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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 ...
Tom Browne (born October 30, 1954) [2] is an American jazz trumpeter. He rose to prominence with Sonny Fortune and had major hits in 1980 and 1981: the No. 1 Billboard magazine R&B single " Funkin' for Jamaica (N.Y.) " and the No. 4 R&B single " Thighs High (Grip Your Hips and Move) ".
May 4 "Cigar Lounge" Big Mike Hart featuring Boney James [18] May 11 [19] May 18 "The Way She Moves" Michael Broening [20] May 25 "Ocean Breeze" Tim Bowman [21] June 1 "Anything" Norman Brown [22] June 8 [23] June 15 [24] June 22 "Take It or Leave It" Le Sonic featuring Lauran Beluzo [25] June 29 "Anything" Norman Brown [26] July 6 [27] July 13
2021 Issue date Song Artist(s) Ref. January 2 "Better Days Ahead" Gerald Albright [1]January 9 [2]January 16 [3]January 23 "Blue Moon" Skinny Hightower
The band reinterpreted some of their older instrumentals—which had been hits in the United Kingdom—stretching them out and giving them a jazzier sound, with longer guitar and horn solos. [7] [8] [9] Ernest Ranglin played guitar on some of the tracks. [10] The title track was written in the early 1960s. [11]
This is an A–Z list of jazz tunes which have been covered by multiple jazz artists. It includes the more popular jazz standards, lesser-known or minor standards, and many other songs and compositions which may have entered a jazz musician's or jazz singer's repertoire or be featured in the Real Books, but may not be performed as regularly or as widely as many of the popular standards.
He left Jamaica in 1954 for a jazz gig at the Zanzibar Club in Nassau, Bahamas. He returned to Jamaica in June 1962, and began playing regular jazz sessions around Kingston. Record producer Coxsone Dodd searched for jazz players around Kingston and was impressed by McCook's playing. Tommy McCook heard some ska, but initially resisted Dodd's ...