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Night-Glo
''Night-Glo'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley with bassist Steve Swallow recorded and released on the Watt/ECM label in 1985.Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception The review by Richard S. Ginell awarded the album 2½ stars and stated "a relaxed, easygoing, easy-listening series of compositions that nearly spills over into fuzak... Bley permits the lazy pina-colada mood to amble undisturbed from track to track".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larry Willis
Lawrence Elliott Willis (December 20, 1942 – September 29, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He performed in a wide range of styles, including jazz fusion, Afro-Cuban jazz, bebop, and avant-garde jazz, avant-garde. Willis was born in New York City. After his first year studying music theory at the Manhattan School of Music he began performing regularly with Jackie McLean. After he graduated he made his first jazz recording, McLean's ''Right Now! (Jackie McLean album), Right Now!'' in January 1965, which featured two of Willis' compositions. His first recording of any type, however, was as a singer with the Music and Arts Chorale Ensemble, performing an opera by Aaron Copland under the direction of Leonard Bernstein. He decided to concentrate on jazz because of the difficulties African-American musicians had in finding work in concert music. Throughout his career he performed with a wide range of musicians, including several years as keyboardist for Blood, Sweat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Swallow
Steve Swallow (born October 4, 1940) is an American jazz bassist and composer, known for his collaborations with Jimmy Giuffre, Gary Burton, and Carla Bley. He was one of the first jazz double bassists to switch entirely to electric bass guitar. Biography Born in Fair Lawn, New Jersey, United States, Swallow studied piano and trumpet, as a child, before turning to the double bass at age 14. While attending a prep school, he began trying his hand in jazz improvisation. In 1960, he left Yale University, where he was studying composition, and settled in New York City, playing at the time in Jimmy Giuffre's trio along with Paul Bley. After joining Art Farmer's quartet in 1963, Swallow began to write. It is in the 1960s that his long-term association with Gary Burton's various bands began. In the early 1970s, Swallow switched exclusively to electric bass guitar, of which he prefers the five-string variety. Along with Monk Montgomery and Bob Cranshaw, Swallow was among the first j ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heavy Heart (album)
''Heavy Heart'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, recorded in 1983 and released on the ECM (record label), Watt/ECM label in 1984.Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception The AllMusic review by Richard S. Ginell stated that "while ''Heavy Heart'' is a somewhat bright, light-minded album, there are plenty of dark undercurrents to be heard".Ginell, R. S. [ AllMusic Review] accessed August 5, 2010 ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' awarded the album 2 stars.Track listing All compos ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sextet (Carla Bley Album)
''Sextet'' is an album by American composer, bandleader and keyboardist Carla Bley, released on the Watt/ECM label in 1987.Carla Bley discography accessed August 5, 2010 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception 's Richard S. Ginell stated: "The sound bathes in a polished golden ambience very much in keeping with a product distributed under the ECM banner".Ginell, R. S. |
Home (Steve Swallow Album)
''Home'' is an album by bassist Steve Swallow featuring poetry by Robert Creeley recorded in 1979 and released on the ECM label.ECM discography accessed September 15, 2011 Reception The review by Ron Wynn awarded the album 2½ stars calling it an "Interesting concept".Wynn,RAllmusic Review accessed September 15, 2011 Track listing :''All music by Steve Swallow and text by Robert Creeley'' # "Some Echoes" - 5:37 # ""She Was Young..." (From "The Finger")" - 3:34 # ""Nowhere One..."" - 5:01 # "Colors" - 4 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla (album)
''Carla'' is an album by the bassist Steve Swallow, released on the Xtra Watt label in 1987.Steve Swallow discography accessed August 25, 2016 accessed August 25, 2016 Reception 's review by Scott Yanow states: "The post-bop music is reasonably unpredictable and, although not essential, holds one's interest".Track listing All compositions by Steve Swallow. # "Deep Trouble" ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Brecker
Randal Edward Brecker (born November 27, 1945) is an American trumpeter, flugelhornist, and composer. His versatility has made him a popular studio musician who has recorded with acts in jazz, rock, and R&B. Early life Brecker was born on November 27, 1945, in the Philadelphia suburb of Cheltenham to a musical family. His father Bob (Bobby) was a lawyer who played jazz piano and his mother Sylvia was a portrait artist. Randy described his father as "a semipro jazz pianist and trumpet fanatic. In school when I was eight, they only offered trumpet or clarinet. I chose trumpet from hearing Diz, Miles, Clifford, and Chet Baker at home. My brother (Michael Brecker) didn't want to play the same instrument as I did, so three years later he chose the clarinet!" Randy's father, Bob, was also a songwriter and singer who loved to listen to recordings of the great jazz trumpet players such as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Clifford Brown. He took Randy and his younger brother Mich ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Clark (musician)
John Clark is an American jazz horn player and composer. In Allmusic, Clark is described as "possibly the most fluent jazz French horn soloist since the great Julius Watkins in the 1950s."Scott YannoJohn Clark:Il Suono(review), accessed 2020-12-27 Biography John Clark was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Rochester, New York. In 1966 he received a B.A.from the University of Rochester, where he also studied horn with Verne Reynolds at the Eastman School of Music. From 1967 until 1971 he played in the United States Coast Guard Band. Clark received a M.M. degree (with honors) from the New England Conservatory of Music in 1973. He studied composition and improvisation with Jaki Byard, Ran Blake, and George Russell; and horn with James Stagliano, Thomas Newell, and Paul Ingraham. In 1991 he received a patent for the "hornette," an instrument with the same range as a French Horn but with a forward-facing bell for greater projection. He taught at the State University of New York at P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
