Search results for "Frankie Newton"

Billie Holiday: Strange Fruit (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 26, 07

By the late 1930s, lynching of Negroes had declined in the U.S. but not disappeared, a fact white radicals exploited ...

Newton, Frankie posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 09

Newton, Frankie, trumpet (b. Emory, Virginia, January 4, 1906, d. March 11, 1954, New York). A fine, soulful trumpet ...

Art Tatum: Sweet Georgia Brown (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music October 10, 09

Jerry Newman was a student at Columbia University with a passion for jazz and—even more important!—a portable disk-cu...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ART TATUM AT 100

Art Tatum would be celebrating his 100th birthday this week. His death at age 47 back in 1956 is now a distant eve...

The Best Jazz Web Links: July 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages August 01, 08

Yogi Berra on Jazz "If you play it too right, it's wrong." Remembering Frankie Newton J...

Brofsky, Howard posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Brofsky, Howard, cornet, trumpet, mellophone, b. Brooklyn, NY, 2 May 1927. He studied trumpet with Nat Prager of the ...

Lea, Barbara posted in Encyclopedia March 02, 08

Vocalist Barbara Lea was born Barbara LeCocq on April 10, 1929 in Detroit, Michigan. She traces her musical heritage...

Haynes, Roy (Owen) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 08

Drummer Roy Haynes has sat at the helm of jazz for more than sixty years. Like his early idol Jo Jones, Haynes's expr...

Melvoin, Michael posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Melvoin, Michael, keyboards, composer; b. Oshkosh, WI, 10 May 1937. Melvoin is one of the most versatile and accom...

Lotz, Mark (Alban) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Lotz, Mark (Alban), flutist, piccolo, C flute, alto flute, bass flute, PVC contra bass flute, Indian bamboo flutes, f...

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