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06/08/11 Indiana-born jazz musician Larry Ridley, who has performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman and Dinah Washington, to be part of festivities
06/06/11 Meet Benjamin Drazen: Benjamin Drazen is a native New Yorker, and grew up in Roslyn, NY. He got his frist great jazz saxophone education from the late great Dave Burns. (Dave was a master trumpeter with the m: Dizzy Gillespie and m: Duke Ellington Orchestras as well as leading his own groups) A graduate of the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, Drazen studied with such legends as m ...
03/08/11 George Pickow was a photographer and film-maker responsible for images of such musical giants as Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Pete Seeger and Dizzy Gillespie. His marriage to Jean Ritchie, from a family of Kentucky Mountain singers, gave him a unique perspective on the lives of musicians, but he also photographed artists, including Edward Hopper, and artisans plying their trade. He also made ...
02/12/11 The legacy of Charlie Parker is something that every jazz musician has to contend with. As a co-creator of bebop up at Minton's with Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and others, Parker has assured his legacy by the time he died at age 34 in 1956. He was more than just a landmark innovator, as Bird's outsized playing and personality in a community known for great playing and colorful ...
02/10/11 The legacy of Charlie Parker is something that every jazz musician has to contend with. As a co-creator of bebop up at Minton's with Dizzy Gillespie , Thelonious Monk , Bud Powell and others, Parker has assured his legacy by the time he died at age 34 in 1956. He was more than just a landmark innovator, as Bird's outsized playing and personality in a community known for great playing and ...
02/06/11 Julian Clifford "Junior" Mance is a living, thriving link to the history of jazz. When he was a teenager, the Chicago pianist backed up saxophonist Gene Ammons. From there he toured with another saxophone king, Lester Young, as well as singer Dinah Washington, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley.
12/30/10 Christian Scott and his quintet played at the Agharta Jazz Festival. Scott's playing recalls the styles of Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.
12/29/10 *Jazz pianist and media personality Billy Taylor died of a heart attack in New York City Tuesday (Dec. 28), The Washington Post reported Wednesday. He was 89. Taylor, who grew up in Washington and moved to New York City in the early 1940s, played alongside Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis. He was also [...]
10/22/10 HALLOWELL -- The next Dizzy Gillespie may well be sitting in the music class at Hall-Dale Elementary School.
10/22/10 The concert will highlight the music of innovative jazz masters from Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie’s early bop units to the classic Blue Note groups of the 1950s and ’60s. FBQ also will perform D’earth’s original piece, “In Memory,” which he wrote for Dave Matthews Band sax player LeRoi Moore ...
10/21/10 All About Jazz is celebrating Dizzy Gillespie's birthday today! Dizzy GillespieJohn Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, one of the greatest Jazz trumpeters of 20th century and one of the prime architects of the bebop movement in jazz, was born in Cheraw, South Carolina and died in Englewood, New Jersey... more...
10/21/10 Dizzy Gillespie, the seminal American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, singer and composer born John Birks Gillespie, would have turned 93 today.
10/18/10 Multiple Grammy Award-winning pianist Chucho Valdes, "the dean of Latin jazz," has made an illustrious career performing with countless jazz masters, including Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and Chick Corea.
09/18/10 Pianist, composer and bandleader Marc Cary emerged from the Washington D.C. go-go scene but cut his teeth with Dizzy Gillespie, Betty Carter, Abbey Lincoln, Arthur Taylor and other jazz veterans.
09/13/10 On October 2, 2010, music will fill the O. Henry School's auditorium in Chelsea in tribute to beloved music teacher, Jerry Sheik, who passed away on June 1st. Performers are his former students, now renowned musicians, who have gone on to work with both the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic, as well as Bob Dylan, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Lionel Hampton, Aretha Franklin, and on Broadway...
09/09/10 Under the guide of Dizzy Gillespie, Faddis has broken into his own musical mold.
09/08/10 Hailed as "the dean of Latin jazz" and "one of the worlds great virtuosic pianists" by The New York Times, multi-Grammy Award winner Chucho Valds has recorded over eighty CDs during his illustrious career, performing with countless jazz masters, including Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea. Whether Chucho Valds is performing a gentle ballad or a rousing foot-stomper ...
05/11/10 Hal McKusick was and remains a jazz musician's musician. Even in his earliest days in Boyd Raeburn's band in the mid-1940s, Hal's distinct sound on the alto saxophone was admired by bandmates Lucky Thompson, Oscar Pettiford and Dizzy Gillespie as well as contemporaries like Charlie Parker, Claude Thornhill and Quincy Jones. Hal's ability to navigate the most complex arrangements effortlessly ...
05/09/10 Filed under: News , R.I.P. Francisco Aguabella, the Cuban-born percussionist who worked with a diverse group of musicians including Dizzy Gillespie , Tito Puente , Frank Sinatra , Peggy Lee , Paul Simon , the Doors and Santana , died Friday in Los Angeles after a battle with cancer. He was 84. Aguabella, known mostly as a conga drummer, got his big break performing with the dancer Katherine ...
04/08/10 Dizzy Gillespie was one of the critical architects of bebop, the modern jazz style that took root in the mid-1940s. But within just a few years, Gillespie was also marrying Afro-Cuban rhythms with jazz, a prescient innovation that in many ways presages today's omnipresent interest in world-music fusions.
03/09/10 Perez, who recently signed with Mack Avenue Records in 2009 and is expected to release his label debut in August, has brought together this diverse and global group of musicians to celebrate the music and bountiful inspiration of his mentor, Dizzy Gillespie. Perez's hand-picked all-stars, with roots in Afro-Cuban, be-bop, Indian, African, and Middle Eastern music, will more than honor Dizzy's ... |
