🎶 Embraceable You — A Song That Knows How to Hug Your Heart ❤️
#ProJazz #EmbraceableYou #GeorgeGershwin #IraGershwin #JazzStandards #JazzHistory
Happy Heavenly Birthday to Zoot Sims (October 29, 1925 – March 23, 1985)
ZOOT SIMS – PLAYS JOHNNY MANDEL “QUIETLY THERE”
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#ZootSims #tenorsaxophone #JohhnyMandel #jazzlegends #cooljazz #projazznet
Born On This Day in Jazz: October 29 🎷 youtu.be/2T2UmPUL8yc?si=_9b2… via @YouTube Today we honor legendary tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims and acclaimed jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger Neal Hefti. #BornOnThisDay #JazzHistory #ZootSims #NealHefti
NORRIS TURNEY – I LET A SONG
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🔥I Let a Song is a 1978 jazz 📀album by American 🎷saxophonist and flautist Norris Turney, recorded in Paris, France for the French label Black and Blue.
#NorrisTurney #altosax #projazznet #swing
Personnel:
Herb Geller – alto saxophone
Ray Brown – bass
Lawrence Marable – drums
Lou Levy – piano
Harold Land – tenor saxophone
Kenny Dorham – trumpet
"I don't play notes. I play stories."
~ Lester Young
Photo: by Ojon Mili. Time Inc., public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
#LesterYoung #jazzquotes #jazzlegends #projazznet
HERB GELLER – FIRE IN THE WEST
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🔥Fire in the West is a landmark 1957 hard bop jazz 💿album led by American alto 🎷saxophonist Herb Geller.
#HerbGeller
Born On This Day in Jazz: October 28 youtu.be/PFcm_oiP_9w?si=ZjZv… via @YouTube Today we honor the wide-range baritone vocalist and pianist Andy Bey, legendary Cuban composer and arranger Chico O'Farrill, and innovative American jazz bassist Glen Moore.
#BornOnThisDay
"The music is the message."
~ Art Blakey
Photo by Brian McMillen, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
#ArtBlakey #jazzquotes #jazzlegends #projazznet
ARILD ANDERSEN / PAOLO VINACCIA / TOMMY SMITH – LIVE AT BELLEVILLE
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Live At Belleville is a live jazz album by Norwegian bassist Arild Andersen, drummer Paolo Vinaccia, and tenor saxophonist Tommy Smith.
#ArildAbdersen #contemporaryjazz #ECM
📖 Few musicians changed jazz as dramatically as Bird. Which book best captures his story?
#CharlieParker #book
Happy Birthday to Philip Catherine 🎂🎂🎂
📸: Dirk Neven, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
#PhilipCatherine #jazzguitarist #projazznet
Happy Birthday to Arild Andersen! 🎂🎂🎂
📷: Birgit Fostervold, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
#ArildAndersen #jazzbassist #projazznet
PHILIP CATHERINE – TRANSPARENCE
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Transparence is a contemporary jazz album by Belgian jazz guitarist Philip Catherine, recorded in November 1986 and released in 1987.
#PhilipCatherine #guitar #postbop #projazznet
Steve Lacy – The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy
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The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy is the third album by Steve Lacy and the first to be released on the Candid label in 1961.
#SteveLacy #sopranosax #projazznet
🟥Oct 27
♦Pianist George Wallington born 1924 in Palmero, Italy.
♦Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy records The Straight Horn of, with drummer Roy Haynes, 1960.
♦Clarinetist Benny Goodman records Texas Tea Party featuring trombonist Jack Teagarden, 1933.
#TodayInJazzHistory
Born On This Day in Jazz: October 27 youtu.be/OeO9pPgKiWw?si=n4WP… via @YouTube Today we honor bebop piano pioneer George Wallington, jazz bassist Arild Andersen, Belgian jazz guitarist Philip Catherine, bebop vocalist Babs Gonzales, and big band leader Boyd Raeburn. #BornOnThisDay
TEDDY EDWARDS QUARTET - TEDDY’S READY
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Teddy’s Ready! is an album by saxophonist Teddy Edwards which was recorded in 1960 and released on the Contemporary label.
#TeddyEdwards #tenorsaxophone #hardbop #jazzlegends #projazznet
"Jazz is the only art form of the 20th century that was actually invented in America."
~ Ken Burns
Photo: LBJ Library Now, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
#KenBurns #jazzquotes #projazznet
VIJAY IYER TRIO – HISTORICITY
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Historicity is an album by pianist Vijay Iyer released on the ACT label in 2009.
#VijayIyer #piano #contemporaryjazz #projazznet
