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Frank Vicari
Frank Vicari (April 11, 1931 – October 20, 2006) was a jazz saxophonist. Career After serving in the Air Force from 1951–55, where he played in service bands, Vicari returned to New York City and played in bands until he joined Maynard Ferguson's big band in 1960. When the Ferguson band broke up in 1965, Vicari briefly joined Buddy Rich, then Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd and remained until 1970. Vicari worked with Steve Gadd, Mike Mainieri, Randy and Michael Brecker, Dave Matthews, the White Elephant Orchestra, George Benson, Tony Bennett, Dionne Warwick, Billy Eckstein, Tom Waits, John Lennon, Woody Herman, and the Saturday Night Live Band. He died in New York City at the age of 75. Discography As sideman With George Benson * ''Good King Bad'' (CTI, 1976) * ''Pacific Fire'' (CTI, 1983) * ''Space'' (CTI, 1978) With Maynard Ferguson * '' The New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson'' (Cameo, 1963) * '' Come Blow Your Horn'' (Cameo, 1963) * '' Color Him Wild'' (Mainstrea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maynard Ferguson
Walter Maynard Ferguson CM (May 4, 1928 – August 23, 2006) was a Canadian jazz trumpeter and bandleader. He came to prominence in Stan Kenton's orchestra before forming his own big band in 1957. He was noted for his bands, which often served as stepping stones for up-and-coming talent, his versatility on several instruments, and his ability to play in a high register. Biography Early life and education Ferguson was born in Verdun (now part of Montreal), Quebec, Canada. Encouraged by his mother and father (both musicians), he started playing piano and violin at the age of four. At nine years old, he heard a cornet for the first time in his local church and asked his parents to buy one for him. When he was thirteen, he soloed with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Orchestra. He was heard frequently on the CBC, notably featured on a "Serenade for Trumpet in Jazz" written for him by Morris Davis. He won a scholarship to the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New Sounds Of Maynard Ferguson
''The New Sounds of Maynard Ferguson'' is an album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson recorded in 1963 which was originally released on the Cameo label.Minn, MMaynard Ferguson discography accessed February 9, 2017 Reception AllMusic reviewer Matt Collar stated "Featuring arrangements by Don Sebesky, the albums showcased Ferguson's swinging and powerful high-note-centric style backed by his always dynamic ensemble". Track listing # "Take the "A" Train" (Billy Strayhorn) – 2:48 # "Bossa Nova de Funk" (Willie Maiden) – 5:34 # "Gravy Waltz" (Steve Allen, Ray Brown) – 4:10 # " Cherokee (Indian Love Song)" (Ray Noble) – 4:23 # "I'm Getting Sentimental Over You" (George Bassman, Ned Washington) – 3:15 # " One O'Clock Jump" (Count Basie) – 5:57 # "At the Sound of the Trumpet" (Maynard Ferguson, Maiden) – 4:44 # "Maine Bone" (Mike Abene) – 3:03 # " Watermelon Man" (Herbie Hancock) – 2:24 # "Danny Boy" (Traditional) – 3:55 Note *Recorded at Fine Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something You Got
''Something You Got'' is an album by American flugelhornist Art Farmer featuring performances with Yusef Lateef and the David Matthews Big Band recorded in 1977 and released on the CTI label.Payne, DCTI Records discographyaccessed February 27, 2012 Reception The Allmusic review stated "The meeting of trumpeter Art Farmer and reed king Yusef Lateef with pianist/arranger David Matthews fronting a big band is a momentous one. The relaxed pace of the set, with its reliance on easy jazz-funk (the title track) and extended funky workouts with stunning hard bop charts by Matthews on "Flute Song," makes for one of the most provocative looks at groove jazz in the CTI label's history".Jurek, TAllmusic Reviewaccessed February 27, 2012 Track listing :''All compositions by David Matthews except as indicated'' # "Something You Got" (Chris Kenner) - 6:17 # "Flute Song" - 8:12 # "Saudhade" (Fritz Pauer) - 5:55 # "Sandu" (Clifford Brown) - 7:24 # "Spain" (Chick Corea) - 5:50 # "Hombre de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art Farmer
Arthur Stewart Farmer (August 21, 1928 – October 4, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player. He also played flumpet, a trumpet–flugelhorn combination especially designed for him. He and his identical twin brother, double bassist Addison Farmer, started playing professionally while in high school. Art gained greater attention after the release of a recording of his composition "Farmer's Market" in 1952. He subsequently moved from Los Angeles to New York, where he performed and recorded with musicians such as Horace Silver, Sonny Rollins, and Gigi Gryce and became known principally as a bebop player. As Farmer's reputation grew, he expanded from bebop into more experimental forms through working with composers such as George Russell and Teddy Charles. He went on to join Gerry Mulligan's quartet and, with Benny Golson, to co-found the Jazztet. Continuing to develop his own sound, Farmer switched from trumpet to the warmer flugelhorn in the early 1960s, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Señor Blues (Urbie Green Album)
''Señor Blues'' is an album by American trombonist Urbie Green featuring performances with Grover Washington, Jr. and the David Matthews Big Band recorded in 1977 and released on the CTI label.Payne, DCTI Records discographyaccessed February 27, 2012 Reception The Allmusic review stated "His first CTI set, '' The Fox'', was quite dull, but this encore is on a much higher level. The trombonist displays his beautiful tone and impressive technique while joined by several horns and an expanded rhythm section .Yanow, SAllmusic Reviewaccessed February 27, 2012 Track listing # "Captain Marvel" (Chick Corea) - 6:32 # "You Are So Beautiful" (Bruce Fisher, Billy Preston) - 2:58 # "Ysabel's Table Dance" (Charles Mingus) - 8:40 # " Señor Blues" (Horace Silver) - 7:45 # "I'm in You" (Peter Frampton) - 6:40 # "I Wish" (Stevie Wonder) - 4:22 :*Recorded at Electric Lady Studios in New York City in June 1977 Personnel * Urbie Green - trombone *Grover Washington, Jr. - tenor saxophone, sop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linc Chamberland
Lionel Victor Chamberland (13 September 1940 – 24 June 1987) was an American jazz guitarist born and based in Norwalk, Connecticut. After playing with The Orchids in the 1960s, he stopped touring, became a private teacher, and performed regionally. Career Beginning around 1962, Chamberland was the leader of an R&B band called The Orchids. Bad experiences discouraged him from touring again. In 1971 he joined the band Sawbuck. The band's members included Frank Vicari (who replaced Dave Liebman), Pee Wee Ellis, John Gatchell, John Eckert, Schuyler "Sky" I. Ford, Chris Qualles, and Jimmy Strassburg. A year later the band was renamed Gotham and recorded an album for Motown. Chamberland died from leukemia at age 46 on June 24, 1987, in New York City. Guitars Chamberland played a 1953 Fender Telecaster. In his search to get exactly the sound he wanted from the guitar, Chamberland modified it. From the top down, the guitar had Grover heads, a 1957 Stratocaster neck, Humbucker pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The J
J is the tenth letter of the Latin alphabet. J may also refer to: * Palatal approximant in the International Phonetic Alphabet * J, Cyrillic letter Je Astronomy * J, a provisional designation prefix for some objects discovered between May 1 and 15 of a year Computing * J (programming language), successor to APL * J# programming language for the Microsoft .NET Framework * J operator, a programming construct * J (operating system), an operating system for ICL's System 4 series of computers Genetics and medicine * Haplogroup J (mtDNA) * Haplogroup J (Y-DNA) * ATC code J ''Antiinfectives for systemic use'', a section of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System Mathematics * J, symbol used to denote the Bessel function * ''j'', used as the symbol for the imaginary unit (\sqrt) in fields where ''i'' is used for a different purpose (such as electrical current) * ''j'' and ''j2'' (or \bar) are also used for the complex cube roots of unity * ''j'', a numb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Brown
