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Life and career. Jeff Kashiwa was born in 1963 in Louisville, Kentucky but moved to Seattle, Washington as a young child. He credits the public school's music program for inspiring his interest in music, [1] along with his father, who died in 1992, who was a fan of jazz music including Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller.
Richard Allen " Blue " Mitchell (March 13, 1930 – May 21, 1979) [1] was an American trumpeter and composer who worked in jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, rock and funk. He recorded albums as leader and sideman for Riverside, Mainstream Records, and Blue Note. [2]
Curtis DuBois Fuller (December 15, 1932 – May 8, 2021) [ 1 ] was an American jazz trombonist. He was a member of Art Blakey 's Jazz Messengers and contributed to many classic jazz recordings.
Blossom Dearie. Margrethe Blossom Dearie[1][a][2] (April 28, 1924 – February 7, 2009) was an American jazz singer and pianist. [3] She had a recognizably light and girlish voice. [4][5][2][3] Dearie performed regular engagements in London and New York City over many years [4][2] and collaborated with many musicians, including Johnny Mercer ...
Jazz. Occupation. Musician. Instrument. Drums. Kenny Washington (born May 29, 1958) is an American jazz drummer and music writer born in Staten Island, New York. [1] His brother is bassist Reggie Washington. He grew up in the Stapleton Houses and attended P.S. 14. He studied at The High School of Music & Art, graduating in 1976.
Donna Lee. "Donna Lee" is a jazz standard tune attributed to Charlie Parker, although Miles Davis has also claimed authorship. [1][2] Written in A-flat, it is based on the chord changes of the jazz standard "(Back Home Again in) Indiana". [1] Beginning with an unusual half-bar rest, "Donna Lee" is a very complex, fast-moving chart with a ...
"What makes the performance is the dialogue created between you and everybody around you spontaneously. And you have to interact with everybody up there, interacting and reacting, throwing out ideas. Jazz is a purely democratic music. It's collective creativity where somebody introduces something and we all get a chance to say something about it. It always amazes me, the whole of it is just a ...
[3] After moving back to the U.S. in the 1970s, she sang at the Cookery in Greenwich Village [2] and the Riverboat in Manhattan. [3] Later in her career, she often sang at the Algonquin Hotel. [4] In 1988, PBS affiliate WMHT recorded the television special Susannah McCorkle and Friends: Jazz Meets Pop at Proctors in Schenectady, NY.