I was aware that Lalo Schifrin was a big deal in television theme songs. I did a post a while back in which it became apparent that he also was a serious jazz...
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I was looking for a nice afternoon post and happened across this famous photograph. Here is the story of the shot, which features just about every famous jazz...
Jazz players and fans spoke about Art Tatum with the same awe that Hendrix or Clapton would elicit decades later. The feeling is best conveyed by quotes such...
Many folks reading this post know more about Miles Davis than I do. So it makes little sense for me to write anything about the second most important trumpet...
Dexter Gordon’s website sums up his importance in one line. He was, it says, “the first musician to translate the language of Bebop to the tenor...
Wikipedia, as usual, sums it up nicely: Often regarded as the first important European jazz musician who made major contributions to the development of the...
The beginning of NPR’s bio of bassist Ray Brown does a good job of quickly defining who he was — and the company he kept: Grammy Award-winning...
The quintet playing Pennies From Heaven, according to Songbook, is comprised of Lester Young on tenor saxophone, Bill Harris on trombone, Hank Jones on piano...
The above probably predates The Thundering Herd, which was the great name that Herman used for years. It was a driving and creative band. Here is the first...
CNN has a nice pictorial entitled Billie Holiday’s Illustrious Career.
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