Jazz Flashes

A companion site to 'The Vintage Bandstand,' this is a series of brief posts about all kinds of good jazz, written and published by Anton Garcia-Fernandez in Martin, Tennessee, U.S.A.

Showing posts with label Quincy Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quincy Jones. Show all posts
Monday, July 10, 2017

Billy Taylor and Quincy Jones's Jazzy Take on My Fair Lady, 1957

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Though perhaps he isn't as well remembered today as his achievements deserve, the career of North Carolina piano man Billy Taylor was...
Friday, April 14, 2017

Billy Eckstine & Quincy Jones at Basin Street East, 1961

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One of the smoothest and most successful jazz and pop vocalists of the 1940s and '50s, Billy Eckstine was also one of the most forwar...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Drummer Man: Gene Krupa on Verve, 1956

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More than merely a jazz drummer, Chicago-born Gene Krupa was a drumming showman, one of the first swing musicians to bring attention to h...
Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Coleman Hawkins Quartet: Today and Now, 1962

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In his fan-club website, Swedish pianist Jan Lundgren recently reviewed one of Coleman Hawkins 's late-career albums, the often under...
Friday, December 4, 2015

Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie, July 1963

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My friend and colleague, Dan Nappo , recently drove up to St. Louis and surprised me by bringing me back a copy of Ella and Basie! , a sup...
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