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In March 1999, Crosby expanded the core lineup of Jazz Jamaica to formal big-band status by adding a number of guest soloists including Denys Baptiste, Andy Sheppard, Soweto Kinch, Juliet Roberts, Orphy Robinson, Guy Barker, Kevin Robinson, Ashley Slater, Annie Whitehead, and Alex Wilson, resulting in the Jazz Jamaica All Stars, a 20-piece band ...
In 2002, Crosby won the award for Best Band for his 20-piece big band, Jazz Jamaica All Stars. In the same year, he was honoured by the Festival Directorate of the Ocho Rios Jazz Festival, Jamaica, for Consistent Contribution to Music in Jamaica, [14] thereby securing a place in the Jamaica Jazz Hall of Fame. In 2006, Jazz Jamaica was given the ...
He toured Europe with The Jamaica All Stars along with Justin Hinds, Johnny "Dizzy" Moore and Sparrow Martin. [6] He also played in a backing band for Jimmy Cliff. On recordings, he is credited under many different names, including: Noel "Scully" Simms, Noel "Skully" Simms, Scully, Scully Simms, Skullie, Skully, Skully Simms, Zoot "Scully ...
Jamaican male jazz musicians (8 P) Pages in category "Jamaican jazz musicians" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Carlos Malcolm composed the music for the tropical scenes, which were filmed in Jamaica (as he writes about in Carlos Malcolm: A Personal History of Post-war Jamaican Music: New Orleans Jazz ...
She has toured internationally, recently as guest vocalist with Jazz Jamaica, and as part of Women in Jazz and the Jamaica Big Band. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In November 2012 she received a Caribbean Hall of Fame Award from the Caribbean Development for the Arts, Sports and Culture Foundation.
The 21st CGI Rochester International Jazz Festival will be rich with funk, jazz, roots Americana, international flavors, and plenty of other music. Rochester jazz fest lineup: From big names to ...
Alphonso Son "Dizzy" Reece (born 5 January 1931) [1] is a Jamaican-born jazz trumpeter. [2] Reece emerged within London's burgeoning bebop jazz scene during the 1950s [3] and went on to become a leading proponent of hard bop jazz in New York City.