Tag Archives: Bop

Artwork Porter, a local of Little Rock and roll, AR, began his music education in the home, learning and practicing jazz criteria under the education of his dad Artwork Porter, Sr., a renowned pianist and previous accompanist for Carmen McCrae and John Stubblefield. Starting on drums and getting section of …

Although not popular nationally, Apr Aloisio is really a private and risk-taking jazz vocalist that has been saving within the Chicago area because the 1980s. Aloisio, a indigenous and resident from the Windy Town, doesn’t have a large, robust tone of voice and is not a belter. Her tone of …

Mort Herbert is best-remembered for his stint as an associate of Louis Armstrong’s All-Stars. Herbert was self-taught on bass, spent 1943-1946 within the armed service, went to Rutgers (1949-1952) and really began his professional profession. He caused Marian McPartland, Don Elliott, the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra, Sol Yaged (1955-1958), along with other …

Not only the canary woman whose dexterous vocals highlighted recordings from the vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Annie Ross recorded greater than a dozen albums of solid vocal jazz and appeared in lots of films. Though she was the last member to become listed on LH&R, she have been …

A very handy bassist who around the Western Coast was section of a many recordings classes, Monty Budwig could continually be relied upon to golf swing a music group, take melodic solos and play an ideal note for the proper situation while becoming content to stay in the backdrop. Budwig …

Monty Alexander way back when combined collectively the impact of Oscar Peterson using the spirit of Gene Harris and Nat “Ruler” Cole to create his own appealing and personable design. Long a little underrated (because of the darkness of Peterson), Alexander offers recorded greater than a rating of superb albums. …

Long a fixture in Southern California, pianist Dave MacKay’s playing is grounded in bop and really difficult bop, but he frequently takes extremely adventurous solos. Blind from an early on age, MacKay went to Trinity University from 1950-1954 and Boston School from 1956-1958, and he also examined with Lennie Tristano. …

Best-known to be the “Lambert” within the leading jazz vocal group Lambert, Hendricks & Ross, Dave Lambert had been a experienced singer when that ensemble was shaped in 1957. Originally a drummer, Lambert sang with Johnny Long’s big music group for a season. He was with Gene Krupa’s Orchestra (1944-1945) …

A fantastic bop-oriented flutist, Holly Hofmann began over the flute when she was five. She acquired extensive classical schooling and, in 1984, when she transferred to NORTH PARK, Hofmann started playing jazz full-time. She caused Adam Moody, Slide Hampton, and Mundell Lowe, amongst others, prior to making her documenting debut …

Arguably the very best living lyricist, Dave Frishberg has written a lot more than his share of witty (however insightful) classicsm, including “I’m Hip,” “Peel Me a Grape,” “Dear Bix,” “The Underdog,” “Saratoga Hunch,” “Slappin’ the Cakes in Me,” “Z’s,” “My Attorney Bernie,” “Blizzard of Lies,” “Another Song Approximately Paris,” …