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Charles Owens (saxophonist Born 1939)
Charles M. Brown (born May 4, 1939, Phoenix, Arizona),David Wild, "Charles Owens". ''The New Grove, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 2004. better known as Charles Owens, is an American jazz saxophonist and flautist. Owens should not be confused with , an American jazz saxophonist born in 1972 who has recorded for Fresh Sound Records. Owens began playing music while attending the University of San Diego; following a stint in the United States Armed Forces, he studied at Berklee College of Music. He worked in the bands of Buddy Rich and Mongo Santamaria as an alto saxophonist in the late 1960s, and in the 1970s played mostly tenor and soprano saxophone. He played in that decade with Bobby Bryant, Paul Humphrey, Diana Ross, John Mayall, Frank Zappa, Lorez Alexandria, Henry Franklin, Patrice Rushen, Gerald Wilson, Lorez Alexandria, and James Newton among others. He worked with Newton again in the mid-1980s, and also played in the 1980s with John Cart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoenix, Arizona
Phoenix ( ; nv, Hoozdo; es, Fénix or , yuf-x-wal, Banyà:nyuwá) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arizona, with 1,608,139 residents as of 2020. It is the fifth-most populous city in the United States, and the only U.S. state capital with a population of more than one million residents. Phoenix is the anchor of the Phoenix metropolitan area, also known as the Valley of the Sun, which in turn is part of the Salt River Valley. The metropolitan area is the 11th largest by population in the United States, with approximately 4.85 million people . Phoenix, the seat of Maricopa County, has the largest area of all cities in Arizona, with an area of , and is also the 11th largest city by area in the United States. It is the largest metropolitan area, both by population and size, of the Arizona Sun Corridor megaregion. Phoenix was settled in 1867 as an agricultural community near the confluence of the Salt and Gila Rivers and was incorporated as a ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Wilson
Gerald Stanley Wilson (September 4, 1918 – September 8, 2014) was an American jazz trumpeter, big band bandleader, composer, arranger, and educator. Born in Mississippi, he was based in Los Angeles from the early 1940s. In addition to being a band leader, Wilson wrote arrangements for Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Ray Charles, Julie London, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Carter, Lionel Hampton, Billie Holiday, Dinah Washington, and Nancy Wilson. Early life Wilson was born in Shelby, Mississippi, and at the age of 16 moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he graduated from Cass Technical High School (one of his classmates was saxophonist Wardell Gray).Peter Vacher"Gerald Wilson obituary" ''The Guardian'', 15 September 2014. He joined the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra in 1939, replacing its trumpeter and arranger, Sy Oliver. While with Lunceford, Wilson contributed songs to the band, including "Hi Spook" and "Yard-dog Mazurka", the first influenced by Ellington's recordin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Star Is Born (1976 Soundtrack)
''A Star Is Born'' is the soundtrack album to the 1976 musical film of the same name, performed by its stars Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. The album was very successful, holding the number-one spot on the US ''Billboard'' 200 chart for six weeks and eventually was certified 4× Platinum by the RIAA for more than four million units shipped and has sold a total of eight million copies worldwide. " Evergreen (Love Theme from ''A Star Is Born'')" was released as the album's lead single and became Streisand's second US number one single, spending three weeks at the top of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and six weeks atop the easy listening chart. According to the liner notes of Streisand's compilation box set ''Just for the Record'', the album also received a record certification in New Zealand, Brazil, the Netherlands, Italy and Mexico.Liner notes, C4K 44111. Columbia Records, 1991 The import version of the CD adds the Spanish version of "Evergreen" as a bonus track. Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Bryant (musician)
