Tag Archives: West Coast Jazz

California-based sax player Virgil Gonsalves used Alvino Rey, Jack Fina, and Tex Beneke before forming his personal group. He documented three albums like a leader.

Although he’s not a main name in the jazz world and does not have an enormous catalog, LA indigenous Dwight Dickerson is a talented and capable acoustic pianist/electrical keyboardist that has, over time, played alongside heavyweights like Gene Ammons, Red Holloway, and Albert “Tootie” Heath. A versatile musician and composer, …

Curtis Counce was an in-demand program bassist and among the initial African-Americans to get heavily mixed up in West Coastline jazz motion in the 1940s. He analyzed violin and tuba furthermore to bass before departing his native town for employment using the Nat Towles Music group in Omaha at age …

Among the finest guitarists to emerge following the loss of life of Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel was a trusted bop soloist throughout his profession. He used a huge music group fronted by Chico Marx (1943), was luckily enough to surface in the traditional jazz brief Jammin’ the Blues (1944), and …

Tenor saxophonist and composer Jack port Montrose was a leading exponent from the Western Coast jazz motion. His terse phrasing and easy tone stay the quintessence of California awesome. Born Dec 30, 1928, in Detroit, Montrose spent the first many years of the Depressive disorder in Chicago until poverty pressured …

Chico Hamilton, a subtle and creative drummer, will most likely continually be remembered for the group of quintets that he led during 1955-1965 as well as for his capability being a skill scout than for his okay drumming. Hamilton initial performed drums while in senior high school with the countless …

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 …

A longtime giant from the Western world Coast jazz landscaping, Bob Enevoldsen trailed just Bob Brookmeyer as his generation’s foremost practictioner from the valve trombone. Enevoldsen was created Sept 11, 1920, in Billings, MT. His Danish-born dad was a specialist violinist who executed the orchestra at their regional silent cinema, …

Like many West Coast tenor saxophonists of his generation, Bob Cooper’s design was based on skillful emulation of Lester Young’s velvety, vetiver-scented shade, harmonic ingenuity and sinuous technique. The very best introduction to the artist will be House! The Music of Bob Cooper, released in 1958 by Modern Records. Initially …

Teddy Charles is a genuine rarity: a jazz musician who largely retired from the business enterprise. A skillful otherwise overly unique vibraphonist and (early in his profession) quite able on piano and drums, Charles was as very important to his open-minded strategy in the 1950s toward more complex noises as …