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1963 In Jazz
This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1963. Events May * 15 – The 5th Annual Grammy Awards were held in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York. ** Ella Fitzgerald awarded Best Solo Vocal Performance, Female for ''Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson'' **Stan Getz awarded Best Jazz Performance – Soloist Or Small Group (Instrumental) for "Desafinado" **Stan Kenton awarded Best Jazz Performance – Large Group (Instrumental) for ''Adventures In Jazz'' **Vince Guaraldi awarded Best Original Jazz Composition for the composition "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" performed by the Vince Guaraldi Trio July * 4 – The 10th Newport Jazz Festival started in Newport, Rhode Island (July 4 – 7). Album releases *Chris Barber: "Chris Barber at the BBC" with Joe Harriott and Ottilie Patterson *Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers **''Caravan'' **''Buhaina's Delight'' **''Ugetsu'' *Kenny Burrell: ''Midnight Blue'' *Betty Carter: '' 'Round Midnight'' *Miles Davis: ''Seven Steps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Darensbourg
Joe Darensbourg (July 9, 1906 – May 24, 1985) was an American, New Orleans-based jazz clarinetist and saxophonist, notable for his work with Buddy Petit, Jelly Roll Morton, Charlie Creath, Fate Marable, Andy Kirk, Kid Ory, Wingy Manone, Joe Liggins and Louis Armstrong Louis Daniel Armstrong (August 4, 1901 – July 6, 1971), nicknamed "Satchmo", "Satch", and "Pops", was an American trumpeter and vocalist. He was among the most influential figures in jazz. His career spanned five decades and several era .... Discography * "Yellow Dog Blues", Joe Darensbourg and his Dixie Flyers, Lark Records * ''On a Lark in Dixieland'' * "Louis Armstrong tour in Australia", including also vocalist Jewel Brown, is available on video References 1906 births 1985 deaths 20th-century clarinetists 20th-century American saxophonists 20th-century American male musicians American jazz bandleaders American jazz clarinetists American jazz saxophonists American male saxoph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vince Guaraldi Trio
Vincent Anthony Guaraldi (; né Dellaglio, July 17, 1928 – February 6, 1976) was an American jazz pianist best known for composing music for animated television adaptations of the ''Peanuts'' comic strip. His compositions for this series included their signature melody "Linus and Lucy" and the holiday standard "Christmas Time Is Here". He is also known for his performances on piano as a member of Cal Tjader's 1950s ensembles and for his own solo career. His 1962 composition " Cast Your Fate to the Wind" became a radio hit and won a Grammy Award in 1963 for Best Original Jazz Composition. He died of a sudden heart attack in February 1976 at age 47, moments after concluding a nightclub performance in Menlo Park, California. Early career Guaraldi was born in San Francisco's North Beach area, a place that became very important to his blossoming musical career. His last name changed to "Guaraldi" after his mother, Carmela (née Marcellino; 1908–1999), divorced his biological fath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Carter
Betty Carter (born Lillie Mae Jones; May 16, 1929 – September 26, 1998) was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked: "There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter." Early life Carter was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up in Detroit, where her father, James Jones, was the musical director of a Detroit church and her mother, Bessie, was a housewife. As a child, Carter was raised to be extremely independent and to not expect nurturing from her family. Even 30 years after leaving home, Carter was still very aware of and affected by the home life she was raised in, and was quoted saying: I have been far removed from my immediate family. There's been no real contact or phone calls home every week to find out how everybody is…As far as family is concerned, it's been a lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midnight Blue (Kenny Burrell Album)
''Midnight Blue'' is a 1963 album by jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell featuring Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Major Holley on double bass, Bill English on drums and Ray Barretto on conga, and is one of Burrell's best-known works for Blue Note. '' Jazz Improv'' magazine lists the album among its top five recommended recordings for Burrell, indicating that " you need to know 'the Blue Note sound', here it is". In 2005, NPR included the album in its "Basic Jazz Library", describing it as "one of the great jazzy blues records".Horwitz, Murray. (April 1, 2005Kenny Burrell 'Midnight Blue'NPR. Accessed November 6, 2007. The album has been re-issued by Blue Note. The cover artwork of Elvis Costello's 1981 country album ''Almost Blue'' pays homage to the artwork of ''Midnight Blue''. Track listing ''Except where otherwise noted, all songs composed by Kenny Burrell.'' # "Chitlins con Carne" – 5:30 # "Mule" (Kenny Burrell, Major Holley Jr.) – 6:56 # "Soul Lament" – 2:43 # " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenny Burrell
Kenneth Earl Burrell (born July 31, 1931) is an American jazz guitarist known for his work on numerous top jazz labels: Prestige, Blue Note, Verve, CTI, Muse, and Concord. His collaborations with Jimmy Smith were notable, and produced the 1965 ''Billboard'' Top Twenty hit Verve album '' Organ Grinder Swing''. He has cited jazz guitarists Charlie Christian, Oscar Moore, and Django Reinhardt as influences, along with blues guitarists T-Bone Walker and Muddy Waters.Cohassey, John. "Kenny Burrell: Guitarist, Educator." ''Contemporary Musicians. Profiles of the People in Music.'' Ed. Julia M. Rubiner. Vol. 11. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1994. 29–31. PrintNash, Sunny. "Kenny Burrell Biography." ''PRLog,'' May 13, 2009. Burrell is a professor and Director of Jazz Studies at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Early life Burrell was born in Detroit. Both his parents played instruments,Sallis, James. "Middle Ground: Herb Ellis, Howard Roberts, Jim Hall, Kenny Burrell, Joe Pass, Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ugetsu (album)
