Tierney Sutton continues spiritual, musical journey Aug 28, 2009
In the West, Bah u llh s doctrine of universal brotherhood has appealed strongly to jazz musicians, most notably Dizzy Gillespie and James Moody. For Sutton, the faith has served as her muse for a string of well-conceived projects that make a compelling case for the creative value of the album format. (Boston Globe)
The First Black Prez Aug 27, 2009
And Dizzy Gillespie ran for president as the title of his 1963 opus suggests, but Prez remained the only commander in chief in the jazz world. His sound today lives on in the playing of younger saxophone masters such as Mark Turner and Noah Preminger. (Slate)
Valley music scene Aug 22, 2009
The Bay Area drummer has recorded with Cal Tjader, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie and Carmen McRae, to name just a few. Showtime is 7 p.m. and there is no cover. (Sonoma Index-Tribune, CA)
Universal Music Australia to Distribute Savoy Label Group Aug 22, 2009
UMA is Australia's leading music company and SLG is home to many of the greatest recordings in contemporary jazz by artists such as Charles Mingus, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Denon Classics is one of the world's most respected labels. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The joys of attending an outdoor music fest Aug 5, 2009
The tradition of modern day festivals stretches back to 1954, when the first Newport Jazz Festival brought together music legends Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. The Newport Folk Festival began a few years later and helped launch the careers of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, among others. (MSNBC -- News)
American rapper Lumidee makes video in Cuba as artists push cultural thaw Aug 4, 2009
Collaborations have included Ry Cooder in the Buena Vista Social Club recordings of the 1990s and jazz festival appearances by the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette. Audioslave broke the decades-long barrier to U.S. rock concerts in Cuba with a thundering show on the Cuban capital's seaside Malecon in 2005. (FOX61, CT)
Hazel Scott Jazz Pioneer And Activi... Aug 2, 2009
A year later her family moved from Trinidad to America in 1924 and two years later she made her formal American debut at New York s famed Town Hall, site of many great performances and recordings by the likes of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. At fourteen she was offered many scholarships to Julliard in New York. (Suite101.com)
Critic's picks - music Jul 31, 2009
Along the way he crossed paths with such jazz titans as Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Stan Getz, among many others. 8 p.m. Wednesday. (Boston Globe)
Final Farewell For Local Jazz Legend Jul 30, 2009
A world renowned trumpet player, he played with the likes of James Brown, B.B. King, Ray Charles, Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra. In 1999, he performed at the reopening of the Ritz Theatre. (News4Jax.com, FL)
Music: the week ahead Jul 30, 2009
Along the way he crossed paths with such jazz titans as Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Stan Getz, among many others. 8 p.m. Aug. 5. (Boston Globe)
George Russell, 86; composer, theoretician led giants of jazz to fertile new lands Jul 29, 2009
Mr. Russell also met trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and a group of Cuban musicians whose work led him to compose Cubano Be/Cubano Bop, which premiered at Carnegie Hall in 1947. While Davis may have put Mr. Russell s modal jazz on the musical map, the use of modals subsequently was expanded by musicians such as pianist Herbie Hancock and can be heard in settings as diverse as the theme to The Simpsons television show, songs by U2, and extended solos by Frank Zappa. (Boston Globe)
"Straight No Chaser" The Music of M... Jul 20, 2009
"His music is a brew indeed, wildly contrasting rhythmic bottoms and electronic serial sound, wrote Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), author of Blues People and Black Music ( Harper Perennial ). Born in 1926, Miles grew up in East St. Louis, Illinois, to a privileged life. His family had a big house in the city and a 200-acre country estate where he loved to ride horses when he was a boy. Miles began playing the trumpet when he was 13-years-old, after receiving the instrument from his father and... (Suite101.com)
The Best Year in Jazz Ever Jul 17, 2009
They had all come of age during the World War II era, bebop revolution of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Bird and Diz, as they were often known, brought radical change to jazz, turning the long bluesy lines that were the mainstream into intricate, complex staccato rhythms. (Slate)
