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"East of the Sun" was first recorded by Hal Kemp for Brunswick Records on Dec. 1, 1934, and has remained a jazz standard since the 1950s. The version recorded by Tom Coakley and His Orchestra (vocal refrain by Carl Ravazza) topped the Your Hit Parade chart for two weeks in September 1935.
Chicago is a 2002 American musical crime comedy film based on the 1975 stage musical of the same name which in turn originated in the 1926 play of the same name. It explores the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. [4]
Dizzy Gillespie 1955 "Manteca" is one of the earliest foundational tunes of Afro-Cuban jazz.Co-written by Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Gil Fuller in 1947, it is among the most famous of Gillespie's recordings (along with the earlier "A Night in Tunisia") and is "one of the most important records ever made in the United States", according to Gary Giddins of The Village Voice. [1] "
During his brief time in school at Berklee, Gisbert was offered to go on the road with Buddy Rich as a connection made through Wilson. Gisbert's credits have then included: Buddy Rich (1985–86), Woody Herman's band under Frank Tiberi's direction (1987–89), John Fedchock and Maria Schneider, Gary Burton (1989), Lew Anderson (1989) and Toshiko Akiyoshi (1989 and subsequently).
Land of the Sun is an album by American jazz musician Charlie Haden with Cuban pianist Gonzalo Rubalcaba.It presents orchestral Latin dance music from 1940s Mexico, mainly composed by José Sabre Marroquín, which Rubalcaba arranged for an ensemble of ten featuring among others Joe Lovano and Miguel Zenon on saxophone.
The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One is a 1965 album by the jazz musician Sun Ra. The back cover describes it as an "album of compositions and arrangements by Sun Ra played by Sun Ra and his Solar Arkestra". The album is an example of the radical break which Sun Ra's music of that time had made with "previous notions of melody or ...
Dazzle Ships has nevertheless appeared in lists of 1983's best albums; The A.V. Club named it one of the year's "Great but Underappreciated Records". [ a ] It was included in that same publication's "Hall of Fame", [ 12 ] as well as the Chicago Tribune ' s "10 Essential New Wave Albums", [ 50 ] the 1980s edition of Uncut ' s "Ultimate Record ...
Tao was composer-in-residence for the 2009–10 season with Chicago's Music in the Loft concert series. As part of this program, the Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music commissioned his "String Quartet No. 2" for the Jasper Quartet, which they performed throughout the US [25] [26] After hearing Tao play the premiere of his Three Songs for Piano (2010), the reviewer of The Washington Post called ...