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In The Mix (album)
''In the Mix'' is an album by pianist John Hicks (jazz pianist), John Hicks, recorded in 1994. Recording and music The album was recorded at Systems Two in Brooklyn, New York, on November 13, 1994."John Hicks Catalog" jazzdisco.org. Retrieved July 30, 2017. The five musicians were Vincent Herring (alto and soprano sax), Elise Wood (flute), John Hicks (jazz pianist), John Hicks (piano), Curtis Lundy (bass), and Cecil Brooks III (drums). Half of the eight tracks were written by Hicks."John Hicks – In the Mix" AllMusic. Retrieved July 30, 2017. Release ''In the Mix'' was released by Landmark Records.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hicks (jazz Pianist)
John Josephus Hicks Jr. (December 21, 1941 – May 10, 2006) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was leader of more than 30 recordings and played as a sideman on more than 300."Artist of the Month: John Hicks" . wicn.org. Retrieved November 20, 2016. After early experiences backing blues musicians, Hicks moved to New York in 1963. He was part of Art Blakey's band for two years, accompanied vocalist Betty Carter from 1965 to 1967, before joining Woody Herman's big band, where he stayed until 1970. Following these associations, Hicks expanded into free jazz, freer bands, including those of trumpeters Charles Tolliver and Lester Bowie. He rejoined Carter in 1975; the five-year stay brought him more attention and helped to launch his recording career as a leader. He continued to play and record extensively in the Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mal Waldron
Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He started playing professionally in New York in 1950, after graduating from college. In the following dozen years or so Waldron led his own bands and played for those led by Charles Mingus, Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, and Eric Dolphy, among others. During Waldron's period as house pianist for Prestige Records in the late 1950s, he appeared on dozens of albums and composed for many of them, including writing his most famous song, "Soul Eyes", for Coltrane. Waldron was often an accompanist for vocalists, and was Billie Holiday's regular accompanist from April 1957 until her death in July 1959. A breakdown caused by a drug overdose in 1963 left Waldron unable to play or remember any music; he regained his skills gradually, while redeveloping his speed of thought. He left the U.S. permanently in the mid-1960s, settled in Europe, and continued touring internat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1994 Albums
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1994. Specific locations * 1994 in British music * 1994 in Norwegian music Specific genres *1994 in country music * 1994 in heavy metal music * 1994 in hip hop music * 1994 in Latin music * 1994 in jazz Events January–February *January 19 – Bryan Adams becomes the first major Western music star to perform in Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War. *January 21–February 5 – The Big Day Out festival takes place, again expanding from the previous year's venues to include the Gold Coast, Queensland and Auckland in New Zealand. The festival is headlined by Soundgarden, Ramones and Björk. *January 25 – Alice in Chains release their ''Jar of Flies'' album which makes its US chart debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, becoming the first ever EP to do so. *January 29 – The Supremes' Mary Wilson is injured when her Jeep hits a freeway median and flips over just outside Los Angeles, USA. Wilson's 14-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bud Green
Bud Green (19 November 1897 – 2 January 1981) was an American lyricist especially of Broadway musicals and show tunes Early life and family Green was born Moses David Green in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and immigrated to the United States as an infant. Bud Green (Buddy) grew up in Harlem at 108th & Madison Avenue at the turn of the 20th century, the eldest of seven. He dropped out of elementary school to sell newspapers and help the family. While selling papers, he decided to become a songwriter and started keeping a notebook of poems and rhymes that he thought would be useful someday. His sister, Hannah, was married to the lyricist Bob Russell (1914–1970), who wrote "Brazil", "Frenesi", "Don't Get Around Much Anymore", "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother" and many other songs. Career In his early career, he wrote material for vaudevilles. He was a staff writer for music publishers and wrote Broadway stage scores as well as songs for other musicals. By 1928, he had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Edwards (American Composer)
Michael Edwards (1893–1962) was an American composer and musician, known for composing the 1937 hit " Once in a While". He was also a classical violinist, organist and music arranger.Once in a While at ''jazzstandards.com'' – retrieved on May 21, 2009 Edwards's most famous composition, "Once in a While", became a number one hit for and His Orchestra, and later for (1957) and |
Once In A While (1937 Song)
"Once in a While" is a popular song, written by Michael Edwards with lyrics by Bud Green. The song was published in 1937. The song is a much-recorded standard. Popular recordings *Tommy Dorsey's recording in 1937 went to number one in the United States. *One of the best-known recordings was made by Patti Page in 1952 (on Mercury 5867). *The song was revived in doo-wop style by the Chimes in 1960, and their version peaked at number eleven on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in January 1961. Other recordings Popular culture *At the end of the instrumental "Stucco Homes" on the third volume of Frank Zappa's 1981 album ''Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar'', drummer Terry Bozzio sings the hook of this song. See also *List of 1930s jazz standards Jazz standards are musical compositions that are widely known, performed and recorded by jazz artists as part of the genre's musical repertoire. This list includes compositions written in the 1930s that are considered standards by at least one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Young