Coach Hill to make annual trek Jul 4, 2009
The Stockholm Jazz Festival is one of Sweden's biggest music events, and has previously hosted stars such as Mary J. Blige, Sting, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald and Dizzy Gillespie. This year's event will take place July 15-19. (Fresno Bee)
Latin Jazz Music Styles Jul 3, 2009
While Cuban influences can be heard in big band standards such as Caravan (Duke Ellington), Dizzy Gillespie is credited with truly bringing Afro-Cuban rhythms to jazz in what came to be called "Cubop"; a combination of Cuban music with bebop. Notable albums from this time include Gillespie's "Afro" and Stan Kenton's "Cuban Fire!". (Suite101.com)
Herman Leonard's portraits of giants of jazz Jun 29, 2009
His subjects range from Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington to Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie. Prints of his photos sell for as much as $15,000 each. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Amesbury actor worthy of 'Notice' Jun 24, 2009
Yesterday, the two Red Sox items were added to the National Museum of American History collection, which also houses Archie Bunker s armchair and Dizzy Gillespie s B-flat trumpet. Sox co-owner Larry Lucchino and team mascot Wally were on hand to celebrate the addition of the Red Sox paraphernalia. (Boston Globe)
Huey Long, 105; jazz guitarist, sang with the Ink Spots Jun 16, 2009
HOUSTON - Huey Long, a jazz guitarist with the famed Ink Spots vocal group whose career included stints with musical giants Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, died Wednesday in a nursing home in Houston, said his daughter, Anita Long. He was 105. Mr. Long was first drawn to music as a teenager when a group of minstrels visited his hometown of Sealy, Texas. (Boston Globe)
Mark Schlabach » Jun 6, 2009
" With his college basketball career on hold during the 2004-05 season, Dozier enrolled at Laurinburg Institute, a prep school in Laurinburg, N.C., where he played with future Memphis teammates Antonio Anderson, Kareem Cooper, Roburt Sallie and Shawne Williams. Laurinburg Institute, which was founded in 1904, is the oldest of only four remaining African-American owned and operated boarding schools in the country. The school has an enrollment of 135 students, according to its Web site, and annual... (ESPN -- College Basketball)
Diplomacy with a jazzy beat Jun 6, 2009
The practice of "jazz diplomacy" was invented during the Cold War, with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Amstrong, and Duke Ellington bringing their music to Soviet bloc countries. Considered a brainchild of Harlem congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the policy was dubbed "America's sonic weapon" by the media at the time. (Boston Globe)
Flatlanders shed legend to become a band May 28, 2009
And while Eckstine's band featured Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Wardell Gray, Dexter Gordon, Fats Navarro, Kenny Dorham and Art Blakey, he had the misfortune to lead this band during the musicians' recording strike against the record labels during World War II.. With the Flatlanders, the band's 1972 recording session was made on a fluke ---- and for 20 years, the only copies in existence were the original master tapes and some 8-tracks the small Plantation label had made. (North County Times)
Armando Peraza to play at Yoshi's May 27, 2009
The great Cuban drummer Chano Pozo first brought Afro-Cuban rhythms to the jazz world with the Dizzy Gillespie band in 1947, but he was shot and killed the following year by a Harlem drug dealer. Peraza was offered the job, but didn't think Gillespie with his big band payroll could afford him. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Tony Hannan, 81, drummer noted for jazz, swing styles May 22, 2009
Mr. Hannan's niece, Robin Johnson of New York City, said one time the elder Hannan might have been impressed was on meeting jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who told him "what a talented son he had.". "Uncle Tony was cool," Johnson said, "my favorite uncle.". (Boston Globe)
Konotey Ahulu at the Caribbean Centre May 15, 2009
Ray Charles, Steve Wonder, James Brown, Louis Armstrong , Count Basie , George Benson , Brook Benton , Church Berry , Fats Domino, Billy Eckstine, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Roberta Flack, Aretha Franklin, Marvin Gaye, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Al Green to mention a few and all the great American musicians. His answer is that they all have at least 3 things in common beginning with the letters A, G, and M which he interprets as AFRICA, GENIUS, and MUSIC. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Gabriel shares Polar Music Prize May 13, 2009
