Tag Archives: Standards

Lengthy known for his expertise in discovering an ideal chord for an ideal situation, the refined Jimmy Rowles was popular for decades simply because an accompanist while being underrated being a soloist. After playing in regional groupings in Seattle, Rowles shifted to LA in 1940 and caused Slim Gaillard, Lester …

Vocalist Jimmy Scott (aka Small Jimmy Scott) had a unique profession conditioned by his physical restrictions and record business machinations that sometimes prevented him from getting heard, but he mounted a significant comeback past due in existence. He was created among ten kids to Arthur and Justine Scott in Cleveland, …

Latin-jazz vocalist Kevyn Lettau provides released a self-titled single record for Nova. She also shows up on a single label’s Braziljazz, documented with Peter Sprague and Mike Shapiro.

Billy Taylor was this articulate spokesman for jazz, and his profiles in CBS’ Sunday Morning hours tv program (where he was a normal from 1981) were therefore successful at introducing jazz to a larger audience, that occasionally you can forget just what a talented pianist he was for more than …

A versatile pre-bop trumpeter with a lovely tone, Billy Butterfield could play fairly ballads and heated Dixieland with equal skill. After early encounter in the middle-’30s using the rings of Austin Wylie and Andy Anderson, Butterfield became well-known while using Bob Crosby’s Orchestra (1937-1940), acquiring the main single on the …

A pop and standards singer during his lengthy profession, Kenny Rankin debuted in 1967 along with his 1st album, Brain Dusters, which presented the soft rock and roll strike “Peaceful.” During the period of the first ’70s, Rankin gradually developed a pursuing with a reliable stream of information and shows …

Number 1 cabaret vocalist whose allegiance is towards the pop/crooning tradition. Fantastic baladeer; underappreciated designer.

A very dear trumpeter, Bobby Shew gets the rare dual ability to be in a position to play lead in big rings and star being a soloist in combos. His design is out from the hard bop custom. Shew, who became a significant jazz educator, was ironically mainly self-taught. He …

Bill Charlap is among the most powerful mainstream jazz pianists in the picture and perhaps one of the most gifted interpreters of criteria. He was raised within a musical home, as the kid of Broadway songwriter Moose Charlap and vocalist Sandy Stewart. Acquiring towards the piano at a age, he …

When Bob Mover had his best presence in the later ’70s, he played in a method nearly the same as Lee Konitz (with whom he recorded in 1977). Mover caused Ira Sullivan when he was 16 and after shifting to NY in 1969, he freelanced on the neighborhood scene. Mover …