"'Round Midnight (song) ""Round Midnight"" (sometimes ""Round About Midnight"") is a 1944 jazz standard by pianist Thelonious Monk. A version recorded by Monk's quintet was added to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1993. It is the most recorded jazz standard composed by a jazz musician. It is thought that Monk originally composed the song sometime in 1940 or 1941. However, Harry Colomby claims that Monk may have written an early version around 1936 (at the age of 19) with the title ""Grand Finale"". Monk first recorded the song on the 1947 Blue Note album """", and recorded it several"
"about an expatriate American jazz musician living in Paris. The soundtrack by Herbie Hancock prominently features the song ""'Round Midnight"" along with a number of other jazz standards and a handful of original pieces written by Hancock. In 2002, Italian pianist Emanuele Arciuli commissioned a number of composers to create the ""Round Midnight Variations"". The composers included Roberto Andreoni, Milton Babbitt, Alberto Barbero, Carlo Boccadoro, William Bolcom, David Crumb, George Crumb, Michael Daugherty, Filippo Del Corno, John Harbison, Joel Hoffman, Aaron Jay Kernis, Gerald Levinson, Tobias Picker, Matthew Quayle, Frederic Rzewski, Augusta Read Thomas and Michael Torke. 'Round Midnight (song)"
"The re-release featured 24-bit remastering by Tarantino and three bonus tracks, including a medley of ""Bye-Ya"" and ""Epistrophy"" performed with drummer Art Blakey. Concord vice president Nick Phillips, who produced the reissue series, said ""Misterioso"" was ""an all-time classic live Thelonious Monk record"" and ""an indelible snapshot of Monk live in the late '50s."" McManus said that as with most reissues of jazz albums, the bonus tracks on ""Misterioso"" were valuable and showcased uninhibited performances of Monk's past compositions. All songs were composed by Thelonious Monk, except where noted. Misterioso (Thelonious Monk album) Misterioso is a 1958 live album by"
"Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 is a jazz album by Sonny Rollins, released in 1957 on Blue Note Records, catalogue BLP 1558. Among other things, it is noted for the appearance of pianists Thelonious Monk and Horace Silver, both playing on the Monk composition ""Misterioso"". Monk also plays on his composition ""Reflections"", while Silver handles the piano duties on all the other tracks. It was reissued in 1999 by as part of its Rudy Van Gelder series, remastering done by the audio engineer, also present on the original recording sessions. British singer-songwriter Joe Jackson paid homage to"
"Jackie Paris Carlo Jackie Paris (September 20, 1924 – June 17, 2004) was an American jazz singer and guitarist. He is best known for his recordings of ""Skylark"" and ""'Round Midnight"" from the late 1940s to the early 1950s. Paris was born in Nutley, New Jersey to an Italian-American family. His uncle Chick had been a guitarist with Paul Whiteman's orchestra. Paris was a popular child entertainer in vaudeville who shared the stage with Bill ""Bojangles"" Robinson and the Mills Brothers. He tap danced from his youth and into his years in the US Army. After serving in the army"
"Jerry Livingston Jerry Livingston (born Jerry Levinson, March 25, 1909 – July 1, 1987) was an American songwriter and dance orchestra pianist. Born in Denver, Colorado, Livingston studied music at the University of Arizona. While there he composed his first score for a college musical. He moved to New York City in the 1930s, initially working as a pianist for dance orchestras. From the 1940s to the 1960s he had written songs for numerous films and television series, including ""Cinderella"" (1950), ""Bronco"" (1958), ""77 Sunset Strip"" (television series, 1958), ""Hawaiian Eye"" (television series, 1959), ""Bourbon Street Beat"" (television series, 1959),"
"pianist who had died that year. In 1945 a shortened piano solo arrangement of the ""Jamaican Rumba"" was published. The other major original works written during the 1950s were the Harmonica Concerto (1953), written for Larry Adler, who performed it many times and recorded it at least twice; the ballet ""Orlando's Silver Wedding"" (1951), ""Tombeau de Ravel"" for clarinet and piano, a second string quartet (1959) and the Wind Quintet (1960). He had a lasting admiration for Maurice Ravel, whose influence is most obvious in ""Tombeau de Ravel"" and the much earlier Suite of 1926 for piano solo. He was"
"Michel Rubini Michel Rubini (born December 3, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American musician and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks. He is a professional classical pianist since early childhood. During the 1960s and 1970s, Rubini worked on tours, with such stars as Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Sonny and Cher and Barbra Streisand. Rubini was producer, conductor and arranger for Motown Records. He was one of the most sought-after Los Angeles session players during the 1960s and 1970s, performing on albums by Sonny & Cher, Loggins and Messina, Michael Parks, The Cats,"
