posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy
Category: Jazz Hall of Fame
JAZZ ICONIC TRUMPETER MARCUS BELGRAVE DEAD AT 78
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy “In order to get to the future, you have to go to the past,” he told the Free Press. I try to instill that you learn from the masters in your presence and go back and forward from there. In order to find yourself, you have to be…
NAT “KING” COLE WHEN ARE WE GOING TO SEE HIM ON THE SCREEN ??
With all the remakes, and first time Bio-pics being produced at an alarming rate, where is the quality to match the numbers that’s’ due out and those yet to be made? MY VOTE is for Nat King Cole, the Man, musician,singer, husband and parent. I want to know when will we see the NAT KING…
DALE FIELDER QUARTET 20 YEAR CELEBRATION JAZZ SPOKEN HERE!
posted by #@blues2jazzguy hipstersanctuary.com staffwriter JAZZ SPOKEN HERE is a combination of JAZZ and POETRY being performed by Jazz man Dale Fielder and his Quartet. also performing as special guest poet is longtime jazz promoter and journalist,Robert J. Carmack. DALE FIELDER QUARTET is celebrating its 20th year as a group playing together, and…
HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBASSADOR HERBIE HANCOCK LOOKING GOOD
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Its the birthday of the very man who once thought he would never reach the the greatness of an Oscar Peterson or a Thelonius Monk. Now 75,looking 40ish is the jazz icon who has accomplished every possible music, presidential and international recognition & Lifetime Achievement Award there is….
HIPSTER JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH: SABOR LATINA SABOR!!
posted by RobertJ.Carmack #@blues2jazzguy
FIVE REASONS I LOVE BILLIE: HAPPY 100th BILLIE HOLIDAY
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy I read the Billie Holiday story long before the glitzy Motown produced coming-out party for Diana Ross acting. I had heard her on records and seen her pictures in large magazines too. Life,Ebony,even Downbeat and Metronome. I was only in my early teens myself, but there were something that…
GIVE THE DRUMMER SUM’ JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH SERIES: ELVIN JONES
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Mr. Jones, a fixture of the Coltrane group from late 1960 to early 1966 and for more than three decades the leader of several noteworthy groups of his own, was the first great post-bebop percussionist. Building on the innovations of the jazz modernists Kenny Clarke and Max Roach, who…
WELCOME JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH: DRUMMER BIG SID CATLETT
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy First in our “Give The Drummer Sum Series” on iconic and jazz ‘s greatest Drummers in our opinion. BIG SID CATLETT Big Sid Catlett (1910 – 1951) “Big Sid” Catlett was one of the most flexible drummers in the history of jazz. On one hand,Catlett was skilled enough in…
HIPSTER SANCTUARY JAZZ APPRECIATION MONTH IN APRIL COVERAGE: GIVE THE DRUMS SUM’
posted by Robert J. Carmack #@blues2jazzguy Hipster Sanctuary.Com is promising some excellent coverage of Jazz in April and International Jazz Day Coming April 1st ! POETS, MUSICIANS, DANCERS and DRUMMERS , and The DRUMMERS, and Did we say the DRUMS! All month we will be celebrating Jazz and The people that keep it going, especially…
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