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Pat LaBarbera
Pat (Pascel Emmanuel) LaBarbera (born April 7, 1944) is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist born in Mt. Morris, New York, most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands from 1967 to 1973. He moved to Toronto, Ontario in 1974, and is a member of the faculty at Humber College. La Barbera began working with Elvin Jones in 1975, touring Europe with him in 1979. While working with Buddy Rich, Pat also was working in groups led by Woody Herman and Louie Bellson. Pat has also played with Carlos Santana. LaBarbera has played a major role in the development of a generation of Canadian saxophonists. In 2000, he won a Juno Award for Best Traditional Instrumental Jazz Album for ''Deep in a Dream''."Juno Awards reach out to music's newcomers". ''National Post'', March 13, 2000. Pat is the brother of fellow musicians John LaBarbera (trumpet) and Joe LaBarbera (drums). Discography As a leader * 1975: ''Pass It O ... [...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, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Santana
Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán (; born July 20, 1947) is an American guitarist who rose to fame in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band Santana, which pioneered a fusion of Rock and roll and Latin American jazz. Its sound featured his melodic, blues-based lines set against Latin American and African rhythms played on percussion instruments not generally heard in rock, such as timbales and congas. He experienced a resurgence of popularity and critical acclaim in the late 1990s. In 2015, ''Rolling Stone'' magazine listed him at No. 20 on their list of the 100 greatest guitarists. He has won 10 Grammy Awards and three Latin Grammy Awards, and was inducted along with his namesake band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1998. Biography Early life Santana was born in Autlán de Navarro in Jalisco, Mexico on July 20, 1947. He learned to play the violin at age five and the guitar at age eight, under the tutelage of his father, who was a mariachi musician. His young ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remembrance (Elvin Jones Album)
''Remembrance'' is an album from jazz drummer Elvin Jones, recorded on February 3, 4 and 5, 1978 and released on MPS Records in 1978.Allmusic review/ref> Track listing All songs written by Pat LaBarbera, except where noted ;Side one #"Giraffe" (Don Garcia) – 7:54 #"Section 8" – 4:25 #"Little Lady" – 6:27 #"Familiar Ground" – 3:32 ;Side two #"Kalima" (Michael Stuart) – 8:30 #"Beatrice" (Andy McCloud III) – 6:41 #"Remembrance" – 7:04 Personnel *drums - Elvin Jones *tenor saxophone and soprano - Pat LaBarbera *tenor saxophone and soprano - Michael Stuart *guitar - Roland Prince * bass - Andy McCloud III Credits *Producer - Joachim-Ernst Berendt Joachim-Ernst Berendt (20 July 1922 in Berlin – 4 February 2000 in Hamburg) was a German music journalist, author and producer specialized on jazz. Life Berendt's father, Ernst Berendt, was a Protestant pastor belonging to the Confessing ... *Engineer - Gibbs Platen References {{DEFAULTSORT:Remembr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Main Force
''The Main Force'' is a jazz album by drummer Elvin Jones recorded in 1976 and released on the Vanguard label.Elvin Jones discography accessed April 26, 2012 Reception The review awarded the album 2½ stars stating "This inconsistent 1976 release from the mighty Elvin Jones is most successful when it draws on the high-energy, advanced hard bop style of the drummer's post-Coltrane period. It's a different story when it comes to the date's superfluous accommodations to fusion".Todd, JAllmusic Review< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Different Drummer (album)
''A Different Drummer'', also released as ''Superstar'', is a 1971 big band recording by jazz drummer Buddy Rich for the RCA Records label. Reception The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 2.5 stars stating Track listing Source: Discogs *''Tracks B3 – B6 make up the "A Piece of the Road" Suite'' Personnel *Buddy Rich – drums *Bobby Peterson – piano *David Spinozza – guitar *Bob Daugherty – bass *Paul Kondziela – bass *Candido Camero – bongos, conga *Phil Kraus – percussion *Brian Grivna – alto saxophone, flute, soprano saxophone *Jimmy Mosher – alto saxophone, flute, soprano saxophone *Pat LaBarbera Pat (Pascel Emmanuel) LaBarbera (born April 7, 1944) is an American-born Canadian jazz tenor, alto and soprano saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist born in Mt. Morris, New York, most notable for his work as a soloist in Buddy Rich bands fr ... – tenor saxophone, flute, soprano saxophone *Don Englert& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keep The Customer Satisfied (album)
''Keep the Customer Satisfied'' is a 1970 live album by the Buddy Rich Big Band, recorded at the Tropicana Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Track listing LP side A #" Keep the Customer Satisfied" (Paul Simon) – 6:40 #"Long Day's Journey" (Don Piestrup) – 4:42 #Midnight Cowboy Medley: "He Quit Me Man"/"Everybody's Talkin'"/"Tears and Joys" Jeffrey Comanor) – 11:12 LP side B #"Celebration" (Don Piestrup) – 3:35 #"Groovin' Hard" (Don Menza) – 5:25 #"The Juicer Is Wild" (Neil, Roger Neuman) – 4:32 #"Winning the West" ( Bill Holman) – 7:30 Bonus tracks on CD re-issues: #" Body and Soul" (Frank Eyton, Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour) – 4:54 #"Happy Time" (Mike Hughes) – 3:57 #"The Nitty Gritty" (Lincoln Chase) – 4:07 #"Straight and Narrow" (Don Piestrup) – 4:17 #"Groovin' Hard" (Don Menza) – 5:54 #"Cornerstone" (Ted Pease) – 4:45 Personnel ;The Buddy Rich big band: * Buddy Rich - drums *Bob Suchoski - baritone saxophone *Rick Laird - double bass * R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk MacDonald (musician)
Kirk MacDonald (born 1959) is a Canadian jazz musician and composer. He has been nominated for four Juno Awards, with his album ''The Atlantic Sessions'' winning the 1999 Juno Award for Best Mainstream Jazz Album. He has performed on over forty albums as leader and sideman and has participated in national broadcast recordings for CBC Radio. In addition to performing extensively throughout Canada, he has performed in the U.S., France, Spain, Italy, Holland, Monaco, Australia, Korea, Bermuda, and the Bahamas. He has worked with Walter Bishop Jr., John Clayton, Rosemary Clooney, Brian Dickinson, Glenn Ferris, Sonny Greenwich, Eddie Henderson, Pat LaBarbera, Lorne Lofsky, Harold Mabern, Ron McClure, Jim McNeely, Vince Mendoza, James Moody, Bob Mover, Phil Nimmons, Sam Noto, Chris Potter, Bernie Senensky, Mike Stern, John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, André White, and the Humber College Faculty Ensemble. As a composer, he has recorded over fifty of his own compositions. His compositi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacek Kochan
Jacek Kochan (born 1955) is a Polish-born drummer, composer, arranger and music producer. After having started his adventures in music in Poland in the seventies, he moved in the early eighties first to New York City and then to Canada. There he worked with among many others Michel Donato, Karen Young, Andrew Leroux, Yannick Rieu, Oliver Jones, Jean-Pierre Zanella, Michel Cusson, John Abercrombie, Jerry Bergonzi, Pat Labarbera and Kenny Wheeler. In 1995, he returned to Europe where he continued to compose, play, tour and record music with artists like Brian Conlon Dave Liebman, Greg Osby, Marc Copland, Gary Thomas, Joey Calderazzo, Palle Mikkelborg Palle Mikkelborg (born 6 March 1941) is a Danish jazz trumpet player, composer, arranger and record producer. He is self-taught on the trumpet, although he studied conducting at the Royal Music Conservatory in Copenhagen. He became a professio ... and Eddie Henderson. Kochan has released several albums as a leader. Amo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Abercrombie (guitarist)
