Tag Archives: Bop

Clora Bryant remains to be a sadly under-recognized music pioneer. The lone feminine trumpeter to collaborate with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, she performed a critical function in carving a location for females instrumentalists in the male-dominated globe of jazz, during the period of her decades-long profession proving herself not …

Vi Redd, although greatly under-recorded throughout her profession, was a separate bop-based altoist and a thrilling singer. The little girl of drummer Alton Redd, Vi was encircled by music while developing up. She performed locally, working beyond music for the plank of education during 1957-1960 before time for jazz. Redd …

Marvin Ash was an excellent string/stride participant who brought his own audio and enthusiasm to prebop jazz. Ash was raised in Kansas Town and performed in local rings including those of Wallie Stoeffer, Connie Conrad, Herman Waldman and Jack port Crawford. Over time surviving in Tulsa (1936-42) and focusing on …

Group. Later ’80s mainstream and hard bop sextet with three horn frontline and piano/bass/drums tempo section, thoroughly inspired by ’60s Artwork Blakey sound.

A mid-’50s quintet that produced one Verve saving in Miami. The staff included tenor saxophonist and flutist Gus Maas, pianist Bebo Nacre, bassist Kiki Hernandez, drummer Expenses Britto and Roland Alfonso on congas. These were a low-key, pleasurable unit, as well as the music was very well performed, if forgettable.

A high percussionist in the 1950s, Maximum Albright originated from a music family members; his parents worked well in theatre pits for silent films. Albright worked continuously through the second half from the 1940s and through the entire ’50s, including stints with Boyd Raeburn, Charlie Barnet & most notably, the …

A mellow-toned flügelhornist who emphasizes ballads, Stacy Rowles (the little girl of pianist Jimmy Rowles) has recorded for Concord and Delos, and became a fixture in the L.A. region with her function in the group Jazz Wild birds.

Jazz guitarist/instructor Dennis Sandole’s classes have got included such luminaries seeing that John Coltrane, Adam Moody, Pat Martino, Rob Dark brown, Matthew Shipp, and Michael Brecker. Sandole started playing electric guitar in his past due teens. His old sibling Adolph Sandole performed sax and both started playing Philadelphia-area night clubs …

This veteran Detroit saxophonist plays alto and tenor. A soft, lyrical, and melodic participant somewhat just like Johnny Hodges and Paul Desmond, he excels in small-group configurations. In addition to numerous recordings being a sideman, Benson provides released Swings & Swings & Swings (1986, Parkwood) and Sax Get better at …

Formed in LA in 1975, Brass Fever was a short-lived band of session players that documented two instrumental jazz-funk albums for ABC: 1975’s Brass Fever and 1976’s Period Is Working Out. Brass Fever was a proper name for the group, which utilized a minimum of five trombonists on its initial …