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Matthew Gee
Matthew Gee (November 25, 1925 in Houston, Texas – July 18, 1979 in New York City) was an American bebop trombonist and part-time actor. Gee played trumpet and baritone as a child, and took up the trombone at age 11. After studying at Alabama State University, he played with Coleman Hawkins before doing a stint in the Army. Following this, he played with Dizzy Gillespie (1946–1949), Joe Morris, Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt (1950), Count Basie (1951), Illinois Jacquet (1952–1954), Lou Donaldson (1954), Sarah Vaughan (1956), and Gillespie again in 1957. In 1956 he released his only record as a bandleader on Riverside Records. From 1959 to 1963 he played on and off with the Duke Ellington Orchestra. Later in the 1960s, he played in small groups with Paul Quinichette and Brooks Kerr, as well as in big bands with Sonny Stitt and Johnny Griffin. Discography As leader * ''Jazz by Gee'' (Riverside, 1956) * ''Soul Groove'' (Atlantic, 1963) - with Johnny Griffin As sideman With Gen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houston
Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 in 2020. Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat and largest city of Harris County and the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, which is the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second-most populous in Texas after Dallas–Fort Worth. Houston is the southeast anchor of the greater megaregion known as the Texas Triangle. Comprising a land area of , Houston is the ninth-most expansive city in the United States (including consolidated city-counties). It is the largest city in the United States by total area whose government is not consolidated with a county, parish, or borough. Though primarily in Harris County, small portions of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riverside Records
Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer, Jr, under his firm Bill Grauer Productions in 1953, the label played an important role in the jazz record industry for a decade. Riverside headquarters were located in New York City, at 553 West 51st Street. History Initially the company was dedicated to reissuing early jazz material drawn from the issues of the Paramount and Gennett and Hot Record Society (H.R.S.), labels among others. Reissued artists included Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Ma Rainey, and James P. Johnson, but the label began issuing its own contemporary jazz recordings in April 1954, beginning with pianist Randy Weston. In 1955 the Prestige Records contract of Thelonious Monk was bought out and Monk was signed by Riverside, where he remained for the next five years. During the next few years, Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Charlie Byrd, Johnny Griffin, and Wes Montgomery made substantial contributio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quartet/Quintet/Sextet
''Quartet/Quintet/Sextet'' is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson featuring his earliest recordings as a leader on the Blue Note label performed by Donaldson's Quartet with pianist Horace Silver, bassist Gene Ramey and drummer Art Taylor, his Quintet with Silver, trumpeter Blue Mitchell, drummer Art Blakey and bassist Percy Heath, and a Sextet with Heath, Blakey, trumpeter Kenny Dorham, trombonist Matthew Gee and pianist Elmo Hope. accessed December 2, 2009. The album was originally released as a 10" LP, then as a 12" , and finally as a [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dancing The Big Twist
''Dancing the Big Twist'' is an album by pianist Ray Bryant released on Columbia Records in 1961 to capitalise on the Twist dance craze. accessed April 26, 2017 Reception The review stated "This session will appeal to those who favor Bryant's dance hit of the era, 'Madison Time'".Track listing # "Twist City" (Matthew Gee) – 5:45 # "Just a Little Bit of Twist" (Don Covay) – 2:46 # "Big Susie" (Ray Bryant) – 5:22 # "Twist On" (Bryant) – 4:46 # "Twistin' an a Cat's Paw" (BuddyTate) – 5:00 # "Mo-Lasses" (Joe Newman) – 5:15 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Bryant
Raphael Homer "Ray" Bryant (December 24, 1931 – June 2, 2011) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. Early life Bryant was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 24, 1931. His mother was an ordained minister who had taught herself to play the piano; his father also played the piano and sang. His brothers were the bass player Tommy, drummer and singer Len, and Lynwood. Ray began playing the piano around the age of six or seven, following the example of his mother and his sister, Vera. Gospel influences in his playing came from being part of the church at this stage in his early life. He had switched from classical music to jazz by his early teens and played the double bass at junior high school. He was first paid to play when he was 12: "I would play for dances, and they'd sneak me into bars. I'd get four or five bucks a night, which was good money then." He turned professional aged 14, and immediately joined a local band led by Mickey Collins. Later life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Basie In London