''Ugetsu: Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers at Birdland'' is a live jazz album by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers released on Riverside Records in October 1963. The album was recorded at Birdland in New York City. The original LP had six tracks and producer Orrin Keepnews stated in the liner notes that "there were other performances taped that night that couldn't be fitted into the resulting album". When the album was released on CD, Keepnews added three new tracks that were recorded that night. The Jazz Messengers' tour in Japan had ended a few months before this live performance; then the band decided to play two tracks as a homage to Japan: the Cedar Walton composition "Ugetsu" (which Walton also released under the title "Fantasy in D" on his solo albums) and Wayne Shorter's "On the Ginza".Original liner notes It was reissued in 2011, once more in the Original Jazz Classics series, with a previously unissued track, "Conception". Track listing Original LP release Side A #"One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buhaina's Delight
''Buhaina's Delight'' is a jazz album released by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in 1963. Produced by Alfred Lion, the album was recorded in two sessions on November 28, 1961 and December 18, 1961 at Van Gelder Studio in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The album was released by Blue Note Records in July 1963 after Blakey had moved to Riverside Records in late 1962.''Billboard'', Nov. 3, 1962, p. 24. Track listing # "Backstage Sally" ( Shorter) - 5:58 # "Contemplation" ( Shorter) - 6:18 # "Bu's Delight" ( Fuller) - 9:20 # "Reincarnation Blues" ( Shorter) - 6:36 # "Shaky Jake" (Walton) - 6:38 # "Moon River" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) - 5:12 Personnel * Art Blakey - drums * Freddie Hubbard - trumpet * Curtis Fuller - trombone * Wayne Shorter - tenor saxophone * Cedar Walton - piano * Jymie Merritt Jymie Merritt (May 3, 1926 – April 10, 2020) was an American jazz double-bassist, electric-bass pioneer, band leader and composer. Merritt was a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caravan (Art Blakey Album)
''Caravan'' is a jazz album released by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in February 1963. It was Blakey's first album for Riverside Records after he signed with them in October 1962. The songs were recorded at the Plaza Sound Studio in New York City, on October 23–24, 1962 The producer was Orrin Keepnews who also supervised the album's remastered re-release on CD. In 2007, the BBC described it as "a slick, fluid, professional set of hard bop at its finest".Reynolds, Nick. (August 24, 2007"Art Blakey Jazz Messengers Caravan Review"BBC. Accessed September 7, 2011. Track listing # " Caravan" (Juan Tizol) - 9:47 # "Sweet 'n' Sour" (Shorter) - 5:31 # "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" ( Mann, Hilliard) - 4:06 # "This Is for Albert" (Shorter) - 8:21 # "Skylark" ( Carmichael, Mercer) - 4:51 # "Thermo" (Hubbard) - 6:48 *''The remastered CD re-issue features two alternate takes, each preceding its master take.'' #"Thermo (Take 2)" (Hubbard) - 7:26 #"Sweet 'n' Sour (Take 4)" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
The Jazz Messengers were a jazz combo that existed for over thirty-five years beginning in the early 1950s as a collective, and ending when long-time leader and founding drummer Art Blakey died in 1990. Blakey led or co-led the group from the outset. "Art Blakey" and "Jazz Messengers" became synonymous over the years, though Blakey did lead non-Messenger recording sessions and played as a sideman for other groups throughout his career. The group evolved into a proving ground for young jazz talent. While veterans occasionally re-appeared in the group, by and large, each iteration of the Messengers included a lineup of new young players. Having the Messengers on one's resume was a rite of passage in the jazz world, and conveyed immediate bona fides. Many former members of the Jazz Messengers established careers as solo musicians, such as Lee Morgan, Benny Golson, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Timmons, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton, Keith Jarrett, Joanne Brackeen, Woody S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ottilie Patterson
Anna Ottilie Patterson (31 January 1932 – 20 June 2011) was a Northern Irish blues singer best known for her performances and recordings with the Chris Barber Jazz Band in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Biography Anna Ottilie Patterson was born in Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland on 31 January 1932. She was the youngest child of four. Her father, Joseph Patterson, was from Northern Ireland, and her mother, Jūlija Jēgers, was from Latvia. They had met in southern Russia. Ottilie's name is an Anglicised form of the Latvian name "'". Both sides of the family were musical, and Ottilie trained as a classical pianist from the age of eleven, but never received any formal training as a singer. In 1949, Patterson went to study art at Belfast College of Technology where a fellow student introduced her to the music of Bessie Smith, Jelly Roll Morton and Meade Lux Lewis. In 1951 she began singing with Jimmy Compton's Jazz Band, and in August 1952 she formed the Muskrat Ramblers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Harriott
Joseph Arthurlin Harriott (15 July 1928 – 2 January 1973) was a Jamaican jazz musician and composer, whose principal instrument was the alto saxophone. Initially a bebopper, he became a pioneer of free-form jazz. Born in Kingston, Harriott moved to the United Kingdom as a working musician in 1951 and lived in the country for the rest of his life. He was part of a wave of Caribbean jazz musicians who arrived in Britain during the 1950s, including Dizzy Reece, Harold McNair, Harry Beckett and Wilton Gaynair. Early life and career Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Harriott was educated at Alpha Boys School, an orphanage in the city. At Alpha he learned to play the clarinet, the instrument that was assigned to him shortly before his tenth birthday. He took up the baritone and tenor saxophone while performing with local dance bands, before settling on the alto saxophone. Harriott arrived in London in the summer of 1951, aged 23, as a member of Ossie Da Costa's band. British subject ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Barber At The BBC
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