Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Jazz Samba was recorded live in less than three hours on February 13, 1962, and started a bossa nova craze both nationally and internationally. It is the only jazz album to reach number one on both the jazz and pop Billboard charts [4] and it remained high on the charts for 70 weeks. "Desafinado", the hit single from the album, was inducted ...
Thomas Fonnesbæk. in Denmark in 2016. Justin Kauflin [2] was born in Silver Spring, Maryland before moving to Virginia Beach, Virginia with his family. As a child he learned classical music on violin and piano. Starting at the age of six, he was performing in concerts, nursing homes, and weddings, eventually becoming concertmaster for several ...
The Hampton Jazz Festival is a major musical event started in 1968, and features many of the world's major jazz artists. It is held during the last full weekend in June each year, with the primary venue being Hampton, Virginia 's Hampton Coliseum. Festival organizers describe it as "the best available jazz, R&B and blues artists that are on ...
The 40th annual Norfolk Waterfront Jazz Festival returns to Town Point Park Friday and Saturday from 5 to 11 p.m. daily. Friday’s headliner features Gerald Albright, Saturday’s will be Dave ...
Tommy Gwaltney. Thomas Oliver Gwaltney III[1] (February 28, 1921, in Norfolk, Virginia, United States [2] – February 11, 2003, in Virginia Beach, Virginia) [1] was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist and bandleader. He played clarinet, saxophone, and vibraphone.
Ella Jane Fitzgerald was born on April 25, 1917, in Newport News, Virginia. [2] She was the daughter of William Ashland Fitzgerald, a transfer wagon driver from Blackstone, Virginia, and Temperance "Tempie" Henry, both described as mulatto in the 1920 census. [3]
Charlie Byrd. Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 2, 1999) was an American jazz guitarist. Byrd was best known for his association with Brazilian music, especially bossa nova. In 1962, he collaborated with Stan Getz on the album Jazz Samba, a recording which brought bossa nova into the mainstream of North American music.
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer. [2] Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd's group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound.