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Herman Davis "Dave" Burrell is a jazz pianist. He has played with many jazz musicians including Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Marion Brown and David Murray. His obsession with classical opera led to the jazz opera Windward Passages (September 1979) for orchestra, eight singers, dancers and a choir.
05.12.2023 21:46 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
80 days.. Not bad.
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In addition to its great musical quality, Webb’s band was intimately linked to Swing music’s dance tradition, serving aficionados at Harlem’s Savoy Ballroom for many years. The bouncy energy and special mood generated by Webb and his band have never been replicated.
25.11.2023 19:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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William Henry Webb was a jazz drummer and big band leader. Severely handicapped by a childhood illness and nearly a dwarf, Webb was able to become the most powerful drummer of the classic era, thus symbolizing the triumph of the spirit over the flesh.
Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.
- Chuck Israels -
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Charles H. Israels is a Grammy-winning jazz composer, arranger, and bassist best known for his work with the Bill Evans Trio. He has also worked with Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Coleman Hawkins, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock, J J. Johnson, John Coltrane, & Judy Collins.
"Cherry's technique isn't always the most efficient but he's a master at exploring the trumpet and cornet's expressive, voice-like properties; he bends notes and adds slurs and smears, and his twisting solos are tightly constructed and executed regardless of their flaws."
- Ron Wynn -
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Donald Eugene Cherry was a jazz trumpeter. Imagination and a passion for exploration made him one of the most influential jazz musicians. A founding member of Ornette Coleman's quartet of the late '50s, he continued to expand his musical vocabulary until his death.
Although fusing Jazz with Latin music is often categorized as "Latin Jazz", Tjader's works swung freely between both styles.
In addition to being infatuated with Latin music, Cal Tjader was a tasty straight-ahead jazz musician and one of the more famous jazz musicians to come from the West Coast.
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Callen Radcliffe Tjader Jr. was a jazz instrumentalist often described as the most successful non-Latino Latin musician. He explored other jazz idioms, especially small-group modern jazz. Tjader played the vibraphone primarily.
"Lester Young was joshing me about my 'sweet' style and he said: "We're going to call you 'Sweetie Pie.'" They did, too, for a few months. Then they shortened it to "Sweets." The nickname has kind of lasted a long time."
- Harry "Sweets" Edison -
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Harry "Sweets" Edison was a jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backing singers, most notably Frank Sinatra.
"You can't just rely on talent. Hard work is essential."
- Buddy Rich -
"Average band with a great drummer sounds great, a great band with an average drummer sounds average.”
- Buddy Rich -
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Bernard "Buddy" Rich was a jazz drummer, songwriter, and bandleader. Rich was known for his virtuoso technique, power, and speed. he never learned how to read sheet music, preferring to listen to drum parts and play them from memory.
Tina wasn't his real name. When Harold Brooks was young, he was nicknamed Teeny, which at some point wound up as Teena and then Tina. Between 1958 and 1961, the tenor saxophonist recorded five hard bop albums for Blue Note as a leader. There were plenty of Blue Note sideman dates as well.
15.11.2023 22:20 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks was a jazz tenor saxophonist and composer.
He was one of the unsung geniuses of the horn, a brilliant soloist with a pure, smooth tone and a mind that created patterns of great intricacy, logic and beauty.
"I tell you, man, I had no idea I was starting a trend, that I was playin' a style of drums that the guys who play the drums today learned how to play from."
- Idris Muhammad -
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Idris Muhammad; born Leo Morris; was a jazz drummer and bandleader. He had an extensive career performing jazz, funk, R&B, and soul music and recorded with musicians such as Ahmad Jamal, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, Bob James, and Tete Montoliu.
Many talented souls from various walks of life have departed the planet well before their loved ones thought they should have. The abbreviated stays of the gifted makes us ponder what other wonders they might have contributed, had they lived.
13.11.2023 15:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
"I hate to think of Jazz as black and white, something political."
- Oliver Nelson -
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Oliver Edward Nelson was a jazz saxophonist, clarinettist, arranger, composer, and bandleader. As difficult as his music might have been to play, and as hard as it is to analyze, it is extremely easy to listen to.
Sam Jones
12.11.2023 18:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sam Jones was a solid jazz bassist with impeccable technique, who could also swing and groove with the best of them. Most associated with his tenures with C. Adderley and O. Peterson, he also went on to front his bands and left a reputable recorded legacy as a leader.
Mildred Bailey was never able to keep her weight down. She loved to eat. She ate too much. She ate compulsively. Even in the later stages of the diabetes that killed her—on December 12, 1951, at the age of forty-four—she used to say: "Now, I've eaten the diet, so bring on the food."
10.11.2023 22:51 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Mildred Bailey, aka "The Queen of Swing" "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs. Swing" was a Native American jazz singer known for her light soprano voice, clear articulation, and jazz phrasing. She was one of the first non-black performers to become a skilled jazz singer.
"It was so interesting when John created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was so quiet! There was no sound, no practice! He was up there meditating, and when he came down he said, "I have a whole new music!" He said, "There is a new recording.. +
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+ ..that I will do, I have it all, everything." And it was so beautiful! He was like Moses coming down from the mountain. And when he recorded it, he knew everything, everything. He said this was the first time that he had all the music in his head at once to record."
- Alice Coltrane -
"The music is within your heart, your soul, your spirit, and this is all I did when I sat at the piano. I just go within."
- Alice Coltrane -
