Search results for "Bill Barron"

Bill Barron: One Hand, One Heart (Rating: 85/100) posted in Music February 13, 09

Crazes, like politics, can make for strange bedfellows. Put the early '60s craving for jazz versions of musicals toge...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: WEST SIDE STORY

Scads of Broadway show tunes have become jazz standards, but probably no single musical proved more popular with...

Charles Mingus: Half-Mast Inhibition (Rating: 96/100) posted in Music November 21, 07

Mingus began "Half-Mast Inhibition" at age 18, but left it unfinished for 20 years. As tempting as it might be to cal...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: TWELVE ESSENTIAL 'THIRD STREAM' PERFORMANCES

A few years after longtime Metropolitan Opera French hornist Gunther Schuller assisted in Miles Davis's Birth of the ...

Stan Getz: Voyage (Rating: 98/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

During this extraordinary 1987 Copenhagen concert, the man we have come to know as “The Sound” pauses to request that...

Stan Getz: I Can't Get Started (Rating: 99/100) posted in Music July 13, 09

Stan Getz wasn’t exactly prolix, preferring to let his Selmer MarkVI do the talking for him. But on the occasions wh...

Barron, Kenneth "Kenny" posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barron, Kenneth "Kenny", piano; b. Philadelphia, June 9, 1943. His father William was a quiet man who worked in const...

In Conversation With Bill Charlap posted in Features and Interviews July 30, 09

By Ted Panken "I’ve really been running the last two days," said Bill Charlap in the lobby of the Algonqui...

Jaffe, Andy (Andrew William) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Jaffe, Andy (Andrew William), jazz composer and educator; b. Washington D.C., 16 November 1951. He grew up in D.C., M...

Grubbs, Carl (Gordon) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Grubbs, Carl (Gordon), saxophonist (alto and soprano), educator, arranger and composer; b. Philadelphia, PA, 27 July ...

Cyrille, Andrew (Charles) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Cyrille, Andrew (Charles), drummer, composer; b. Brooklyn, N.Y., Nov. 10, 1939. He was born to Haitian parents and w...

Ervin, Booker (Tellefero Ervin II) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08

Saxophonist Booker Ervin’s hard-edged tone, drawn from his roots in rhythm and blues, were matched with a peerless a...

Mitchell, Leon posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Mitchell, Leon, composer; b. North Philadelphia, PA, 16 August 1934. He attended public schools and was an honor g...

Drury, Andrew (Mowat) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Drury, Andrew (Mowat), drumset, percussion, composer, educator; b. Bellevue, WA, 4 December 1964. His mother is Eliza...

Washington, SalimMichael S. Washington posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Washington, Salim [Michael S. Washington], tenor saxophone, flute, oboe, composer, educator, author; b. Memphis, TN, ...

Grimes, HenryAlonzo posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Grimes, Henry Alonzo, bassist, violinist, poet, educator, b. Philadelphia, PA, 3 November 1935.  His twin brothe...

Lyons, Jimmy posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09

Alto saxophonist Jimmy Lyons took Charlie Parker's innovations and ran with them into free jazz, where he developed h...

Ridley, Larry posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ridley, Larry, bassist, educator; b. Indianapolis, IN, 3 September 1937. Ridley received his Master of Arts, Cultu...

Bardfeld, Samuel J posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bardfeld, Samuel J., violinist, composer, author; b. New York, NY, 14 January 1968. His mother is Andrea, his father ...

Shelton, Chip (Clarence Elmo Shelton, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Shelton, Chip [Clarence Elmo Shelton, Jr.], Concert Flute in C, and Bb Flute D'Amor (both custom-fitted for End-Blown...

Ron Carter: A Selected Discography posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 03, 07

Ron Carter is the consummate sideman, and one of the most active accompanists in the history of jazz. But Carter has...

Breakstone, Joshua (Scott) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Breakstone, Joshua (Scott), guitar; b. Elizabeth, NJ, 22 July 1955. He was raised in Linden, NJ by Arthur and Priscil...

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