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Charles Greenlee (musician)
Charles "Majeed" or "Majid" Greenlee (April or May 24, 1927 – January 23, 1993) was an American jazz trombonist who worked extensively with Archie Shepp. Greenlee played mellophone, drums, and baritone horn in his youth, and got his early experience playing locally in Detroit. He played with Lucky Millinder and Benny Carter in the early 1940s, then with Dizzy Gillespie (1946, 1949–51). He also led his own bands around this time, working with Frank Foster (jazz musician), Frank Foster and Tommy Flanagan. Late in the 1940s he converted to Islam, changing his name to Harneefan Majeed; he continued to use Charles Greenlee for professional purposes, though he is sometimes credited with his Muslim last name. After spending some time on the hard bop scene in the early 1950s, with Gene Ammons among others, Greenlee essentially quit music from 1951 to 1957. He returned to play with Yusef Lateef (1957) and Maynard Ferguson (1959). His lone album as leader features Alden Griggs, Charles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buster Williams
Charles Anthony "Buster" Williams (born April 17, 1942) is an American jazz bassist. Williams is known for his membership in pianist Herbie Hancock's early 1970s group, working with guitarist Larry Coryell from the 1980s to present, working in the Thelonious Monk repertory band Sphere and as the accompanist of choice for many singers, including Nancy Wilson. Biography Early life and career Williams' father, Charles Anthony Williams Sr., was a musician who played bass, drums, and piano, and had band rehearsals in the family home in Camden, New Jersey, exposing Williams to jazz at an early age. Williams was particularly inspired to focus on bass after hearing his father's record of '' Star Dust'', performed by Oscar Pettiford, and started playing in his early teens. He had his first professional gig while he was still a junior high school student, filling in for Charles Sr., who had double booked himself one evening. Williams later spent his days practicing with Sam Dockery, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz A Confronto 27
''Jazz a Confronto 27'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Rome, Italy, on September 28. 1975, and released on the Horo Records label as part of the "Jazz a Confronto" series. accessed 15 September 2009. Track listing :''All compositions by Archie Shepp'' # "Libya" - 21:20 # "My Heart Cries Out to Africa" - 19:03 :*Recorded in Rome, Italy on September 28, 1975Personnel *Archie Shepp - , soprano saxophone *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Body And Soul (Archie Shepp Album)
''Body and Soul'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Rome, Italy, on September 28 and October 16, 1975, and released on the Horo Records label. accessed 31 July 2009. Track listing # " Body and Soul" # "Tropical" # "Dogon" *Recorded in Rome, Italy, on September 28 (tracks 2 & 3), and October 16 (track 1), 1975Personnel *Archie Shepp - , , |
A Sea Of Faces
''A Sea of Faces'' is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded in Milan, Italy, on August 4 and 5, 1975, and released on the Italian Black Saint label. It features performances by Shepp with Charles Greenlee, Dave Burrell, Cameron Brown, Beaver Harris, Rafi Taha and Bunny Foy. accessed July 29, 2009. Track listing # "Hipnosis" () – 26:10 # "Song for Mozambique/Poem: A Sea of Faces" (Semenya McCord/Archie Shepp) – 8:12 # "I Know 'Bout the Life" ( Aishah Rahman, Archie Shepp) – 5:20 # "Lo ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreux Two
''Montreux Two'' is a live album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Arista Freedom label. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Tenor saxophonist Archie Shepp was at a turning point of sorts in 1975. He was near the end of his free jazz phase and would soon be exploring melodies from both the jazz tradition and the early 20th century; in addition, his tone would begin to decline within a decade. However, that is not in evidence during this fairly rousing live appearance at the Montreux Jazz Festival with his quintet.... This second of two CDs is the better of the pair and a good outing for Archie Shepp."Yanow, S. Allmusic Reviewaccessed 29 July 2009. Track listing :''All compositions by Archie Shepp'' # "Steam" # "Along Came Betty" # "Blues For Donald Duck" :* Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, July 18, 1975. Personnel * Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone * Charles Greenlee - t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreux One
