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Jack Nimitz
Jack Nimitz (January 11, 1930 – June 10, 2009) was an American jazz baritone saxophonist. He was nicknamed "The Admiral". Career A native of Washington, D.C., Nimitz started on clarinet in his early teens before playing alto saxophone. During the 1950s he played baritone saxophone with Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, and Herbie Mann. He continued to play in big bands in the 1960s with Terry Gibbs and Gerald Wilson in addition to working in film and leading a quintet. He was a founding member of Supersax in the early 1970s and remained with the band into the 1990s. During the 1980s and 1990s he was a member of big bands led by Oliver Nelson and Bill Berry. He performed in the sextet of Frank Strazzeri and the sextet of Bud Shank in the 1990s. In 1997 he worked with Buddy Childers at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club in London. A studio musician for much of his life, Nimitz recorded his first album as leader in the 1990s. The Jack Nimitz Quintet played its final performance on May 10, ... [...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, improvis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Four Freshmen
The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires, The Pied Pipers, and The Mel-Tones, founded in the barbershop tradition. The singers accompany themselves on guitar, horns, bass, and drums, among other instrumental configurations. The group was founded in 1948 in Indiana and reached its peak popularity in the mid-1950s. The last original member retired in 1993, but the group continues to tour internationally. It has recorded jazz harmonies since its founding in the late 1940s in the halls of the Jordan School of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis. History Early beginnings Brothers Don and Ross Barbour grew up in a musical family in Columbus, Indiana, and had sung with their cousin Bob Flanigan as kids. In 1947, while attending the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music at Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana, music theory classmate Hal Kratzsch convinced the Barbo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mannix (album)
''Mannix'' (subtitled ''Themes from the Original Score of the Paramount Television Show'') is an album featuring music composed and conducted by Lalo Schifrin which was recorded in 1968 and released on the Paramount label.Payne, DLalo Schifrin discographyaccessed March 14, 2012 As with '' Music from Mission: Impossible'' (1967) and '' More Mission: Impossible'' the music on this album is rerecorded and extended scores that were originally commissioned for the TV series ''Mannix''. Track listing ''All compositions by Lalo Schifrin except as indicated'' # "Mannix" - 2:29 # "The Edge of Night" - 2:53 # "The Girl Who Came in with the Tide" - 2:26 # "Beyond the Shadow of Today" (Schifrin, Herb Geller) - 2:57 # "The Shadow" - 3:03 # "Turn Every Stone" ( Shorty Rogers) - 2:59 # "Hunt Down" - 2:20 # 'Warning: Live Blueberries" - 3:29 # "Fear" - 2:39 # "The End of the Rainbow" - 2:36 # "Endgame" - 2:28 *Recorded in Los Angeles, California in October 1968 Personnel *Lalo Schifr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Impossible
Impossible, Imposible or Impossibles may refer to: Music * ''ImPossible'' (album), a 2016 album by Divinity Roxx * ''The Impossible'' (album) Groups * The Impossibles (American band), a 1990s indie-ska group from Austin, Texas * The Impossibles (Australian band), an Australian band * The Impossibles (Thai band), a 1970s Thai rock band Songs * "Impossible" (Captain Hollywood Project song) (1993) * "The Impossible" (song), a country music song by Joe Nichols (2002) * "Impossible" (Edyta song) (2003) * "Impossible" (Kanye West song) (2006) * "Impossible" (Daniel Merriweather song) (2009) * "Impossible" (Måns Zelmerlöw song) (2009) * "Impossible" (Anberlin song) (2010) * "Impossible" (Shontelle song) (2010) * "Impossible", from Rodgers and Hammerstein's 1957 musical ''Cinderella'' * "Impossible", a song written by Steve Allen and recorded by Nat King Cole for his 1958 album ''The Very Thought of You'' * "Impossible", from the 1994 album ''The Screaming Jets'' by The Screa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lalo Schifrin
Boris Claudio "Lalo" Schifrin (born June 21, 1932) is an Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor. He is best known for his large body of film and TV scores since the 1950s, incorporating jazz and Latin American musical elements alongside traditional orchestrations. He is a five-time Grammy Award winner, and has been nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy Awards. Schifrin's best known compositions include the " Theme from ''Mission: Impossible''", and the scores to '' Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), '' Bullitt'' (1968), '' THX 1138'' (1971), '' Enter the Dragon'' (1973), ''The Four Musketeers'' (1974), '' Voyage of the Damned'' (1976), ''The Amityville Horror'' (1979), and the ''Rush Hour'' trilogy (1998–2007). Schifrin is also noted for his collaborations with Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s, particularly the ''Dirty Harry'' series of films. He also composed the Paramount Pictures fanfare used from 1976 to 2004. In 2019, he received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stolen Moments (Oliver Nelson Album)
