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Dana Heitman
Dana Conrad Heitman (born January 18, 1966) is an American musician, known for his work as the trumpeter for the Eugene, Oregon ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, of which he has been a member since the band's formation. Biography Heitman, a trained musician and member of several high school and college national merit bands, was attending the University of Oregon when he was recruited into the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, helping develop the band's prominent horn section.Cherry Poppin' Daddies 1993 Press Bio According to former Daddies guitarist Jason Moss in regard to the band's songwriting process, Heitman is responsible for writing and arranging the majority of the Daddies' horn lines, either by himself or working off pieces composed by frontman Steve Perry Stephen Ray Perry (born January 22, 1949) is an American singer and songwriter. He was the lead singer of the rock band Journey during their most commercially successful periods from 1977 to 1987, and again from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland, Oregon
Portland (, ) is a port city in the Pacific Northwest and the largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon. Situated at the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers, Portland is the county seat of Multnomah County, the most populous county in Oregon. Portland had a population of 652,503, making it the 26th-most populated city in the United States, the sixth-most populous on the West Coast, and the second-most populous in the Pacific Northwest, after Seattle. Approximately 2.5 million people live in the Portland metropolitan statistical area (MSA), making it the 25th most populous in the United States. About half of Oregon's population resides within the Portland metropolitan area. Named after Portland, Maine, the Oregon settlement began to be populated in the 1840s, near the end of the Oregon Trail. Its water access provided convenient transportation of goods, and the timber industry was a major force in the city's early economy. At the turn of the 20th century, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zoot Suit Riot (album)
''Zoot Suit Riot: The Swingin' Hits of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies'' is a compilation album by the American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on March 18, 1997 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. The album is a collection of swing and jazz-influenced songs from the band's first three studio albums, along with four bonus tracks recorded especially for this compilation. After an independent release in early 1997, ''Zoot Suit Riot'' was reissued by Universal Records subsidiary Mojo Records the following summer. By early 1998, regular radio airplay of the album's lead single "Zoot Suit Riot" helped propel the album to #1 on ''Billboard's'' Top Heatseekers chart and eventually the top 20 of the ''Billboard'' 200, contributing to the swing revival of the late 1990s. By January 2000, ''Zoot Suit Riot'' had achieved double-platinum status of over two million copies sold in the United States, while also attaining gold record sales in Canada and New Zealand. Background By 1996 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Jazz Trumpeters
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Living People
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1966 Births
Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo is deposed by a military coup in the Republic of Upper Volta (modern-day Burkina Faso). * January 10 ** Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. ** The House of Representatives of the US state of Georgia refuses to allow African-American representative Julian Bond to take his seat, because of his anti-war stance. ** A Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference convenes in Lagos, Nigeria, primarily to discuss Rhodesia. * January 12 – United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. * January 15 – 1966 Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halie Loren
Halie Loren (born Oct 23, 1984) is an American jazz singer and songwriter from Sitka, Alaska. Her albums have reached number one on the Billboard Japan Top 20 Jazz Albums chart. Career Albums Halie Loren's recordings are distributed by JVC Kenwood Victor Entertainment, Justin Time Records, anBurnside Distribution Corporation ''They Oughta Write a Song'' In 2008, ''They Oughta Write a Song'' debuted at number three in Billboard Japan jazz album sales and appeared on the chart for 33 weeks. Critical reception was positive. 0"With her bell-clear voice, careful but natural diction and a subtle sexiness in her delivery, she offers a new — and perhaps less drug-hazed — take on Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale," reviewer Serena Markstrom wrote in The Register-Guard. 1 A YouTube video for the album single '' Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps'' was viewed 5.6 million times as of October 2017. ''Many Times, Many Ways'' ''Many Times, Many Ways: A Holiday Collection'' wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mad Caddies
The Mad Caddies (or the Caddies) are a ska punk band from Solvang, California, United States. The band formed in 1995 and has released seven full-length albums, one live album, and two EPs. To date, Mad Caddies have sold over 500,000 albums worldwide. The Mad Caddies sound has influences from broad ranging genres including ska (especially ska 3rd wave), punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, dixieland jazz, Latin music, polka, even cowpunk ("Crew Cut Chuck") and sea shanties ("Weird Beard"). History Founding members Chuck Robertson, Sascha Lazor, Todd Rosenberg, and Carter Benson started the group while attending Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. Robertson, Lazor, and Rosenberg are still current members, joined by Graham Palmer on bass, Eduardo Hernandez on trombone, and Mark Bush on trumpet. In the band's early beginnings in the mid-1990s, they performed as Cracked Macaroni at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School. Shortly thereafter, the band played under the name The Ivy Leagu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep It Going
''Keep It Going'' is the fifth full-length studio album by California ska punk band Mad Caddies, released on May 1, 2007 on CD. It was pressed on vinyl in 2014 in both colored and black variants. ''Keep It Going'' features production work from Grammy award-winning producer Wayne Jobson (No Doubt, Gregory Isaacs, Toots & the Maytals) and a guest appearance from reggae legend Duckie Simpson (Black Uhuru) on a cover of Delroy Wilson’s classic “Riding For a Fall”. The album features additional guest appearances by trumpeter Dana Heitman, organist Dustin Lanker and saxophonists Ian Early and Sean Flannery, all of the Oregon rock/ska/swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies. The cover art is a photo of the Spirit of New Orleans Brass Band, led by Layton Martens (19 February 1943 - 18 March 2000), who is at left on trombone. Anthony “Tuba Fats” Lacen (15 September 1950 – 11 January 2004) at right. Track listing All songs written by Mad Caddies, except where otherwise n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigger Life
''Bigger Life'' is the ninth studio album and eleventh album overall by American ska- swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, independently released on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records on June 14, 2019. Following three successive swing and jazz albums released throughout the 2010s, ''Bigger Life'' heralded a return to the punk rock influences which defined the Daddies' earliest albums, featuring a dominant musical focus on ska, ska punk and psychobilly as well as lyrical content both critically and satirically addressing contemporary American politics. Overview ''Bigger Life'' marked a return to the Daddies' eclectic multi-genre album format, their first such record since '' Susquehanna'' in 2008. Described by singer-songwriter Steve Perry as "a throwback to our '' Ferociously Stoned'' days, mixed with our skacore influence of the '' Kids on the Street'' era", much of the music on ''Bigger Life'' is influenced by ska and punk rock, exploring sub-genres including ska punk, psychobil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Boop-A-Doo
''The Boop-A-Doo'' is the eighth studio album and tenth album overall by American ska- swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on January 22, 2016 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. The second in a planned trilogy of cover albums intended to showcase the Daddies' swing and jazz influences following the 2014 Rat Pack tribute ''Please Return the Evening'', ''The Boop-A-Doo'' is a collection of jazz and swing standards from the 1920s and 1930s. Production and release In December 2014, while the Daddies were still touring behind the release of ''Please Return the Evening'', performing concerts showcasing both their own repertoire and the songs of the Rat Pack, singer-songwriter Steve Perry posted a blog to the band's official Facebook page discussing his future plans to explore another facet of the band's swing and jazz influences in a live setting, covering a time period of roughly 1928-1937. In what he called his own "Steve speak", Perry dubbed this musical time period a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Please Return The Evening
''Please Return the Evening — the Cherry Poppin' Daddies Salute the Music of the Rat Pack'' is a tribute album and seventh studio (ninth overall) album by American ska-swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies The Cherry Poppin' Daddies are an American swing and ska band established in Eugene, Oregon, in 1989. Formed by singer-songwriter Steve Perry and bassist Dan Schmid, the band has experienced numerous personnel changes over the course of its 30 ..., released on July 29, 2014 by Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. A collection of loyal covers of songs performed or popularized by the trio of Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis, Jr. collectively known as the Rat Pack, ''Please Return the Evening'' was the first Daddies album not to feature original music by lead singer-songwriter Steve Perry (Oregon musician), Steve Perry, and the first in a trilogy of cover albums designed to showcase the Daddies' swing and jazz influences, subsequently followed by ''The Boop-A-Doo'' in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Teeth, Black Thoughts
''White Teeth, Black Thoughts'' is the sixth studio album by American band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies, released on July 16, 2013, on Space Age Bachelor Pad Records. Following the predominant world music slant of 2008's '' Susquehanna'' and the 2009 ska album '' Skaboy JFK'', ''White Teeth, Black Thoughts'' marks the Cherry Poppin' Daddies' first album since their 1997 compilation '' Zoot Suit Riot'' to focus exclusively on swing and jazz music, eschewing the ska, rock and pop influences which typically feature on their albums. A two-disc "deluxe" version of ''White Teeth, Black Thoughts'' was released concurrently with the main swing album, featuring an additional full-length album of material composed in an "Americana" vein covering rockabilly, country and western swing. Album overview Music Since plans for a new record were announced, singer/songwriter Steve Perry stated the primary musical direction of the next Daddies album would be returning to swing and jazz music, the ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
