"they get together for dinner. Francine is tempted, heads toward the stage door exit, but at the last moment changes her mind. Jimmy, waiting on the sidewalk, realizes he has been stood up and heads off down the street, accompanied by the song he has written—the ""Theme from ""New York, New York"". The theme song of the film, ""Theme from ""New York, New York"", found its own success when Frank Sinatra recorded a cover version of it in 1980. The song became a hit, and both Sinatra's and Minnelli's versions have become closely associated with Manhattan in New York City."
"Pecora (trombone), Raymond Burke (clarinet, saxophone), and Tony Parenti (clarinet, saxophone) were regular guests at the Boswell home. The sisters were particularly influenced by the cornetist Emmett Louis Hardy, another friend of Clydie's, whose well-documented talent and skill helped shape the sisters' knowledge of jazz harmony, syncopation, and improvisation. Hardy and Clydie both died young and unrecorded, Hardy of tuberculosis at age 22 and Clydie of flu-related complications at 18. After becoming interested in jazz, Vet took up the banjo and Connie the saxophone. Martha continued playing the piano but focused on the rhythms and idioms of ragtime and hot"
"Joanne Brackeen Joanne Brackeen (born Joanne Grogan; July 26, 1938) is an American jazz pianist and music educator. Joanne Grogan was born in Ventura, California and attended the Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. She was a fan of pop pianist Frankie Carle before she became enamored with the music of Charlie Parker. In the 1950s she performed with Dexter Gordon, Teddy Edwards, and Charles Brackeen. She and Brackeen married and moved to New York City in 1965. She performed with Chick Corea, Freddie McCoy, and Ornette Coleman. She played with Joe Henderson (1972–75) and Stan Getz (1975–77) before leading her"
"Frank Lowe Frank Lowe (June 24, 1943 – September 19, 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer. Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone at the age of 12. As an adult he moved to San Francisco, where he met Ornette Coleman. Coleman suggested Lowe visit to New York City, which Lowe did, and he began playing with Sun Ra and then Alice Coltrane, with whom he recorded in 1971. Unusually for the jazz culture at the time, Lowe had had no extended apprenticeship or slow paying-of-dues: one moment he was an"
"Franz Jackson Franz Jackson (November 1, 1912 – May 6, 2008) was a saxophonist and clarinetist of the Chicago jazz school. Jackson was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on November 1, 1912. ""He received his first lessons on saxophone from Jerome Don Pasquall and later studied at the Chicago Musical College."" Early in his career, Jackson played with Albert Ammons's band. For much of the 1930s Jackson was based in Chicago. He toured with Fletcher Henderson in 1938, then played with Roy Eldridge's band in New York, and in 1940 toured with Fats Waller and then with Earl Hines. Following"
"band was able to push its music to the ""height of its popularity"", and with that came ""Birdland."" ""Birdland"" served as a tribute to the famous New York City jazz club that hosted many famous jazz musicians, which operated on Broadway from 1949 through 1965. This was the club, which he frequented almost daily, where Zawinul heard Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, and Miles Davis. It was also where he met his wife, Maxine. Looking back, Zawinul claimed, ""The old Birdland was the most important place in my life."" The song was also named in honor of the man"
"Lovano signed with Blue Note and became a such a huge name in the jazz world. Recorded at the Amiens International Jazz Festival in France on May 5, 1989, Worlds finds the saxman leading a group that includes his wife, Judi Silvano, on vocals, Bill Frisell on guitar, Tim Hagans on trumpet, Gary Valente on trombone, Henri Texier on bass, and Paul Motian on drums. Lovano excels on the tenor and soprano saxes as well as the obscure alto clarinet, and Silvano's adventurous improvisations demonstrate that she was already quite distinctive in 1989; nor are Frisell's meaty solos anything to"
"experience, rather than a specific study for the Deroudille work. During the months of autumn, following his demobilization in 1915, Gleizes married Juliette Roche and moved to New York. There they were met by Carlos Salzedo, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Crotti (who would eventually marry Suzanne Duchamp). Marcel Duchamp had emigrated to New York several months earlier after being judged physically unfit for his service in the military. Shortly after his arrival, Gleizes, accompanied by Salzedo, frequented jazz clubs in Harlem. With all it had to offer, New York had a strong impact on the artist's"
"to get away from and expand his music. During this time there was a movement for big bands and orchestras. Prima hired Louis Masinter on the string bass, a New Orleans native. He fired McAdams so that he could have Frank Federico, his childhood friend, play the guitar. With all of his success, his marriage back in New Orleans had already failed. Louise and Prima were divorced in 1936 because Prima was found cheating on Louise back in 1933, in the French Quarter. A few months later, he was involved in a new fling with Alma Ross, an actress. Prima"
"Bang With Don Cherry With Joe McPhee Frank Lowe Frank Lowe (June 24, 1943 – September 19, 2003) was an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and composer. Born and brought up in Memphis, Tennessee, Lowe took up the tenor saxophone at the age of 12. As an adult he moved to San Francisco, where he met Ornette Coleman. Coleman suggested Lowe visit to New York City, which Lowe did, and he began playing with Sun Ra and then Alice Coltrane, with whom he recorded in 1971. Unusually for the jazz culture at the time, Lowe had had no extended apprenticeship or"
"the Chicago Jazz Archive contains his papers and oral history material"". With Lil Armstrong With James Carter With Art Hodes With Laura Rucker With Edith Wilson Main source: Franz Jackson Franz Jackson (November 1, 1912 – May 6, 2008) was a saxophonist and clarinetist of the Chicago jazz school. Jackson was born in Rock Island, Illinois, on November 1, 1912. ""He received his first lessons on saxophone from Jerome Don Pasquall and later studied at the Chicago Musical College."" Early in his career, Jackson played with Albert Ammons's band. For much of the 1930s Jackson was based in Chicago. He"
"daughter of an influential politician of the 3rd Republic, Jules Roche. During the months of autumn, following his demobilization in 1915, Gleizes married Juliette Roche and moved to New York. There they were met by Carlos Salzedo, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Crotti (who would eventually marry Suzanne Duchamp). Marcel Duchamp had emigrated to New York several months earlier after being judged physically unfit for his service in the military. Shortly after his arrival, Gleizes, accompanied by Salzedo, frequented jazz clubs in Harlem. With all it had to offer, New York had a strong impact on the"
"reason he moved to Paris was to be near his daughter Susan Steell (born 1906), who had won the first scholarship for American girls to study singing in Paris with the French mezzo-soprano Blanche Marchesi that had been established in 1923 by the opera singer Marie Jeritza. Her father commissioned a portrait of her about 1923 from the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury, which was exhibited in 1925 and of which ""American Art News"", April 11, 1925, said that it ‘...shows Mr. Ury at his most discerning.’ Susan (often later called Suzanne) was to enter Broadway, and became one of"
"Nichols. In 1927, not only did he participate in numerous recording sessions, but he also gained the job heading up the talent roster for the opening of the Club New Yorker. It was a short-lived organization, a who's-who of 1920s jazz, including Bix Beiderbecke, Eddie Lang, Joe Venuti, Frank Signorelli and Frank Trumbauer. Salary demands began to rise, and the club had its own shortcomings, which proved a bad combination in the end, and the arrangement only lasted for some 3 weeks.it was not long until other talent would be seeking his name. From across the Atlantic, Fred Elizalde, a"
"Maini on transcriptions and arrangements of Charlie Parker recordings, and in 1972, he co-founded Supersax, an ensemble devoted to Parker's work. Supersax's debut album, ""Supersax Plays Bird"", won a Grammy Award. Flory was married to Joan Barbara Fry until her death in 2000. Flory died of a heart ailment on March 12, 2014, in North Hollywood, California, at the age of 87. He was survived by a son and a daughter. Med Flory Meredith Irwin Flory, known as Med Flory (August 27, 1926 – March 12, 2014), was an American jazz saxophonist and bandleader and television and film actor, originally"
"but to pay Uncle's card debts they decide to go into vaudeville. They meet another up-and-coming act, singer Harry Fox (John Payne). Jenny falls in love with him. Harry struggles while the sisters' fame rises. Rosie is distrustful but Jenny dates him anyway. Harry sings to Jenny the latest song he has composed. A producer hears it and gives him the break he's been waiting for. Jenny and Harry get married but, just as success comes to Harry, war in Europe breaks out and he enlists. Rosie persuades Jenny to take an engagement with the Folies Bergere in Paris. As"
"jazz, from the skyscrapers of New York, from neon signs, from the hustle and bustle of busy Manhattan streets and avenues such as Broadway, and from the Brooklyn Bridge; expressing the various sensations and vast drama of modern city life in an unprecedented series of works. During the months of autumn, following his demobilization in 1915, Gleizes married Juliette Roche and moved to New York. There they were met by Carlos Salzedo, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Crotti (who would eventually marry Suzanne Duchamp). Marcel Duchamp had emigrated to New York several months earlier after being judged"
"it. He packed his violin and a picture of his mother and set off on foot for New York City to try his luck there. By the time he arrived in the city, he had earned some money by playing in the towns he stopped at on his way. When Jackie heard wonderful violin music on a New York City street corner, he discovered an older gentleman named Cesare playing there for pennies. Cesare welcomed him as a fellow music lover and sensed immediately that Jackie was all alone in the big city. He took the boy home with him."
"of three children, among whom jazz vocalist Cassandra Wilson is the youngest. Herman Fowlkes Jr. Herman Fowlkes Jr. (September 21, 1919 – April 3, 1993) was an American jazz musician and educator from Chicago, Illinois. Fowlkes was the first of two children born to Herman Bradley Fowlkes Sr. and Marie Payne. He was of West African, Irish, Welsh, and Eastern European descent. As a youngster growing up in Chicago Heights, Illinois, he received classical musical training on the violin. Fowlkes later exchanged his violin for the trumpet and became immersed in the burgeoning music scene of post-prohibition era Chicago. At"
"these arrangements. Paul Laval and His Woodwindy Ten (which included some of Levine's personnel) played the same type of music on more symphonic instruments, demonstrating that such instruments as oboe, bassoon, and celeste were equally capable of producing hot jazz. In 1943 maestro Laval (born Joseph Usifer in Beacon, New York in 1908) changed his surname to ""Lavalle"" to avoid association with then-notorious war criminal Pierre Laval. Each week ""Dr. Gino"" Hamilton would feature a notable guest from the jazz world, either a musicologist or a performer. Such celebrated soloists as Sidney Bechet, Bobby Hackett, Jelly Roll Morton, and Benny"
"Frank Vicari Frank Vicari (April 11, 1931 – October 20, 2006) was a New York-based jazz saxophonist. After serving in the Air Force from 1951–55, where he played in various service bands, Vicari returned to New York City and played in various bands until he joined Maynard Ferguson's big band in 1960. When the Ferguson band was dismantled in 1965, Vicari briefly joined Buddy Rich but that same year joined Woody Herman and his Thundering Herd and remained until 1970. Closely associated with New York's vibrant music scene of the 1970s and 1980s, Vicari frequently played alongside fellow NY-based session"
"to New Orleans in 1946, under contract with Ted Phillips Orchestra at the Jung Hotel. Later in the year he was booked at the Mirror Room in the Alexandria, Louisiana Bentley Hotel. Here he was partnered with organist/showgirl Princess White Cloud for what was originally to be two weeks, but the popularity of the show extended the contract to four months, upon which Princess White Cloud had to leave because of a previous agreement with a circus. Franchini found himself in Shreveport, Louisiana, when he met Hank Williams. Williams knew Franchini by reputation as a Hawaiian guitarist and a classical"
"met Ena Kelsall, daughter of actor and entertainer Greg Kelsey, in 1932. They married on November 25, 1935. They had a daughter Adrienne in 1938 and a son Arthur, Jr. in 1941. Arthur Rollini Arthur Francis Rollini (born February 13, 1912 in New York City; died December 30, 1993 in Florida) was an American jazz musician who played the tenor saxophone and clarinet. His nickname was ""Schneeze"". Rollini came from an Italian descent musical family and grew up in Larchmont, New York. Multi-instrumentalist Adrian Rollini was his older brother. In 1929 he played in England for Fred Elizalde and worked"
"Boswell Sisters, the Pickens Sisters, and the Three X Sisters. Highest chart positions on Billboard; with Vic Schoen and his orchestra, unless otherwise noted: ""(partial list)"" The Andrews Sisters The Andrews Sisters were an American close harmony singing group of the swing and boogie-woogie eras. The group consisted of three sisters: contralto LaVerne Sophia (July 6, 1911 – May 8, 1967), soprano Maxene Anglyn (January 3, 1916 – October 21, 1995), and mezzo-soprano Patricia Marie ""Patty"" (February 16, 1918 – January 30, 2013). Throughout their career, the sisters sold over 75 million records (the last official count released by MCA"
"on his summer in Hollywood and featuring appearances by Al Capone and Clara Bow. The critic and musician Digby Fairweather sums up Beiderbecke's musical legacy, arguing that ""with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke was the most striking of jazz's cornet (and of course, trumpet) fathers; a player who first captivated his 1920s generation and after his premature death, founded a dynasty of distinguished followers beginning with Jimmy McPartland and moving on down from there."" Bix Beiderbecke and Louis Armstrong were among jazz's first soloists. In New Orleans, jazz had been ensemble playing, with the various instruments weaving their parts into a"
"of middle years”. F. D. Perkins, writing in the ""New-York Tribune"" shortly after the concert, described her music as showing “solid and well-schooled musicianship and knowledge of form and of generosity in regard to melody”. Her style was “pervaded by the atmosphere of late nineteenth century romanticism…[it occasionally called to mind] Brahms and Cesar Frank, or…MacDowell. The B flat quintet had one rising phrase in the strings which recalled Wagner”. In the early 1940s, Servine married American Malcolm Dougherty, and around the year 1945 they moved together to Great Barrington, Massachusetts. Her song cycle “The Year” was captioned “Great Barrington,"
"admirers who associated Fyre's trombone playing with the style of Chicago's trombonist ""James Pankow,"" nicknamed Fyre """"Chicago."""" During Fyre's stint with a popular East Orange, New Jersey band known as Parkway North, Fyre's passion for the bass nearly overtook his interest in the trombone. Parkway North's bassist - ""Romeo Williams""(† April 8, 2017) (who later would play bass and tour with Elton John, Brian Eno, Patrice Rushen and others) lent his prized Baldwin Bass to Fyre and patiently taught Fyre a few rudiments on the instrument. In 1971, Fyre joined a local band called the Matchmakers, where he met vocalist"
"France. Her father had been initially against the marriage, but then changed his mind. He helped the guests celebrate with a wedding breakfast at his Paris apartment, which held his vast collection of antiques and art works. Her apartment at 550 Park Avenue in New York City was decorated by Billy Baldwin. A well-dressed society figure, she became a permanent member of the Fashion Hall of Fame, class of 1965, along with Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. She was a close friend of the Duchess of Windsor and Truman Capote. She was known for having lavish New Year's Eve parties that supported"
"and saxophones became popular in New York, with ensembles such as the Clef Club Orchestra playing music by black composers. They played at Carnegie Hall between 1912 and 1914. Their performances generated respectability in white society. From around 1915, early jazz performances consisted primarily of small ensembles (four or five musicians) of exciting, wild, instinctual, and almost entirely improvised polyphony. Juliette Roche Gleizes gave an evocative description of the couple's first night in New York City and the spectacular experience that inspired Gleizes to work on the theme of jazz. Art historian Daniel Robbins recounts: They arrived in the late"
"dancer at an early age before working in menial jobs as a teenager. In 1909, he became the partner of the biggest female star in France at the time, Fréhel. Although their relationship was brief, she secured him his first major engagement, as a mimic and a singer in ""l'Alcazar"" in Marseille, for which he received critical acclaim by French theatre critics. In 1917, he discovered jazz and ragtime and went to London, where he found new success at the Palace Theatre. After this, he toured the United States, where he met the American composers George Gershwin and Irving Berlin"
"tenor saxophone over alto as his primary instrument. He made a habit of leaving, working, then going home. He left home permanently in 1932 when he became a member of the Blue Devils led by Walter Page. In 1933 Young settled in Kansas City, where after playing briefly in several bands, he rose to prominence with Count Basie. His playing in the Basie band was characterized by a relaxed style which contrasted sharply with the more forceful approach of Coleman Hawkins, the dominant tenor sax player of the day. One of Young's key influences was Frank Trumbauer, who came to"
"York City, and so Carlos left France for the United States of America. Salzedo became a member of musical society, joining in musical soirees at the home of Mrs. Oliver Ditson, and thus Salzedo was introduced at a soirée to Viola Gramm (Mimine), a respected pianist and singer. They became romantically involved, and were married on April 30, 1914, in New York City. After resigning from his position at the opera in 1913, Salzedo formed the ""Trio de Lutèce"" with Georges Barrère on flute and Paul Kéfer on cello, which toured extensively in the United States. The trio was scheduled"
"married a Rockette named Florence Butterfield (known affectionately to family and friends as ""Flip""). The marriage would last 41 years, until the end of Manne's life. When the bebop movement began to change jazz in the 1940s, Manne loved it and adapted to the style rapidly, performing with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker. Around this time he also worked with rising stars like Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura, Lennie Tristano, and Lee Konitz. Manne rose to stardom when he became part of the working bands of Woody Herman and, especially, Stan Kenton in the late 1940s and early 1950s, winning awards"