James Joseph Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006) was an American singer, dancer, musician, record producer and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business", "Godfather of Soul", "Mr. Dynamite", and "Soul Brother No. 1". In a career that lasted more than 50 years, he influenced the development of several music genres. Brown was one of the first 10 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at its inaugural induction in New York on January 23, 1986. Brown began his career as a gospel singer in Toccoa, Georgia. He first came to national public attention in the mid-1950s as the lead singer of the Famous Flames, a rhythm and blues vocal group founded by Bobby Byrd. With the hit ballads "Please, Please, Please" and " Try Me", Brown built a reputation as a dynamic live performer with the Famous Flames and his backing band, sometimes know ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Valentine (album)
''Blue Valentine'' is the sixth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 5, 1978 on Asylum Records. It was recorded over the course of six sessions from July to August 1978 with producer Bones Howe. Rickie Lee Jones is pictured with Waits on the back cover. Production ''Blue Valentine'' was recorded in six sessions from July 24 to August 26, 1978 at Filmways/Heider Recording, Hollywood, California. Production was by Bones Howe, with second engineers Geoff Howe and Ralph Osborne. Disc mastering was by Terry Dunavan. All the songs were written by Tom Waits apart from the opening track, " Somewhere", from the Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim musical ''West Side Story''. Critical reception Don Shewey of ''Rolling Stone'' found that ''Blue Valentine'' "is as solid a record as Waits has made", and that its best songs "rank high among the sentimental sagas that contain Tom Waits' strongest writing." Reviewing in '' Christgau's Record Guide: Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foreign Affairs (Tom Waits Album)
''Foreign Affairs'' is the fifth studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on September 13, 1977 on Asylum Records. It was produced by Bones Howe, and featured Bette Midler singing a duet with Waits on "I Never Talk to Strangers". Production Bones Howe, the album's producer and engineer, remembers the album's original concept and production approach thus: " aitstalked to me about doing this other material ..He said, 'I'm going to do the demos first, and then I'm gonna let you listen to them. Then we should talk about what it should be.' I listened to the material and said, 'It's like a black-and-white movie.' That's where the cover came from. The whole idea that it was going to be a black-and-white movie. It's the way it seemed to me when we were putting it together. Whether or not it came out that way, I don't have any idea, because there's such metamorphosis when you're working on ecords They change and change." Artwork Pictured on the cover with Waits is a Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ridin' High (Maynard Ferguson Album)
''Ridin' High'' (also released as ''Freaky'') is an album released by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson featuring tracks recorded in 1967 and originally released on the Stax Records, Enterprise label.Minn, MThe Maynard Ferguson Discography accessed May 9, 2016 Track listing # "The Rise and Fall of Seven" (Tom McIntosh) - 5:51 # "Light Green" (Don Piestrup) - 3:38 # "Kundalini Woman" (Slide Hampton) - 5:21 # "Sunny (Bobby Hebb song), Sunny" (Bobby Hebb) - 3:48 # "Meet a Cheetah" (Don Sebesky) - 4:25 # "Molecules" (Slide Hampton) - 4:34 # "Wack-Wack" (Donald Storball, Eldee Young, Hysear Don Walker, Isaac Red Holt) - 2:46 # "Satan Speaks" (Tom McIntosh) - 2:30 # "Alfie (Burt Bacharach song), Alfie" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) - 3:00 Personnel *Maynard Ferguson - trumpet, flugelhorn *Charles Camilleri, Dick Hurwitz, Nat Pavone, Lew Soloff - trumpet *Jimmy Cleveland, Slide Hampton - trombone *George Jeffers - bass trombone, tuba *Dick Spencer - alto saxophone, soprano saxop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
