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All of the Jazz Giants '58 musicians were recording mainstream swing music in the 1940s, but almost all had also gone on to play the modern jazz that developed after the World War II. [citation needed] The session was reissued in 1966 as Gerry's Time replacing "Chocolate Sundae" by a track from 1959. Jazz Giants '58 was remastered and released ...
Mark Braud (born June 21, 1973) is an American jazz trumpeter and band leader, who is a current leader of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band 's New Orleans band, and Mark Braud's Jazz Giants. He has been a sideman for dozens of groups including Harry Connick, Jr., Dr. Michael White 's Original Liberty Jazz Band, Henry Butler, and R&B singer Eddie Bo.
The Festival International de Jazz de Montréal (English: Montreal International Jazz Festival) is an annual jazz festival held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Montreal Jazz Fest holds the 2004 Guinness World Record as the world's largest jazz festival. Every year it features roughly 3,000 artists from 30-odd countries, more than 650 concerts ...
Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (PRLP 7150) is an album by Miles Davis, released on Prestige Records in 1959. Most of the material comes from a session on December 24, 1954, featuring Thelonious Monk and Milt Jackson, and had been previously released in the discontinued ten inch LP format. "Swing Spring" was originally released on the 10 ...
The Giants of Jazz is a live album of an English concert recorded at Victoria Theatre in London in two concerts on the same date, November 14, 1971, by Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Al McKibbon, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, and Kai Winding, who were billed as The Giants of Jazz. The album was released by the Atlantic.
Pres and Teddy. Pres and Teddy is a jazz album by The Lester Young and Teddy Wilson Quartet, recorded in January 1956. Originally released on LP by Verve in 1959, it has subsequently been reissued on CD by Verve, Universal Japan and Lonehill Jazz. The album includes six standard swing jazz songs with one original composition, "Pres Returns."
The Giants of Jazz. The Giants of Jazz was a jazz all-star group of the early 1970s which featured Art Blakey (drums), Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet), Al McKibbon (bass), Thelonious Monk (piano), Sonny Stitt (alto and tenor sax), and Kai Winding (trombone). [1] They recorded albums for Atlantic Records, Concord Records. and Emarcy Records. [2]
Drootin was born near Kyiv, Ukraine, and moved to Boston, Massachusetts, United States, [3] with his family when he was five. [1] His father played the clarinet, and two of his brothers and his nephew were musicians. He began playing drums professionally as a teenager. At age twenty, he toured with the Jess Stacy All-Stars, a band that included ...