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Harold Ousley
Harold Lomax Ousley (January 23, 1929 – August 13, 2015) was an American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist. Background Born in Chicago, Ousley began playing in the late-1940s and 1950s. He accompanied Billie Holiday and recorded with Dinah Washington. He played as a sideman with Gene Ammons in the 1950s and with Jack McDuff and George Benson in the 1960s. He released his first record as a leader in 1961. In the 1970s, he played with Lionel Hampton and Count Basie in addition to releasing further material as a leader. After 1977, he did not release another album under his own name until ''Grit-Grittin' Feelin (2000). Ousley died on August 13, 2015, in Brooklyn. Discography As leader * ''Tenor Sax'' (Bethlehem, 1961) * ''The Kid!'' (Cobblestone, 1972) * ''The People's Groove'' (Muse, 1977) * ''Sweet Double Hipness'' (Muse, 1980) * ''That's When We Thought of Love'' (J's Way Records, 1986) * ''Grit-Grittin' Feelin ( Delmark, 2000) As sideman With Jack McDuff * '' Walk On By'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
Chicago is the List of municipalities in Illinois, most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States. With a population of 2,746,388, as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, it is the List of United States cities by population, third-most populous city in the United States after New York City and Los Angeles. As the county seat, seat of Cook County, Illinois, Cook County, the List of the most populous counties in the United States, second-most populous county in the U.S., Chicago is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area, often colloquially called "Chicagoland" and home to 9.6 million residents. Located on the shore of Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a Chicago Portage, portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River, Mississippi River watershed. It grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. In 1871, the Great Chicago Fire destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muse Records
Muse Records was a jazz record company and label founded in New York City by Joe Fields in 1972. Fields worked as an executive for Prestige Records in the 1960s. Several of the albums were previously released on Cobblestone Records. Muse also had another label, Onyx Records, which operated until 1978, when Fields and collaborator Don Schlitten ended their professional relationship. In the late 1970s, Muse partnered with the Dutch Timeless Records to distribute Timeless Muse. Muse was sold in 1996 to 32 Jazz, which repackaged and reissued a large amount of Muse recordings. In 2003, Savoy Jazz (which had become a subsidiary of Nippon Columbia) acquired the rights to the Muse catalog (along with that of Landmark) from 32 Jazz. Fields later founded HighNote Records and Savant Records; many Muse artists later recorded for these labels as well. Discography From 1972 until 1995 Muse released around 500 albums. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Jazz Flautists
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Jazz Musicians From Chicago
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African Americans, African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, hymns, march (music), marches, vaudeville song, and dance music. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional music, traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swung note, swing and blue notes, complex Chord (music), chords, Call and response (music), call and response vocals, polyrhythms and Jazz improvisation, improvisation. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. Dixieland, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphony, polyphonic Musical improvisation, improvisati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Deaths
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1929 Births
This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic Counter-revolutionary, counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the ''Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General)'' case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a Sino-Soviet conflict (1929), minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steppin' Out (Jack McDuff Album)
''Steppin' Out'' is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded between 1961 and 1966 and released on the Prestige label. accessed January 21, 2013 Reception awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic ReviewJanuary 21, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated'' #"" ( |
I Got A Woman (album)
''I Got a Woman'' is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded between 1964 and 1966 and released on the Prestige label. accessed January 21, 2013 Reception awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic ReviewJanuary 21, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated'' # "" ( |
Soul Circle
''Soul Circle'' is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded between 1964 and 1966 and released on the Prestige label. accessed January 21, 2013 Reception awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic ReviewJanuary 21, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated'' # "" ( |
Hallelujah Time!
''Hallelujah Time!'' is an album by organist Jack McDuff recorded between 1963 and 1966 and released on the Prestige label. accessed January 21, 2013 Reception awarded the album 3 stars.Allmusic ReviewJanuary 21, 2013 Track listing ''All compositions by Jack McDuff except as indicated'' # "" ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
