Topic: Count Basie

In memoriam

Variety - 25 days ago
Death claimed many great musical talents in 2011; their achievements can be heard on a variety of compilations, many of them only recently issued...

Q&A with Quincy Jones: 'Chutzpah was not in my vocabulary'

The Grio - 211 days ago
CNBC. . Quincy Jones is a musician, composer, conductor, producer, mogul and mentor. Working with everyone from Dinah Washington to Frank Sinatra...

Jazz legend Pat Martino rose up beyond health issues

NY Daily News - 212 days ago
Whenever jazz guitar legend Pat Martino plays in the Big Apple, it's a homecoming.. . "I love every time I come to New York City. I left my...

Queens Hall of Fame to jazz up mall

NY Daily News - 275 days ago
THE budding Queens Hall of Fame is launching its first exhibit today with an emphasis on Corona, Addisleigh Park and all that jazz.. . The new...

RIP, Snooky Young

Jazzblog.ca - 282 days ago
Trumpeter Eugene "Snooky" Young, a plunger-mute maestro and lead player who worked in the big bands of Jimmy Lunceford, Count Basie, Lionel...

Jamie Foxx To Bring 'Thunder Soul' To The Big Screen

Soul Bounce - 289 days ago
I can't help but feel a hint of anxiety when I see Jamie Foxx's name attached to new projects. His ambitions as an actual album-recording...

Jackie Robinson's nabe declared landmark

NY Daily News - 381 days ago
A tony Queens enclave once home to a host of black stars - including Jackie Robinson and James Brown - became a historic district Tuesday on the...

Johnny Mandel

Mahalo - 468 days ago
The love theme for that film, "The Shadow of Your Smile ", which he co-wrote with Paul Francis Webster , won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Song and the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in 1966. He won the Grammy Award ...

Buck Clayton

Mahalo - 468 days ago
Clayton played piano when he was six years old and switched to trumpet when he was a teenager. Shanghai career From there, there are multiple sources claiming different ways in which Clayton ended up in Shanghai. Some claimed that Clayton was picked ...

Joe Williams (jazz singer)

Mahalo - 468 days ago
Joe Williams (December 12, 1918 ? March 29, 1999) was a well-known jazz vocalist, a baritone singing a mixture of blues , ballads, popular songs, and jazz standards.Williams was born Joseph Goreed in the small farming town of Cordele, Georgia . Joe Williams Soon ...