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Bill Pierce (saxophonist)
Bill Pierce (also Billy Pierce) (born September 25, 1948 in Hampton, Virginia) is an American jazz saxophonist. He played with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers in the early 1980s and in Tony Williams's quintet in the mid-1980s to early 1990s. He also has released numerous CDs for which he is the band leader. He studied with Joe Viola and Andy McGhee at Berklee College of Music, and with Joe Allard. He is the former chair of the school's woodwind department. Discography As Leader * ''Give and Take'' ( Sunnyside, 1988) * ''Equilateral'' (Sunnyside, 1989) * ''One for Chuck'' (Sunnyside, 1991) * ''Rolling Monk'' ( Bellaphon, 1993) * ''Rio (Ballads and Bossa Novas)'' (Sunnyside, 1995) * ''Complete William the Conqueror Sessions'' (Sunnyside, 1995) * ''Burnin - with Javon Jackson ( Criss Cross Jazz, 1997) As Sideman With Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers * '' Live at Montreux and Northsea'' ( Timeless, 1980) * '' Art Blakey in Sweden'' (Amigo, 1981) * '' Album of the Year'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hampton, Virginia
Hampton is an independent city (United States), independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The population was 137,148 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of cities in Virginia, seventh-most populous city in Virginia. Hampton is included in the Hampton Roads metropolitan area, the List of United States metropolitan statistical areas by population, 37th-largest in the United States, with a total population of 1,799,674 in 2020. This area, known as "America's First Region", also includes the independent cities of Chesapeake, Virginia, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach, Virginia, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Virginia, Newport News, Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia, Portsmouth, and Suffolk, Virginia, Suffolk, as well as other smaller cities, counties, and towns of Hampton Roads. Hampton traces its history to the city's Old Point Comfort, the home of Fort Monroe, which was named by the 1607 voyagers, led by Capt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Ahead (Art Blakey Album)
''Straight Ahead'' is a live album by drummer Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers recorded at the Keystone Korner in San Francisco in 1981 and released on the Concord Jazz label. accessed June 18, 2013 Reception , writing for , described it as "One of the best recordings by Art Blakey's 1981 Jazz Messengers... Highly recommended".Yanow, SAllMusic Review accessed June 19, 2013 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Births
Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) go into effect. ** The railways of Britain are nationalized, to form British Railways. * January 4 – British rule in Burma, Burma gains its independence from the United Kingdom, becoming an independent republic, named the 'Post-independence Burma (1948–1962), Union of Burma', with Sao Shwe Thaik as its first President and U Nu its first Prime Minister. * January 5 – In the United States: ** Warner Brothers shows the first color newsreel (''Tournament of Roses Parade'' and the ''Rose Bowl Game''). ** The first Kinsey Reports, Kinsey Report, ''Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'', is published. * January 7 – Mantell UFO incident: Kentucky Air National Guard pilot Thomas Mantell crashes while in pursuit of an unidentified fl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laszlo Gardony
Laszlo Gardony (born 1956) is a Hungarian-born American jazz pianist and composer. Gardony performs as a solo artist and leads his own trio, quartet and sextet. He is also a featured sideman with several other groups. Biography Gardony studied at the Béla Bartók Conservatory in Budapest, graduating in 1979. He also holds a Masters of Education in Mathematics and Physics from Eötvös Loránd University. In 1983 he moved to the United States on a scholarship to study at Berklee College of Music in Boston. He was the first student in the school's history to be offered a teaching position upon graduation. He has been a full Professor of Piano at Berklee for nearly two decades. While still a student at Berklee, he formed the group Forward Motion with Tommy Smith, Terje Gewelt and Ian Froman. He soon formed his first trio with Froman and Miroslav Vitous with whom he recorded ''The Secret'' for Antilles Records. His second album, ''The Legend of Tsumi'' (Antilles) featured Dave H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Story Of Neptune
''The Story of Neptune'' is an album by the American musician Tony Williams. It was released in 1992 through Blue Note Records, his fifth album for the label. Williams supported the album by touring with the Benny Green Trio. ''The Story of Neptune'' peaked at No. 6 on ''Billboards Top Jazz Albums chart. Production The album's songs were written or arranged by Williams. "Neptune" is a three-part composition. " Blackbird" is a cover of the Beatles song. "Birdlike" was written by Freddie Hubbard. Wallace Roney played trumpet on the album; Mulgrew Miller played piano. It was the last album by Williams’s long-standing quintet. Critical reception ''The Washington Post'' wrote that, "whether vigorously emphatic or impeccably subdued, illiams'stouch is felt everywhere, propelling some tunes with tumultuous rhythms and underpinning others with a gently swinging pulse." ''The Baltimore Sun'' determined that, "from the giddy extrapolations of 'Neptune: Fear Not' to the carefully arran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Native Heart
