Roy Haynes‘ ‘Out of the Afternoon’ is an album recorded on May 16, 1962, with Roland Kirk on tenor saxophone, Tommy Flanagan on piano and Henry Grimes on bass and released the same year by Impulse!
This day (May 16 , 1953), in Fontainebleau, France, died Jean Django Reinhardt, a virtuoso jazz adn gipsy guitarist. (more…)
Branford Marsalis‘ ‘The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born’ is an album recorded with Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts and Robert Hurs on May 16-18 and June 24, 1991 and released in October 1991 By Sony Music.
This day (May 16, 1944), in Panama, is born Billy Cobham, a Panamanian American jazz drummer. (more…)
This day (May 16, 2010), in Manhattan, New York, died Hank Jones, an American jazz pianist and composer. (more…)
Billy Cobham‘s ‘Spectrum’ is his debut album recorded on May 14, 15 & 16, 1973 and released on October 1, 1973 by Atlantic.
‘Jazz at Massey Hall’ by Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach a.k.a. ‘The Quintet’ is a live album recorded on May 15, 1953 and released the same year In 1953 by Debut.
As we wish, today, American saxophonist, Jay Beckenstein a Happy Birthday, the time has come to playlist the ‘BESTS’ of his band : Spyro Gyra (more…)
Bobby McFerrin‘s ‘Spirityouall’ is his twenty-third album ‘re-imagining Americana with spirituals and original songs’ released on May 14, 213 by Sony Classical/Masterworks.
Miles Davis‘ ‘Seven Steps to Heaven’ is his eighth studio album recorded April 16-17 and May 14, 1963 and released the same year In 1963 by Columbia Records..
