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Spanish Onions
''Spanish Onions'' is an album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1964 at a concert at the Esquire Theater in Los Angeles, CA., and released on the Pacific Jazz label in 1966.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed January 12, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 4 stars. Track listing ''All compositions by Les McCann except as indicated'' # "El Soulo" - 3:16 # "Lavande" - 6:40 # "Spanish Onions" - 8:50 # "Get Them Grits" - 4:30 #" I Am in Love" (Cole Porter) - 5:30 # "Arabella" - 5:43 # "Maxie's Farewell" - 5:15 Personnel *Les McCann - piano *Victor Gaskin - bass *Paul Humphrey - drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ... References {{Les McCann Les McCann live albums 1966 live albums Pacific Jazz Records live albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les McCann
Leslie Coleman McCann (born September 23, 1935) is an American jazz pianist and vocalist.Feather, Leonard, and Ira Gitler (2007), ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz'', p. 448. Oxford University Press. Early life Les McCann was born in Lexington, Kentucky, United States. He grew up in a musical family of four, a brother and three sisters with most of McCann's family singing in church choirs. His father was a fan of jazz music and his mother was known to hum opera around the house. As a youth, he played the tuba and drums and performed in his school's marching band. As a pianist McCann, was largely self-taught. He explained he only received piano lessons for a few weeks as a six-year-old before his teacher died. Career During his service in the U.S. Navy, McCann won a singing contest which led to an appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. After leaving the Navy, McCann moved to California and played in his own trio. He declined an offer to work in Cannonball Adderley's ... [...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] |
Pacific Jazz Records
Pacific Jazz Records was a Los Angeles-based record company and label best known for cool jazz or West coast jazz. It was founded in 1952 by producer Richard Bock (1927–1988) and drummer Roy Harte (1924–2003). Harte, in 1954, also co-founded Nocturne Records with jazz bassist Harry Babasin (1921–1988). Some of the musicians who recorded for Pacific Jazz included Chet Baker, Paul Desmond, Gerry Mulligan, Joe Pass, Gerald Wilson, the Jazz Crusaders, Don Ellis, Clare Fischer, Jim Hall, Groove Holmes, Les McCann, Wes Montgomery, and Art Pepper. In 1957, Pacific Jazz Records changed its name to World Pacific Records to expand into a full-line label, with the Pacific Jazz label retained for jazz releases. In 1958 Richard Bock and World Pacific were instrumental in introducing Indian traditional music to the West via Ravi Shankar, who also recorded for World Pacific. Bock sold the label to Liberty Records in 1965, although he remained as an adviser until 1970. Liberty was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Waltz (Les McCann & The Jazz Crusaders Album)
''Jazz Waltz'' is an album by pianist Les McCann with the Jazz Crusaders recorded in 1963 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed January 12, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 3 stars. Track listing All compositions by Les McCann except where noted. # "Spanish Castles" (George Gruntz) - 2:24 # "Blues for Yna Yna" ( Gerald Wilson) - 3:08 # "Damascus" - 4:09 # "3/4 For God & Co." - 3:24 # "Bluesette" ( Toots Thielemans) - 2:58 # "Big City" (Marvin Jenkins) - 2:35 # "This Here" ( Bobby Timmons) - 2:59 # "Jitterbug Waltz" (Fats Waller) - 3:42 # "All Blues" (Miles Davis) - 4:12 # "Jazz Waltz" (Bobby Haynes) - 2:45 Personnel *Les McCann - piano, organ, electric piano ;The Jazz Crusaders * Wayne Henderson - trombone * Wilton Felder - tenor saxophone * Joe Sample - piano, organ *Bobby Haynes - bass * Stix Hooper - drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percuss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Bag Of Gold
''A Bag of Gold'' is a live album by pianist Les McCann recorded in 1960-64 and released on the Pacific Jazz label.Freed., RLes McCann Discographyaccessed January 12, 2016 Reception Allmusic gives the album 3 stars. Track listing ''All compositions by Les McCann'' # "The Shampoo" - 8:41 # "(Shades of) Spanish Onions" - 2:55 # "The Shout" - 5:35 # "Gone On and Get That Church" - 3:40 # "Fish This Week" - 2:40 # "Kathleen's Theme" - 3:31 # "The Truth" - 6:45 # "We'll See Yaw'll After While Ya Heah" - 3:48 Personnel * Les McCann - piano *Paul Chambers (tracks 5 & 6), Victor Gaskin (tracks 1-3), Herbie Lewis (tracks 4, 7 & 8) - bass *Paul Humphrey (tracks 1-3, 5 & 6), Ron Jefferson Ron Jefferson (February 13, 1926, in New York City Guillon, Roland (2005)''Anthologie du hard bop: L'éclat du jazz noir américain'' Editions L'Harmattan, pp. 49–60. At Google Books. Retrieved 30 July 2013. – May 7, 2007, in Richmond, Vi ... (tracks 4, 7 & 8) - drums References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am In Love
