by Bman | Mar 10, 2013 | Uncategorized
Don Abney (John Donald Abney; March 10, 1923 in Baltimore, Maryland โ January 20, 2000 in Los Angeles, California) was an American jazz pianist. Abney studied piano and french horn at the Manhattan School of Music, and he played the latter in an Army band during...
by Bman | Feb 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887 โ February 12, 1983) was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music. In 1921, Blake and long-time collaborator Noble Sissle wrote the Broadway musical Shuffle Along, one of the first Broadway...
by Bman | Dec 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
For a player who rates only three lines of biographical information in one major jazz reference book, Jerome Darr had an incredibly versatile and prolific career, showing up on sessions from blues to bebop and even strumming a few arpeggios behind Frankie Lymon & the...
by Bman | Dec 4, 2012 | Uncategorized
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 โ December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, guitarist, recording engineer, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrรจte...
by Bman | Nov 3, 2012 | Uncategorized
Joe Turner (November 3, 1907 โ July 21, 1990) was an American jazz pianist. Joseph H. Turner was born in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. One of the masters of the stride piano style associated with Harlem, New York City, Turner got his first big musical break in...