"ceremony at the Guitar Center WALK OF FAME in Hollywood. Michel Rubini Michel Rubini (born December 3, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, United States) is an American musician and composer, best known for his work composing motion picture soundtracks. He is a professional classical pianist since early childhood. During the 1960s and 1970s, Rubini worked on tours, with such stars as Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Sonny and Cher and Barbra Streisand. Rubini was producer, conductor and arranger for Motown Records. He was one of the most sought-after Los Angeles session players during the 1960s and 1970s, performing on albums by"
"group were scored for instruments rarely used in jazz such as French horn and tuba. These recordings, which were labeled cool jazz and eventually appeared on the album ""Birth of the Cool"" in 1957 by Capitol Records, marked an important influence on the future jazz. He later signed to Columbia and released ""'Round About Midnight"" on March 18, 1957. His acclaimed 1959 album ""Kind of Blue"" is generally stated to be the best-selling jazz album of all time, although the data are not conclusive. The follow-up album in 1960, ""Sketches of Spain"", went gold. He formed his Second Great Quintet"
"Bobby Timmons Robert Henry Timmons (December 19, 1935 – March 1, 1974) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods (July 1958 to September 1959; February 1960 to June 1961), between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including ""Moanin'"", ""Dat Dere"", and ""This Here"" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively. Timmons was strongly associated with the"
"'Round Midnight (1963 Betty Carter album) Round Midnight is a 1963 studio album by the American jazz singer Betty Carter that was arranged by Claus Ogerman and Oliver Nelson. Scott Yanow, writing on Allmusic.com gave ""Round Midnight"" two and a half stars out of five. Yanow commented of Carter in this period: ""Her chance-taking style and unusual voice were mostly ignored and it would not be until the late '70s that she was finally 'discovered.' ...Her style was a lot freer than it had been in her earlier records but was still more accessible than it would be. Her repertoire"""
"by lush orchestrations, interweaving multidimensional horns and strings to accentuate the sensuality of the compositions. His various other projects include Jimmy Ruffin's ""Fallin' in Love with You"" (1977), The Sweet Inspirations' ""Black Sunday"" (1977), The Chi-Lites' ""My First Mistake"" (1977), Flower's ""Midnight Dancing"", ""Now"", and ""Our Never-Ending Love"" (1979), and, in collaboration with Phil Hurtt, Stanley Turrentine's ""Disco Dancing"" (1978) and Phil Hurtt's ""Giving It Back"" (1978). Richie Rome Richie Rome, born Richard V. Di Cicco in Philadelphia, was a prominent American producer, arranger and orchestra conductor during the 1970s. Richie Rome began his career composing arrangements in the 1960s,"
"a total of 70 titles, with a piano trio composed of local musicians. By the late 1940s, Grappelli's style of violin swing was out of fashion, and Django, no longer performing regularly, had become interested in playing modern jazz inspired by American bebop musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie. Django pursued modern jazz until his death in 1953, while Grappelli played and recorded mainstream swing music throughout the 1950s and 1960s when he was active on the music scene. Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, a handful of European guitarists continued to play acoustic jazz guitar in the style of Django Reinhardt,"
"Misterioso (Paul Motian album) Misterioso is the third album by Paul Motian on the Italian Soul Note label. It was released in 1987 and features performances by Motian with Bill Frisell and Joe Lovano, along with Ed Schuller and Jim Pepper. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4½ stars, stating: ""Although often overlooked, drummer Paul Motian led one of the most inventive jazz bands of the mid-1980s. His quintet, which featured the tenors of Joe Lovano and Jim Pepper, guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Ed Schuller, could play anything from swinging advanced hard bop and Ornette Coleman-type"
"1950s, he recorded two discs for MGM Records (all-Debussy and all-Spanish), and in the early 1960s he made private recordings engineered by Peter Bartok and distributed by his agent, Constance Wardle. Isaac Albeniz: El Albaicin, El Polo, Malaga, Triana (""Iberia""); Malaguena (""Rumores de la Caleta""); Seguidillas; Tango in D; Zortzico J.S. Bach: Chromatic Fantasie; English Suite no. 5; Italian Concerto Ludwig v. Beethoven: Sonata in c#, op. 27/1 (""Moonlight""); Sonata in f, op. 57 (""Appassionata"") Joaquin Cassado: Hispania, for piano and orchestra (U.S. Premiere, Detroit, 1919) Emmanuel Chabrier: Bourrée fantasque; España (arr. Copeland); Habañera Frederic Chopin: Ballades no. 1 &"