''Montreux One'' is a live album by jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1975 and released on the Arista Freedom label. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Shepp, who was nearing the end of his free jazz period (soon he would be exploring hymns and traditional melodies) puts a lot of emotion into "Lush Life" and sounds fine on originals by Burrell and Greenlee in addition to his own "U-jamsa." icA worthy effort".Yanow, S. Allmusic Reviewaccessed 29 July 2009. Track listing # " Lush Life" ( Billy Strayhorn) - 12:40 # "U-Jamaa" (Archie Shepp) - 10:22 # "Crucificado" ( Dave Burrell) - 11:43 # "Miss Toni" ( Charles Greenlee) - 11:57 :* Recorded at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Switzerland, July 18, 1975 Personnel * Archie Shepp - tenor saxophone * Charles Greenlee - trombone * Dave Burrell - piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a sof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There's A Trumpet In My Soul
''There's a Trumpet in My Soul'' is an album by avant-garde jazz saxophonist Archie Shepp released in 1975 on the Arista Freedom label. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states: "Two vocals and a poem recitation weigh down the music a bit, although Shepp gets in some good licks. The overall results are not essential, but Archie Shepp was still in his musical prime at the time."Yanow, S. Allmusic Reviewaccessed June 25, 2009. Track listing # "There's a Trumpet in My Soul Suite Part 1: There's a Trumpet in My Soul/Samba da Rua/Zaid, Part 1" (Semenya McCord, Archie Shepp, Charles Greenlee) - 10:29 # "Down in Brazil" (Roy Burrowes, Beaver Harris) - 10:06 # "There's a Trumpet in My Soul Suite Part 2: Zaid, Part 2/It Is the Year of the Rabbit/Zaid, Part 3" (Greenlee, Shepp, Greenlee; poem: Bill Hasson) - 17:45 :*Recorded in NYC, April 12, 1975 Personnel * Archie Shepp - tenor and soprano saxophone * Roy Burrowes, Alden Griggs - trumpet, flugelhorn * Charles Majid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attica Blues (band)
Attica Blues are a UK trip hop band,Attica Blues – Test. Don't Test Discogs. who made their debut releases on the label. Taking their name from an Archie Shepp album, the band have also provided remixes for , , |
Baystate
Baystate was a Japanese jazz record label. Some of these album were also released on the Japanese labels Victor and Horo Records. Almost none have been reissued on LP or CD. Discography 6000s *RVJ-6001: M'Boom - '' Re: Percussion'' *RVJ-6003: Charles Greenlee - ''I Know About the Life'' (1977) *RVJ-6005: Toshiko Akiyoshi – Lew Tabackin Big Band - '' Live at Newport '77'' *RVJ-6006: Woody Shaw, Azar Lawrence, David Schnitter - ''Black Renaissance'' 1976 *RVJ-6009: Zenzile Featuring Marion Brown - ''Zenzile Featuring Marion Brown'' (1977) *RVJ-6011: Hannibal and Sunrise Orchestra - ''Live in Lausanne'' (1978) *RVJ-6013: Warren Smith - ''Folks Song'' *RVJ-6015: Kalaparusha - ''Kwanza Kalaparusha'' *RVJ-6016: Max Roach & Dollar Brand - ''Streams of Consciousness'' *RVJ-6021: Max Roach - ''Solos'' (1978) *RVJ-6022: Robert Ruff - ''Shaza-Ra'' (1978) *RVJ-6023: Hannibal and Sunrise Orchestra - ''The Light'' (1984) *RVJ-6024: Marion Brown - ''Passion Flower'' (1978) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outward Bound (Eric Dolphy Album)
''Outward Bound'' is the debut album by jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, released in 1960. It is oriented towards straight bebop, and slightly less adventurous than the majority of his later recordings. The album was recorded at Van Gelder Studio in New Jersey and features Dolphy in a quintet with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, pianist Jaki Byard, bassist George Tucker and drummer Roy Haynes. Hubbard had shared living space with Dolphy when they both first arrived in New York City. The cover artwork was by Dolphy's friend Richard "Prophet" Jennings. Of the three Dolphy originals on the album, "G.W." is dedicated to the Californian bandleader Gerald Wilson, "Les" is named after the trombonist Lester Robinson, and "245" was the number of Dolphy's house on Carlton Avenue, in Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood. Reception Jazz critic Martin Williams wrote: "From the first selection on Dolphy's first album under his own name... it was obvious that fresh and important talent ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Dolphy
Eric Allan Dolphy Jr. (June 20, 1928 – June 29, 1964) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, bass clarinetist and flautist. On a few occasions, he also played the clarinet and piccolo. Dolphy was one of several multi-instrumentalists to gain prominence in the same era. His use of the bass clarinet helped to establish the instrument within jazz. Dolphy extended the vocabulary and boundaries of the alto saxophone, and was among the earliest significant jazz flute soloists. His improvisational style was characterized by the use of wide intervals, in addition to employing an array of extended techniques to emulate the sounds of human voices and animals. He used melodic lines that were "angular, zigzagging from interval to interval, taking hairpin turns at unexpected junctures, making dramatic leaps from the lower to the upper register." Although Dolphy's work is sometimes classified as free jazz, his compositions and solos were often rooted in conventional (if highly abstracted) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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