We remember Horace Parlan. ‘Movin’ & Horacin”
This day (February 23, 2017), in Korsor, Denmark, died Horace Parlan,an American hard bop and post-bop piano player. (more…)
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This day (February 23, 2017), in Korsor, Denmark, died Horace Parlan,an American hard bop and post-bop piano player. (more…)
This day (February 23, 1997), in Daly City, California, died Anthony Tillmon ‘Tony’ Williams, an American drummer and pioneer of jazz fusion. (more…)
‘At Carnegie Hall’ by The Dave Brubeck Quartet is a live album recorded on February 22, 1963 and released the same year by Columbia.
Abbey Lincoln‘s ‘Straight Ahead’ is an album recorded on February 22, 1961 with Eric Dolphy, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach and others and released the same year by Candid.
John Coltrane‘s ‘Interstellar Space’ is a studio album recorded on February 22, 1967 and released on September 1974 by Impulse!.
Art Blakey‘s ‘Drum Suite’ is an album recorded on December 13, 1956 and February 22, 1957 with The Jazz Messengers and the Art Blakey Percussion Ensemble and released the same year by Columbia.
‘Bill Evans at Town Hall’ is a live album recorded on February 21, 1966, at The Town Hall in New York City with his Trio and released the same year by Verve.
This day (February 21, 2015), in Pine Bluff, Arkansas , died Clark Terry, an American trumpeter. (more…)
Art Blakey‘s ‘A Night at Birdland Vol. 1’ is an album recorded on February 21, 1954, with Clifford Brown, Lou Donaldson, Horace Silver and Curly Russell and released in July 1954 By Blue Note.
McCoy Tynerr’s ‘Soliloquy’ is a solo album recorded on February 19, 20 & 21, 1991 and released the same year by Blue Note.
This day (February 19, 1955), in Oakland, California, is born David Murray, an American musician who plays mainly tenor saxophone and sometimes bass clarinet. (more…)