Other artists to be awarded the prize include Sir Paul McCartney, Dizzy Gillespie, Sir Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Bruce Springsteen, Ravi Shankar and Led Zeppelin. Bookmark with. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Mishler deconstructs his career May 13, 2009
"Though more vertical, it's clearly the piece which inspired Dowagiac's Wind Song.Mishler often accompanied his son to band competitions, and Elkhart was the band instrument capital, so he designed 21-foot-tall Jazz Parade, "kind of a Dizzy Gillespie (bent bell) trumpet combined with other brass instruments. " Kine-Fabricating in Cassopolis made it. "I work very closely with KI would go there, but it was a new experience for me to not make something" now located at the corner of State Road 19... (Dowagiac News, MI)
Jazz drummer Persip to visit Fresno May 13, 2009
Persip is considered one of the greatest living jazz drummers, having played with Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt and Cannonball Adderley. He teaches music in Manhattan and leads drum clinics around the country. (Fresno Bee)
'Video Quartet' opens at nasher May 7, 2009
DURHAM -- In Christian Marclay's "Video Quartet," an image of Ella Fitzgerald scat singing is juxtaposed with a separate image of an actor playing trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, who is playing music of similar style, tempo and phrasing. In another segment, Bob Dylan practices harmonica while in another frame Jimmy Stewart fumbles with that same instrument. (Herald Sun)
U.S. sends musicians to make overtures in war zones May 4, 2009
Sending jazz musicians such as Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie was one of the few ways to penetrate the countries behind the Iron Curtain, Morgenstern says. The challenges for traveling ambassadors are different after 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq, though Alvin Atkinson the lead singer and drummer of the band Lefcoski played in says foreign attitudes toward the USA seem to be improving since President Obama took office. (USA Today)
Jazz Fest turns 40 May 1, 2009
The early days when Dizzy Gillespie was the big national act ... He played with Al Belleto and remembered backing up the first national superstar Jazz Fest booked, Dizzy Gillespie. (WWLTV.com, LA)
Leinen selected to Celebration Iowa group Apr 30, 2009
The group performs classic swing charts from Count Basie and Duke Ellington, as well as more modern big band charts from the likes of Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie. The band performs original songs and arrangements from some of today's newest composers as well as original arrangements written just for this group. (Harlan Tribune, IA)
Salsa del Soul to perform May 29 Apr 28, 2009
He has performed with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Slide Hampton, Jack McDuff, the Toshiko Akiyoshi/Lew Tabackin Big Band, the Woody Herman Orchestra, and drummer Charli Persip. Scott Agster is a freelance trombonist, teacher, and arranger in the Twin Cities area. (Mason City Globe-Gazette, IO)
Newport Folk, Jazz Festivals Returning to Roots Apr 18, 2009
Bob Dylan stunned the folk world in 1965 when he performed with an electric guitar, and the jazz festival has hosted Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie and Frank Sinatra among others. Wein hadn't planned to produce the festivals again this year. (Newsmax)
Jazzmouth turns 5 with Mose Allison and Donald Hall as headliners Apr 16, 2009
He is an early practitioner of vocalese, the practice of setting a lyric to a recorded horn solo, such as a Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie break on top of a jazz standard. Bob Dorough found a second career as the chief composer for the hit children's television show "Schoolhouse Rock." He will forever be immortalized for "Conjunction Juntion," but be assured, his lyricism and musicality go much deeper than that. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Nick Bertocci, jazz clarinet player, bandleader; at 90 Apr 10, 2009
His brother said he also accompanied or sat in with musicians such as the trumpeters Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie, the saxophonist Charlie Parker, and the singers Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Washington. Louis Bertocci still keeps a review from Billboard magazine from 1942 that says in part: "Jerret's clarinet solos are of a sensational nature, involving a fresh style, excellent technique and a wonderful feel for jazz.". (Boston Globe)
