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FLETCHER HENDERSON 2007-06-07 11:44:00 Fletcher Henderson (1897-1952) pianist and leading of orchestra went a key musician for the development of the great orchestra or which it is spoil it, the "Bigbands". Sprouted in Cuthberg (Georgia), on 18th December 1897 , Henderson proceeded from a suitable family. Your mother, piano of teacher, started you soon in the instrument and in 1920 it moves to New York to finish your studies as chemist. Up to then your unique musical interest was the classical music. One time there it got an employment in the editorial of music " pastures Handy Music Company " and thanks to the abandon of one of your directing, got is director musical of the company. For that time, it were the singers of |blues| whom were the rage and the jazz was somewhat collateral for the and for the city. It had the opportunity of carrying out a turns around with the Ethel Waters singer, in the summer of 1921 and on the back engraved to the piano near the great Bessie Smith. at the beginning of 1923 already had a go
JOE HENDERSON 2007-06-07 11:44:00 Joe Henderson (1937-2001) maybe is the tenor saxophone player but important of the sprung up jazz after the wake of John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins. During your youth, the saxophone player kept a constant activity and of brilliant results in formations and very solid and diverse groups as when it was with the pianist, Herbie Hancock, or Donald Byrd. Your style, elegant and discrete and your studies in the "Kentucky State College" and in the "Wayne State University" , they served to model to a musician it is bound to be somebody important in the scene of the jazz. Little musical of jazz will be able to wield a so firm letter of introduction and of quality cornbread as when Joe Henderson the studies of recording are gone into to engrave in the Blue stamp notes a masterpiece of immortal jazz as went the regular of your first supposed album significantly " pays One ". Scarcely two monthes before that historical recording, Joe Henderson had entered for first time in a hall of recording
COLEMAN HAWKINS 2007-06-07 11:43:00 The first and but fundamental chapters of the history of the tenor sax in jazz were written of fist and letter by Coleman Hawkins. It went fruit of a long and nice evolution of an instrument that adapted perfectly for the musical language of the jazz. Your family was distinguished suitable and from child began study piano. With seven years studied violoncello and with nine began to learn to blow the tenor |saxo|, an instrument that then was not used in the jazz and that in the commercial orchestras is blown with a technique that it remembered too much to those of the musicians of circus. In that time starts in the "Washburn College" of Kansas City, studies of classical music that will complete in Chicago, city to the one that it is moved with your family in 1919 and where has the opportunity of hearing for first jazz time. make one's start professional in 1920 in an orchestra of the region of Kansas City, and a year following is contracted for the famous singer of |blues|, Ma
ROY HAYNES 2007-06-07 11:43:00 to ends of the fourties and principles of the fifty, Roy Haynes had the class of apprenticeship that constitutes the sleep of any current musician: to sit in the position of |baterista| and it accompanies to the great Charlie Parker. Now, fifty years after, and after having touched with all big of the jazz: Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis, or Bud Powell, still places your recordings in the top of the lists of the specialized reviews in jazz. This veteran |baterista|, began your professional pace in the |bigbands| of Frankie Newton and Louis Russell (1945-1947) and the following step was to touch between 1947 and 1949 with the teacher the tenor |saxo|, Lester Young. Between 1949 and 1952, am part of the quintet of Charlie Parker and from that privileged |vio| stool goes in the big figures of the |bebop| and learn of them/it. It accompanied to the Sarah Vaughan singer, for the circuits of the jazz in the United Stated between 1953 and 1958 and when executed your work engraves with Thelo
HAMPTON HAWES 2007-06-07 11:42:00 The pianist and composer, Hampton Hawes approached the music through the church by listening to |gospel| near your father, shepherd of the |baptista| church of your city. A sister from you ten major years that he, taught you the handling of the piano and to the 16 years already |obtuvo| the professional identity card of musician. In 1946 , to the time that finished your studies in the Polytecnic High School of the angels, already |obtuvo| your first contract in the orchestra of Jay McNeely and to the 19 years had an unforgettable experience when found to him touching with Charlie Parker and Howard McGhee they were working as draws in the angels. as of that one experience was bent on adapt your form to blow to the piano to as you made it Bird in the high |saxo|. Monthes but late it enters the orchestra of Wardell Gray a tenor saxophone player extraordinary, it blows also with Red Norvo, Dexter Gordon and Teddy Edwards. During a concert was listened for Shorty Rogers who called you
JOHNNY HARTMAN 2007-06-07 11:42:00 John Maurice Hartman, true name of the extraordinary singer of jazz, Johnny Hartman, had in your time a relative bad luck. Protagonist of one of the but big albums of vocal jazz of all times near the brilliant teacher of the |saxo|, John Coltrane, impels! 1963, the quality of the disk persecuted you during all your run and never engraves a better disk again. That one album, it model of syntony between singing and accompaniment, contains the best vocal version of all times of the Lush Life classic, persecuted you during all your later run. A run it begins as singer of the Earl Hines orchestra halfway trough the fourties and of the |trompetista|, Dizzy Gillespie in 1947. From that time on it supported an erratic run, went a |intimista| baritone it tempered the school of the great Billy Eckstine by dedicating completely to the ballad. The first disk to your name was engraved in 1955 for the select and small "Bethlehem" stamp and regulared to him " Songs From Heart |the| " , near
ANTONIO HART 2007-06-07 11:41:00 After a classic formation, the high saxophone player, Antonio Hart ( Baltimore, 1968 ), derives near to the world of the jazz and perfects studies with Jimmy Heath in the Queens College, it graduates in the university of Berkeley and engrave your first disk in 1991, going in |codirigir| near Roy Hargrove one of the more important groups of the emergent wave of the contemporary musicians heirs of the |hardbop|. In a line it goes of Charlie Parker until Sonny Stitt, Hart ends in renewing proposals of |bopper| with intense harmonic reformulacioneses: not other is the inaugurated trajectory for musicians as the Marsalis brothers, Herbie Hancock or Keith Jarrett and that constitutes one of the main currents of the current jazz. So us tastes it your present disk " You Know I Care, your second album, in which still the traditions of the |blues| and the already mentioned of the |hard|-|bop|. Your third disk as leader of a formation is from your title, For Cannnonball Woody |and|, a stateme
STEFON HARRIS 2007-06-07 11:40:00 In 1998 , Stefon Harris, a virtuous person and young |vibrafonista|, did your |discográfico| debut as leader in the album engraved for the book of legends seals Blue notes, supposed: " to Cloud net of Dust ", an extraordinary disk to be the debut of a musical youth. Influenced, as not, for the great Lionel Hampton and reflected in the mirror of one of your teachers, the extraordinary, Bobby Hutcherson, Stefon Harris, also manages to him very comfortably placed in the tasks of leader. Your band includes to the pianist, Jason dwell, the bear, Tarus spread, the high |saxo|, Greg Osby, the shoe shop, Eric Harland, Steve roasts, to the trombone and Gary Thomas, to the high flute. Your still paper brief but fruitful run, has being staked out of important happenings, as went the collaboration with the singer, Cassandra Wilson, in the homage disk to Miles Davis, supposed: "Traveling Miles" or in the collaboration with the saxophone player, Steve Coleman in the album, " The Sonic Lengu
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