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Bop drummer/composer/lyricist Artt Frank is best known for his long-term association with trumpeter immortal Chet Baker, with whom he worked for well over twenty years. Artt has also been associated with an impressive list of jazz luminaries over the past fifty years including the great Charlie Parker, Tadd Dameron, Dexter Gordon, Sonny Stitt, Miles Davis, Bud Powell, singer Billie Holiday and many others.
Is best known for his versatility and ardent love of working in various musical settings. He began his career at the age of 18 with the Stan Kenton Orchestra......
Stan Levey, one of the strongest drummers of his generation, was born in Philadelphia in 1926. He was one of the very few white drummers involved in the formative years of bebop and accepted as one of bop's most important drummers, along with Kenny Clarke and Max Roach. He played in Philly with Dizzy Gillespie's group in 1942, at the tender age of 16. Soon after he went to New York, where he and Dizzy worked on 52nd Street with Charlie Parker and Oscar Pettiford.
Born in 1919, Art Blakey began his musical career, as did many jazz musicians, in the church. The foster son of a devout Seventh Day Adventist Family, Art learned the piano as he learned the Bible, mastering both at an early age.
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He was born with the name Joseph Rudolph Jones in the city of Philadelphia on July 15, 1923. His mother, a piano teacher taught him the basics in music. In his formative years he also studied the drums with drummers the likes of Cozy Cole and Charles Wilcoxon, receiving valuable advise from Art Blakey and a then younger Max Roach.
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Will was a member of the internationally acclaimed group Yellowjackets for over nine years, recording ten records garnering an amazing fourteen Grammy nominations and accolades that would fill as many pages.
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Like most young drummers, Billy Kilson began his career in his mother's kitchen with her pots and pans. Billy's love for the drums began to grow as he grew. Pots and pans, twigs and sticks were used to create a beat. Seeing her son's interest in music, Billy's mother enrolled him in trumpet lessons and later he switched to trombone. His yearning for the drums continued and finally, for his sixteenth birthday he received his first drum set. The gift was conditional upon his continuance of good grades. He kept his part of the bargain and graduated with honors while taking advantage of every free moment to pursue his passion for the drums.
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NEW GK CDs & VIDEOs "Gene Krupa: In Transition, 1949-1952" presents over an hour of rare Krupa music from one of the most crucial periods in his musical history. Though the big band era was over, Gene kept his going until 1951. On this CD, we have what were among Gene's final big band sessions from 1949 and 1950, and the first session of the "reconstituted" Gene Krupa Jazz Trio with Charlie Ventura and Teddy Napoleon from 1952.
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Paul Motian was born in Philadelphia in 1931 and from the age of two, he grew up in Providence, Rhode Island. His first musical attraction was the guitar. As he explains to Downbeat "because I liked cowboy movies - the guy puts his guitar around his neck, strums, sings - that looks like fun, I thought, 'I want to do that'". But his musical interests switched to the drums: he soon graviated to a neighbourhood drummer by the age of 12 he was taking his first lessons.
Paul played in school bands until his high school graduation in 1949. He played local gigs around Providence before catching on with a band that toured New England playing stock big band arrangements. But he was as well listening to bebop innovators like Charlie Parker, Max Roach, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie.
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Alvin Leroy Queen was born in New York on August 16, 1950. He started playing drums when he was eight years old: he would shine shoes to pay for drum lessons. Still on his early 'teens, he would lie about his age to get into the Jazz clubs, and received on stage tuition by Art Blakey, Philly Joe Jones, Art Taylor or Elvin Jones. Alvin met John Coltrane when he was twelve, and Horace Silver when he was fourteen, and was already enough of a player to be allowed to sit in with them.
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Internationally acclaimed percussionist and composer, Max Roach received a fellowship from the MacArthur foundation in 1988. This prestigious fellowship is awarded annually to extraordinarily talented individuals who discover, create and contribute to American scientific and cultural life. A pioneer in the development of contemporary American music, his innovations include revolutionizing the use of the multiple percussion set. During the course of his distinguished career, Mr Roach has collaborated with such diverse artists as Alvin Ailey, Sam Shepard, Dizzy Gillespie, the Boston Pops and John Williams, Charlie Parker, Cecil Taylor, and the Kodo drummers of Japan.
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The music of Damon Short combines the best elements of the jazz tradition and the exploratory spirit of the avant-garde. Short's compositions feature intricate ensemble writing which showcases the distinctive talents of each improviser.....
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For the last 20 years, Dave Weckl has maintained a reputation amongst his fans and peers as one of the very finest musicians on the contemporary music scene today. Born in St. Louis Missouri, January 8th, 1960, to a mother who loved music and a father who played the piano as a hobby, Dave started playing drums around the age of 8. During his high school years he received many awards from the NAJE (National Association of Jazz Educators) for his outstanding performances in his high school's competition winning jazz band, and was involved with numerous local groups from a very early age while studying with St. Louis area teachers Bob Matheny and Joe Buerger.
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