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Joy Spring (Harold Mabern Album)
''Joy Spring'' is a solo piano album by Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1985 and released by Sackville Records. Recording and music The album was recorded in concert at Cafe des Copains in Toronto in 1985, while pianist Harold Mabern was in residence there."Harold Mabern: Joy Spring" Delmark. Retrieved October 29, 2017. The music was broadcast on the radio.Yanow, Scot "Harold Mabern: Joy Spring" AllMusic. Retrieved October 29, 2017. Most of the tracks are jazz standards; two are Mabern originals; and one is |
Harold Mabern
Harold Mabern Jr. (March 20, 1936 – September 17, 2019) was an American jazz pianist and composer, principally in the hard bop, post-bop, and soul jazz fields.Feather, Leonard; Gitler, Ira (2007) ''The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz''. p. 425. Oxford University Press. He is described in ''The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings'' as "one of the great post-bop pianists". Early life Mabern was born in Memphis, Tennessee on March 20, 1936. He initially started learning drums before switching to learning piano. He had access to a piano from his teens, after his father, who worked in a lumber yard, saved to buy him one. Mabern learned by watching and emulating pianists Charles Thomas and Phineas Newborn Jr. Mabern attended Douglass High School,. before transferring to Manassas High School;Johnson, David Brent (March 18, 2011"A Few Miles from Memphis: Harold Mabern, the Early Years" Indiana Public Media. he played with saxophonists Frank Strozier, George Coleman and trumpeter Booker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville Records
Sackville Records was a Canadian record company and label that specialized in jazz.Gardner/Kernfeld, "Sackville". '' Grove Jazz'' online. In 2011, with Sackville defunct, Delmark Records acquired its catalogue. Sackville was founded in 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada by John Norris and Bill Smith of the jazz magazine ''CODA''. The bulk of the label's new releases were from sessions recorded in Canada. It has also done reissues. In the 1990s it became the distributor for American Music, Chiaroscuro, Nagel-Heyer, Classics, Storyville, and Timeless. Its catalogue included Doc Cheatham, Don Ewell, Art Hodes, Keith Ingham, Geoffrey Keezer, Humphrey Lyttelton, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Jay McShann, Don Menza, Sammy Price, Don Pullen, Frank Rosolino, Archie Shepp, Ralph Sutton, and Buddy Tate. Roster * Ian Bargh * Ed Bickert *Ruby Braff *Anthony Braxton *Doc Cheatham * Don Ewell *Jim Galloway *Sonny Greenwich * Herb Hall *Milt Hinton * Art Hodes * Steve Holt *Keith Ingha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pisces Calling
''Pisces Calling'' is an album by pianist Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1978 and was released by Trident Records. Recording and music The album was recorded at Blank Tapes Studio, New York City, in June 1978. The musicians were Mabern on piano, electric piano and synthesizer, Jamil Nasser on bass, and Walter Bolden on drums. All of the compositions were written by Mabern, with the exception of the title track, which was written by Keno Duke, a drummer with whom Mabern played in the 1970s. "Edward Lee" refers to trumpeter Lee Morgan, with whom Mabern played. On "Too Late to Fall Back Baby", Mabern uses a synthesizer to add horn sounds to his electric piano playing. Release and reception ''Pisces Calling'' was released by Trident Records on LP, and was reissued on CD in Japan in 2009. Crtiic Marc Myers wrote: "Throughout ''Pisces Calling'', Mabern's fingering is commanding and lyrical. His chords aren't merely played but hurled like fistfuls of darts, and there's an urgent snap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Straight Street (album)
''Straight Street'' is an album by pianist Harold Mabern. It was recorded in 1989 and released by DIW Records. Recording and music The album was recorded in New York in 1989. The personnel are Harold Mabern (piano), Ron Carter (bass), and Jack DeJohnette (drums). The final track is a solo piano piece entitled "Apab and Others", referencing fellow pianists Art Tatum, Phineas Newborn, Ahmad Jamal, and Bud Powell. Release and reception ''Straight Street'' was released by DIW Records. It was distributed in the United States by Columbia Records.Stewart, Zan (March 6, 1992"Bakery Throws a Benefit for Deejay Will Thornbury" ''Los Angeles Times''. The AllMusic review by Scott Yanow reported that, "The interplay between the musicians is impressive and Mabern is heard throughout in excellent form."Yanow, Scot"Harold Mabern: "Straight Street" AllMusic. Retrieved October 29, 2017. The album was a success in Japan and led to a resurgence of interest in Mabern. Track listing All comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Standards
Jazz standards are musical compositions that are an important part of the musical repertoire of jazz musicians, in that they are widely known, performed, and recorded by jazz musicians, and widely known by listeners. There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to be standards changes over time. Songs included in major fake book publications (sheet music collections of popular tunes) and jazz reference works offer a rough guide to which songs are considered standards. Not all jazz standards were written by jazz composers. Many are originally Tin Pan Alley popular songs, Broadway show tunes or songs from Hollywood musicals – the Great American Songbook. In Europe, jazz standards and "fake books" may even include some traditional folk songs (such as in Scandinavia) or pieces of ethnic music (such as gypsy melodies) that have been played with a jazz feel by well known jazz players. A commonly played song can only be considered a jazz standard if ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wayne Shorter
Wayne Shorter (born August 25, 1933) is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he joined Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and then co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader. Many Shorter compositions have become jazz standards, and his music has earned worldwide recognition, critical praise and commendation. Shorter has won 11 Grammy Awards. He is acclaimed for his mastery of the soprano saxophone since switching his focus from the tenor in the late 1960s and beginning an extended reign in 1970 as '' Down Beat''s annual poll-winner on that instrument, winning the critics' poll for 10 consecutive years and the readers' for 18. ''The New York Times Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group composer and a contender for greatest living i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Albums
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Harold Mabern Albums
Harold may refer to: People * Harold (given name), including a list of persons and fictional characters with the name * Harold (surname), surname in the English language * András Arató, known in meme culture as "Hide the Pain Harold" Arts and entertainment * Harold (film), ''Harold'' (film), a 2008 comedy film * ''Harold'', an 1876 poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson * ''Harold, the Last of the Saxons'', an 1848 book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton * ''Harold or the Norman Conquest'', an opera by Frederic Cowen * ''Harold'', an 1885 opera by Eduard Nápravník * Harold, a character from the cartoon List of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy characters#Harold, ''The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy'' *Harold & Kumar, a US movie; Harold/Harry is the main actor in the show. Places ;In the United States * Alpine, Los Angeles County, California, an erstwhile settlement that was also known as Harold * Harold, Florida, an unincorporated community * Harold, Kentucky, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sackville Records Live Albums
Sackville may refer to: People * Sackville (surname) *Sackville (given name) Places Australia *Sackville, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney *Sackville Ward, Melbourne, a residential precinct Canada *Sackville Island, Thompson Sound (British Columbia) *Sackville, New Brunswick *Sackville Parish, New Brunswick *Sackville (electoral district), Nova Scotia * Sackville River, Nova Scotia * Fort Sackville (Nova Scotia), a former British fortification built in 1749 Ireland *Sackville Street, a former name of O'Connell Street, Dublin United Kingdom *Sackville Street, London, England *Sackville Street, Manchester, England Music * Sackville Records, a Canadian jazz record label * Sackville (band), a band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada *A song on the 1990 album '' Life'' by Inspiral Carpets Other uses * HMCS ''Sackville'' (K181), a Canadian Second World War corvette, later a civilian research vessel, now a museum ship * Viscount Sackville, an extinct title in the Peerage of Great Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
