Search results for "Willie 'The Lion' Smith"
Willie 'The Lion' Smith: Echoes of Spring (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music January 12, 09The “Lion” liked to act and talk real tough, but paradoxically he was the Harlem stride master most interested in gau...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: ETHAN IVERSON ON STRIDE PIANO
Editor's Note: Music fans, jazz-oriented or otherwise, may know Ethan Iverson solely as the pianist in The Bad Plus—t...
Willie 'The Lion' Smith: Concentratin' (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music May 16, 08We tend to remember Harlem jazz for its rent parties or 'jungle music' at the Cotton Club. But there was a concert h...
This track review is included in: THE DOZENS: HARLEM
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Sidney Bechet: Strange Fruit (Rating: 100/100) posted in Music February 06, 09The Billie Holiday recording of this song is justly famous. By contrast, this version is not well known outside the l...
Mamie Smith: Crazy Blues (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music November 20, 07"Crazy Blues" was a million seller for OKeh Records and struck gold for black artists, whose works were now marketed ...
Willie 'The Lion' Smith: Echoes of Spring (Rating: 92/100) posted in Music April 16, 08The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s is justly celebrated for its flowering of African-American artistic and intellect...
Hentoff on Jazz: The Jewish Soul of Willie "The Lion" Smith posted in The Jazz.com Blog October 08, 09Nat Hentoff, a regular contributor to this column, not only writes about the legendary figures of jazz, he also knew ...
Smith, Willie 'The Lion' (William Henry Joseph Berthol Bonaparte Bertholoff) posted in Encyclopedia September 18, 09Willie "The Lion" Smith was a founding father of Harlem Stride piano who combined elements of ragtime, barrelhouse, a...
The Best Jazz Web Links: April 2008 posted in Miscellaneous Pages April 22, 08A tribute to Louis ArmstrongThe concert featured Nicholas Payton, Delfeayo Marsalis and Bill Charlap, amo...
Jazz Classics That Aren't Kind of Blue posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 23, 09Did you hear that there was an anniversary for Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? Of course you did. The jazz world ...
Weekend Track Review Roundup posted in The Jazz.com Blog April 17, 08A few days ago, jazz.com published its 2,000th review – pretty good for a web site that only opened its doors on Dece...
Harrison, Jimmy (James Henry) posted in Encyclopedia June 17, 09Trombonist Jimmy Harrison was the rare instrumentalist who developed a personal vocabulary for jazz which was distinc...
Snow, Valaida (Valada) posted in Encyclopedia June 16, 09Trumpeter, singer and dancer Valaida Snow was a pioneering woman in jazz and among the first to reach an internationa...
A Classic Revisited posted in Miscellaneous Pages December 12, 07A Classic Revisited was a regular feature at jazz.com from December 2007 through October 2009. Five days per week, ...
Jazz's Most Iconic Photo Is Half a Century Old posted in Features and Interviews August 11, 08by Alan Kurtz "When I found out there was going to be this big meeting for a picture in Esquire," Dizzy Gilles...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Dick Katz posted in Features and Interviews December 22, 08For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their 8th decade. OctoJAZ...
Erroll Garner: Don't Be That Way (Rating: 95/100) posted in Music October 29, 07People often marveled at how well he played, considering that he couldn’t read music. To which Erroll Garner pointed ...
Johnson, James P. (James Price) posted in Encyclopedia January 27, 08James P. Johnson was one of the originators of jazz piano. Experimenting in Harlem in the teens and twenties, he expa...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Carline Ray posted in Features and Interviews March 17, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
OctoJAZZarian Profile: Dick Hyman posted in Features and Interviews July 20, 09For the first time in jazz’s brief century, many leading artists are staying active beyond their eighth decade. Octo...
Kerr, Brooks (Chester Monson Brooks Joseph Kerr III) posted in Encyclopedia October 18, 07Kerr, Brooks (Chester Monson Brooks Joseph Kerr III), piano; b. 26 Dec. 1951, New Haven, CT. His parents are Chest...
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