Noel “Chappie” d’Amato, who played a number of instruments. According to all of the accounts I found, Hylton wanted to hire Django to play in that main traveling band. It is possible that since Hylton also had secondary bands — kind of like “farm leagu...
After chatting for a few minutes I said I was ready to see the records and Karen and Adam led me into a room towards the back of the house. In the room were four distinct record cabinets, one on each wall. I put Marty’s carrying bag on the floor and completely bypassed the cabinet...
At the time, Willard booked all the major bands and jazz artists. After Willard heard me, he signed me right away. One of the first jobs Willard booked my trio into was the Boom Boom Room at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. We played there for a week....
I knew what they were playing at the time because it was what Art Tatum had taught me. JW: What did Carroll say?JH: He said to stay at a hotel up at 116th and Broadway near Columbia University that charged $18 a week. JW: Did you ask Carroll for a job? JH: No. All I asked...
Then somebody said to me, “How could you break up one of the most important bands in the history of modern jazz?” And I said, “Why didn’t you say that before? Why now?” But I guess it was a seeping process. You have to hear a lot of it, and it starts to dawn on you...
University of Illinois. He regularly performs with The Island Time Steel Band, Panoramic View, The White-Eyed Lizard Band, and The Copacetics, and as a freelancer and/or sub for bands including Steel Rhythm, Steel Accent, The Void Union, etc. Hire Aaron Abrahamson Cote at CotePercussion@...
I feel like we could take this theme music and give it to like seven different bands and have them do their take on it and it would be amazing. That trumpet –. Gyi Tsakalakis: I would love to hear money makes the world go ...
Johnny Mandel, an elegant arranger, composer, conductor, bass trumpeter and trombonist who began his career writing for big bands in the 1940s, crossed over to jazz in the '50s and wound up scoring movies in the late 1950s and beyond,...
But my passion for music remained. I listened to jazz and big bands all the time on the radio at home. I also became a ham radio operator—my call letters were W2TMD. The ham radio started my fascination with all types of electronics. [Pictured: Jersey City in the 1920s]JW: ...
HR: Some migrated out West, but most left the big bands that settled here in the winter, like Woody [Herman], Les Brown, Stan Kenton, Charlie Barnet and others. The musicians could work casual with me at the Lighthouse, and the union would allow it. But they couldn’t work in ...