Dinah Washington (born Ruth Lee Jones; August 29, 1924 – December 14, 1963) was an American singer and pianist, who has been cited as "the most popular black female recording artist of the '50s". Primarily a jazz vocalist, she performed and recorded in a wide variety of styles including...
From the 1964 Antibes Jazz Festival on July 27 & 28, Horace Silver introduced his amazing new group with Joe Henderson, Carmell Jones, Teddy Smith and Roger Humphries. They perform Silver classics like “Senor Blues,”“No Smokin’” and “Tokyo Blues” as well as two new originals: “...
They were improvisational vehicles and the voicings of some old-time Jazz greats shone through. I have heard such voicings from the likes of Hank Jones and this is hardly surprising. Musicians like Jones came up through the black gospel church experience. What is uncommon, is to hear this fro...
Jimmy Garrison on bass and Elvin Jones on drums toRudy Van Gelder’s studiosin Englewood Cliffs, NJ to record a session. The group was in the middle of a two-week engagement at Birdland in New York City and getting ready to record theJohn Coltrane and Johnny Hartmanalbum on the...
Sarah Vaughan (v), Clifford Brown (t), Herbie Mann (f), Paul Quinichette (ts), Jimmy Jones (p), Joe Benjamin (b) and Roy Haynes (d). Rec. 1954 Vaughan was a by-word for vocal worship among her peers and musical associates by the late 1940s, but little she recorded before this...
The line up changes with the weather (same with record labels) with songwriter and singerPat Fishbeing the only consistent factor. All in all they are a tough band to keep track of. When they are good they are fantastic in a jangly guitar, smart lyrics way . However each LP also either...
Randy Jones Ed Jones Brad Jones Bonnie Jones Harold Jones Calvin Jones Rodney Jones Philly Joe Jones Elvin Jones Herbert de Jonge Henk de Jonge Daniel Jonkers Oddrun Lilja Jonsdottir Wilbert de Joode Wilbert De Joode Herbert Joos Mihai Jordache Marlon Jordan Clifford Jordan Kent Jordan Kidd Jorda...
Seattle –Eugenie Jones, singer-songwriter, Music for a Cause Stanford –Fredrick J. Berry, trumpeter-educator, College of San Mateo + Stanford Jazz Orchestra Washington, D.C. –Charlie Young III, coordinator Instrumental Jazz Studies, Howard Univ. ...
Morganne channels Edith Piaf, Grace Jones and Shirley Bassey in a madcap gay Paree set of standards, quips and camp. Women and drag queens want to be her, and she is every bit X chromosome, Darlings, and every bit fabulous. We caught Morganne two weeks ago at CabaretCabaret(that's a...
And finally, here's Charles "Mighty Burner" Earland's recording of John Coltrane's Lazy Bird, with solos by tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath, trumpeter Virgil Jones, guitarist Maynard Parker and organist Charles Earland from Black Drops (1970)......