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Freddie Hubbard - Up Jumped Spring (1981)

Freddie Hubbard - trumpet, flugelhorn

Dave Schnitter - tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone

William Childs - piano, electric piano

Larry Klein - bass, bass guitar

Carl Burnett - drums

Album：" Freddie Hubbard / Rollin'"

Recorded：Live at ' Villingen Jazz Festival ', Germany, May 2, 1981

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Jazziversaries March 19th #1

Eliane Elias (piano) - 1960 :: Jazziversary wishes to pianist Eliane. Eliane is a Brazilian jazz pianist, arranger, vocalist and songwriter.

She joined Brazilian singer/guitarist/songwriter Toquinho and poet/entertainer Vinicius de Moraes when she was 17 years old, with whom she made concert tours for three years, mainly through South America.

On a tour in Europe in 1981, she met jazz bassist Eddie Gomez and was encouraged to travel to New York. After moving there, she was invited to join Steps Ahead, and recorded one album with the group in 1983. After leaving Steps Ahead, she worked with trumpet player Randy Brecker, whom she subsequently married. They recorded an album named after their daughter, “Amanda”. In 1988 she was elected as “Best New Talent” by the JAZZIZ magazine poll of jazz critics.

She has recorded several notable albums, including one featuring duets with Herbie Hancock. Their 1995 disc “Solos and Duets” was nominated for a Grammy in the “Jazz instrumental video” category. In 1997, American musician Bob Brookmeyer dedicated a full album to his arrangements of Eliane’s compositions, backed by the Danish Jazz Orchestra and published under the name of “Impulsive!”, which received another Grammy nomination as “Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album” in 2001.

Elias was one of the featured artists in the Latin jazz documentary, Calle 54, released in 2000. In 2002 she made her first appearance on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz radio program (and another in 2008). She is married to bassist Marc Johnson, with whom she has produced several albums including the ECM Records release titled Shades of Jade which features Eliane’s writing and pianism. This recording won the Best Foreign Release Award in Denmark in 2006 and was chosen by Time Magazine as one of the five best Fall releases in 2005.

Clarence “Frogman” Henry (piano)- 1937 :: Many happy jazziversary returns to Clarence Henry. Clarence is an American rhythm and blues singer and pianist.

Fats Domino and Professor Longhair were young Henry’s main influences while growing up. When Henry played in talent shows, he dressed like Longhair and wore a wig with braids on both sides.

His trademark croak, utilized to the maximum on his 1956 debut hit “Ain’t Got No Home,” earned Henry his nickname and jump-started a career that endures to this day. “(I Don’t Know Why) But I Do” and “You Always Hurt the One You Love”, both from 1961, were his other big hits.

Henry opened eighteen concerts for the Beatles across the US and Canada in 1964, but his main source of income came from the Bourbon Street strip in New Orleans, where he played for nineteen years. His name could still draw hordes of tourists long after his hit-making days had ended.

Henry’s pioneering contribution to the genre has been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame. In April 2007, “Frogman” was honored for his contributions to Louisiana music with induction into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame.

Mike Longo (piano) - 1939 :: Jazziversary greetings to pianist Mike Longo. Mike is a jazz pianist, composer, and author. He is most known for his work with Dizzy Gillespie.

Mike’s career started in his father’s band, but later Julian Cannonball Adderley helped him get gigs of his own. Their working relationship began before Adderley was well known as a band leader. Adderley approached the teenaged Longo because he needed a pianist at his church. At this time the town was largely segregated so the white Mike Longo playing at a black church was unusual. When this led to recordings with Adderley in the mid-1950s, Longo was initially too young to go to the clubs with him. Still in 10th grade, one of the places Longo played was Porky’s, which was later portrayed in the movie of the same name.

The great Dizzy Gillespie first heard Longo when he was playing at The Metropole. “I was playing downstairs with Red Allen, and Dizzy was playing upstairs with his band. So every time he wanted to go outside for a break, he had to come down the stairs and pass us on the way out. There was a joint across the street called the Copper Rail, which was a soul food restaurant and a bar where the musicians from the Metropole would all hang out. Soon I learned Dizzy mentioned me in an interview in International Musician, the musician union’s magazine, when he was asked about any promising young musicians he heard”

In the 1960s Longo began to lead the Mike Longo Trio, which would remain active for the next 42 years. Gillespie was playing at the Metropole again and Longo, depressed after divorcing his first wife, had just gotten a gig at Embers West playing with Roy Eldridge. Eldridge brought Gillespie to see Longo playing with Paul Chambers. Gillespie hired Longo the next day. Longo eventually became musical director for the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet and later Gillespie chose him to be the pianist for the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Band. From 1966 onward his music career would be strongly linked to that of Gillespie’s. Longo performs at weekly jazz sessions held at the New York City Bahá’í center in honor of Gillespie, a tradition he helped start.

Longo’s big band, the New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble, plays at the center intermittently and provides upcoming musicians a chance to learn on stage and the audience receives a jazz experience at reasonable cost. A big part of Mike Longo’s mission is to reestablish the apprenticeship relationship in teaching jazz. He says “I know jazz education is an important thing and I know that the field means well, but there seems to be a trend in that field to teach jazz where people are actually copying off recordings instead of actually learning to play jazz. The apprenticeship aspect of jazz has always been the way it has evolved.”

Dave Schnitter (saxophone) - 1948 :: Happy jazziversary to David Schnitter. David is an American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist.

Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. After moving to New York City he played with Ted Dunbar and then became a member of Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers from 1974 to 1979.

He played with Freddie Hubbard from 1979 to 1981 and also worked with Frank Foster, Charles Earland, and Groove Holmes.

He recorded for Muse Records from 1976 to 1981, but has receded from the limelight since.

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In Valdarno è l'ora del Jazz

In Valdarno è l’ora del Jazz

Si apre questa sera la venticinquesima edizione del Valdarno Winter Jazz Festival. Alessio Menconi, Faso e Christian Meyer, ovvero il Trio Bobo sono gli apripista di questa stagione che andrà avanti fino al 7 marzo. Sei i concerti in programmazione nei comuni del Valdarno a Terranuova Bracciolini (presso Auditorium Le Fornaci, via Vittorio Veneto 19), Montevarchi (Fabbrica della conoscenza La…

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