Bobby Bryant (May 19, 1934 – June 10, 1998) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist. Biography Bryant was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and played saxophone in his youth. He moved to Chicago in 1952, where he studied at the Cosmopolitan School of Music until 1957. Remaining in the city until 1960, he played with Red Saunders, Billy Williams, and other ensembles. He relocated to New York City in 1960 and then Los Angeles in 1961, where he became a fixture on the West Coast jazz scene. He led his own groups in addition to playing with Vic Damone, Charles Mingus, Oliver Nelson, Gerald Wilson, Frank Capp/ Nat Pierce, and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. He also worked as a studio musician and a music educator. Perhaps his most famous solo was in the song "L.O.V.E" recorded with Nat King Cole in 1964. Bryant had sustained health problems in the 1990s which reduced his activity to part-time. He died in Los Angeles of a heart attack at the age of 64. Discogra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercy, Mercy (album)
''Mercy, Mercy'' is a 1968 live album by the Buddy Rich Big Band, recorded at Caesars Palace. Track listing LP side A # "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" ( Joe Zawinul) – 5:34 # "Preach and Teach" ( Johnny Burch) – 4:06 # "Channel One Suite" (Bill Reddie) – 12:50 LP side B # "Big Mama Cass" (Don Sebesky) – 3:22 # "Goodbye Yesterday" (Don Piestrup) – 6:18 # "Acid Truth" (Don Menza) – 5:50 # "Alfie" ( Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 3:49 # "Ode to Billie Joe" ( Bobby Gentry) – 3:39 Bonus tracks added to 1997 Blue Note CD reissue # "Chavala" (Jerry Bock, Sheldon Harnick) – 5:20 # "Mr. Lucky" (Jerry Livingston, Henry Mancini) – 5:47 # "Chelsea Bridge" ( Billy Strayhorn) – 5:09 Personnel ;The Buddy Rich big band: * Buddy Rich - drums * Walter Namuth - guitar * Gary Walters - double bass, electric bass * Joe Azarello - piano * Charles Owens - alto saxophone * Art Pepper - alto saxophone * Pat LaBarbera - tenor saxophone * Don Menza - tenor saxophone * John Laws ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New One!
''The New One!'' also released as ''Take it Away!'' is a 1968 studio recording by the Buddy Rich Big Band. Track listing LP side A # "Away We Go" (Ferguson) – 3:11 # "Machine" (Reddie) – 3:38 # "The Rotten Kid" (Greco) – 5:11 # "New Blues" (Piestrup) – 4:54 # "Something for Willie" (Boice) – 4:08 # "Standing up in a Hammock" (Potts) – 2:40 LP side B # "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) – 2:08 # "Luv" (Mulligan) – 2:56 # "I Can't Get Started" (Vernon Duke, Ira Gershwin) – 3:50 # "Group Shot" (Piestrup) – 5:07 # "Diabolus" (Ferguson) – 8:58 bonus tracks on CD re-issue: # "Away We Go" (alt. take) – 3:00 # "The Rotten Kid" (alt. take) – 4:14 # "Diabolus" (alt. take) – 8:58 # "Old Timey" (Florence) – 3:15 # "Naptown Blues" (Montgomery) – 4:25 Personnel * Ernie Watts – alto saxophone * Charles Owens – alto saxophone (tracks A1, A3, B5) * James Mosher – alto saxophone (tracks A2, A4-B4) * Jay Corre – tenor saxophone * Pascel LaBarbera – tenor sax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Discogs
Discogs (short for discographies) is a database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. While the site was originally created with a goal of becoming the largest online database of electronic music, the site now includes releases in all genres on all formats. After the database was opened to contributions from the public, rock music began to become the most prevalent genre listed. , Discogs contains over 15.7 million releases, by over 8.3 million artists, across over 1.9 million labels, contributed from over 644,000 contributor user accounts – with these figures constantly growing as users continually add previously unlisted releases to the site over time. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc. and located in Portland, Oregon, United States. History The discogs.com domain name was registered in August 2000, and Discogs its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Childers
Marion "Buddy" Childers (February 12, 1926 – May 24, 2007) was an American jazz trumpeter, composer and ensemble leader. Childers became famous in 1942 at the age of 16, when Stan Kenton hired him to be the lead trumpet in his band. Biography As Childers later told Steve Voce: At the rehearsal he sat me down in the first trumpet chair, had the first trumpet player sit out. I played about eight or nine things in a row and the adrenalin was really flying that day. I was 16 I probably looked about 13, but I played considerably more maturely than that. 'Well, what do you want to do?' he said after that was over. 'I want to join your band.' 'But you're so young.' 'I gotta join your band,' I said. I had this thing in my mind that I had to join a name band at 16 or I'd never be able to make it as a musician. I was thinking of Harry James so young with Ben Pollack and then with Benny Goodman, and Corky Corcoran who joined Sonny Dunham when he was 16 and then became Harry James's l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Cheatham
James Rudolph Cheatham (June 18, 1924 – January 12, 2007) was an American jazz trombonist and teacher who played with Duke Ellington, Lionel Hampton, and Ornette Coleman. In 1978, Cheatham was invited to lead the jazz program at University of California, San Diego. In 1979 he began to direct the school's African American and jazz performance programs. He retired in 2005. Biography Born in Birmingham, Alabama, it was while serving in the United States Army during and just after World War II, that Cheatham played in the 173rd Army Ground Force Band. Cheatham met his wife, Jean Evans, in 1956 in Buffalo, New York, when the local musicians' union chief called them separately to replace two musicians who could not make a job at the local Elks Ballroom. They married in 1959. In the mid-1980s Cheatham formed The Sweet Baby Blues Band with his wife. The Sweet Baby Blues Band played Kansas City style blues. Cheatham's ''Sweet Baby Blues'' album won a French Grand Prix du Disqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeannie Cheatham
Jean E. Evans (born August 14, 1927) is an American blues and jazz singer, pianist, and composer. She is noted most for her musical collaboration with husband Jimmy Cheatham, with whom she formed the Sweet Baby Blues Band in 1984. Her autobiography, ''Meet Me With Your Black Drawers On: My Life In Music'', was published in 2006. Biography Cheatham was born and grew up in Akron, Ohio, the first child of Elizabeth ( Smart) and Ernest Evans. At the age of five, she started having lessons on her aunt's newly-acquired piano, which was soon moved to Cheatham's home when it transpired that she had a talent for music her aunt lacked. Not long after, she began playing for services at the church her family attended. Throughout her school years, Cheatham's piano teacher also took her to play at weddings and social events, as well as to give recitals. Cheatham first played jazz music when, aged 14, she was asked to join a local 15-piece rehearsal orchestra. While still in high school, she be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmen Bradford
Carmen Bradford (born July 19, 1960, Austin, Texas) is an American jazz singer. She sang with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1983 to 1991. Bradford grew up in a musical family; her grandfather is Melvin Moore, her father Bobby Bradford, and her mother Melba Joyce.Gary W. Kennedy, "Carmen Bradford". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. She studied music formally at Huston-Tillotson College, and sang as a popular singer and for television commercials before scoring a slot opening for the Count Basie Orchestra in 1982. In 1983 Basie asked her to sing with the band, and she remained a singer with the group after Basie's death, under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. In 1991 she left the group and worked under her own name, releasing several albums; she has also worked with David Murray and Kamau Daaood. Bradford is currently Director of the Jazz Voice Department, and a Roots, Jazz, and American Music faculty member at the San Fran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercer Ellington
Mercer Kennedy Ellington (March 11, 1919 – February 8, 1996) was an American musician, composer, and arranger. His father was Duke Ellington, whose band Mercer led for 20 years after his father's death. Biography Early life and education Ellington was born in Washington, D.C., United States. He was the only child of the composer, pianist, and bandleader Duke Ellington and his high school sweetheart Edna Thompson (d. 1967). Ellington grew up primarily in Harlem from the age of eight. By the age of eighteen, Ellington had written his first piece to be recorded by his father ("Pigeons and Peppers"). Ellington attended New College for the Education of Teachers at Columbia University, New York University and the Juilliard School. Career In 1939, 1959, and 1946 through 1949, Ellington led his own bands, many of whose members later performed with his father, or achieved a successful career in their own right (including Dizzy Gillespie, Kenny Dorham, Idrees Sulieman, Chico Hamilton, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