A musician's travels Mar 28, 2009
Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus. Leonard Bernstein, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen. (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Critics' pop music picks in Boston Mar 27, 2009
KENNY BARRON The enticingly elegant post-bop pianist (right), a critics' darling and audience's dream, has been a favored sideman of jazz greats from Dizzy Gillespie to Stan Getz. His current trio, stopping in town for a two-night stand, features the marvelous Cuban drummer Francisco Mela. (Boston Globe)
Fiesta in Havana Mar 19, 2009
Past events have featured the likes of Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach and the present-day lack of U.S. stars is more than made up for by an impressive contingent of Latin American talent. There are performances at The Hotel Rivera, Casa de la Cultura Plaza, Teatro Nacional de Cuba, Teatro Amadeo Rold;n and various smoky clubs. (CNN -- International)
TV by design Mar 9, 2009
The result was a reinvention of vaudeville traditions into light entertainment shows presented in a style that Spigel dubs "vaudeo-modernity." The jazz musicians Duke Ellington and Dizzy Gillespie were particularly innovative in rejecting the rituals of traditional minstrel spectaculars in favor of a black modernist aesthetic of Constructivist-inspired graphics and exaggerated camera angles that also graced the album sleeves then being designed by Reid Miles at the New York record label Blue... (International Herald Tribune)
Arranger George Mesterhazy: The beat goes on Mar 8, 2009
Parris was a Boston singer who had performed with Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie and others. Mesterhazy arranged a show for her that included a medley of tunes by Sarah Vaughan, who had just died. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cherished Citizen Mar 8, 2009
"But I liked jazz from my New York days, when I went to Small's Paradise in Harlem and met a lot of guys like Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Count Basie and Nat King Cole. "When we moved to San Francisco, I lived on Spruce Street near Kezar before we bought a house in Forest Hills, near where Mayor (George) Christopher lived. I just didn't go out much, but Sammy Davis would come over to the house, and I'd see Dizzy and Duke when they'd come to town. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Sports)
Bobbi Humphrey a Jazz Fusion legend Mar 1, 2009
She was then spotted as a talent deserving wider attention by the great trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie who encouraged her to go to New York. She did after being invited to play at the famed Apollo Theatre. (Suite101.com)
TURNER’S NATIVE WINS GRAMMY Feb 27, 2009
I do a lot of the big bands in New York and around the world I played with Dizzy Gillespie but the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra is my first love, Purviance said. Vanguard, formerly known as the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra, started in 1966. (Dundalk Eagle, MD)
Wellesley High jazz band is finalist in national competition Feb 27, 2009
This year the band has studied and prepared tunes by jazz composers and arrangers from Dizzy Gillespie to Charles Mingus to Miles Davis not to mention Duke Ellington and in styles from Swing to Salsa to Bop. Loading commenting interface. (Wellesley Townsman, MA)
A Passage to India Feb 23, 2009
Much as Dizzy Gillespie had wedded jazz chord changes to Cuban rhythms in the nineteen-forties, Mahanthappa wrote music that blended Western harmony with South Indian traditions, searching for a style in which American and Indian players might find a common ground without sacrificing their respective improvisational approaches. Mahanthappa s collaboration with Gopalnath d. (New Yorker)
This week: Arts and entertainment picks Feb 23, 2009
He's not only a busy educator, he's performed with hot shots like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Haden and Kurt Elling, and he's done arrangements for local singer Faye Carol and Idris Ackamoor. On Tuesday, he straddles classical music and jazz in a recital called "Blastin' Barriers: From Beethoven Through Bebop and Beyond" that will draw from Liszt, Chopin and Monk, among others. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Herbie, Dee Dee perform with amazing grace Feb 20, 2009
Giving Hancock company was major jazz pianist and producer George Duke, who has performed with every musical great from Dizzy Gillespie to Frank Zappa and Zakir Hussain. One of the most spirited musicians was drummer Terri Lyne Carrington, who played some rousing sets. (Times of India)
