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Joe Albany
Joe Albany (born Joseph Albani; January 24, 1924 – January 12, 1988) was an American modern jazz pianist who played bebop with Charlie Parker as well as being a leader on his own recordings. Life and career Born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Albany studied piano as a child and, by 1943, was working on the West Coast in Benny Carter's orchestra.Feather, Leonard & Gitler, Ira (2007). ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. Oxford University Press, p. 9. In 1946, Lester Young recorded with Albany as his pianist, for Aladdin Records. Also that year, he played at least once with Parker and then 20-year-old Miles Davis. He continued for a few years afterward, and in 1957 recorded an album for Riverside with an unusual trio line-up with saxophonist 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 earne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, often known by its initials A.C., is a coastal resort city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, United States. The city is known for its casinos, boardwalk, and beaches. In 2020, the city had a population of 38,497.QuickFacts Atlantic City city, New Jersey . Accessed November 9, 2022. It was incorporated on May 1, 1854, from portions of and [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Sounds Records
Fresh Sounds Records (also known as Fresh Sounds Inc) was an independent record label from Lawrence, Kansas, run by local music promoter Bill Rich. Acts that have been on the label include Get Smart!, the Embarrassment, the Mortal Micronotz, Start, SPK, the Homestead Grays and William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs II (; February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997) was an American writer and visual artist, widely considered a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodern author who influenced popular cultur .... History The label was founded in 1981 and its first releases were flexi discs that were issued with Rich's ''Talk Talk'' magazine. The first four albums issued by the label were issued on cassette only before the label started issuing its releases on vinyl. ''Fresh Sounds from Middle America'' The ''Fresh Sounds from Middle America'' series of compilation albums was organized by Bill Rich as a way to promote regional bands on a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joe Venuti
Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist. Considered the father of jazz violin, he pioneered the use of string instruments in jazz along with the guitarist Eddie Lang, a friend since childhood. Through the 1920s and early 1930s, Venuti and Lang made many recordings as leader and as featured soloists. He and Lang became so well known for their 'hot' violin and guitar solos that on many commercial dance recordings they were hired to do 12- or 24-bar duos towards the end of otherwise stock dance arrangements. In 1926, Venuti and Lang started recording for the OKeh label as a duet (after a solitary duet issued on Columbia), followed by "Blue Four" combinations, which are considered milestone jazz recordings. Venuti also recorded commercial dance records for OKeh under the name "New Yorkers". He worked with Benny Goodman, Adrian Rollini, the Dorsey Brothers, Bing Crosby, Bix Beiderbecke, Jack Teagard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horo Records
Horo Records was an Italian jazz record label. Discography HDP series * HDP 1-2 Irio De Paula orchestra Casinha Branca * HDP 3-4 Sam Rivers trio Black Africa 1 * HDP 5-6 Sam Rivers trio Black Africa 2 * HDP 7-8 Ran Blake solo piano Open City * HDP 9-10 Max Roach quartet The Loadstar * HDP 11-12 Michael Smith duo Elvira Madigan * HDP 13-14 Archie Shepp trio The Tradition * HDP 15-16 M.E.V.: Lacy / Teitelbaum / List / Berger sextet United Patchwork * HDP 17-18 Lee Konitz / Martial Solal Duo ''Duplicity'' * HDP 19-20 Sun Ra Arkestra ''Unity'' * HDP 21-22 Karl Berger duo Changing the Time * HDP 23-24 Sun Ra Quartet featuring John Gilmore '' Other Voices, Other Blues'' * HDP 25-26 Sun Ra Quartet featuring John Gilmore '' New Steps'' * HDP 27-28 Burton Greene solo piano It's All One * HDP 29-30 Lester Bowie ''African Children'' * HDP 31-32 Gil Evans Orchestra ''Parabola'' * HDP 33-34 Gunter Hampel / Jeannie Lee duo Oasis * HDP 35-36 Bennink / Mengelberg / Rutherford / Schiano quartet A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen (, 27 May 1946 – 19 April 2005), also known by his abbreviated nickname NHØP, was a Danish jazz double bassist. Biography Pedersen was born in Osted, near Roskilde, on the Danish island of Zealand, the son of a church organist. As a child, Ørsted Pedersen played piano, but from the age of 13, he started learning to play upright bass and at the age of 14, while studying, he began his professional jazz career in Denmark with his first band, Jazzkvintet 60 (Danish for Jazz Quintet 60). By the age of fifteen, he had the ability to accompany leading musicians at nightclubs, working regularly at Copenhagen's Jazzhus Montmartre, after his debut there on New Year's Eve 1961, when he was only 15. When seventeen, he had already turned down an offer to join the Count Basie orchestra, mainly because he was too young to get legal permission to live and work as a musician in the United States. The Montmartre was a regular stop-off for touring American Jazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two's Company (Joe Albany And Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen Album)
