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Daniel Huck
Daniel Huck (born March 22, 1948, Paris) is a French jazz reedist and singer. Huck started on trombone but abandoned it in his teens, switching to alto saxophone when he was nineteen and working on the waitstaff at the Parisian club Jazzland. He played with the Famous Melody Boys (1968), Jean-Pierre Morel (1969-1973), the Jazzomaniacs (1970-1971), and Gilbert Leroux (1974). In the latter half of the 1970s he worked extensively with the Anachronic Jazz Band, Olivier Franc and Raymond Fonseque, touring with the latter as an accompanist for Cat Anderson and Bill Coleman in 1979. In the early 1980s Huck worked with Philippe Baudoin, Emmanuel Hussenot, and the Hot Antic Jazz Band. He also founded a group called Slapscat (1981-1987) in honor of Slim Gaillard, which went on to play with Gaillard himself when he toured France. Huck worked intermittently with Eddy Louiss from the late 1980s through the end of the 1990s. He has won both the Prix Sidney Bechet (1982) and the Prix Dja ... [...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] |
