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Vor einem Tag · Listening to the Cootie Williams compilation straight through, one can enjoy experiencing the evolution of jazz during a 34-year period and the often-underrated brilliance of the exciting trumpeter on 87 selections. Even collectors who have most of the Duke Ellington recordings should go out of their way to pick up this very well-conceived collection.
Vor 4 Tagen · The way the band came to the stand was notorious – never as one body, but in ones and twos, gradually filling the chairs, possibly hoping for their own round of applause which they often got. Cootie Williams came last, and of course played behind the beat in his rhetorical style most of the evening. I wrote in The Listener once (review-depping for Sandy Brown) that Cootie sometimes sounded ...
14. Mai 2024 · Cootie Williams recorded the first version of Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight” on August 22, 1944. Little did pianist Thelonious Monk know that when he was writing the melody to the song that would become “Round Midnight,” he would be enshrining in ink one of the most famous songs in modern music.
Vor einem Tag · Now, author Larry Tye takes a similar approach in his own 3-in-1 look at three of jazz’s greatest big band leaders in The Jazz Men: How Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie ...
20. Mai 2024 · He selected his musicians for their expressive individuality, and several members of his ensemble—including trumpeter Cootie Williams (who replaced Miley), cornetist Rex Stewart, trombonist Lawrence Brown, baritone saxophonist Harry Carney, alto saxophonist Johnny Hodges, and clarinetist Barney Bigard—were themselves important ...
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- Duke Ellington grew up in Washington, D.C., in a secure middle-class family that encouraged his interests in the fine arts. He began studying piano...
- Benefiting from the expertise of a large ensemble that included several important jazz artists, Duke Ellington broke away from the conventions of b...
- Often collaborating with his longtime composing-arranging partner Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington was responsible for big-band jazz classics such a...
- Duke Ellington was the greatest jazz composer and bandleader of his time. One of the originators of big-band jazz, he led his band for more than 50...
7. Mai 2024 · "Tourist Point of View" – 5:09 "Bluebird of Delhi (Mynah)" – 3:18 "Isfahan" – 4:02 "Depk" – 2:38 "Mount Harissa" – 7:40 "Blue Pepper (Far East of the Blues)" – 3:00 "Agra" – 2:35 "Amad" – 4:26 "Ad Lib on Nippon" – 11:34 Personnel: Duke Ellington – piano Mercer Ellington – trumpet, flugelhorn Herbie Jones – trumpet, flugelhorn William "Cat" Anderson – trumpet Cootie ...
15. Mai 2024 · Edward Davis (March 2, 1922 - November 3, 1986), who performed and recorded as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. He played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making man… read more. jazz. saxophone.
