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Arnold Ross will be best-remembered for the excellent chorus he took within the Jazz in the Philharmonic version of “Woman Be Great” that directly preceded Charlie Parker’s traditional single in 1946. Ross has already established a strangely episodic profession, sounding at his greatest in swing-to-bop transitional configurations. In early stages, …

Despite an amazingly colorful and challenging life, Artwork Pepper was quite consistent within the saving studios; just about any recording he produced is really worth buying. In the 1950s he was mostly of the altoists (alongside Lee Konitz and Paul Desmond) who was simply in a position to develop his …

A fantastic tenor saxophonist and an excellent arranger/composer, Al Cohn was greatly admired by his fellow music artists. Early gigs included organizations with Joe Marsala (1943), Georgie Auld, Boyd Raeburn (1946), Alvino Rey, and Friend Rich (1947). Nonetheless it was when he changed Herbie Steward among the “Four Brothers” with …

The main jazz musicians will be the ones who are successful in creating their very own original world of music using its own rules, logic, and surprises. Thelonious Monk, who was simply criticized by observers who didn’t pay attention to his music alone terms, experienced through ten years of disregard …

Probably one of the most important (and controversial) innovators from the jazz avant-garde, Ornette Coleman gained both loyal fans and lifelong detractors when he appeared to burst within the picture in 1959 fully formed. Although he, and Don Cherry in his unique quartet, played starting and shutting melodies collectively, their …

Among the foremost electric powered blues harpists of the present day era, Glucose Blue was created Adam Whiting in NEW YORK in 1950. The boy of the vocalist/dancer who frequently performed on the renowned Apollo Movie theater, he was presented with his initial harmonica at age ten, and by his …

It often seemed strange that Remo Palmieri, who gained some interest in the first times of bop, under no circumstances became a larger name, particularly since he was dynamic for such an extended time frame. Palmieri originally hoped to become an musician and he performed guitar with regional groups to …

A busy studio room musician who made an appearance on a many recordings during his productive (and generally profitable) career, Crimson Callender may be the just player to carefully turn straight down offers to become listed on both Duke Ellington’s Orchestra as well as the Louis Armstrong All-Stars. After briefly …

Louis Smith was a talented but under-recorded straight-ahead bop trumpeter who led two schedules within the ’50s before retiring to instruct at the University or college of Michigan as well as the nearby Ann Arbor General public School system. For some of his profession, he continued to be a teacher, …

Nicholas Hoffman, a Chicago local, continues to be heavily influenced by a number of the longtime jazz denizens from the Windy Town like Von Freeman and Bunky Green, who offer their own taste towards the jazz music they are playing for quite some time. A good section of Hoffman’s formal …