Suchergebnisse
Suchergebnisse:
29. Apr. 2024 · Syncopated Times. April 29, 2024. Jazz Birthday. Illustration by Sara Lièvre. Mary Lou Williams was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs on May 8, 1910, in Atlanta, Georgia. By the age of two, she could pick out simple tunes on the piano, and received lessons from her mother the following year. While still a child, she began to support her family by ...
Vor 4 Tagen · From the mid-1920s until 1954, professionally at least, Mary Lou Williams’ life appeared a success. She composed, arranged, recorded and played with, and was admired by many of the jazz greats of the day — Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum. But Williams’ private life told a different story. Her marriage ended in ...
24. Apr. 2024 · It was a very Pittsburgh focused event with a global ambition featuring many “Hometown” headliners - the Mary Lou Williams trio (Larry Gales - bass, Percy Brice - drums) with Ben Webster - tenor sax, Harold Baker - trumpet, Melba Liston and Al Grey - trombones and singers Ethel Fields and Jimmy Mitchell.
Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong and Bobby Hackett, a meeting of trumpeters who certainly do not lack good humor photo by Maynard Frank Wolfe, 1959 Share Add a Comment. Sort by: Best. Open comment sort options. Best. Top. New. Controvers ...
Vor 6 Tagen · Bobby Hackett - cornet Bob Wilber - clarinet & alto,soprano,tenor sax & vibes Dick Hafer, Ernie Caceres - baritone & tenor sax John Dengler - tuba & baritone sax Dick Carey, Pinie Caceres - piano Buzzy Drootin - drums All Performances Are Radio Broadway From The Voyager Room Of The Henry Hudson Hotel, New York, Late 1956-Sprig 1958
10. Mai 2024 · Bobby Hutcherson was one of the finest vibraphonists of the 1960s. His Blue Note albums remain an adventure into modal jazz and the African-American jazz perspective. Here are five videos of Hutcherson in action over the years. He died in 2016 [photo of Bobby Hutcherson by Francis Wolff (c) Mosaic Images] Here's the majestically stormy pianist McCoy Tyner and Hutcherson in 1983 performing Walk ...
8. Mai 2024 · Today, we honor Mary Lou Williams, a pioneering jazz pianist, composer, and arranger whose talent and innovation helped shape the course of jazz. Known...
