#roger kellaway

[jazzplusplus]

1986 - Piano players / Pianistes - North Sea Jazz Festival - Den Haag / La Haye

Jay McShann, Cedar Walton, Hank Jones, Ahmad Jamal, Martial Solal, McCoy Tyner, Michel Petrucciani, Roger Kellaway, Jimmy Rowles, Adam Mackowicz

[genevieveetguy]

You can trash your life but you're not going to trash mine.

A Star Is Born, Frank Pierson (1976)

[julio-viernes]

Más Melanie, "Momma Momma" de su primer LP, "Born To Be" de 1968. Cuando escucho cosas como esta lo primero que pienso es en la grandiosa "Cod'ine" de Buffy Sainte-Marie, que supongo que le tuvo que influir lo suyo. Sólo que Melanie era mucho más intensa, lo sacaba todo, lo echaba todo fuera. Supongo que acabaría exhausta cantando cosas como ésta. A destacar además la producción de Peter Schekeryk y los arreglos de Roger Kellaway. Atención a ese final a partir de los 3 minutos 14 segundos, que me parece una forma genial, visionaria, de concluir una canción folk en 1968. En ese debut también venía su versión de "Mr. Tambourine Man" de Dylan.

[onett199x]

Clark Terry | The Happy Horns Of Clark Terry

I think I first heard about this album watching a video of Ingrid Jensen talk about albums that she liked, and this is one of the ones she mentioned.  This is the second album I’ve snagged by Clark Terry, and it’s quite different from In Orbit, which was more of a hard-bop album that was undeniably strongly influenced by the fact that Thelonious Monk was the piano player in those sessions.  You can’t record an album with Monk and not have it sound at least a little bit like a Monk album.  This album does not have Monk.  Instead, it has a mostly all-star group of big band and swing legends like Phil Woods, Ben Webster, and Milt Hinton, as well as a slightly obscure pianist named Roger Kellaway and a drummer I’m not familiar with named Walter Perkins.  This set, like albums I’ve heard by other big band stalwarts such as Ben Webster or Sweets Edison, feels kind of like the middle ground between the swing of big bands like Basie’s and Ellington’s and the small groups of Terry’s contemporaries like Miles Davis and John Coltrane.  It swings more, and features more composed tunes with somewhat less improvisation as a rule, but the arrangements are tight and enjoyable and the band is great.  This is a pretty short and sweet album, worth listening to for fans of big band music, but don’t go in expecting the hard-bop workouts of trumpeters like Clifford Brown, Freddie Hubbard, or Lee Morgan - Clark Terry is cut from a different cloth (and that’s by no means a bad thing).

[liviasfiction]

Originally, “Remembering You” had no lyrics but Carroll O'Connor added them as a sweet little addition for the song’s message ^_^ bout to make me cry here…

From the Sonny & Cher comedy hour.

Makes me think also of “Beyond the Sea”, “Avalon” and other assorted wistful and contemplative oldies.

[gimme-choco]

“Someday My Prince Will Come” - Roger Kellaway, piano; Stefon Harris, vibraphone.

[mosaicrecords]

Zoot Lives! Gerry Mulligan and Friends in Memorial Concert

Zoot Lives! Indeed. This 1986 memorial concert, staged a year after Zoot Sims’s death, finds Gerry Mulligan leading a quartet with Roger Kellaway, Bill Crow and Bobby Rosengarden in a swinging 20-minute set.

-Michael Cuscuna

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[elevater]

Zoot Sims Quartet Live at Donte's, LA, 1970