"daughters, Lauren and Brielle. ""Kennedy was known for his finger technique and his ability to swing and improvise versions of well-known jazz works."" An asterisk (*) indicates that the year is that of release. Ray Kennedy (pianist) Raymond Huston ""Ray"" Kennedy Jr. (1957 – May 28, 2015) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger. He was a member of John Pizzarelli's trio for more than a decade and recorded more than 10 albums under his own name. Kennedy was born and grew up in Maplewood, Missouri, in 1957. His father was a bandleader, trumpeter and vocalist in the 1930s"
"his longtime wife and 14 dogs and cats. Main sources: Giorgio Gaslini Giorgio Gaslini (; 22 October 1929 – 29 July 2014) was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor. He began performing aged 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gaslini performed with his own quartet. He was the first Italian musician mentioned as a ""new talent"" in the ""Down Beat"" poll and the first Italian officially invited to a jazz festival in the USA (New Orleans 1976-77). He collaborated with leading American soloists, such as Anthony Braxton, Steve Lacy, Don Cherry,"
"Round Midnight (film) Round Midnight is a 1986 American-French musical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier and written by Tavernier and David Rayfiel. It stars Dexter Gordon, François Cluzet and Herbie Hancock. Martin Scorsese, Philippe Noiret and Wayne Shorter appear in cameos. The protagonist jazzman, ""Dale Turner"", was based on a composite of real-life jazz legends Lester Young (tenor sax) and Bud Powell (piano). While the film is fictionalized, it is drawn directly from the memoir/biography ""Dance of the Infidels"" written by French author Francis Paudras, who had befriended Powell during his Paris expatriate days and on whom the character"
"Roberto Pregadio Roberto Pregadio (December 6, 1928 – November 15, 2010) was an Italian composer, conductor and TV-personality. Born in Catania and graduated in piano at the Conservatory of Naples, in 1960 Pregadio became a pianist in the RAI Light Music Orchestra. From the second half of the sixties, for about fifteen years, he composed and directed about fifty musical scores. As composer he was probably best known for the whistled musical score for the 1969 spaghetti western ""The Forgotten Pistolero"", that he composed with Franco Micalizzi and that was later used in several episodes of ""The Ren & Stimpy"
"yielded both ""Misterioso"" and ""Thelonious in Action""; the latter was released first in 1958. The show was believed to be the first successful live recording of Monk's music, until the recording of his 1957 concert with Coltrane at Carnegie Hall was discovered and released in 2005. The two live albums from the Five Spot Café are the only recordings that document Monk's time with Griffin. According to jazz critic Gary Giddins, ""Misterioso"" is a hard bop record. The songs performed for the album were arranged by Monk, who reworked four of his earlier compositions. In the album's liner notes, Keepnews"
"Richard Hayman Richard Hayman (March 27, 1920 – February 5, 2014) was an American musician who was chief music arranger of the Boston Pops Orchestra for over 50 years and served as a pops conductor for orchestras including the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the St. Louis Symphony and the Grand Rapids Symphony in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He toured and recorded as a harmonica player and made dozens of recordings for Mercury Records as ""Richard Hayman and His Orchestra."" His biggest hit was a single, ""Ruby,"" from the 1952 film ""Ruby Gentry,"" starring Jennifer Jones and Charlton Heston. Hayman's arrangement featured himself"
"1954, a ballet for Martha Graham (""Ardent Song"", also in 1954), and two scores for NBC documentaries on India and Southeast Asia (1955 and 1957). Also during the 1950s, he composed for productions at The Living Theatre. His biggest breakthrough till then came in 1955, when his Symphony No. 2, ""Mysterious Mountain"", was premiered by Leopold Stokowski in his debut with the Houston Symphony, although the idea that ""Mysterious Mountain"" was commissioned for that orchestra is a common misconception. That same year, MGM Records released recordings of a number of his works. Between 1956 and 1958, at the urging of"
"of their Edison recordings in 2005 on a CD album entitled ""Edison Hot Dance Obscurities, Volume 2"". By 1930 he was living in Bellaire, New York in a house he had purchased. He died in 1973. Oreste Migliaccio Oreste Migliaccio (1882–1973) was a jazz pianist, composer and prominent band leader. His band Oreste and his Queensland Orchestra were popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Migliaccio was born in Naples, Italy in 1882. He immigrated to the United States, arriving at Ellis Island, New York on September 22, 1902. Five years later he married and was working as a musician and"
"after working with Count Basie in the 1970s. Cuban jazz trumpeter, pianist, and composer Arturo Sandoval has been active in Miami since 1990. Dean Dewberry 1950-90, Jazz (American Music) Hall of Fame concert pianist, born and raised in St. Petersburg, played locally with his wife Penny Parker Dewberry in night clubs, & played with such jazz musicians as Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Dave Brubeck, Eph Resnick, and Wild Bill Davidson. Later, after becoming Christians, both he and his wife created ""Jazz For Jesus"" and spent the rest of their working years uplifting inmates throughout the south east, doing normal &"
"Buddy Morrow Buddy Morrow (born Muni Zudekoff, aka Moe Zudekoff; February 8, 1919, New Haven, Connecticut – September 27, 2010) was an American trombonist and bandleader. He is known for his mastery of the upper range which is evident on records such as ""The Golden Trombone,"" as well as his ballad playing. Morrow was once a member of the Tonight Show Band. His early 1950s records such as ""Rose, Rose, I Love You"" and ""Night Train"" appeared in the US ""Billboard"" charts. ""Night Train"" reached No. 12 in the UK Singles Chart in March 1953. In 1959 and 1960 Morrow's"
"Louiguy Louis Guglielmi (3 April 1916 – 4 April 1991), known by his ""nom de plume"" Louiguy (), was a Spanish-born French musician of Italian extraction. He wrote the melody for Édith Piaf's lyrics of ""La Vie en Rose"" and the Latin jazz composition ""Cerisier rose et pommier blanc"", a popular song written in 1950, made famous in English as ""Cherry Pink (and Apple Blossom White)"", which was recast as a resounding mambo hit for Pérez Prado. Guglielmi was born in Barcelona. He studied music at the Conservatoire de Paris in the same class as Maurice Baquet, Henri Betti, Paul"
"Rudy Render Rudolph Valentino Render (July 1, 1926 – September 11, 2014) was an American singer, musician, arranger and songwriter, best known for his 1949 R&B chart hit, ""Sneakin' Around"" and his work as musical director for Debbie Reynolds. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana, and studied piano in college. He began playing in clubs in Terre Haute, and was seen there by writer Bill Hays, the son of politician Will H. Hays, deviser of the Hays Code. At Bill Hays' suggestion, Render moved to Hollywood, California after completing his degree studies, and through agent Berle Adams was immediately"
"Joe Morello Joseph Albert Morello (July 17, 1928 – March 12, 2011) was a jazz drummer best known for his work with the Dave Brubeck Quartet. He was particularly noted for playing in the unusual time signatures employed by that group in such pieces as ""Take Five"" and ""Blue Rondo à la Turk"". Popular for its work on college campuses during the 1950s, Brubeck's group reached new heights with Morello. In June 1959, Morello participated in a recording session with the quartet — completed by the alto saxophonist Paul Desmond and the bassist Eugene Wright — that yielded ""Kathy's Waltz"""
"1950s. He also initiated a subscription series of solo recitals from 1932-1937. Each season's four or five recitals would cover often neglected works by Bach, Scarlatti, Haydn, Mozart, 18th-century Spanish composers, 20th-century French composers, and Stravinsky. Bach pieces included the complete inventions and sinfonias as well as the ""Goldberg Variations"", all of which would be later popularized by his pupil Glenn Gould. Guerrero performed in various chamber ensembles with musicians such as with Frank Blachford (violin), Leo Smith (cello), Harold Sumberg (violin), and Cornelius Ysselstyn (cello). For over a decade, he was also a member of the Five Piano Ensemble."
"the 1950s. In 1951, one of these bands featured his wife Frances on vocals. They recorded and toured off and on with this and other incarnations of this band throughout the 1950s. Although his own band did not attain the same level of success as the famous bands he arranged for, he did receive a Grammy nomination for his own album ""Jazz Pops"" (1962), which included recordings of ""Li'l Darlin,"" ""Cute,"" and ""Coral Reef"". It was his last work in the jazz idiom. Later in the 1950s he abandoned trumpet playing altogether to concentrate on scoring and conducting. He had"
"George Gershwin George Jacob Gershwin (; born Jacob Bruskin Gershowitz, September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned both popular and classical genres. Among his best-known works are the orchestral compositions ""Rhapsody in Blue"" (1924) and ""An American in Paris"", the songs ""Swanee"" (1919) and ""Fascinating Rhythm"" (1924), the jazz standard ""I Got Rhythm"" (1930), and the opera ""Porgy and Bess"" (1935) which spawned the hit ""Summertime"". Gershwin studied piano under Charles Hambitzer and composition with Rubin Goldmark, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Brody. He began his career as a song plugger but"
"a self-inflicted gunshot on May 3, 1991. Harry Gibson Harry ""The Hipster"" Gibson (June 27, 1915 – May 3, 1991) was a jazz pianist, singer, and songwriter. Gibson played New York style stride piano and boogie woogie while singing in a wild, unrestrained style. His music career began in the late 1920s, when as the young Harry Raab, his birth name, he played stride piano in Dixieland jazz bands in Harlem. He continued to perform there throughout the 1930s, adding the barrelhouse boogie of the time to his repertoire, and was discovered by Fats Waller in 1939 and brought down"