Category: Jazz
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Quincy Jones
About Quincy Delight Jones Jr. is an American record producer, songwriter, composer, arranger, and film and television producer. His career spans over 70 years, with 28 Grammy Awards won out of 80 nominations, and a Grammy Legend Award in 1992. Albums/Songs: The Great Wide World of Quincy Jones If You Go I Heard That!! Back…
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Wes Montgomery
About John Leslie “Wes” Montgomery was an American jazz guitarist. Montgomery was known for his unusual technique of plucking the strings with the side of his thumb and for his extensive use of octaves, which gave him a distinctive sound. Albums/Songs: Tequila Boss Guitar Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners The NDR Hamburg Studio Recordings Down…
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Roy Ayers
About Roy Ayers is an American vibraphonist, record producer and composer. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk. He is a key figure in the acid jazz movement, and has been…
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Cannonball Adderley
About Julian Edwin “Cannonball” Adderley was an American jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s. Albums/Songs: Nancy Wilson / Cannonball Adderley Alabama Concerto Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners Things Are Getting Better Presenting Cannonball Adderley Sophisticated Swing Cannonball Enroute In the Land of Hi-Fi Cannonball’s Bossa Nova Somethin’ Else…
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Chico Hamilton
About Foreststorn “Chico” Hamilton was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He came to prominence as sideman for Lester Young, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton became a bandleader, first with a quintet featuring the cello as a lead instrument, an unusual choice for a jazz band in the 1950s, and subsequently leading…
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Erroll Garner
About Erroll Louis Garner was an American jazz pianist and composer known for his swing playing and ballads. His instrumental ballad “Misty”, his best-known composition, has become a jazz standard. It was first recorded in 1956 with Mitch Miller and his orchestra, and played a prominent part in the 1971 motion picture Play Misty for…
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Acker Bilk
About Bernard Stanley “Acker” Bilk, was an English clarinetist and vocalist known for his breathy, vibrato-rich, lower-register style, and distinctive appearance – of goatee, bowler hat and striped waistcoat. Albums/Songs: Some of My Favorite Things Stranger on the Shore Cocktails for Two Mood for Love A Touch of Latin Mr. Acker Bilk Stranger on the…
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Ronny Jordan
About Robert Laurence Albert Simpson, known professionally as Ronny Jordan was a British guitarist and part of the acid jazz movement at the end of the twentieth century. Jordan described his music as “urban jazz”, a blend of jazz, hip-hop, and R&B. Albums/Songs: At Last After 8 Bad Brothers A Brighter Day Light to Dark…
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Chuck Mangione
About Charles Frank Mangione is an American flugelhorn player, trumpeter and composer. Albums/Songs: 70 Miles Young Alive! A & M Gold Series Everything for Love Eyes of the Veiled Temptress Greatest Hits The Hat’s Back 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: The Best of Chuck Mangione Love Notes Hey Baby! Disguise Chuck Mangione’s Finest Hour…
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Idris Muhammad
About Idris Muhammad was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. He had an extensive career performing jazz, funk, R&B, and soul music and recorded with musicians such as Ahmad Jamal, Lou Donaldson, Pharoah Sanders, Bob James, and Tete Montoliu. Albums/Songs: Stefan Pelzl’s Juju featuring Idris Muhammad You Ain’t No Friend of Mine! My Turn Legends…
