Vera Miles

Juilliard’s Paul Recital Hall was where jazz drummer Douglas Marriner had his graduation recital, which happened on Monday, May 8th. From now on, and following a family tradition, Douglas, who is the grandson of the late English conductor/violinist Sir Neville Marriner and the son of LSO’s clarinetist Andrew Marriner, is entitled to an artist diploma degree, which authenticates him as a professional musician, with all the letters. The newly graduated envisioned different formations to tackle the

My parents separated when my brothers were nine and seven, and I was five years old. My grandparents live on the same street and developed a close bond with us. They felt music would be a good outlet for emotional stress. Benjamin and Nicholas started taking lessons for piano and guitar. I started playing violin through my elementary school. As middle school was approaching, Nicholas was considering playing in the school band, but guitar would not be a suitable instrument. My grandfather’s friend

Charles Mingus was one of the most influential and groundbreaking jazz musicians and composers of the 1950s and 1960s. The virtuoso bassist gained fame in the 1940s and 1950s working with such jazz greats as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, and many others. His compositions pushed harmonic barriers, combining Western-European classical styles with African-American roots music. While examining his career is valuable from musical standpoint, his career also provides a powerful

The Bass Player in Black At the quiet Corner of Turks street was the Cranburry Cafe. Inside there was a five man jazz band playing up their tunes. Every single Thursday the five men played. But this Thursday their bass player was feeling ill and unable to play. The band looked for volunteers and found a man named Smith. They called up Smith who was luckily available for that night. In the cafe people danced, and there was song in the dark air. It was a fine beginning to a long cold dark night.

Mercurial guitarist Mark Whitfield got the jazz world’s attention during the 90’s, when the NY Times considered him ‘The Best Young Guitarist in the Business’. Despite speaking a vocabulary of his own, his style is still influenced by his mentor George Benson, the one who recommended him to the organist Jack McDuff. Mark not only has collaborated with jazz legends such as Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Ray Brown, Stanley Turrentine, Ray Charles, and Jimmy Smith, but also with recent stars like Sting

harmonics, “488 S. Lake Park” ekes out poetic drifts declaimed by Hill, having Florent’s bowed bass underneath. Similar meditative tones and ruminations build “Une Petetite Fille Danse Asisse” where the trumpeter straddles Coltrane’s exultations and Miles’ cool vibes. The title “Roughed Grooved Surface” is sufficiently transparent to let us have an idea about its mood. Fournier’s hyperactive drumming joins the eerie vibes invented by Parker, who also uses chromaticism and strident, rapid-fire strokes

Chapter 7 • Cool jazz is a term for modern style that sound more subdued than the bebop of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. • West coast jazz: applied to classify cool jazz by California- based white musicians. • Birth of the cool band was 1949-1950 Miles David record session of a nine piece band in NY. • Progressive jazz was a term coined by stand Kenton to describe his own music. • Dave Brubeck was the first group in jazz that were sufficiently popular to tour as concert

Facing the bitter cold, we manage to stay a good half-hour outdoors, in the line, to get the free-pass wristband for the awaited marathon. We started at the Bitter End with the Oliver Lake Organ Quartet. Mr. Lake, sounding more discreet in terms of improvisation than in other times, seemed more cerebral and less impulsive to me. Still, it was great to hear and see one of the musicians who spiked my curiosity toward the free/avant-garde current many years ago, through his highlighted albums ‘Heavy

Resourceful acoustic guitarist Ralph Towner has been an exemplary case of productivity and dedication since his first appearances in the early 70s. His virtuosity is patented in a variety of recordings whose listenings will disclose the incomparable sound and accurate technique that make him singular. Towner was a co-founder of Oregon, a world-fusion chamber jazz group that also included the versatile experimentalists Collin Walcott, Paul McCandless, and Glen Moore. In this particular band, his

“Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one” Edward Kenny Ellington was born on April 29, 1899 to James Edward Ellington and daisy Ellington in Washington dc. Edward was born in to a family of musician both of his parents played the piano. At the sage of seven he began taking piano lessons, by his teenage years he was already writing his own music. His first compassion ever “Soda Fountain Rag” was at the age of 15, he started playing professionally at 17, Duke Ellington 50 years