Albert Victor Young (August 8, 1899– November 10, 1956)"Victor Young, Composer, Dies of Heart Attack", ''Oakland Tribune'', November 12, 1956. was an American composer, arranger, violinist and conductor. Biography Young is commonly said to have been born in Chicago on August 8, 1900, but according to Census data and his birth certificate, his birth year is 1899. His grave marker shows his birth year as 1901. He was born into a very musical Jewish family, his father being a tenor with Joseph Sheehan's touring opera company. After his mother died, his father abandoned the family. The young Victor, who had begun playing violin at the age of six, and was sent to Poland when he was ten to stay with his grandfather and study at Warsaw Imperial Conservatory (his teacher was Polish composer Roman Statkowski), achieving the Diploma of Merit. He studied the piano with Isidor Philipp of the Paris Conservatory. While still a teenager he embarked on a career as a concert violinist with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Elliott (composer)
Irwin Elliott Zucker (August 6, 1927 – August 18, 2001) was an American television and film composer, conductor, music arranger, television producer, and co-founder of the New American Orchestra, later renamed the American Jazz Philharmonic. Life and career Elliott was born Irwin Elliott Zucker in Hartford, Connecticut. He was of Romanian Jewish descent. Elliott graduated from the Hartt School of Music and worked as a jazz pianist in New York and Paris in the 1950s. He continued his post-graduate studies in composition with Arnold Franchetti, Isadore Freed, Bohuslav Martinů, and Lukas Foss, but it was Judy Garland who brought Elliott to California to become an arranger for her television show. Elliott continued his run in television as music director for Andy Williams' long-running series and later produced and conducted the NBC television special ''Live From Studio 8H: 100 Years of America's Popular Music''. He also wrote themes for television shows ''Night Court'', and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul Eyes
"Soul Eyes" is a composition, with lyrics, written by Mal Waldron.Ratliff, Ben (December 6, 2002"Mal Waldron, 77, Composer of the Jazz Ballad 'Soul Eyes'" ''The New York Times''. It is a 32-bar ballad that takes the song form ABAC, and is written in 4/4 time. It was first recorded on March 22, 1957, for the album ''Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors''.Gioia, Ted (2012) ''The Jazz Standards: A Guide to the Repertoire''. Oxford University Press. pp. 388–390. One of the tenor saxophonists on that recording was John Coltrane, who brought the song back to attention by recording it in 1962 for his album '' Coltrane'', when he had become more famous. This was only the second ever recording of the song, which has since become "part of the basic repertory of jazz performers" – a jazz standard. Waldron wrote the piece with Coltrane in mind: "I liked Coltrane's sound and I thought the melody would fit it". Since these early versions, the song has been recorded hundreds of times. A ... [...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] |
Cecil Brooks III
Cecil Brooks III (born 1959) is an American jazz drummer and record producer who has worked with Arthur Blythe, Russell Gunn, John Hicks, Andrew Hill, Etta Jones, Roseanna Vitro, Marvin Peterson, and Jimmy Ponder. A native of the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Brooks released a number of albums for Muse and Savant. The jazz club that he started in West Orange NJ – Cecil's – closed in 2012 after 10 years. Discography As leader * '' The Collective'' (Muse, 1989) * ''Hangin' with Smooth'' (Muse, 1992) * ''Neck Peckin' Jammie'' (Muse, 1994) * ''Smokin' Jazz'' (Muse, 1996) * ''For Those Who Love to Groove'' (Savant, 1999) * ''Live at Sweet Basil Vol. 2'' (Savant, 2001) * ''Double Exposure'' (Savant, 2006) * ''Hot Dog'' (Savant, 2009) As sideman With Arthur Blythe * '' Spirits in the Field'' (Savant, 2000) * ''Blythe Byte'' (Savant, 2001) * ''Focus'' (Savant, 2002) * '' Exhale'' (Savant, 2003) With Don Braden * ''Landing Zone'' (Landmark, 1995) * ''Organic' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curtis Lundy
Curtis Lundy (born October 1, 1955) is an American double bass player, composer, producer, choir director and arranger. Lundy is best known for his work as part of jazz vocalist Betty Carter's band. Discography As leader * ''Beatitudes'' with Bobby Watson (New Note, 1985) * ''Just Be Yourself'' (New Note, 1987) * ''Against All Odds'' (Justin Time, 1999) * ''Purpose'' (Justin Time, 2002) As sideman With Billy Bang * ''Big Bang Theory'' (Justin Time, 2000) * ''Vietnam: The Aftermath'' (Justin Time, 2001) * ''Vietnam: Reflections'' (Justin Time, 2005) With Betty Carter * ''The Audience with Betty Carter'' (Bet-Car, 1980) * ''Whatever Happened to Love?'' (Bet-Car, 1982) * ''Betty Carter'' (Verve, 1990) * ''I'm Yours, You're Mine'' (Verve, 1996) * ''Betty Carter's Finest Hour'' (Verve, 2003) * ''Live in Montreal'' (Universal, 2004) With Johnny Griffin * '' Call It Whachawana'' (Galaxy, 1983) * ''Live Jazzbuhne Berlin '84'' (Amiga, 1984) * ''Tough Tenors Back Again!'' (Storyville, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