John Laird Abercrombie (December 16, 1944 – August 22, 2017) was an American jazz guitarist. His work explored jazz fusion, free jazz, and avant-garde jazz. Abercrombie studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. He was known for his understated style and his work with organ trios. Career Early life and education John Abercrombie was born on December 16, 1944, in Port Chester, New York. Growing up in the 1950s in Greenwich, Connecticut he was attracted to the rock and roll of Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, and Bill Haley and the Comets. He also liked the sound of jazz guitarist Mickey Baker of the vocal duo Mickey and Silvia. He had two friends who were musicians with a large jazz collection. They played him albums by Dave Brubeck and Miles Davis. The first jazz guitar album he heard was by Barney Kessel. He took guitar lessons at the age of ten, asking his teacher to show him what Barney Kessel was playing. After high school, he attended Berklee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PM Records
PM Records is a jazz label established by Gene Perla in 1973. PM released recordings by Dave Liebman, Steve Grossman, Elvin Jones, Bernie Senensky, Don Thompson, Pat LaBarbera, and Ed Bickert. Perla played bass on 31 of PM's 46 albums released to the end of 2018. The first album pressing was limited to 500. It was followed by Steve Grossman's ''Some Shapes to Come''. Open Sky was a trio featuring Bob Moses, Dave Liebman and Frank Tusa. Stone Alliance featured Perla, Don Alias, and Steve Grossman. Discography *PMR-001: Open Sky - ''Open Sky'' (1973) *PMR-002: Steve Grossman - ''Some Shapes to Come'' (1974) *PMR-003: Open Sky - ''Spirit in the Sky'' (1975) *PMR-004: Elvin Jones - ''Live'' (1975) *PMR-005: Elvin Jones - '' On the Mountain'' (1975) *PMR-007: Doug Riley - ''Dreams'' (1976) *PMR-008: Don Thompson - ''Country Place'' (1976) *PMR-009: Pat LaBarbera - ''Pass It On'' (1976) *PMR-010: Ed Bickert - ''Ed Bickert'' (1976) *PMR-012: Steve Grossman - ''Terra Firma'' (1977 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe LaBarbera
Joseph James LaBarbera (born February 22, 1948) is an American jazz drummer and composer. He is best known for his recordings and live performances with the trio of pianist Bill Evans in the final years of Evans's career. His older brothers are saxophonist Pat LaBarbera and trumpeter John LaBarbera. Career He grew up in Mount Morris, New York. His first drum teacher was his father. For two years in the late 1960s he attended Berklee College of Music, then went on tour with singer Frankie Randall. After Berklee he spent two years with the US Army band at Fort Dix, New Jersey. He began his professional career playing with Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd. His reputation grew in the 1970s when he spent four years recording and touring with Chuck Mangione. He also worked as a sideman for Bob Brookmeyer, Jim Hall, Art Farmer, Art Pepper, John Scofield, Toots Thielemans, and Phil Woods. In 1979 he was a member of the Bill Evans trio, then spent much of the 1980s and ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John LaBarbera
John LaBarbera (born November 10, 1945) is a trumpeter and arranger who worked with the Buddy Rich Orchestra during the late 1960s. Early life LaBarbera was born in Warsaw, New York, on November 10, 1945. His home town is Mount Morris, New York. He studied music with "his father and at Potsdam (New York) State Teachers College (1962–63) and the Berklee School of Music (1964–65)". Later life and career LaBarbera joined Buddy Rich's band in 1968, but moved to Buddy DeFranco Boniface Ferdinand Leonard "Buddy" DeFranco (February 17, 1923 – December 24, 2014) was an Italian-American jazz clarinetist. In addition to his work as a bandleader, DeFranco led the Glenn Miller Orchestra for almost a decade in the 1960s and ...'s Glenn Miller Band later that year, before rejoining Rich in 1971. He started arranging when with DeFranco, and continued with Rich. "In the 1980s and 1990s he worked principally as a composer and an arranger, supplying new scores for college and high-scho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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