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The 8 Legged Monster was an American jazz band, active from 2007 until 2015, and based in San Francisco, California. They wrote, played, and arranges music in various jazz, bebop, free jazz and big band genres. The band's founder, leader and guitarist Mike Irwin Johnson writes/arranges all the music. [1]
The Hot Club's first album, 1998's Swingin' Stampede is a collection of standards, fiddle tunes, and classic Western swing songs, including two written by Bob Wills. Their 1999 follow-up album, Tall Tales, includes original songs by Smith and James, including Darling You And I Are Through by James, and Emily and When I Lost You by Smith, as well as more Western Swing standards by Bob Wills ...
On June 5, 1962, there was a special night out for 300 graduates of Bellevue High School class of 1962. It began at the Olympic Hotel, where they were entertained by Carol Channing, the Brothers Four, and the Four Preps, next to the new Elks Club on Lake Union, where they danced the night away to the music of the Great Excelsior Jazz Band, who at the time had a nightly gig at the West Side Inn ...
His Savoy recordings during 1945–46 included Blow Mr. Dexter, Dexter's Deck, Dexter's Minor Mad, Long Tall Dexter, Dexter Rides Again, I Can't Escape From You,and Dexter Digs In. He returned to Los Angeles in late 1946 and in 1947 was leading sessions for Ross Russell 's Dial label ( Mischievous Lady, Lullaby in Rhythm, The Chase, Iridescence ...
X-Legged Sally (XLS) is a Belgian avant-garde rock/jazz-band founded in 1988 by composer Peter Vermeersch, and disbanded in 1997.They were one of the first bands from Belgium to combine a set of very different musical styles (jazz, rock, improvisation and classical), becoming a starting point for the Belgian indie music scene that developed in the nineties.
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 ...
Tal's incredible speed, long, weaving lines, rhythmic excitement, highly developed harmonic sense, and enormous reach (both physical and musical) have enabled him to create a style that clearly stands apart from the rest."
It was a typical New Orleans jazz band in instrumentation, consisting of trumpet, clarinet, and trombone backed by a rhythm section. The original New Orleans jazz style leaned heavily on collective improvisation , in which the three horns together played the lead: the trumpet played the main melody , and the clarinet and trombone played ...