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4 days ago · When he was 16, he played for one week with Lionel Hampton and the following year was playing saxophone with Quincy Jones, Louis Bellson, and Don Ellis. When he was 18, he moved to New York City and became a member of the Gerry Mulligan Big Band.
19 hours ago · Igor Butman. Igor Butman PAR (born 27 October 1961) is a Russian jazz saxophonist born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1961. [ 1] Butman holds dual citizenship for both the US and Russian Federation. [ 2] He is considered to be a virtuoso saxophonist, and a skilled bandleader.
3 days ago · “erwigfilms” writes, “Bellson Blues part 1 Bellson Louie 1967 Jazz at the Philharmonic, London 1967. “In a concert like this a good drum feature is always a succesful part of the evening. What better than Louie Bellson. After a drum intro there are some mighty sax solos by Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter before we go into Louie’s ...
19 hours ago · The Staves have released a new song, " Waiting for the Joy ," and have announced a US acoustic tour for this fall, celebrating their spring 2024 album, All Now, which was released on Nonesuch Records in the US. Dates begin November 6, the day after the Presidential election, in Philadelphia and continue into Thanksgiving week, with stops in ...
Aug 7, 2024 · The playing is extremely energetic and involving, the sound is some of the best we’ve heard, and the engineering is by Phil Schier, who also recorded another favorite direct disc of ours, Friendship, and we recommend both albums highly. If you want a good jazz direct-to-disc, you would be hard pressed to find one better than this.
4 days ago · Zan Stewart. I recently came across two terrific albums by this tenor saxophonist: Two-Tone Poetry and Jazz (2012) and The Street Is Making Music (2014). The first is a throwback to the Greenwich Village coffee houses of the late 1950s and early '60s that featured jazz and poetry.
Jul 23, 2024 · Under the direction of founding faculty member Ron Modell, the Jazz Ensemble was joined that night by three well-known guest soloists Carl Fontana, Conte Candoli and Louie Bellson. Recently, a high-quality audio recording of the concert was unearthed, and Joliet-based music production company Tantara Productions has made the ...
