The Air This Week Sep 22, 2005
Movies Restaurants Food Calendar Music Theater/Arts TV Books Celebrity news. Throughout the week Midnight-5 a.m. Jazz with Bob Parlocha (Mon. (Boston Globe -- Living)
For Harrell, music soothes and inspires Jun 24, 2005
All the great improvisers are also great composers," Harrell continues. ''[John] Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Ornette Coleman, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw, Lee Morgan, Fats Navarro, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk -- they're all great composers as well as players. It's true sometimes players are known more for their interpretations of other people's music. But they're also composers. When they improvise, it's composition, even though it's not... (Boston Globe -- Living)
Music:Lions in winter Sep 30, 2004
" Though he's most often associated with bebop, Terry also has the rare distinction of playing for both Count Basie and Duke Ellington, leaders of the two greatest big bands of all time. Like Dizzy Gillespie, he's juggled serious musicianship with a showman's sense of the absurd. He earned his nickname, "Mumbles," by scat singing nonsense syllables with a risqu? edge and he's also known for taking off his mouthpiece and using it to simulate talking. He often mocks his venerable age by taking his... (San Antonio Current, TX)
Remembering Dizzy Sep 17, 2004
And those everyones included Miles Davis, Max Roach, Fats Navarro. " Hampton contends that Parker came by his harmonic, melodic and rhythmic genius naturally but never could explain it. Gillespie, however, could. Drummer Kenny Washington agreed. "He was able to decode Charlie Parker s language and. (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
Shake, Rattle & Roll May 14, 2004
He played with major figures of his day, including Fletcher Henderson, Earl Hines, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Sarah Vaughn and Fats Navarro ... After he left the Ink Spots, Long continued to work with his trio and made some hot bebop recordings with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Fats Navarro. (Sealy News, TX)
Celebrity deaths in 2003: Thanks for the memories Dec 25, 2003
The saxophonist who played with Fats Navarro (with whom he recorded), Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and the big bands of Claude Thornhill, Charlie Barnet and Billy May before becoming a teacher and statesman of the Northwest jazz scene in Seattle. Oct. 10 (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
Lanphere memorial scheduled Oct 14, 2003
The legendary bebop musician grew up in Wenatchee and at age 19 moved to New York, where he recorded with Fats Navarro and Max Roach in the late 1940s and early '50s. He also performed with Woody Herman and Charlie Parker, among others, before problems with drugs and alcohol temporarily derailed his career (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
Saxophonist was statesman of jazz Oct 10, 2003
Over time, the talented saxophonist played with Fats Navarro (with whom he recorded), Woody Herman, Artie Shaw and the big bands of Claude Thornhill, Charlie Barnet and Billy May. Lanphere struggled with drug abuse, but overcame his problems (Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA)
Dennis Mackrel, drums Oct 2, 2003
One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time (some would say the best), Gillespie was such a complex player that his contemporaries ended up copying Miles Davis and Fats Navarro instead. Somehow, Gillespie could make any "wrong" note fit, and harmonically he was ahead of everyone in the 1940s (eJazzNews, Canada)
James Toney Tackles the Heavyweights Oct 2, 2003
Like a jazz musician studying riffs from trumpet players like Fats Navarro and Clifford Brown, Toney studies boxers from the past like Ezzard Charles, Archie Moore and Jersey Joe Walcott. These are the men who provide the riffs and improvisations that Lights Out takes with him to the ring (Maxboxing)
