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Gil Coggins
Gilbert Lloyd "Gil" Coggins (August 23, 1924 – February 15, 2004) was an American jazz pianist. Coggins was born to parents of West Indian heritage.Gil Coggins at His mother was a pianist and had her son start on piano from an early age. He attended school in and . In , New York City, he attended |
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] |
Jackie McLean
John Lenwood "Jackie" McLean (May 17, 1931 – March 31, 2006) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator, and is one of the few musicians to be elected to the ''DownBeat'' Hall of Fame in the year of their death. Biography McLean was born in New York City. His father, John Sr., played guitar in Tiny Bradshaw's orchestra. After his father's death in 1939, Jackie's musical education was continued by his godfather, his record-store-owning stepfather, and several noted teachers. He also received informal tutoring from neighbors Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, and Charlie Parker. During high school McLean played in a band with Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Andy Kirk, Jr. (the saxophonist son of Andy Kirk). Along with Rollins, McLean played on Miles Davis' '' Dig'' album, when he was 20 years old. As a young man he also recorded with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus (for '' Pithecanthropus Erectus''), George Wallington, and as a member of Art Blakey's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strange Blues
''Strange Blues'' is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean, recorded in 1957 and released on the Prestige label.Jackie McLean discography accessed July 26, 2013 It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet featuring pianist , bassist Bill Salter and drummer , one with a quartet featuring pianist , bassist [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Long Drink Of The Blues
''A Long Drink of the Blues'' is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. It was recorded in 1957, and released in 1961 on New Jazz Records as NJ 8253. It features two tracks with McLean in a sextet featuring trumpeter Webster Young, trombonist Curtis Fuller, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes, and three with a quartet featuring pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Art Phipps and drummer Art Taylor. Reception The contemporaneous ''DownBeat'' reviewer picked "These Foolish Things" as the highlight, stating that McLean's playing of the bridge in his two solo choruses varied effectively, giving "a different emotional experience to the listener". Track listing #"A Long Drink of the Blues" ake 1false start - 2:21 #"A Long Drink of the Blues" (McLean) ake 2- 20:49 #"Embraceable You" (Gershwin, Gershwin) - 7:07 #"I Cover the Waterfront" (Heyman, Green) - 6:27 #"These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" (Link, Marvell, Strachey) - 8:21 Personnel *Jackie McLean - alto and tenor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makin' The Changes
''Makin' the Changes'' is a studio album by saxophonist Jackie McLean. It was recorded in 1957 for Prestige, but not released until 1960 by the subsidiary label New Jazz as NJ 8231. It features three tracks with McLean in a quartet with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Arthur Phipps and drummer Art Taylor, and three with a sextet featuring trumpeter Webster Young, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Gil Coggins, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes. Track listing #" Bean and the Boys" (Coleman Hawkins a contrafact of " Lover Come Back to Me") - 8:33 #"What's New?" ( Bob Haggart, Johnny Burke) - 7:09 #"I Never Knew" (Gus Kahn, Ted Fiorito) - 3:00 #"I Hear a Rhapsody" (Dick Gasparre, George Fragos, Jack Baker) - 5:08 #"Jackie's Ghost" (Ray Draper) - 5:28 #" Chasin' the Bird" (Charlie Parker) - 6:35 ''Recorded on February 15 (#1, 3-4) & August 30 (#2, 5-6), 1957.'' Personnel Tracks 1, 3-4 *Jackie McLean - alto sax * Mal Waldron - piano *Arthur Phipps - bass * Art Taylor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jubilee Records
Jubilee Records was an American independent record label, specializing in rhythm and blues and novelty records. It was founded in New York City in 1946 by Herb Abramson. His partner was Jerry Blaine. Blaine bought Abramson's half of the company in 1947, when Abramson went on to co-found Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun. The company name was Jay-Gee Recording Company, a subsidiary of the Cosnat Corporation. Cosnat was a wholesale record distributor. History Jubilee was the first independent record label to reach the white market with a black vocal group, when the Orioles' recording of "Crying in the Chapel" reached the Top Twenty on the Pop chart in 1953. The Four Tunes started recording for Jubilee in 1953. The biggest early hit for Jubilee was "Crying in the Chapel" by the Orioles. A subsidiary label, Josie Records, was formed in 1954 and issued more uptempo material. Hits on Josie included "Speedoo" by the Cadillacs (number 3 R&B, number 17 pop) and "Do You Wanna Dance" by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fat Jazz