''Stolen Moments'' is the final studio album by American jazz saxophonist, composer and arranger Oliver Nelson, featuring performances recorded in 1975 for the East Wind label.Payne, D.Oliver Nelson discographyaccessed February 8, 2016Ziegler, F.accessed February 8, 2016 Reception The Allmusic site awarded the album 3½ stars, calling it: "A fine finish to a much-too-brief life". Track listing ''All compositions by Oliver Nelson except as indicated'' # " Stolen Moments" - 7:46 # " St. Thomas" (Sonny Rollins) - 3:57 # "Three Seconds" - 6:27 # "Mission Accomplished" - 6:30 # "Midnight Blue" (Neal Hefti) - 4:10 # "Yearnin'" - 6:23 # " Straight, No Chaser" (Thelonious Monk) - 0:38 Personnel *Oliver Nelson - alto saxophone, arranger, conductor *Bobby Bryant - trumpet, flugelhorn * Jerome Richardson - soprano saxophone, piccolo, flute *Bobby Bryant Jr., Buddy Collette - tenor saxophone, flute *Jack Nimitz - baritone saxophone *Mike Wofford - electric piano, piano *Chuck Domanico - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live From Los Angeles
''Live from Los Angeles'' is an album by American jazz composer/arranger Oliver Nelson featuring performances recorded in 1967 for the Impulse! label.Impulse! Records discography accessed April 11, 2011 Reception The initial ''Billboard'' magazine review from February 1968 wrote that: The review by Douglas Payne awarded the album 2 stars stating:Track listing :''All compositions by Oliver Nelson except as indicated'' # "Miss Fine" – 4:13 # " |
Manne–That's Gershwin!
''Manne–That's Gershwin!'' is an album by drummer Shelly Manne featuring music by George Gershwin, recorded in 1965 and released on the Capitol label.Capitol Records discography accessed August 18, 2015 Reception The reviewer stated: "Although not all that memorable, this music generally swings, leaves space for concise solos and is fairly fresh".Track listing ''All compositions by George and Ira Gershwin, except as indicated'' # "[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Fair Lady With The Un-original Cast
''My Fair Lady with the Un-original Cast'' is an album by drummer Shelly Manne with Jack Sheldon and Irene Kral and musical direction by Johnny Williams, recorded in 1964 and released on the Capitol label.Capitol Records discography accessed August 18, 2015 The album, featuring Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe's music from the '''', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shelly Manne
Sheldon "Shelly" Manne (June 11, 1920 – September 26, 1984) was an American jazz drummer. Most frequently associated with West Coast jazz, he was known for his versatility and also played in a number of other styles, including Dixieland, swing, bebop, avant-garde jazz, and later fusion. He also contributed to the musical background of hundreds of Hollywood films and television programs. Family and origins Manne's father Max Manne and uncles were drummers. In his youth he admired many of the leading swing drummers of the day, especially Jo Jones and Dave Tough. Billy Gladstone, a colleague of Manne's father and the most admired percussionist on the New York theatrical scene, offered the teenage Shelly tips and encouragement. From that time, Manne rapidly developed his style in the clubs of 52nd Street in New York in the late 1930s and 1940s. His first professional job with a known big band was with the Bobby Byrne Orchestra in 1940. In those years, as he became known, he r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steuart Liebig
Steuart Liebig, born July 25, 1956, is an American bassist and composer of modern creative jazz and the free improvisational music. He plays 6-string bass guitars. Life and work Liebig grew up in Los Angeles and was influenced as a child by rock and blues music of the 1960s. He first started playing jazz in highschool. He started experimenting with different sounds in college and between 1974 and 1976 he belonged to John Beasley's band. At the age of 19, he played rhythm guitar for the soul jazz pianist and singer Les McCann, with whom he worked on 4 albums. In 1979 he left McCann's band to attend California State University, where he studied classic double bass, music history, and composition until 1983. After he graduated, he created the fusion band, BLOC, with Nels Cline. He also played with Julius Hemphill's JAH-Band along with Alex Cline and Bill Frisell. He spent a lot of time playing with musicians in Los Angeles that were interested in freely improvised music. Afterwards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hair (Stan Kenton Album)
''Hair'' is an album by bandleader Stan Kenton featuring big band versions of tunes from the rock musical '' Hair'' recorded in 1969 for Capitol Records.Vosbein, PStan Kenton Discographyaccessed August 4, 2016 accessed August 4, 2016 Track listing All compositions by , and . # " |
