Home » Jazz Musicians » Eugene
Eugene
"A Fresh Take" Latest CD From Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble
Source:
Eugene Marlow
NEW YORK: In mid-June, MEII Enterprises, Eugene Marlow's indie label, will release A Fresh Take, its 7th album in as many years. “A Fresh Take," a collection of nine tracks performed by Marlow's Heritage Ensemble, is a re-record of the group's 2006 debut album Making the Music Our Own. Why a re-record? According to Marlow: “In the last few years, The Heritage Ensemble's personnel have changed. The arrangements has not only grown in number, they have also evolved with the ...
read more
Celebrating Time Out: Mike Richmond on Eugene Wright
Source:
Jazz Online By Joseph Vella
2009, Dave Brubeck's musical masterpiece Time Out turned 50 and on behalf of Legacy Recordings, I produced a podcast series celebrating this timeless work. Along with interviewing Dave Brubeck himself about the album, I also interviewed three additional musicians saxophonist David Sanborn, bassist Mike Richmond and drummer Bill Bruford to discuss the influential work of Time Out band members, Paul Desmond, Eugene Wright and Joe Morello. For reasons beyond my scope, this series was never released. Featured on this episode ...
read more
Crate Digging with Eugene Holley, Jr.
Source:
The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Writer Eugene Holley--Wilmington's own--is one who's always first-rate commentary I take personal pride in. I've watched his development closely, ever since we worked together in developing the National Jazz Service Organization during the first stages of my directorship. Eugene's latest liner notes enhance NEA Jazz Master Ahmad Jamal's superblatest record “A Quiet Time" (Dreyfus). Eugene has always been someone with a great thirst for the music in its recorded medium, including vintage vinyl, so it was a natural for him ...
read more
W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft Project
Source:
All About Jazz
From 1957 to 1965, W. Eugene Smith took thousands of photographs and recorded thousands of hours of audio in his loft building, capturing the legendary musicians of the day.
Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career, photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on the streets of the flower district, as seen from his fourth-floor window.
He wired the building like a surreptitious recording ...
read more
Eugene Allen White House Butler from Truman Through Reagan
Source:
Michael Ricci
Eugene Allen, a White House butler who served presidents from Harry S. Truman through Ronald Reagan, has died. He was 90. Allen died of renal failure Wednesday at a hospital in Takoma Park, Md., the Washington Post reported. Allen, who was black, started at the White House in 1952, when racial segregation prohibited him from using public restrooms in his native state of Virginia. When he left the White House in 1986 after 34 years, he had witnessed defining moments ...
read more
Canadian Jazz Legend Eugene Amaro Passes
Source:
CHC Network
RIP: Eugene Amaro (tenor saxophonist, alto saxophonist, flutist) passed away on Tuesday, march 23 in his 74th year.
The popular jazz musician was leader of his own Eugene Amaro Quartet, and long-time member of Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass.
He also co-led the Sam Noto/Eugene Amaro Quintet, and performed with the Ron Rully Sextet and Ian McDougalls Dectet in Sound of Toronto Jazz Concerts.
His name is synonymous with the golden age of big band jazz in Canada.
For ...
read more
The Underground Story of Photographer W. Eugene Smith and the Jazz Loft is Told in a New Multimedia Exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Source:
Michael Ricci
New York, NY -- The story of a little known five-story loft building in New York City's wholesale flower district that was a popular late-night haunt for some of the biggest names in 1950s and '60s jazz is told in The Jazz Loft Project, a new multimedia exhibition opening February 17, 2010, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The exhibition features never-before-displayed vintage black and white prints and rarely heard audio recordings by photographer W. Eugene ...
read more
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
Source:
Michael Ricci
The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965 By Sam Stephenson Available November 24, 2009 Published by Alfred A. Knopf 288 pages $40.00 Hardcover ISBN/EAN: 978-0-307-26709-2 The following is excerpted from the prologue of the book. January 29, 1960 W. Eugene Smith sits at the fourth-floor window of his dilapidated loft at 821 Sixth Avenue, New York City, near the corner of Twenty-eighth Street, ...
read more
Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble with Special Guest Bobby Sanabria Plays at the Dizzy Gillespie Auditorium (NYC)
Source:
Michael Ricci
Composer/Leader Eugene Marlow's quintet The Heritage Ensemble is devoted to the concert performance of well-known Hebraic liturgical and folksong melodies in various jazz, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, and neo-classical styles. (See below for latest review.) The group's inaugural CD "Making the Music Our Own" is available at cdbaby.com.
The Heritage Ensemble: Eugene Marlow (founder/pianist) with Todd Bashore (saxophones), Frank Wagner (bass), Cristian Rivera (percussion), and guest artist, multi-Grammy nominee Bobby Sanabria (drums)
"Eugene Marlow's Heritage Ensemble's 'Making the Music Our Own' is ...
read more
Eugene Register-Guard: Top Jazz Label Has Local Origins
Source:
Seattle Jazz Scene
From The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR): Although it’s based in Seattle, JazzWeek magazine’s “jazz label of the year” has Eugene’s fingerprints all over it. Origin Records bested Concord Records, Palmetto, Sunnyside, Heads Up and HighNote Records to take the prize in late June. The winner was announced at the JazzWeek Conference held during the Rochester Jazz Festival. The label’s founder, drummer John Bishop, accepted the award. Bishop, a 1978 South Eugene High School graduate, got most of his formal music education ...
read more
