Search results for "Ray Anthony"

Ray Anthony: The Peter Gunn Theme (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 08, 07

When Peter Gunn premiered on NBC-TV in 1958, it was a breath of smoky air. Suave leading man Craig Stevens breezed th...

This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: CRIME JAZZ

Film scholar David Butler reckons that by the early 1950s movie jazz had become "a convenient way to impart specific ...

Jeff Albert: I Was Just Looking For My Pants (Rating: 89/100) posted in Music April 02, 09

First of all, I have to admit that the title sucked me in. C'mon, humor does belong in music and you know it! Of cour...

Anderson, Ray (Ray Robert Anderson) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Anderson, Ray (Ray Robert Anderson), trombonist, singer; b. Chicago, Illlinois, 16 October 1952. His father is Philip...

Pass, Joe (Joseph Anthony Jacobi Passalaqua) posted in Encyclopedia January 20, 09

Joe Pass expanded the guitar's possibilities in jazz with his fast, saxophone-like lines and graceful melodic sensibi...

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Barnett, Anthony (Peter John), author, percussionist, publisher, record producer; b. London, England, of Polish and L...

Brown, Anthony posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Brown, Anthony, drummer, composer, ethnomusicologist, bandleader; b. San Francisco, CA, 17 March 1953. He was raised ...

Menegon, John (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Menegon, John (Anthony), jazz bassist, composer, arranger, teacher; b. Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 7 August 1954. M...

Payton, Nicholas (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia May 21, 09

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton's style combines the rich vibrato of Louis Armstrong with the flexible articulations of C...

Bias, Gary (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Bias, Gary (Anthony), saxophone; b. 3-14-58. Los Angeles, CA; His parents are Isaac Bias Sr., born 1914 in Crowley, L...

Ehlis, John (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Ehlis, John (Anthony), guitar, mandolin, ethnic flutes and percussion; b. Riverside, CA, 17 February 1964. His father...

Taylor, Mark (Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Taylor, Mark (Anthony), drums; b. Hampstead, London, England, 7 November 1962. He's the son of of Edward Eugene Taylo...

Magnarelli, Joe (Joseph Anthony) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Magnarelli, Joe (Joseph Anthony), trumpet, piano; b. Syracuse, NY, 19 January 1960. At the age of 12 he started to...

Walton, Cedar (Anthony, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia April 17, 09

Pianist Cedar Walton has displayed throughout his fifty-year career a deep melodic sensibility within the hard bop la...

Brown, Donald (Ray) posted in Encyclopedia September 17, 09

Pianist Donald Brown’s synthesis of post-bop styles has placed him at the forefront of a new school of melodicists. B...

Don't Gonna Play That Kling-Kling Jazz: A Prehistory of Jazz-Rock posted in Features and Interviews June 18, 09

By Geoff Wills When rock and roll emerged in the mid 1950s, many jazz musicians were witheringly scornful about ...

Lewis, Mel (Sokoloff, Melvin) posted in Encyclopedia October 20, 09

Drummer Mel Lewis set a new standard for the modern big band as co-leader of the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra in th...

Hughart, Jim (James David) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Hughart, Jim (James David), bass; b. Minneapolis, MN, 28 July 1936. He graduated from Edison High School, Minneapolis...

Pell, Dave (David) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Pell, Dave (David), tenor and baritone saxophonist, leader; b. NY, 26 February 1925. He played with the big bands ...

Kirchner, Bill (William Joseph Kirchner, Jr.) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

Kirchner, Bill [William Joseph Kirchner, Jr.], soprano saxophonist, composer, arranger, bandleader, historian, recor...

London, Amy (Amy Jane Liebschutz) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07

London, Amy (Amy Jane Liebschutz), singer; b. Cincinnati, OH, 15 October 1957. Her parents are David, born 1914, (dec...

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