Tag Archives: Swing

Guitarist/vocalist Doug Wamble is a jazz traditionalist in the very best sense of the term. Merging music from his southern origins with jazz, Wamble creates a distinctive sound that details upon rural blues, gospel, golf swing, and post-bop. Although in the beginning inspired to consider up jazz after hearing recordings …

A longtime person in Fatty acids Waller’s Tempo, Gene Sedric appeared on many records with the fantastic pianist, taking consistently multi-colored clarinet and tenor solos. Referred to as “Honey Keep” over time in the ’30s when he frequently used a camel-hair overcoat, Sedric acquired a warm audio on his horns …

Main influences: Teddy Wilson, Mel Powell, Ellis Larkins, and Duke Ellington. Like a precocious 15-year-old, Gene DiNovi worked well in 1943 with bandleader Henry Jerome, who was simply in those days getting ready to convert his Hal Kemp-styled dance music group into a contemporary bop ensemble. DiNovi’s changeover from golf …

An excellent tenor saxophonist who is a dear sidemen in lots of configurations, Doug Lawrence finally led his debut Compact disc in 1997, Spirit Carnival (Fable). Everyone in Lawrence’s family members performed music (including his dad, who performed saxophone, and his five old siblings). He began playing traditional clarinet when …

Although virtually unidentified to everyone through the swing era, Gene Gifford was an extremely influential arranger whose work for the Casa Loma Orchestra predated the rise of Benny Goodman. Gifford was raised in Memphis, Tennessee, and he both organized and performed banjo along with his high school music group. Gifford …

The first great arranger in jazz history, Don Redman’s innovations being a writer essentially invented the jazz-oriented big music group with arrangements that developed yet left room for solo improvisations. After graduating from university at age 20 using a music level, Redman played to get a season with Billy Paige’s …

b. NJ, USA. Thinking about music and in performing from early youth, Comstock discovered from hearing information by performers such as for example Bobby Brief, Noël Coward and Fatty acids Waller. At age 10 he began monitoring piano even though in senior high school performed for student displays. Afterwards, at …

Turn Phillips, who angered some critics in early stages because he gained riotous applause for his exciting solos during Jazz on the Philharmonic concerts, for over 50 years was a fantastic tenor saxophonist equally gifted on stomps, ballads, and criteria. He performed clarinet regularly within a Brooklyn cafe during 1934-1939, …

Among England’s best mainstream trumpeters, Freddy Randall offers over time been a celebrity on many dixieland-oriented record times. In early stages he led the St. Louis Four (1939) and freelanced with additional up-and-coming players. In 1944, after armed service service, he caused Johnny Dankworth and joined up with Freddy Mirfield’s …

Actress/vocalist Fran Jeffries (given birth to Frances Makris) began her profession in the later ’50s, showing up in such movies as Sex as well as the One Girl, The Green Panther, and Elvis Presley’s Harum Scarum. Many Television, nightclub, and movie theater performances implemented as Jeffries confirmed her vocal skill, …