In 1963 and 1964, he recorded two albums for Motown's unsuccessful jazz Workshop label. In 1971, he was a member of the Ernie Wilkins Orchestra, playing alongside fellow trombonist Benny Powell, that backed Sarah Vaughan on her A Time in My Life album, recorded in Los Angeles. ...
Jazz music, with its improvisational rhythm and soul-stirring melodies, has long been a source of fascination for filmmakers and audiences alike. When the smoky ambiance of a jazz club collides with the compelling narratives of the silver screen, the result is often a film that resonates with ...
We are very happy with our September line-up. For better or for worse, there will be less guitars involved than the last two months but it is definitely not getting less exciting! As usual we’d like to extend a huge thank you to all who came out to support Jazz at the Parakeet thi...
The Jazz Singer: Directed by Alan Crosland. With Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer. The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
60 min|Comedy, Drama, Romance Edit pageAdd to list Track Babs Weston agrees to marry adventurer Richard Forestall before his hasty departure, accepting his ring and promising to be faithful. Richard returns to find that his fiancée has become a "victim of jazz" and is engaged to two other...
“My intent was to record this project with only an hour or two of rehearsal, and with a group of musicians who never performed on stage together. To that end, Mesmerism is a departure from the recordings I produced that contained thoroughly rehearsed, rigorously notated music for piano trio...
The albums highlighted below are benchmarks in the history of jazz on record and if you are discovering jazz for the first time then you've just found the perfect place to start
You've hung up your costumes and sorted through all your Halloween candy - now it's time to get excited for the holiday gift-giving season, packed with great reissues under your tree and spirited carols on the stereo. Two new vinyl products from Verve Records feature both: some of the ...
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* binary: a musical form in two sections: AB * bird's eye: a slang term for fermata, which instructs the performer to hold a note or chord as long as they wish * bleeding (or "bleed" or "bleed-through"): a slang term which refers to the ambient sounds that a microphone aimed ...