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Jake Hanna
Jake Hanna (April 4, 1931 – February 12, 2010) was an American jazz drummer. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, United States. Hanna first performed in Boston, Massachusetts. He was the house drummer at Storyville nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts for a number of years in the 1950s and 1960s. He played with Toshiko Akiyoshi (1957), Maynard Ferguson (1958), Marian McPartland (1959–61), and Woody Herman's Orchestra (1962–64). He appears with the Mort Lindsey Orchestra on Judy Garland's multi Grammy Award-winning live album, ''Judy at Carnegie Hall'' (1961). He did extensive work as a studio musician both in and out of jazz, including a period as the drummer for the big band of the ''Merv Griffin Show'' (1964–75). He recorded several albums with Carl Fontana for Concord Jazz in the mid-1970s and also played in Supersax. Later in his career he did much work as a sideman for Concord. Hanna died on February 12, 2010, in Los Angeles, California, of complications from b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Midland, Texas
Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States. A small part of Midland is in Martin County. At the 2020 census, Midland's population was 132,524. It is the principal city of the Midland, Texas metropolitan statistical area, which includes all of Midland County, the population of which grew 4.6% between July 1, 2011, and July 1, 2012, to 151,662, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The metropolitan area is part of the larger Midland–Odessa combined statistical area, which had a population of 340,391 in the 2020 census. People in Midland are called Midlanders. Located in the Permian Basin in West Texas, Midland is a major center for oil and natural gas production. Midland was founded as the midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific Railroad in 1881. The city has many connections to the Bush family; It was the onetime home of former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush and the hometown of forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marian McPartland
Margaret Marian McPartland OBE ( Turner;Hasson, Claire"Marian McPartland: Jazz Pianist: An Overview of a Career" PhD Thesis. Retrieved 12 August 2008. 20 March 1918 – 20 August 2013), was an English–American jazz pianist, composer, and writer. She was the host of '' Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz'' on National Public Radio from 1978 to 2011. After her marriage to trumpeter Jimmy McPartland in February 1945,Obituary: Marian McPartland telegraph.co.uk, 21 August 2013. she resided in the United States when not travelling throughout the world to perform. In 1969, she founded Halcyon Records, a recording company that issued albums for 10 years. In 2000, she was named a |
Everything's Coming Up Rosie
''Everything's Coming Up Rosie'' is a 1977 studio album by the American jazz singer Rosemary Clooney. It was the first solo album that Clooney released on Concord Records. The title is a reference to the 1959 song "Everything's Coming up Roses". On the album, Clooney is accompanied by a quintet of jazz musicians. The album marked the beginning of a fifteen year recording and performance partnership with tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton. Background ''Everything's Coming Up Rosie'' followed two albums recorded in 1975-1976 for United Artists. The United Artist records featured country and contemporary popular songs, and were an attempt to revive Clooney's career after several years outside of the music industry. Neither of the United Artists records were financially successful, and Clooney was dropped from the label. Signing with Concord, an independent label that specialized in mainstream swing and jazz, Clooney began working in a small-group swing setting, singing mostly tradit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Clooney
Rosemary Clooney (May 23, 1928 – June 29, 2002) was an American singer and actress. She came to prominence in the early 1950s with the song " Come On-a My House", which was followed by other pop numbers such as " Botch-a-Me", " Mambo Italiano", "Tenderly", "Half as Much", " Hey There", " This Ole House", and " Sway". She also had success as a jazz vocalist. Clooney's career languished in the 1960s, partly because of problems related to depression and drug addiction, but revived in 1977, when her '' White Christmas'' co-star Bing Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She continued recording until her death in 2002. Early life Rosemary Clooney was born in Maysville, Kentucky, the daughter of Marie Frances (née Guilfoyle) and Andrew Joseph Clooney. She was one of five children. Her father was of Irish and German descent, and her mother was of English and Irish ancestry. She was raised Catholic. When Clooney was 15, her moth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruby Braff
Reuben "Ruby" Braff (March 16, 1927 – February 9, 2003) was an American jazz trumpeter and cornetist. Jack Teagarden was once asked about him on the Garry Moore television show and described Ruby as "the Ivy League Louis Armstrong". Braff was born in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He was renowned for working in an idiom ultimately derived from the playing of Louis Armstrong and Bix Beiderbecke. He began playing in local clubs in the 1940s. In 1949, he was hired to play with the Edmond Hall Orchestra at the Savoy Cafe of Boston. He relocated to New York in 1953 where he was much in demand for band dates and recordings. He resided in Harwich, Massachusetts and died of complications from emphysema, heart failure, and glaucoma on February 9, 2003, in Chatham, Massachusetts. He had spent a good part of his life living in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York City. Discography As leader/co-leader * '' Buck Meets Ruby'' (Vanguard, 1954) with Buck Clayton * ''Jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finesse (Toshiko Akiyoshi Album)
