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Joe Comfort
Joe Comfort (July 18, 1917 – October 29, 1988) was an American jazz double bassist. Biography His mother was born in Mississippi and played the organ during black and white silent movies. His father, George Comfort from Natchez Mississippi taught music at Alcorn State University and composed the school's theme played today and made sure all his children could read music. Joe's older brother George was a singer, a music teacher, and actor who performed with Dorothy Dandridge in ''Porgy and Bess''. A native of Los Angeles who was raised in Watts, Joe Comfort was taught trombone by his father and began his musical career with the Woodman Brother's who like Joe were also from Watts. Joe and the Woodman's used to toss their instruments in the air catching each other's woods and reeds performing extensively all over Los Angeles. In the 1940s Joe played bass in the Lionel Hampton band up until Joe was drafted for war, training at Fort Rucker, Alabama and then serving in the US Army ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alcorn State University
Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. One of Alcorn's most notable graduates, Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist, graduated in 1952. Students and alumni of the college were part of the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights Movement, working to register voters and end inequality in the U.S. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Alcorn State's athletic teams known as the Braves and compete in the NCAA's Division I. All teams compete as members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). History Alcorn State University was the first black land grant college in the country. Mississippi's Reconstructionist legislature, dominated by Republicans sympathetic to the cause of educating the formerly enslaved, was established on the site of Oaklan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buddy Collette
William Marcel "Buddy" Collette (August 6, 1921 – September 19, 2010) was an American jazz flutist, saxophonist, and clarinetist. He was a founding member of the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Early life William Marcel Collette was born in Los Angeles on August 6, 1921. He was raised in Watts, surrounded by people of all different ethnicities. He lived in a house built by his father in an area with cheap, plentiful land. The neighborhood in which he grew up was called Central Gardens area. For elementary school, he attended Ninety-sixth Street School because it allowed black students. Other schools in the area, such as South Gate Junior High School, did not and Collette often felt odd entering areas primarily inhabited by whites. Collette's family did not have a lot of money, but his childhood gave him the chance to mix with all sorts of different people. The “melting pot” of Watts framed the way he saw his position as a black man in the future. Buddy Collette bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's All Over But The Swingin'
''It's All Over but the Swingin'' is a 1957 album by Sammy Davis Jr., arranged by Jack Pleis and Morty Stevens. Track listing # "Guess I'll Hang My Tears out to Dry" (Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne) – 4:43 # "But Not for Me (song), But Not for Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 3:24 # "Where's That Rainbow?" (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers) – 3:27 # "I Cover the Waterfront (song), I Cover the Waterfront" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:19 # "Don't Blame Me (Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh song), Don't Blame Me" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:52 # "Better Luck Next Time" (Irving Berlin) – 2:43 # "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Gal" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:53 # "It Never Entered My Mind" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:05 # "Someone to Watch over Me (song), Someone to Watch over Me" (G. Gershwin, I. Gershwin) – 3:23 # "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face" (Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe) – 2:47 # "Spring Is Here" (Hart, Rodgers) – 4:03 # "I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgie Auld
Georgie Auld (May 19, 1919 – January 8, 1990) was a jazz tenor saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader. Early years Auld was born John Altwerger in Toronto, Canada, and moved to Brooklyn, New York, in 1929. Before the family left Canada, Auld's parents gave him a saxophone, which he taught himself to play. Career Auld worked with Bunny Berigan, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Erroll Garner, Dizzy Gillespie, Al Porcino, Billy Eckstine, Tiny Kahn, and Frank Rosolino. Primarily a swing saxophonist, he was a member of big bands and led big bands, including Georgie Auld and His Orchestra and Georgie Auld and His Hollywood All Stars. He played rock and roll while working for Alan Freed in 1959. In 1949, Auld played Carl in ''The Rat Race'' in the Ethel Barrymore Theater on Broadway. In 1952, he had a small part in the film '' The Marrying Kind''. In 1977 he played a bandleader in the motion picture ''New York, New York'', starring Liza Minnelli and Robert De Niro and also acted as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In The Land Of Hi-Fi With Georgie Auld And His Orchestra
''In the Land of Hi-Fi with Georgie Auld and His Orchestra'' is an album by American jazz saxophonist and bandleader Georgie Auld featuring tracks recorded in 1955 and released on the EmArcy label. accessed October 3, 2012 Reception awarded the album 4 stars stating "The music mixes together swing, bop, and cool jazz in winning fashion".Yanow, SAllmusic Review accessed October 3, 2012 Track listing # "In the Land of Hi-Fi" (Auld - May) - 4:15 # " ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mel Tormé
Melvin Howard Tormé (September 13, 1925 – June 5, 1999), nicknamed "The Velvet Fog", was an American musician, singer, composer, arranger, drummer, actor, and author. He composed the music for "The Christmas Song" ("Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire") and co-wrote the lyrics with Bob Wells. Early life Melvin Howard Tormé was born in Chicago, Illinois, to William David Torme, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, and Betty Torme (née Sopkin), a New York City native. He graduated from Hyde Park High School. A child prodigy, he first performed professionally at age four with the Coon-Sanders Orchestra, singing "You're Driving Me Crazy" at Chicago's Blackhawk restaurant. He played drums in the drum-and-bugle corps at Shakespeare Elementary School. From 1933 to 1941, he acted in the radio programs ''The Romance of Helen Trent'' and ''Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy''. He wrote his first song at 13. Three years later his first published song, "Lament to Love", became a hit for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Broadway – My Way
