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The 9th National Jazz & Blues Festival held at Plumpton in 1969. Initially called The National Jazz Festival, it was a showcase for British and US jazz and was held at Richmond Athletic Ground in the sedate London suburb of Richmond. The first festival took place on 26-27 August 1961, and the headline acts included Johnny Dankworth and Chris ...
Maymont is a 100-acre (0.156 sq mi) Victorian estate and public park in Richmond, Virginia. It contains Maymont Mansion, now a historic house museum , an arboretum , an Italian and Japanese garden , a carriage collection, native wildlife exhibits, a nature center, and a petting zoo .
Baker recorded a number of sides, probably eight, in January and March 1929 in Richmond, Indiana for Gennett Records. He played a twelve-string guitar in a frailing style to back his strong vocals. [6] [7] Barbecue Bob (September 11, 1902 – October 21, 1931). Guitarist and singer. [8] Ed Bell (May 1905 – 1960, 1965 or 1966).
In late 1979 Pullen, Adams, and Richmond were booked to play as a quartet for a European tour of a few weeks' duration. Pullen invited Cameron Brown to join them on bass. They were asked to bill themselves as a "Mingus group", but not wanting to be identified as mere copyists, they declined and performed as the George Adams/Don Pullen Quartet.
The 1958 Down Beat review was mildly negative, referring to Jamal as playing "cocktail music"; the reviewer acknowledged Jamal's skill and influence on other jazz musicians such as Miles Davis, but wrote, "The trio's chief virtue is an excellent, smooth light but flexible beat", and "Throughout the music is kept emotionally, melodically, and organizationally innocuous."
In September 2002, Yanow was interviewed on-camera by CNN about the Monterey Jazz Festival [5] and wrote an in-depth biography on Dizzy Gillespie for AllMusic.com. [1] He authored 12 books on jazz (including 2022's Life Through the Eyes of a Jazz Journalist), more than 900 liner notes for CDs, and more than 20,000 reviews of jazz recordings. [6]
It brings together tracks from performances by Coltrane's quartet at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, Rhode Island on July 7, 1963, and July 2, 1965. The 1963 tracks feature Roy Haynes on drums, substituting for Elvin Jones , who was a patient at the Lexington Narcotics Hospital/Clinical Research Center in Lexington, Kentucky from mid ...
The festival's origins date to the Beaulieu Jazz Festival (1956–1961) which became the National Jazz Festival in 1961 (The National Jazz and Blues Festival in 1963) and settled in Reading in 1971. In 1999 a second leg was added at Leeds. The following is a list of acts that have played at the festival.