''Native Heart'' is an album by the American musician Tony Williams, released in 1990. Williams supported the album with North American and UK tours. ''Native Heart'' peaked in the top five of ''Billboard''s Top Jazz Albums chart. Production Williams composed and arranged all of the album's songs. He was backed by pianist Mulgrew Miller, trumpeter Wallace Roney, bass players Bob Hurst and Ira Coleman, and saxophonist Bill Pierce. Williams had worked with Miller, Roney, and Pierce since returning to recording, in 1985. The quintet had rehearsed the songs many times before entering the studio; Williams also worked on them in his spare time. "Juicy Fruit" contains a snippet of " Watermelon Man". "Liberty" is a Williams solo track. Critical reception The ''Chicago Tribune'' called the album a "swinging, if slightly emotionally detached recording." ''Spin'' considered it to be "one of the most reassuringly ''musical'' records to emerge from the hard-bop renaissance." '' The Gazette ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All-Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar, and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Note Records
Blue Note Records is an American jazz record label now owned by Universal Music Group and operated under Capitol Music Group. Established in 1939 by History of the Jews in Germany, German-Jewish emigrants Alfred Lion and Max Margulis, it derived its name from the blue notes of jazz and the blues. Originally dedicated to recording traditional jazz and small group swing, the label began to switch its attention to modern jazz around 1947. From there, Blue Note grew to become one of the most prolific, influential and respected jazz labels of the mid-20th century, noted for its role in facilitating the development of hard bop, post-bop and avant-garde jazz, as well as for its iconic modernism, modernist art direction. History Historically, Blue Note has principally been associated with the "hard bop" style of jazz (mixing bebop with other forms of music including soul music, soul, blues, rhythm and blues and gospel music, gospel), but also recorded essential albums in the avant-gard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superblue (band)
Superblue was an American jazz ensemble that released two albums for Blue Note Records in 1988 and 1989. It was led by Don Sickler. The ensemble played in the hard bop style of Blue Note acts of the 1950s and 1960s. The ''Los Angeles Times'' wrote of the ensemble's debut: "Watson's ripe-toned alto on 'Summertime' and Pierce's romping tenor on 'Sesame' are just two highlights of this excellent effort that reaffirms the lasting value of mainstream jazz." ''The Globe and Mail'' determined that the second album avoids the "out-and-out revivalism with little-big-band charts that remove the tunes to some distance from their funky origins." ''Superblue'' ''Superblue'' (1988) featured an octet including Bobby Watson, Roy Hargrove, Mulgrew Miller, Frank Lacy, Bill Pierce, Kenny Washington, Don Sickler, and Bob Hurst. #"Open Sesame" #" I Remember Clifford" #"M. and M." #"Marvelous Marvin" #"Once Forgotten" #"Conservation" #" Summertime" #"Time Off" ''Superblue 2'' ''Superblue 2'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Makoto Ozone
is a Japanese jazz pianist. Career Ozone was born in Kobe, Japan. He began playing organ at two and by seven was an improviser. He appeared on Japanese television with his father, himself a pianist and club owner in Kobe, from 1968 to 1970. At the age of twelve, Ozone switched to piano after being impressed by the albums of Oscar Peterson, taking two years of classical piano lessons. In 1980, he entered the Berklee College of Music and later worked with Gary Burton. He also had his recording debut in 1983 before returning to his native Japan. Ozone has collaborated with vocalist Kimiko Itoh. They appeared as a duo at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and he produced her album ''Kimiko'', which won the 2000 ''Swing Journal'' jazz disk grand prix for Japanese vocalist. Ozone is in charge of visiting professor of Jazz course in Kunitachi College of Music since 2010. Honors *2003: Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Eubanks
Kevin Tyrone Eubanks (born November 15, 1957) is an American jazz and fusion guitarist and composer. He was the leader of The Tonight Show Band with host Jay Leno from 1995 to 2010. He also led the Primetime Band on the short-lived ''The Jay Leno Show''. Early life and education Eubanks was born into a musical family. His older brother, Robin Eubanks, is a trombonist, and his younger brothers Duane Eubanks is a trumpeter and Shane Eubanks is a DJ. As an elementary school student, Eubanks was trained in violin, trumpet, and piano at the Settlement Music School (in Philadelphia). He later attended Berklee College of Music (in Boston, Massachusetts). Personal life Eubanks is a pescetarian and maintains a diet of fresh fruits, vegetables, grains, egg whites, and fish. Career After Eubanks moved to New York, he began performing with noted jazzmen such as Art Blakey (1980–81), Roy Haynes, Slide Hampton and Sam Rivers. Like his brother Robin, Eubanks has played on rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Keezer
Geoffrey Keezer (born November 20, 1970) is an American jazz pianist. In 2023, he won the Best Instrumental Composition Grammy https://ew.com/awards/grammys/grammy-awards-2023-winners-list/ Grammy Winners 2023 List foRefuge 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. He has toured with David Sanborn, Chris Botti, Joe Locke and Christian McBride and worked with vocalist Denise Donatelli, receiving Grammy Award nominations, and releasing albums influenced by Hawaiian, Okinawan, and Afro-Peruvian folk traditions. His 2009 album ''Áurea'' was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album; in 2010 he was nominated for Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s) for " Don't Explain" on Denise Donatelli's album ''When Lights Are Low''. In 2013 Keezer released his first solo piano album in 13 years, ''Heart of the Piano'' ( Motéma Music). Early life ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