''Broadway – My Way'' is a studio album by Nancy Wilson (jazz singer), Nancy Wilson released in March 1963 on Capitol Records. The album reached No. 18 on the Billboard 200 chart. Track listing # "A Lot of Livin' to Do" (Lee Adams, Charles Strouse) – 2:08 # "You Can Have Him" (Irving Berlin) – 4:42 # "Tonight (1956 song), Tonight" (Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 2:33 # "Do Re Mi (musical)#Make Someone Happy, Make Someone Happy" (Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Jule Styne) – 3:17 # "I Believe in You (Frank Loesser song), I Believe in You" (Frank Loesser) – 2:02 # "As Long as He Needs Me" (Lionel Bart) – 2:29 # "Getting to Know You (song), Getting to Know You" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers) – 2:35 # "My Ship" (Ira Gershwin, Kurt Weill) – 3:14 # "The Sweetest Sounds (song), The Sweetest Sounds" (Rodgers) – 2:04 # "Joey, Joey, Joey" (Loesser) – 3:56 # "Loads of Love" (Rodgers) – 2:12 # "I'll Know" (Loesser) – 2:31 #: ''Bonus tracks not included ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Something Wonderful (Nancy Wilson Album)
''Something Wonderful'' was the second album by the American vocalist Nancy Wilson, it was released in October 1960 by Capitol Records, and arranged by Billy May. As with her debut album on the label, '' Like in Love'', she was teamed up with Billy May, one of its star arrangers, who had come to prominence through his outstanding work with such singers as Nat King Cole, Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra. The album spawned one of Wilson's all-time signature songs, "Guess Who I Saw Today". Another highlight was "What a Little Moonlight Can Do", which was, as critic Pete Welding wrote in his liner notes to the 1996 three- CD set ''Ballads, Blues & Big Bands: The Best of Nancy Wilson'', "a song so closely associated with the sublime Billie Holiday (that) few would even have attempted it, let alone brought it off so well, with just the right blend of lightheartedness and sincerity." In 2003, the UK label EMI Gold re-issued ''Something Wonderful'' on a 2-for-1 CD, coupled with its natura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Wilson (jazz Singer)
Nancy Sue Wilson (February 20, 1937 – December 13, 2018) was an American singer and actress whose career spanned over five decades, from the mid-1950s until her retirement in the early 2010s. She was especially notable for her single "(You Don't Know) How Glad I Am" and her version of the standard "Guess Who I Saw Today". Wilson recorded more than 70 albums and won three Grammy Awards for her work. During her performing career, Wilson was labeled a singer of blues, jazz, R&B, pop, and soul; a "consummate actress"; and "the complete entertainer". The title she preferred, however, was "song stylist". She received many nicknames including "Sweet Nancy", "The Baby", "Fancy Miss Nancy" and "The Girl With the Honey-Coated Voice". Early life Nancy Wilson was born on February 20, 1937 in Chillicothe, Ohio, to Olden Wilson, an iron foundry worker, and Lillian Ryan. Wilson attended Burnside Heights Elementary School and developed her singing skills by participating in church choirs. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerald Wiggins
Gerald Foster Wiggins (May 12, 1922 – July 13, 2008) was an American jazz pianist and organist. Early life Wiggins was born in New York City on May 12, 1922.Vacher, Pete"Wiggins, Gerry" ''The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz'' (2nd edition). Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. Retrieved February 1, 2016. (Subscription required). He studied classical music, but switched to jazz in his teens. Later life and career Wiggins began as a professional career as a musician accompanying comedian Stepin Fetchit. Wiggins worked with Louis Armstrong and Benny Carter. He was in the military from 1944 to 1946. In the 1940s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he played music for television and film. He also worked with singers like Lena Horne (1950–51), Kay Starr, and Eartha Kitt. In 1960, his best recording as an organist appeared, ''Wiggin' Out'', known for the quality of its music and fresh, clear sound. He recorded another LP at the organ with saxophonist Teddy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stockholm Concert, 1966
''The Stockholm Concert, 1966'' is a 1966 (see 1966 in music) live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, accompanied in part by the Duke Ellington Orchestra. The recording remained unreleased until 1984. It is notable as the last release of Ella's four recorded collaborations with Duke Ellington. Later in 1966 Ella and Duke went on to record their final album together; ''Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur.'' Track listing Originally released in 1984 on LP and CD (Pablo 2308-242). Remastered reissue on CD in 1987 (Pablo PACD-2308-242-2 in US; Pablo 025218024228 in France/Benelux). # "Imagine My Frustration" (Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Gerald Wilson) – 5:13 # "Duke's Place" (Ellington, Bob Katz, Bob Thiele) – 4:43 # "Satin Doll" (Ellington, Johnny Mercer, Strayhorn) – 3:08 # "Something to Live For (song)" (Ellington, Strayhorn) – 4:04 # "Wives and Lovers" (Burt Bacharach, Hal David) – 2:11 # " Só Danço Samba" ("Jazz 'n' Samba") (Antonio Carlos Jobim, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Jerome Kern Song Book
''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Song Book'' is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by an orchestra arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. The album focuses on the songs of the composer Jerome Kern. This was the second of Fitzgerald's Song Book series to have been orchestrated by Riddle; their previous collaboration was her '' George and Ira Gershwin Song Book'' in 1959. Fitzgerald and Riddle also recorded two albums of standards, '' Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson'' and '' Ella Swings Gently with Nelson'', in 1962. This was the seventh and penultimate album in Fitzgerald's Song Book series of songs written by musical theater composers; it was preceded by 1961's '' Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Harold Arlen Song Book'' and followed by ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Song Book'' in 1964. Awarded four and a half stars by ''Down Beat'' magazine in 1963. Track listing For the 1963 Verve LP release; Verve V6-4060; Re-issued i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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