''Fat Jazz'', also referred to as ''Jackie McLean Plays Fat Jazz'', is an album by American saxophonist Jackie McLean, which was recorded in late 1957 and released by the Jubilee label in 1959.Jackie McLean discography accessed March 18, 2019 accessed March 18, 2019 It features McLean in a sextet with trumpeter (here on ), tuba player |
New Jazz Records
Prestige Records is a jazz record company and label founded in 1949 by Bob Weinstock in New York City which issued recordings in the mainstream, bop, and cool jazz idioms. The company recorded hundreds of albums by many of the leading jazz musicians of the day, sometimes issuing them on subsidiary labels. In 1971, the company was sold to Fantasy, which was later absorbed by Concord. History The Prestige office was located at 446 West 50th Street, New York City. Its catalogue included Gene Ammons, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Wardell Gray, Thelonious Monk, and Sonny Rollins. Audio engineer Rudy Van Gelder was the recording engineer of many Prestige albums in the 1950s and early-to-mid-1960s. Prestige created new labels in 1960: Swingville, Moodsville, covering jazz, Bluesville featuring blues revival artists, Lively Arts featuring spoken word recordings and Prestige International, Prestige Folklore, Irish and Near East with folk and world music. By the later 1950s, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ray Draper Quintet Featuring John Coltrane
''The Ray Draper Quintet featuring John Coltrane'' is the second album by tuba player Ray Draper recorded in 1957 and released on the New Jazz label. Reception Scott Yanow of AllMusic reviewed the album: "Draper had ambitious dreams of making the tuba a major jazz solo instrument; the tuba/tenor front line is an unusual and generally successful sound... One does admire Draper's courage, and it is a pity that he hardly recorded at all after 1960 because he had strong potential."Yanow, SAllMusic Review January 31, 2013 The All About Jazz review by Douglas Payne stated "Even though Draper's career fizzled after only a few more records, this one is probably the best thing he did on his own."Payne, DRay Draper: The Ray Draper Quintet Featuring John Coltrane Review July 1, 1998 Track listing ''All compositions by Ray Draper except as indicated'' # "Clifford's Kappa" – 9:16 # "Filidé" – 7:16 # "Two Sons" – 5:24 # "Paul's Pal" (Sonny Rollins) – 7:14 # "Under Paris Ski ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Davis Volume 2
''Miles Davis Volume 2'' is the fifth studio album by musician Miles Davis. It refers to two separate but related entities. The first is a Miles Davis studio album released by Blue Note Records as a 10-inch LP, as BLP 5022 in 1953. The six tracks from this LP plus five alternate takes were released on CD in 1990 and remastered with restored artwork in 2001. The second ''Miles Davis Volume 2'' is a compilation of tracks from all three of his sessions with the label, released (with different cover art) in 1956 as BLP 1502. The original 10-inch LP (BLP 5022) contained music from Davis' second session for Blue Note, recorded April 20, 1953. The recording was made at a point in Davis' life when he was struggling with heroin addiction, and in his autobiography Davis remembers that he, Jimmy Heath, and Art Blakey were all very high in the studio. Davis also states that the song title "C.T.A." was named after Heath's girlfriend Connie Theresa Ann. The 1990 CD (Blue Note CDP 7 81502 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz around 1947. From there, Blue Note grew to become one of the most prolific, influential and respected jazz labels of the mid-20th century, noted for its role in facilitating the development of hard bop, post-bop and avant-garde jazz, as well as for its iconic modernism, modernist art direction. History Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the "hard bop" style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul music, soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel music, gospel), but also recorded essential albums in the avant-garde and Free Jazz, free styles of jazz. Horace Silver, Jimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Davis Volume 1
''Miles Davis Volume 1'' refers to two separate but related entities. The title was originally used for the first time in a pair of compilation albums of recordings made by Miles Davis in 1952, 1953 and 1954, released in 1956 (and reissued many times) as BLP 1501 on the Blue Note Records label. ''Miles Davis Volume 1'' also refers to a CD compilation that contains the entirety of '' Young Man with a Horn'' (BLP 5013, 1951) plus three alternate takes, plus the entirety of ''Miles Davis, Vol. 3'' (BLP 5040, 1954), both released on 10-inch LP. The album was identified by Scott Yanow in his Allmusic essay "Hard Bop" in 2010 as one of the 17 Essential Hard Bop Recordings. Release history The 12-inch LP (BLP 1501) was originally released in January 1956, followed by ''Volume 2'' (BLP 1502), after Davis won the ''Down Beat'' readers poll as best trumpeter. The two volumes of rereleased Miles Davis material were the first releases in Blue Note's new 1500 series of 12"LPs. The music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
