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His song "Jingle Bell Rock", which was released in the late fall of 1957, produced by Paul Cohen [6] was a big hit [7] and was being played and danced to on Dick Clark's teen dance show American Bandstand by mid-December of that year. It also re-emerged in four out of the next five years, and sold so well that it repeated each time as a top hit ...
Wilton "Bogey" Gaynair (11 January 1927 – 13 February 1995) was a Jamaican-born jazz musician, whose primary instrument was the tenor saxophone. "Blue Bogey", "Kingston Bypass" "Debra", and "Wilton Mood" are among his better known songs. [1]
Gary Giddins stated that the song "set the music world on its ear" and that it was "part of the funky, back to roots movement that Horace Silver, Mingus, and Ray Charles helped, in different ways, to fan". [5] Jon Hendricks later added lyrics, [5] and the subsequent recording by Lambert, Hendricks & Ross made the song even more popular. [6]
Wilton Lewis Felder (August 31, 1940 – September 27, 2015) was an American saxophone and bass player, and is best known as a founding member of the Jazz Crusaders, later known as The Crusaders. Felder played bass on the Jackson 5 's hits " I Want You Back " and " ABC " and on Marvin Gaye 's " Let's Get It On ".
He joined the RAF as a musician playing tenor sax. [4] After demobilisation, he played with a few Scottish bands before moving to London in the mid-1950s. [ 5 ] He was a member of Buddy Featherstonhaugh 's quintet between 1956 and 1957, [ 4 ] together with Kenny Wheeler .
Bobby Helms couldn't have asked for a better first year in the music business. Blessed with a soft nasal twang that bore a resemblance to Webb Pierce, one of the reigning kings of country music in ...
Round Midnight is a soundtrack album by Herbie Hancock featuring music recorded for Bertrand Tavernier's film Round Midnight released in 1986 on Columbia Records.The album features performances by Hancock, trumpeter Freddie Hubbard, bassist Ron Carter, drummer Tony Williams, vocalist Bobby McFerrin, tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon, bassist Pierre Michelot, drummer Billy Higgins, guitarist John ...
The Jazz Series was a Scottish Television series produced between 1979 and 1981. [1] Each of the four series had a single presenter and a house band with whom guest musicians would play each week.