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The Overbrook Jazz Band won their division in the Berklee College of Music High School Jazz Festival in 1996, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2008 and was one of the top high school jazz bands nationally in 1996. The Overbrook Marching Band Percussion Group Won the Tri-State Title of Best Percussion in the season 2004–05 with a score of 19.4/20.0, and won ...
Jazz: Label: Argo LP 637: Producer: Dave Usher: James ... (1958) James Moody (1959) Last Train from Overbrook is an album by saxophonist James Moody recorded in 1958 ...
Eric Robert Lewis (born May 13, 1973), popularly known as ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found cross-over success playing rock and pop music. He is known for his unconventional and physical playing style, which eschews a piano bench and includes reaching inside the piano lid to pull at the strings directly, as well as the creation that he calls "Rockjazz", a genre that "takes the ...
Members of some of these early groups included brothers William and Wilbert Hart, Ritchie Daniels, Randy Cain, and Jimmy Wroten, Stan Lathan, and Donald Cannon, friends who met at Overbrook High School in the 1960s. [2]
Overbrook Entertainment, Inc. is an American production company based in Culver City, California. [1] It was founded by partners Will Smith and James Lassiter in 1998, [2] around the same time production for Wild Wild West (1999) began. The name "Overbrook" is derived from Will Smith's neighborhood in West Philadelphia. The on-screen logo ...
Jazz drumming is the art of playing percussion, usually the drum set, in jazz styles ranging from 1910s-style Dixieland jazz to 1970s-era jazz-rock fusion and 1980s-era Latin jazz. Stylistically, this aspect of performance was shaped by its starting place, New Orleans, [ 6 ] as well as numerous other regions of the world, including other parts ...
The most influential jazz double bassists from the 1940s and 1950s include bassist Jimmy Blanton (1918–1942) (a member of the Duke Ellington band); Oscar Pettiford (1922–1960), who is considered by bassists and musicologists to be the first bebop bassist and the transitional link from the swing era to bebop.
James Moody (March 26, 1925 [1] – December 9, 2010) [2] was an American jazz saxophone and flute player and very occasional vocalist, playing predominantly in the bebop and hard bop styles.