the opening “Noblesse," performed by an a cappella “trombone choir" (actually, Andy Martin overdubbed), and the luminous “Ballade," handsomely shaped by ...

Vic Lewis & the West Coast All-Stars: With Love to Gerry

by Mike Neely
August 1, 2001

For a band to play Gerry Mulligan's music well all they need is a sophisticated horn section with an unerring sense of rhythm, a core of intelligent soloists with a wide range of stylistic knowledge, and a fluent rhythm section that can accompany with both vigor and taste. Vic Lewis and the West Coast All-Stars measure ...