This week In Jazz Legends (Special Pianists) 16/52
Earl Hines, Don Pullen, Count Basie, Roland Hanna, Keith Jarrett, Mccoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Terry Riley
Earl Hines, Don Pullen, Count Basie, Roland Hanna, Keith Jarrett, Mccoy Tyner, Chick Corea, Oscar Peterson, Wynton Kelly, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, Terry Riley
‘Starring Sammy Davis, Jr.’ is his debut studio album recorded on April 18, 1955 and released the same year by Decca.
Jean-Luc Ponty‘s ‘Live’ is a live album recorded during December 1978 while on tour in the US and released on April 18, 1979 by Atlantic.
‘Michel Petrucciani & NHOP’ is a collaboration album between Petrucciani, the pianist and Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, the bassist recorded on April 18, 1994 at the Copenhagen Jazzhouse and released on March 24, 2009 by Dreyfus Records.
Count Basie‘s ‘The Chairman of the Board’ is a studio album recorded with his orchestra and released on April 18, 1959 by Roulette.
This day (April 17, 1942), in Zaandam, the Netherlands, is born Donald Hantopher ‘Han’ Bennink, a Dutch jazz drummer and percussionist. (more…)
Dee Dee Bridgewater‘s ‘Red Earth’ is an album (subtitled ‘A Malian Journey‘) released on April 17, 2007 by Universal.
Thelonious Monk‘s ‘Thelonious Himself’ is a studio album (almost all solo) recorded on April 12 and 16, 1957 and released the same year by Riverside.