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Dee Alexander
Deleatrice "Dee" Alexander is an American jazz singer. She is a member of the AACM and appeared at the Newport Jazz Festival in 2013. Alexander is the host of ''Sunday Jazz with Dee Alexander'', a radio show on WDCB and the WFMT Radio Network. Discography As leader or co-leader * ''Live at the Hothouse'' (self-released, 2004) * ''Wild Is the Wind'' ( Blujazz, 2009) * ''Sketches of Light'' (EGEA-UJ, 2012) * ''Songs My Mother Loves'' (Blujazz, 2014) * ''It's Too Hot For Words'' (Delmark, 2019) with the Metropolitan Jazz Octet With the Chicago Soul Jazz Collective * ''On the Way to be Free'' (JF Music, 2022) With Ernest Dawkins * ''Misconception of a Delusion Shades of a Charade'' (Dawk, 2005) * '' Memory in the Center'' (Dawk Music, 2014) With Hamid Drake and Bindu * '' Blissful'' (RogueArt, 2008) With Douglas Ewart * ''Velvet Fire: Dedicated to Baba Fred Anderson'' (Aarawak, 2009) With Ramsey Lewis * ''Urban Knights VII'' (Ropeadope, 2019) With R. Kelly * ''Happy People/U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs My Mother Loves
''Songs My Mother Loves'' is an album by Chicago-based jazz vocalist Dee Alexander. It was recorded at Tone Zone Recording in Chicago, Illinois, and was released in 2014 by the Blujazz label. On the album, Alexander is accompanied by a core group consisting of pianist Miguel Delacerna, double bassist Harrison Bankhead, and drummer Yuseff Ernie Adams, plus six guest artists: cellist Tomeka Reid, guitarist Scott Hesse, double bassist Junius Paul, saxophonists Ari Brown and Oliver Lake, and trumpeter Corey Wilkes. The album pays tribute to the music her mother played around the house when Alexander was young. She reflected: "Every Sunday, my brothers and I would be awakened to the wonderful music my mother played while she did the ironing. I decided to do a tribute to her while I still have her." Reception In a review for ''All About Jazz'', Dan Bilawsky wrote: "Alexander puts her own spin on classics and infrequently-performed winners that her mother enjoys, giving every single nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happy People/U Saved Me
''Happy People/U Saved Me'' is the sixth studio album and the second double album by American R&B singer R. Kelly, where he mixed feel-good danceable soul records (''Happy People'') with gospel anthems (''U Saved Me''). Released in 2004, it peaked at No. 2 on the pop albums chart and went on to be certified three times Platinum. The album contained the hit single " Happy People" (US No. 19, UK No. 6), and the minor hit " U Saved Me" (US No. 52, UK No. 6). On "Red Carpet (Pause, Flash)", Kelly interpolated the song " Step in the Name of Love" on his previous album, which was released a year earlier. Critical reception ''Happy People/U Saved Me'' received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has an average score of 66 based on 16 reviews. Richard Cromelin from ''Los Angeles Times'' found that "the album’s sonic signature is a celebrative clap" and further remarked: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Jazz Singers
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label that was previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Harper
Billy Harper (born January 17, 1943) is an American jazz saxophonist, "one of a generation of Coltrane-influenced tenor saxophonists" with a distinctively stern, hard-as-nails sound on his instrument.Chris KelseyBilly Harper Biography ''AllMusic'' Biography He was born in Houston, Texas, United States. In 1965, Harper earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of North Texas. Harper has played with some of jazz's greatest drummers; he served with Art Blakey's Messengers for two years (1968–1970); he played very briefly with Elvin Jones (1970), he played with the Thad Jones/ Mel Lewis Orchestra in the 1970s, and was a member of Max Roach's quartet from 1971–1978. In 1979, Harper formed his own group, touring with it and documenting its music on the recording '' Billy Harper Quintet in Europe'', and he was featured as a soloist on a 1983 recording, ''Such Great Friends'', with virtuoso, visionary pianist and record producer Stanley Cowell. After a period of rela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Bartz
Gary Bartz (born September 26, 1940) is an American jazz saxophonist. He has won two Grammy Awards. Biography Bartz was first exposed to jazz as the son of the owners of a jazz nightclub in Baltimore. In 1958 he left Baltimore to study at the Juilliard School. In the early 1960s, he performed with Eric Dolphy and McCoy Tyner in Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop. He worked as a sideman with Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln before joining Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. In 1968, he was a member of McCoy Tyner's band, Expansions. In mid-1970, he joined Miles Davis' band, performing live at the Isle Of Wight festival in August; and at a series of December dates at The Cellar Door club in Washington, D.C. Portions of these shows were initially released on the 1971 '' Live-Evil'' album, with the entire six performance/four night run eventually released in full on the 2005 '' Cellar Door Sessions'' box set. He later formed the band Ntu Troop, which combined jazz, funk, and soul. Bartz was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Jazz
''Blue Jazz'' is the final studio album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson released by the Delmark label in 2003.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 500 series accessed October 14, 2019 Reception reviewer Thom Jurek stated "Trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader Malachi Thompson has outdone himself with ''Blue Jazz'' ... Thompson and his notion of reinventing the manner in which a brass-driven big band explores the relationships between harmony and rhythm, and the more tenacious linguistic commonalities between bebop and free jazz have never been as articulately or gracefully rendered as they are in this pair of suit ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rising Daystar
''Rising Daystar'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1999.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 500 series accessed October 14, 2019 Reception reviewer Alex Henderson stated: "When Malachi Thompson calls his music 'free bop,' it isn't empty rhetoric; he really does take a free, open-minded approach to bop, and he savors 'the tradition' without being enslaved by it. Recorded at three separate sessions in 1997, 1998, and 1999, ''Rising Daystar'' is primarily a hard bop/post-bop CD ... But while ''Rising Daystar'' is more inside than outside ... the Chicagoan isn't limited to that ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47th Street (album)
''47th Street'' is an album by the American jazz trumpeter Malachi Thompson, released by the Delmark label in 1998.Jazzlists: Delmark Records discography: 400/500 series accessed October 14, 2019 The album formed part of Thompson's efforts to revitalize the Sutherland Hotel one of the last remaining links to the 47th Street Jazz Scene in Chicago. Reception reviewer Tim Sheridan stated that "Thompson's terrific ode to a unique time and place in African-American history is filled with exciting musical ideas while also remaining accessible".[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malachi Thompson
Malachi Richard Thompson (August 21, 1949, in Princeton, Kentucky — July 16, 2006), was an American avant-garde jazz trumpet player. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Thompson was known for his work in the brass ensemble led by fellow trumpeter Lester Bowie. Born in Princeton, Kentucky, Malachi Thompson moved to Chicago as a child. He credited his interest in the trumpet to hearing Count Basie's band at the Regal Theater, South Side (Chicago), Regal Theatre when he was 11 years old. Thompson worked in the rhythm and blues scene on Chicago's South Side as a teen. In 1968, he joined the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), spending some time in the AACM big band. He performed and toured with the Operation Breadbasket Big Band, which was affiliated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.''The Guardian'' (UK), obituary, September 9, 2006, by Peter Vacher. Thompson graduated from Governors State University in 1974 with a degree in music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
