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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] |
Anthony Ortega (musician)
Anthony Robert "Tony" Ortega (June 7, 1928 – October 30, 2022) was an American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist. Early life Ortega was born in Los Angeles. He began to play the saxophone at age 14 and studied the instrument under Lloyd Reese.Anthony Ortega: Encinitas reedman calls himself a ‘lucky man’ '''', April 5, 2012. He was heavily-influenced by and introduced to musicians by his cousin, . Career In 1947, Ortega played with |
Paul Nash (musician)
Paul Nash (February 19, 1948 – January 20, 2005) was an American jazz guitarist and composer. History A native of the Bronx in New York City, Nash belonged to rock bands in his teens. He turned to jazz after attending a festival in 1968 which featured Sunny Murray and Archie Shepp. He received degrees from Berklee College of Music in Boston and Mills College in San Francisco. He started the Paul Nash Ensemble with Eddie Marshall and Mark Isham. Revelation released the band's first album, ''A Jazz Composer's Ensemble'', in 1979. During the 1980s he started the Bay Area Jazz Composers Orchestra and in 1990 the Manhattan New Music Project. He died from a brain tumor in 2005. Discography * ''A Jazz Composer's Ensemble'' ( Revelation, 1979) * ''Second Impression'' (Soul Note, 1985) * ''Night Language'' (Musical Heritage Society Musical Heritage Society was an American mail-order record label founded in New York City in 1962 by Michael "Mischa" Naida (1900–1991), co-foun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warne Marsh
Warne Marion Marsh (October 26, 1927 – December 18, 1987) was an American tenor saxophonist. Born in Los Angeles, his playing first came to prominence in the 1950s as a protégé of pianist Lennie Tristano and earned attention in the 1970s as a member of Supersax. Biography Marsh came from an affluent artistic background: his father was Hollywood cinematographer Oliver T. Marsh (1892–1941), and his mother Elizabeth was a violinist. He was the nephew of actresses Mae Marsh and Marguerite Marsh and film editor Frances Marsh. He was tutored by Lennie Tristano. Marsh was often recorded in the company of other Cool School musicians, and remained one of the most faithful to the Tristano philosophy of improvisation – the faith in the purity of the long line, the avoidance of licks and emotional chain-pulling, the concentration on endlessly mining the same small body of jazz standards. While Marsh was a generally cool-toned player, the critic Scott Yanow notes that Marsh played w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carmell Jones
Carmell Jones (July 19, 1936 – November 7, 1996) was an American jazz trumpet player. Biography Jones was born in Kansas City, Kansas, United States. He started piano lessons at age five, and trumpet lessons at age seven. His first professional work was with Kansas City musicians Nathan Davis, Cleanhead Vinson and Frank Smith. He moved to California in 1961, and worked as a studio musician for several years, including in the orchestras for two movie soundtracks, ''Seven Days In May'' and ''The Manchurian Candidate'', the latter starring Frank Sinatra. He released two albums as a leader for Pacific Jazz at this time, while recording as a sideman with Bud Shank, Onzy Matthews, Curtis Amy, Harold Land, and Gerald Wilson. He toured with Horace Silver in 1964-65, and was on Silver's seminal 1965 Blue Note album ''Song for My Father''. In 1965, he moved to Germany where he lived for 15 years, working with Paul Kuhn and the SFB Big Band (Sender Freies Berlin) from 1968 to 1980. There ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Isham
Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician and film composer. A trumpeter and keyboardist, Isham works in a variety of genres, including jazz and electronic. He is also a film composer, having worked on numerous films and television series, including '' The Hitcher,'' ''Point Break'', '' A River Runs Through It'', ''Of Mice and Men, Warrior, Nell, Blade,'' ''Crash'', ''The Black Dahlia'', '' The Lucky One'' and ''Once Upon a Time.'' Isham acted as well in ''Made in Heaven'' by Alan Rudolph (1987) and directed ''The Cowboy and the Ballerina'' in 1998. Life and career Isham was born in New York City, the son of Patricia (née Hammond), a violinist, and Howard Fuller Isham, a Professor of Humanities. His discography is extensive and varied, including participation with artists including David Sylvian, Group 87, Art Lande, Pharoah Sanders, Van Morrison, David Torn, and sessions with people like Brian Wilson, Joni Mitchell, Terry Bozzio, Bill Bruford, XTC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