''Finesse'' is a jazz trio album recorded by pianist Toshiko Akiyoshi in 1978 and released on the Concord Records, Concord Jazz record label. Track listing LP record, LP side A #"Count Your Blessings (Irving Berlin song), Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep)" (Irving Berlin, Berlin) – 5:03 #"American Ballad" (Toshiko Akiyoshi, Akiyoshi) – 5:50 #"Love Letters (song), Love Letters" (Edward Heyman, Heyman, Victor Young, Young) – 5:10 #"Wouldn't It Be Loverly?" (Alan Jay Lerner, Lerner, Frederick Loewe, Loewe) – 5:34 LP side B #"Mr. Jelly Lord" (Jelly Roll Morton, Morton) – 6:06 #"Warning! Success May Be Hazardous to Your Health" (Akiyoshi) – 3:21 #"You Go to My Head" (J. Fred Coots, Coots, Haven Gillespie, Gillespie) – 5:53 #"Solvejg's Song" (Edvard Grieg, Grieg) – 6:48 Personnel *Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano *Jake Hanna – drums *Monty Budwig – bass References / External Links *Concord CCD 4069 *[ Allmusic] References Toshiko Akiyoshi albums 1978 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Many Sides Of Toshiko
''The Many Sides of Toshiko'' is a jazz piano trio album by Toshiko Akiyoshi, recorded in New York in 1957 and released on the Verve label. Track listing LP side A #" The Man I Love" ( G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 5:27 #"Minor Moods" ("Midnight Lament") (Brown (Ahmad Kharab Salim)) – 4:16 #" After You've Gone" ( Layton, Creamer) – 3:35 #"We'll Be Together Again" ( Fischer, Laine) – 4:29 #"Studio J" (Akiyoshi) – 3:15 LP side B #"Tosh's Fantasy" (Akiyoshi) – 9:04 ## "Down a Mountain" ## "Phrygian Waterfall" ## "Running Stream" #"Bags' Groove" (Jackson) – 6:48 #"Imagination" ( Van Heusen, Burke) – 3:35 Personnel *Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano *Jake Hanna – drums *Gene Cherico Eugene Valentino Cherico (April 15, 1935, Buffalo, New York – August 12, 1994, Santa Monica, California) was an American jazz double-bassist. Cherico played drums as a child and played in a special services band in the Army, but injured his ... – bass References / external links *A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toshiko And Leon Sash At Newport
''Toshiko and Leon Sash at Newport'' is a live album recorded at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1957 and released on the Verve record label. All 4 Toshiko Akiyoshi tracks are also included on some later re-issues of the Norgran (Verve) recording '' Toshiko's Piano'' / '' Amazing Toshiko Akiyoshi''. Track listing LP side A (Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio set): #"Between Me and Myself" (Akiyoshi) #"Blues for Toshiko" (Akiyoshi) #" I'll Remember April" (Raye, DePaul, Johnston) #" Lover" (Rodgers, Hart) LP side B (Leon Sash Quartet set): #"Sash-Kebob" (Sash, Morgan) #"Meant for Brent" (Sash, Robinson) #"Carnegie Horizons" (Shearing) #"Blue Lou" (Mills, Sampson) Personnel Side A: *Toshiko Akiyoshi – piano * Gene Cherico – bass *Jake Hanna – drums Side B: *Leon Sash Leon Robert Sash (October 19, 1922 – November 25, 1979), was an American jazz accordionist. Career Sash was blind from age 11. He studied harmony with Lew Klatt, arranging with Mac Gerrard. and made his profes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Gui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Fontana
Carl Charles Fontana (July 18, 1928 – October 9, 2003) was an American jazz trombonist. After working in the big bands of Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, and Stan Kenton, he devoted most of his career to playing music in Las Vegas. Career Fontana was born in Monroe, Louisiana, United States. His first break into the professional jazz scene came in 1952, when he was hired to stand in for one of Woody Herman's regular trombonists, Urbie Green. When Green returned, Herman kept Fontana on as a permanent member of the band. After three years with Herman, Fontana joined Lionel Hampton's big band in 1954. In early 1955, he played briefly with Hal McIntyre and Chicago pianist and Playboy executive, Sam Distefano at Sam's Miami nightclub, The Stut 'n' Tut. He later joined Stan Kenton's big band. Fontana recorded three albums with Kenton and worked with trombonist Kai Winding during this period. After 1958, Fontana rarely toured, but undertook a 1966 tour of Africa with Herman's ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy At Carnegie Hall
''Judy at Carnegie Hall'' is a double-LP (re-released decades later as an extended, two-disc CD) live recording of a concert by Judy Garland at Carnegie Hall in New York, with backing orchestra led by Mort Lindsey. This concert appearance, on the night of Sunday April 23, 1961, has been called "the greatest night in show business history". Garland's live performances were a big success at the time and her record company wanted to capture that energy onto a recording. The double album became a smash, both critically and commercially. The album won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year, making Garland the first woman to win the award, and spent thirteen weeks at #1 on the ''Billboard'' album chart. Garland's career had moved from movies in the 1940s to vaudeville and elaborate stage shows in the 1950s. She also suffered from drug and alcohol abuse, and, by 1959, had become overweight and ill and needed extensive medical treatment. After a long convalescence, weight loss, and voca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
