Google Doodle honors jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Merton Simpson Possessed Valuable Art but No Burial Money - NYTimes.com
Merton Simpson Possessed Valuable Art but No Burial Money - NYTimes.com: "Family and friends gathered in Charleston, S.C., on Friday for the funeral of the New York-based artist Merton D. Simpson, a painter and pioneering champion of African art who accumulated a collection said to be worth millions of dollars. Gathering in the city of his birth, eulogists celebrated Mr. Simpson’s expertise on the saxophone, his generosity and his visionary artistic taste."
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
BBC News - Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdes dies aged 94
BBC News - Cuban jazz musician Bebo Valdes dies aged 94: "Bebo Valdes, who started his career in the nightclubs of the Cuban capital, Havana, in the 1940s, was a central figure in the golden era of Cuban big band music.
A pianist, he also composed and arranged songs, and led two big bands, as well as creating his own rhythm, the batanga.
He died in Sweden, where he had lived since the 1960s.
Valdes came to fame as the musical director of the Tropicana club in Havana. From 1948 to 1957, he worked as singer Rita Montaner's pianist, also arranging many of her songs.
During his time at the Tropicana, he also performed with US artists Nat 'King' Cole and Sarah Vaughan"
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Jazz Articles: Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Bandleader and Conductor, Dies at 65 - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles
I have many fond memories of spending time with and around Butch Morris as well as his brother Wilbur, particularly in the early eighties when he conducted the David Murray Big Band. He was an innovative conductor and really nice guy. May he rest in peace.
John H. Armwood
Jazz Articles: Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Bandleader and Conductor, Dies at 65 - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles
John H. Armwood
Jazz Articles: Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris, Bandleader and Conductor, Dies at 65 - By Jeff Tamarkin — Jazz Articles
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Monday, January 14, 2013
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Chico-amp-Rita - NYTimes.com
Chico-amp-Rita - NYTimes.com
Chico and Rita - Every lover of Afro-Cuban music or jazz must see this film. It is set in the reality of the birth of Latin Jazz with the real pioneers of the music playing their music. Chico is in real life the father of the great pianist Chucho Valdez. This is not to be missed. It is on Netflix but any jazz or Latin lover will want this film in their collection.
Wednesday, December 05, 2012
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