''Two's Company'' is an album by pianist Joe Albany and bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen recorded in 1974 and released on the SteepleChase label. accessed March 17, 2015 Reception The review awarded the album 4 stars stating "This duet set with bassist Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen finds Albany in particularly good form on six veteran standards ...His lyrical and boppish style was still very much intact and Albany is heard in prime form on the thoughtful yet swinging set".Yanow, SAllmusic Review< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugo Rasmussen
Hugo Rasmussen (22 March 1941 – 30 August 2015) was a Danish bassist. Rasmussen is best known for his album ''Sweets to the Sweet'' (1978). ''Sweets To the Sweet'' was re-released in 2001 on Danish label Music Mecca. Biography He worked with, among others, Teddy Wilson, Ralph Sutton Horace Parlan, Ben Webster, Dexter Gordon, Oliver Nelson, Tom Waits, Al Grey, Wild Bill Davison, Harry Sweets Edison, Doug Raney, Ole Kock Hansen, Svend Asmussen, and Jesper Thilo. He was one of the most sought-after bass players in the world and performed on 800 albums. Rasmussen was the acoustic bassist for Norbert Susemihl's New Orleans All Stars and for his own band, Hugo Rasmussen AllStarz which he formed in 1999 with Jakob Dinesen (tenor sax), Kasper Trandberg (cornet), Andrew Hyhne (trombone), Heine Hansen (piano) and Kresten Osgood (drums). He died at the age of 74 on 30 August 2015. Awards * 2000 – Palæ Bars Jazzpris * 2002 – Ben Webster's Prize of Honour * 2006 – Bent Jædig Pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SteepleChase Records
SteepleChase Records is a jazz record company and label based in Copenhagen, Denmark. SteepleChase was founded in 1972 by Nils Winther, who was a student at Copenhagen University at the time. He began recording concerts at Jazzhus Montmartre, where many American musicians performed, and was given permission by some of the artists to release the material commercially. SteepleChase became a haven for many artists who were without contracts with larger labels at the time. In 1987, the label also started the classical label Kontrapunkt Edition Kontrapunkt (the Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and also German word for counterpoint) is a Danish classical music record label based in Klampenborg and founded in 1987. The label is owned by Steeplechase Records SteepleChase Records is a .... Discography 1000/31000 Series The main series of albums released on the Steeplechase label beginning in 1972 had catalog numbers starting at SCS 1001 and when compact discs were introduced in the late ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birdtown Birds
''Birdtown Birds'' (subtitled ''Recorded Live at Montmartre'') is an album by American pianist Joe Albany recorded at the Jazzhus Montmartre in 1973 and released on the SteepleChase label. accessed March 19, 2015 Reception awarded the album 3 stars.accessed March 19, 2015 '''' expressed a preference for ''[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Proto-Bopper
''Proto-Bopper'' is an album by pianist Joe Albany recorded in 1972 and released on the Revelation label in the US and on Spotlite in the UK.Discogs album entry accessed March 22, 2018 Reception 's Scott Yanow said: "Despite an out-of-tune piano on a few of the songs, this is a worthy and historical set".Track listing # "When Lights Are Low" () – 5:00 # "Our Love Affair Is Over" (Joe Albany, Bob Whitlock) – 5:00 # " |
Spotlite Records
Spotlite Records is a British jazz record company and label. It was founded in 1968 by British producer Tony Williams, originally as an outlet for Charlie Parker's Dial recordings. It has reissued other Dial masters, and undertaken new recordings featuring artists such as, Don Rendell, Al Haig Alan Warren Haig (July 19, 1922 – November 16, 1982) was an American jazz pianist, best known as one of the pioneers of bebop. Biography Haig was born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in nearby Nutley. In 1940, he majored in piano at Obe ... and Peter King. The origins of Spotlite Records grew out of a discography of Charlie Parker that Tony Williams produced in the early 1960s. This led to correspondence with Ross Russell, the proprietor of Dial Records, who subsequently gave Williams the rights to reproduce the Dial sessions under the Spotlite label. Friendship with Ross Russell, with encouragement from Williams resulted in Russell completing the writing and publication of hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