"I Am in Love" is a 1953 popular song written by Cole Porter, for his musical '' Can-Can'', where it was introduced by Peter Cookson. Notable recordings *Nat King Cole - His 1953 single release reached No. 19 in the ''Billboard'' chart. Cole re-recorded the song in stereo and it was included on his album ''The Nat King Cole Story'' (1961). *Vic Damone - ''On the Street Where You Live'' (1964). *Eddie Fisher - ''As Long as There's Music'' (1958). *Ella Fitzgerald - ''Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook'' (1956) *Peggy Lee - ''Latin ala Lee!'' (1960) *Shelly Manne and His Men - '' At the Black Hawk 3'' (1959) *Les McCann - recorded a version for his live 1966 album '' Spanish Onions''. *Johnny Mathis - ''The Rhythms and Ballads of Broadway ''The Rhythms and Ballads of Broadway'' is a double album by American pop singer Johnny Mathis that was released in September 1960 by Columbia Records. Despite the order of the words in the title, the ballads actually make up sides one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in film. Born to a wealthy family in Indiana, Porter defied his grandfather's wishes for him to practice law and took up music as a profession. Classically trained, he was drawn to musical theatre. After a slow start, he began to achieve success in the 1920s, and by the 1930s he was one of the major songwriters for the Broadway musical stage. Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics as well as the music for his songs. After a serious horseback riding accident in 1937, Porter was left disabled and in constant pain, but he continued to work. His shows of the early 1940s did not contain the lasting hits of his best work of the 1920s and 1930s, but in 1948 he made a triumphant comeback with his most successful musical, ''Kiss Me, Kate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piano
The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys (small levers) that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings. It was invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700. Description The word "piano" is a shortened form of ''pianoforte'', the Italian term for the early 1700s versions of the instrument, which in turn derives from ''clavicembalo col piano e forte'' (key cimbalom with quiet and loud)Pollens (1995, 238) and ''fortepiano''. The Italian musical terms ''piano'' and ''forte'' indicate "soft" and "loud" respectively, in this context referring to the variations in volume (i.e., loudness) produced in response to a pianist's touch or pressure on the keys: the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victor Gaskin
Roderick Victor Gaskin (November 23, 1934 – July 14, 2012) was an American jazz bassist. Gaskin was born in The Bronx, New York and moved to Los Angeles in 1962. He started playing with Paul Horn and Red Mitchell and went on to become one of many bass players for the Jazz Crusaders. He also recorded with Curtis Amy and Dupree Bolton, before becoming a part of the West Coast jazz scene, accompanying Buddy Collette, Shelly Manne, and Bud Shank. Between 1966 and 1970, he was a member of Cannonball Adderley's groups, and in 1970 recorded with Duke Ellington's octet, quintet, quartet and trio. He started playing with the Billy Taylor Trio in the late 1970s, continuing until 1993, as well as with Johnny Hartman and Hank Jones. Between 1994 and 2001 Victor Gaskin was in Singapore and performed regularly at The Four Seasons Hotel with Boni de Souza & Friends for the iconic Sunday Jazz Brunch. They were pioneers of the Sunday Jazz Brunch scene in Singapore, setting the trend for ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Double Bass
The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox additions such as the octobass). Similar in structure to the cello, it has four, although occasionally five, strings. The bass is a standard member of the orchestra's string section, along with violins, viola, and cello, ''The Orchestra: A User's Manual'' , Andrew Hugill with the Philharmonia Orchestra as well as the concert band, and is featured in Double bass concerto, concertos, solo, and chamber music in European classical music, Western classical music.Alfred Planyavsky [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Humphrey
Paul Nelson Humphrey (October 12, 1935 – January 31, 2014) was an American jazz and R&B drummer. Biography Humphrey was born in Detroit and began playing drums at age 8, taking private lessons in Detroit. In high school he played baritone horn, trombone and drums in the school band. Upon graduation he entered the U.S. Navy and studied under Kenneth J. Abendschein, touring the world and playing with many jazz figures of 1950s.Paul Humphrey Sextet liner notes After discharge from the service, he worked as a session drummer in New York for Wes Montgomery, John Coltrane, Les McCann, Kai Winding, Jimmy Smith, Charles Mingus, Joe Williams, Lee Konitz, Blue Mitchell, Gene Ammons and the Harry James Band (replacing Buddy Rich). He later moved to Los Angeles and joined the Harry "Sweets" Edison group with Tommy Flanagan and Frank Delarossa. He recorded with Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson and toured and recorded with Marvin Gaye, The Four Tops, The Supremes, Tony Orlando, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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