R&B, jazz guitarist Snooks Eaglin dies at age 72 Feb 19, 2009
"His death is like losing a Dizzy Gillespie, a Professor Longhair, a Johnny Adams or a Gatemouth Brown," Davis said. "He's one of those unique giants of New Orleans music.". (Anchorage Daily News)
Acclaimed Jazz Drummer Dies Feb 18, 2009
He performed on more than 200 albums with jazz giants including Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. There are tentative plans for a Los Angeles-area memorial service, followed by a funeral and burial in his boyhood home of Moline, Ill. (KWTX.com, TX)
Master jazz drummer Louis Bellson dies at 84 Feb 18, 2009
Bellson's career spanned more than six decades, performing on more than 200 albums with jazz greats including Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Music)
Big band drum legend Bellson dies Feb 18, 2009
He performed with many jazz legends including Duke Ellington, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie and Louis Armstrong. Sammy Davis Jr said that he was "the only man I know who, when he plays by himself, sounds like a symphony orchestra.". (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Obituaries in the news Feb 17, 2009
Bellson's career spanned more than six decades, performing on more than 200 albums with jazz greats including Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and his late wife Pearl Bailey. Bellson wrote more than 1,000 compositions and arrangements in several genres, including jazz, swing, orchestral suites, symphonic works and ballets. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Louie Bellson, top drummer of big band era, composer; at 84 Feb 17, 2009
His more than 200 recorded appearances as leader and sideman encompass sessions with Jazz at the Philharmonic, Woody Herman, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, James Brown, and dozens of others, including Ellington's Big Four alongside guitarist Joe Pass and bassist Ray Brown. "What makes Bellson so special," former Los Angeles Times jazz critic Leonard Feather wrote in 1991, "is his overall musicianship. A gifted composer and arranger who has written everything from jazz instrumentals... (Boston Globe)
Big band, jazz drummer Louie Bellson dies at age 84 Feb 17, 2009
Over the years, Bellson performed with such greats as Harry James, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Bennett, Mel Torme and Joe Williams. Just a year ago, he issued his latest CD, "Louie Expedition 2," and he was still touring last fall. (Honolulu Advertiser)
A song in her heart Feb 14, 2009
Parris's performing pedigree includes gigs all over the world with Count Basie, Joe Williams, Dizzy Gillespie, Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Terry Gibbs, David "Fathead" Newman, and other jazz greats. Tonight's program will entertain old, new, and potential lovebirds with standards like "My Funny Valentine," "Never Let Me Go," and "This Is Always." 8 p.m. $23, $28. (Boston Globe)
Tuba Spells Trouble for Young Musician Feb 13, 2009
Imagine the photos of the late, great trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with his cheeks puffed out, Myssiorek said. "I would be surprised if he never got that [condition].". (MEDLINEplus)
• Events calendar Feb 13, 2009
Featured concerts: FEB. 25, "Latin Rhythms Meet Dizzy Gillespie," with Gillespie, Jon Faddis and an all-star band, vocalist Jackie Ryan, and Jose Rizo; FEB. 26, "Island Fever - Grooves From Brazil and the Caribbean," with Monty Alexander's Jazz and Roots, Kenny Barron's Canta Brazil with Trio da Paz and flutist Anne Drummond, and Anthony Wilson and Chico Pinheiro band; FEB. 27, "Sing and Swing, Tribute to Ray Brown," with Bobby McFerrin, Monty Alexander Trio, drummer Jeff Hamilton and bassist... (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
Davis on Davis Feb 10, 2009
IN Miles: The Autobiography the trumpeter Miles Davis remembers his excitement at hearing the Billy Eckstine Orchestra, with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, in a St. Louis nightclub in 1944 ... On stage he remains an electrifying presence, although you wonder now when you go to hear him (as you do with the seventy-one-year-old Dizzy Gillespie, but for a different reason) not how well he'll play but how much. (The Atlantic Online)
Acclaimed "Boston Brass" to perform Sunday Feb 7, 2009
Dizzy Gillespie, Pee Wee Ellis and Duke Ellington are all well-represented on the set list. The five-piece group will perform both by themselves and with Owolabi. (Daily Orange, NY)
