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Waiting For The Sunrise (Camille Thurman Album)
Waiting for the Sunrise is the fourth album by American jazz vocalist and saxophone player Camille Thurman. It was released by Chesky Records on August 24, 2018 and debuted at No. 2 on the ''Billboard'' magazine Traditional Jazz Album Chart. NPR called the album a "full display" of Thurman's talents on vocals and saxophone, and ''JazzTimes'' said "track for track, the recording is a revelation." Awards * 17th Independent Music Award - Jazz Album with Vocals - ''Waiting for the Sunrise'' * 17th Independent Music Award - Jazz Song with Vocals - "The Nearness of You" * NAACP 50th Image Awards Nominated - Outstanding Jazz Album Track listing # "I Just Found Out About Love" – 3:26 # "Some of These Days" – 6:31 # "Tarde" – 3:32 # "After You've Gone" – 7:41 # "September in the Rain" – 4:44 # "The Nearness of You" – 5:03 # "Easy to Love" – 3:03 # "I'm on Your Side" – 5:42 # "World Waiting for Sunrise" – 7:21 # "If You Love Me (Really Love Me)" – 3:59 Personnel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camille Thurman
Camille Thurman (born December 22, 1986) is an American jazz musician, composer, and member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Her first two albums, released by Chesky Records in 2018 and 2017, peaked at #3 and #25 respectively on the Billboard Jazz Albums Chart. She has performed at the Kennedy Center, and was a runner up for the 2013 Sarah Vaughan International Vocal Competition. Early life Thurman took up music at a young age, as she grew up in the St. Albans section of Queens, New York, practicing vocals, piano, and flute before attending Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and the Performing Arts. She first picked up the tenor saxophone, the instrument she is best known for playing, at the age of 15. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in geological & environmental science from Binghamton University. Musical career Thurman moved back to New York City following her graduation, and played with a wide array of jazz musicians, particularly crediting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesky Records
Chesky Records is a record company and label founded in 1978 by brothers David and Norman Chesky. The company produces high-definition recordings of music in a variety of genres, including jazz, classical, pop, R&B, folk and world/ethnic. Chesky artists include McCoy Tyner, Herbie Mann, David Johansen and the Harry Smiths, Joe Henderson, Macy Gray, Chuck Mangione, Paquito D'Rivera, Ron Carter, Larry Coryell, John Pizzarelli, Bucky Pizzarelli, Babatunde Olatunji, Ana Caram, and Rebecca Pidgeon. Chesky Records also offers binaural recordings, which seeks to replicate 3-D stereo sound so that the recording sounds as if the listener is in the same room with the musicians. They capture this sound using dummy head recording. For its recordings, Chesky Records uses acoustically vibrant spaces, including the Hirsch Center in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and St. Paul the Apostle Church located in Manhattan. The company has a mastering studio in New York City, New York. History Studi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Chesky
David Chesky is an American pianist, composer, producer, arranger, and co-founder of the independent, audiophile label Chesky Records. He is also co-founder and CEO of HDtracks, an online music store that sells high-resolution digital music. Chesky is considered a technological and musical innovator with eclectic interests. He has won Independent Music Awards and received Grammy Award nominations. He has written jazz tunes, orchestral and chamber music, opera, ballet, and a rap symphony. Beginnings At his mother's insistence, Chesky started piano lessons at the age of 5. In his teens he had less interest in rock and roll music, with its verse-chorus structure, than in classical and jazz. He liked Oscar Peterson, the Buddy Rich Big Band, George Gershwin, and the Latin music he heard while growing up in Miami. In 1974, at the age of 17, he moved to New York City to pursue a career as a musician. He studied privately with classical composer David Del Tredici and jazz pianist John Lew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JazzTimes
''JazzTimes'' is an American magazine devoted to jazz. Published 10 times a year, it was founded in Washington, D.C. in 1970 by Ira Sabin as the newsletter ''Radio Free Jazz'' to complement his record store. Coverage After a decade of growth in subscriptions, deepening of writer pools, and internationalization, ''Radio Free Jazz'' expanded its focus and, at the suggestion of jazz critic Leonard Feather, changed its name to ''JazzTimes'' in 1980. Sabin's Glenn joined the magazine staff in 1984. In 1990, ''JazzTimes'' incorporated exclusive cover photography and higher quality art and graphic design. The magazine reviews audio and video releases concerts, instruments, music supplies, and books. It also includes a guide to musicians, events, record labels, and music schools. David Fricke, whose writing credits include ''Rolling Stone'', '' Melody Maker'' and ''Mojo'', also contributes to the magazine. Web traffic JazzTimes.com was redesigned in 2019. Among its most popular s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Pelt
Jeremy Pelt (born November 4, 1976, in California) is an American jazz trumpeter. Career Pelt studied classical trumpet as a child and focused on jazz after playing in a high school jazz ensemble. He studied at Berklee College of Music. Among those he has performed with are Ravi Coltrane, Roy Hargrove, Greg Osby, and Cassandra Wilson. Discography * ''Profile'' (Fresh Sound, 2002) * ''Close to My Heart'' (Maxjazz, 2003) * ''Insight'' (Criss Cross, 2003) * ''Identity'' (Maxjazz, 2005) * ''Shock Value: Live at Smoke'' (Maxjazz, 2007) * ''November'' (Maxjazz, 2008) * ''Men of Honor'' (HighNote, 2010) * ''The Talented Mr. Pelt'' (HighNote, 2011) * ''Soul'' (HighNote, 2012) * ''Water and Earth'' (HighNote, 2013) * ''Face Forward, Jeremy'' (HighNote, 2014) * ''Tales, Musings and Other Reveries'' (HighNote, 2015) * ''#Jiveculture'' (HighNote, 2016) * ''High Art'' (HighNote, 2016) * ''The Co-Op'' (Brown Brothers, 2017) * ''Make Noise!'' (HighNote, 2017) * ''Noir En Rouge, Live in Paris'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Wilkins
Jack Rivers Lewis (born June 4, 1944), known professionally as Jack Wilkins, is a jazz guitarist. Career A native of New York City, Wilkins grew up listening to his parents' music, such as Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Billie Holiday. He started playing guitar when he was thirteen. He had an older cousin who played albums for him by Charlie Christian, Tal Farlow, Django Reinhardt, and Johnny Smith. He cites Smith's ''Designed for You'' as one of the albums that meant the most to him, in addition to ''Sounds of Synanon'' by Joe Pass, ''Poll Winners'' by Barney Kessel, ''The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow'', and ''Interpretations of Tal Farlow''. While still in his teens, he worked as a guitarist in bands led by Les Elgart, Larry Elgart, Warren Covington, and Sammy Kaye. He also worked with Dan Armstrong, Lew Soloff, Lew Tabackin, and Lloyd Wells. In his twenties, he worked as a vibraphonist. He formed the band The Jazz Partners and played vibes with pianist Barry Manilow, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil McBee
Cecil McBee (born May 19, 1935) is an American jazz bassist. He has recorded as a leader only a handful of times since the 1970s, but has contributed as a sideman to a number of jazz albums. Biography Early life and career McBee was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. He studied clarinet at school, but switched to bass at the age of 17, and began playing in local nightclubs. After gaining a music degree from Ohio Central State University, McBee spent two years in the U.S. Army, during which time he conducted the band at Fort Knox. In 1959, he played with Dinah Washington, and in 1962 he moved to Detroit, Michigan, where he worked with Paul Winter's folk-rock ensemble between 1963 and 1964. New York His jazz career began to take off in the mid-1960s, after he moved to New York, when he began playing and recording with a number of significant musicians including Miles Davis, Andrew Hill, Sam Rivers, Jackie McLean (1964), Wayne Shorter (1965–66), Charles Lloyd (1966), Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Williams (jazz Drummer)
Stephen Edward Williams (born January 7, 1956) is an American jazz drummer. Discography As leader * 2006: ''New Incentive'' (Elabeth) With Shirley Horn * 1985: ''The Garden of the Blues'' * 1987: '' All of Me'' * 1987: ''I Thought About You'' * 1988: '' Softly'' * 1989: '' Close Enough for Love'' * 1991: ''You Won't Forget Me'' * 1992: '' Here's to Life'' * 1993: '' Light Out of Darkness (A Tribute to Ray Charles)'' * 1994: ''I Love You, Paris'' * 1996: '' The Main Ingredient'' * 1997: '' Loving You'' * 1998: '' I Remember Miles'' * 2001: '' You're My Thrill'' * 2003: '' May the Music Never End'' * 2005: ''But Beautiful'' With others * 1988: ''Code Violations'' – Gary Thomas * 1989: '' Masters from Different Worlds'' – Clifford Jordan and Ran Blake * 1989: ''In Good Company'' – Joe Williams * 1990: '' Sarah: Dedicated to You'' – Carmen McRae * 1991: ''For My Lady'' – Toots Thielemans * 1992: ''Glengarry Glen Ross (soundtrack)'' – Various * 1995: ''Ramona'' – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Chesky
Norman Chesky is a music entrepreneur and executive producer of two Grammy award winning albums. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Manhattan Production Music and Chesky Records. Chesky also co-founded HDtracks, a music download service. He was a Trustee of the Recording Academy and is a co-founding member of the Production Music Association (PMA). Career Chesky co-founded and co-owns Manhattan Production Music. He served as a Trustee of the Recording Academy from 2002 to 2007. Chesky Records In 1986, Norman Chesky and his brother, David Chesky, co-founded Chesky Records. Norman Chesky serves as the president of the record label. Chesky Records was the first company to use 128x Oversampling and the first independent American record label to record using Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) technology. Norman Chesky was the executive producer of '' Portraits of Cuba'' and '' Tropicana Nights'', two Grammy award winning albums under Chesky Records. In 2016, Chesky co-produced the critic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2018. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2018 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{Albums by release date Albums An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records coll ... 2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chesky Records Albums , an American record label company
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Chesky may refer to: People *Brian Chesky (born 1981), American businessman, co-founder of Airbnb *David Chesky (born 1956), American musician and record label owner *Norman Chesky, American music producer and record label owner * Evelyn Chesky (born 1933), American politician *Larry Chesky (1933–2011), Polka band leader and manager of the record label Rex Records Other *Chesky Records Chesky Records is a record company and label founded in 1978 by brothers David and Norman Chesky. The company produces high-definition recordings of music in a variety of genres, including jazz, classical, pop, R&B, folk and world/ethnic. Che ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |