Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Andrew Hill (June 30, 1931 [1] – April 20, 2007) was an American jazz pianist and composer. Jazz critic John Fordham described Hill as a "uniquely gifted composer, pianist and educator" although "his status remained largely inside knowledge in the jazz world for most of his career." [2]
English. As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty is a 2000 experimental documentary film directed by Jonas Mekas. [1] The film had its world premiere on November 4, 2000, at the London Film Festival and is a compilation of Mekas' home movies. In 2022, the decennial poll by Sight and Sound magazine named it one of the ...
Musician. Instrument. Piano. Years active. 1940s–1990s. Labels. Epic, Bethlehem, Inner City, Chiaroscuro, Concord. Dave McKenna (May 30, 1930 – October 18, 2008) [1] was an American jazz pianist known primarily as a solo pianist and for his "three-handed" swing style. He was a significant figure in the evolution of jazz piano.
Bishop was born in New York City on October 4, 1927. [1] He had at least two sisters, Marian and Beverly. [2] His father was composer Walter Bishop Sr. [2] In his teens, Bishop Jr.'s friends included future jazz musicians Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Art Taylor. [2]
When Branford Marsalis assumed the high-visibility role of bandleader for NBC TV's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Kirkland became the band's pianist. [11] In 1991, he released his debut as a leader, Kenny Kirkland, on GRP Records. Thunder And Rainbows (1991, Sunnyside Records), by "Jazz from Keystone", is a trio album with Kirkland, Charles ...
Edward Lee Morgan (July 10, 1938 – February 19, 1972) was an American jazz trumpeter and composer. [1] [2] [3] One of the key hard bop musicians of the 1960s and a cornerstone of the Blue Note label, [1] Morgan came to prominence in his late teens, recording with bandleaders like John Coltrane, Curtis Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Hank Mobley and Wayne Shorter, and playing in Art Blakey's Jazz ...
Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950, in Omaha, Nebraska. His father, Richard Lewis, who played saxophone and mother, Camille, a pianist-vocalist were both classically trained musicians who performed with many of the "territory bands" that toured the midwest in the forties. Consequently, Victor grew up with jazz as well as popular and European ...
Geoffrey Keezer. Geoffrey Keezer (born November 20, 1970) is an American jazz pianist. In 2023, he won the Best Instrumental Composition Grammy [1] for Refuge. Keezer was playing in jazz clubs as a teenager, playing piano for Art Blakey at age 18 and touring with Joshua Redman, Benny Golson and Ray Brown in his 20s.