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Revelation Records (jazz)
Revelation Records was an American jazz record label based in Los Angeles, active from 1965 until the late 1980s. Revelation was founded by Occidental College professor and then-director of the Moore Laboratory of Zoology, John William (Bill) Hardy and UCLA employee Jon Horwich. The label was initially operated out of Los Angeles and then Glendale, California. Hardy had previously written liner notes for Dick Bock's productions for Pacific Jazz Records. Toward the end of the 1970s, the label's base of operations shifted to Gainesville, Florida.Mark Gardner, "Revelation". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld, 2004. The label released approximately 50 albums. Artists *Joe Albany * Bobby Bradford * Vera Brasil *Alan Broadbent *Dennis Budimir * Charlie Bush * John Carter * Jerry Coker *Clare Fischer * Gary Foster * Ronnie Hoopes *Mark Isham *Carmell Jones *Warne Marsh * Paul Nash * Anthony "Tony" Ortega * Jack Reilly * Putter Smith *Frank Strazz ... [...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] |
Jerry Coker
Jerry Coker (born November 28, 1932) is an American jazz saxophonist and pedagogue. Coker was born in South Bend, Indiana. He attended Indiana University in the early 1950s, but left school to become a member of Woody Herman's Herd. Coker eventually earned undergraduate and graduate degrees while he taught jazz at Sam Houston State University (then Sam Houston State Teachers College). He recorded under his own name in the mid-1950s and as a sideman with Nat Pierce, Dick Collins, and Mel Lewis; later that decade he played with Stan Kenton. In 1960 he began teaching and increasingly turned to music education and composition. He taught at Duke University, University of Miami, North Texas State University, and started the Studio Music and Jazz program at the University of Tennessee, where he was a professor of music from the 1980s through the 2000s."Jerry Coker". '' The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz''. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld. Discography *''Modern Music from Indiana Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easy Livin' (Clare Fischer Album)
''Easy Livin is an album by composer/arranger/keyboardist Clare Fischer, a program of standards featuring both solo piano performances and piano-bass duets, recorded on August 8, 1963, given a limited release in 1966 (see original album cover below), and reissued in 1968 on the Revelation label. Track listing Composer credits and durations derived from album images. Side One # " In Your Own Sweet Way" ( Dave Brubeck) - 4:05 # "Glad to Be Unhappy" ( Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart) - 2:18 # "Aquarius" (João Donato) - 4:12 # "My Pretty Girl" (Charles Fulcher) - 2:14 # "Kerry Dancer" (Irish traditional) - 4:55 # "Goodbye" (Gordon Jenkins) 5:17 Side Two # "I'll Take Romance" (Ben Oakland & Oscar Hammerstein II) - 11:44 #" Easy Livin' ic" (Ralph Rainger & Leo Robin) - 10:44 Personnel *Clare Fischer - piano *Bobby West - bass (Side One, track 6; Side Two, tracks 1-2) References External links Album & album cover imagesat eBay eBay Inc. ( ) is an American multinational ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Sullivan (musician)
Frank Sullivan may refer to: * Frank Sullivan (baseball) (1930–2016), American baseball pitcher * Frank Sullivan (basketball), college men's basketball coach * Frank Sullivan (film editor) (1896–1972), American film editor * Frank J. Sullivan (1852–?), state senator in California's 13th State Senate district * Frank Sullivan (ice hockey, born 1898) (1898–1989), Canadian ice hockey player for the University of Toronto Grads and Canada * Frank Sullivan (ice hockey, born 1929) (1929–2009), Canadian ice hockey player for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks * Frank Sullivan (medical doctor), Scottish general practitioner and medical researcher * Frank Sullivan (writer) Francis John Sullivan (September 22, 1892February 19, 1976) was an American humorist, best remembered for creating the character Mr. Arbuthnot the Cliche Expert. Life Sullivan was born in Saratoga Springs Saratoga Springs is a city in Sara ... (1892–1976), American journalist and humoris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Strazzeri
Frank Strazzeri (April 24, 1930 – May 9, 2014) was an American jazz pianist. Career Strazzeri began on tenor saxophone and clarinet at age 12, then switched to piano soon after. He attended the Eastman School of Music, then took a job as a house pianist in a nightclub in Rochester in 1952. While there he accompanied visiting musicians such as Roy Eldridge and Billie Holiday. He moved to New Orleans in 1954, playing with Sharkey Bonano and Al Hirt in a Dixieland jazz setting, but his focus since then was on bebop. He played with Charlie Ventura in 1957–58 and Woody Herman in 1959 before moving to Los Angeles in 1960. There he worked extensively as a studio musician on the West Coast jazz scene, and toured with Joe Williams, Maynard Ferguson, Les Brown and Elvis Presley!(1971–74). He also played with Elvis Presley in the Aloha from Hawaii concert of 1973). He worked with Terry Gibbs, Herb Ellis, the Lighthouse All-Stars, Art Pepper, Bud Shank, Cal Tjader, Louie Bellson, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Putter Smith
Patrick Verne "Putter" Smith (born January 19, 1941) is an American jazz bassist, music teacher, author, and actor. Early life Smith was born in Bell, California, and began playing the bass at the age of eight, inspired by his older brother, jazz musician Carson Smith. He made his performing debut aged 13 at the Compton Community Center. Career He went on to perform with Thelonious Monk, Art Blakey, Duke Ellington, Billy Eckstine, Diane Schuur, Lee Konitz, Bruce Forman, Jackie and Roy, Carmen McRae, Gary Foster, Art Farmer, Blue Mitchell, Erroll Garner, Gerry Mulligan, Art Pepper, Alan Broadbent, Bob Brookmeyer, Warne Marsh, Ray Charles, Patrice Rushen, Michael Kanan, Jorge Rossy, Jimmy Wormworth, Mason Williams, Percy Faith, Burt Bacharach, The Manhattan Transfer, and Johnny Mathis. He also works as a session musician, and has played on recordings by Beck, Smokey Hormel, Sonny and Cher, The Beach Boys, and The Righteous Brothers, among many others. Smith has al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Reilly (musician)
Jack Aloysius Reilly (also known as Sean Petrahn) (January 1, 1932 – May 18, 2018) was an American jazz pianist. Career Reilly was born in Staten Island, New York. At age 7, he began classical piano and gave his first recital while still in grammar school. During his teens, he formed a jazz band in high school. This proved to be pivotal in his choice of Jazz as the major musical force in his life. He played in a U.S. Navy band while stationed in Puerto Rico from 1951 to 1953 and it was there that he met Bill Evans. After military duty, Jack received a four year scholarship to the Manhattan School of Music majoring in piano and composition. At school he met many musicians of note who had also been in the military; people like Bill Russo, Phil Woods, Zoot Sims, John Lewis, John LaPorta, and Hall Overton. John LaPorta hired Jack to perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in 1958, the year he graduated from MSM. The critics gave high praise for the quartets performance and raves for Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