''Basie in London'' is a 1956 live album by Count Basie and his orchestra, recorded (despite the inaccurate album title) in Gothenburg, Sweden. Track listing # "Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie, Jon Hendricks) – 3:38 # "Shiny Stockings" ( Frank Foster) – 5:19 # "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) – 3:37 # "Nails" (Buster Harding) – 6:24 # "Flute Juice" (Ernie Wilkins) – 3:09 # "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie, Eddie Durham) – 1:39 # "Alright, Okay, You Win" (Mayme Watts, Sidney Wyche) – 2:50 # "Roll 'Em Pete" ( Pete Johnson, Big Joe Turner) – 2:32 # "The Comeback" (Charles Frazier) – 4:08 # "Blues Backstage" (Foster) – 4:27 # "Corner Pocket" (Freddie Green, Donald Wolf) – 4:45 # "Blee Blop Blues" (A. K. Salim) – 2:26 # " Yesterdays" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) – 3:16 (bonus track on CD reissue) # "Untitled" – 5:11 (bonus track on CD reissue) # "Sixteen Men Swinging" (Wilkins) – 2:48 (bonus track on CD reissue) # "Plymouth Rock" (Neal H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jug And Sonny
''Jug and Sonny'' is a compilation album by saxophonist Gene Ammons, with Sonny Stitt featured on two tracks, collecting recordings made between 1948 and 1951, some of which were originally released as singles, that was issued by the Chess label in 1960. accessed August 21, 2019 Track listing All compositions by Gene Ammons except where noted: # "Im's Not the Kind of Guy" (as "You're Not the Kind of a Girl") (Will Hudson) – 2:40 # "" (, |
Soulful Saxophone
''Soulful Saxophone'' is an album by saxophonist Gene Ammons, compiling tracks recorded between 1948 and 1951, some of which were originally released as singles, that was issued by the Chess label in 1959. accessed August 21, 2019 Reception The review stated: "This compilation is taken from five of Ammon's sessions".Track listing # " My Foolish Heart" (, |
Soul Groove
''Soul Groove'' is an album by saxophonist Johnny Griffin and trombonist Matthew Gee recorded in 1963 and released on the Atlantic Records, Atlantic label. accessed October 25, 2012 Reception The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars stating "The music seldom reaches ignition point on this undistinguished 1965 session... ''Soul Groove'' disappoints in several areas, including the writing that seldom surpasses head-arrangement status... The co-leaders' contributions also pass in a blur. Tenor and trombone front lines can work, but here the tone of the two instruments is too similar; Griffin and Gee's solos tend to drift and smear over one another".Todd, J[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz By Gee
''Jazz by Gee'' is the debut album by American jazz trombonist Matthew Gee featuring tracks recorded in 1956 for the Riverside label. accessed August 30, 2012 Reception awarded the album 2 stars with Scott Yanow stating "The music is quite bop-oriented and mixes together standards with three swinging Gee originals. An underrated and generally overlooked gem by a forgotten trombonist".Yanow, SAllmusic Review accessed August 30, 2012 Track listing ''All comp ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Griffin
John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Nicknamed "the Little Giant" for his short stature and forceful playing, Griffin's career began in the mid-1940s and continued until the month of his death. A pioneering figure in hard bop, Griffin recorded prolifically as a bandleader in addition to stints with pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, in partnership with fellow tenor Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and as a member of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band after he moved to Europe in the 1960s. In 1995, Griffin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. Early life and career Griffin studied music at DuSable High School in Chicago under Walter Dyett, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe and then alto saxophone. While still at high school at the age of 15, Griffin was playing with T-Bone Walker in a band led by Walker's brother. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Band
A big band or jazz orchestra is a type of musical ensemble of jazz music that usually consists of ten or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular. The term "big band" is also used to describe a genre of music, although this was not the only style of music played by big bands. Big bands started as accompaniment for dancing. In contrast to the typical jazz emphasis on improvisation, big bands relied on written compositions and arrangements. They gave a greater role to bandleaders, arrangers, and sections of instruments rather than soloists. Instruments Big bands generally have four sections: trumpets, trombones, saxophones, and a rhythm section of guitar, piano, double bass, and drums. The division in early big bands, from the 1920s to 1930s, was typically two or three trumpets, one or two trombones, three or four saxo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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