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In 1919, Kid Ory's Original Creole Jazz Band of musicians from New Orleans began playing in San Francisco and Los Angeles, where in 1922 they became the first black jazz band of New Orleans origin to make recordings. During the same year, Bessie Smith made her first recordings.
Hefflin was an entrepreneur who had started promoting dances and concerts for Black residents of Los Angeles in the 1930s. The first Cavalcade of Jazz was held on September 23, 1945, and starred Count Basie, The Honey Drippers, Valaida Snow, Joe Turner, The Peters Sisters, Slim and Bam and other artists. [1] Attendance was some 15,000.
Lawrence Brown (jazz trombonist) Velzoe Brown. Chris Brubeck. Dave Brubeck. Dennis Budimir. Alex Budman. Larry Bunker. Charles Burrell (musician) Billy Byers.
Superblue (band) Superblue was an American jazz ensemble that released two albums for Blue Note Records in 1988 and 1989. [1] [2] It was led by Don Sickler. [3] The ensemble played in the hard bop style of Blue Note acts of the 1950s and 1960s. [4]
The Los Angeles Times determined that Carter demonstrates "his amazing facility for jumping from one register to another with an ease that seems to extend the [clarinet]'s naturally capacious range." The Philadelphia Inquirer listed Castles of Ghana among the 10 best jazz albums of 1986. Track listing
Chicago. (musical) Chicago is a 1975 American musical with music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and book by Ebb and Bob Fosse. Set in Chicago in the jazz age, the musical is based on a 1926 play of the same title by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins, about actual criminals and crimes on which she reported. The story is a satire on corruption ...
Dazzle camouflage, also known as razzle dazzle (in the U.S.) or dazzle painting, is a family of ship camouflage that was used extensively in World War I, and to a lesser extent in World War II and afterwards. Credited to the British marine artist Norman Wilkinson, though with a rejected prior claim by the zoologist John Graham Kerr, it ...
The Los Angeles Times called trumpeter Brian Lynch "a splendid writer and soloist." [4] Scott Yanow of AllMusic stated: "The final recording by Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers found the 70-year old drummer (just months before his death) doing what he loved best, leading a group of young players through hard-swinging and generally new music in the ...