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Aberdeen Creates Unique Wall of Sound with Album 'Held Together'

Aberdeen Creates Unique Wall of Sound with Album 'Held Together'

Source: All About Jazz

With its massive, one-of-a-kind sound, Aberdeen is proud to announce the release of its second album Held Together. It’s Aberdeen’s brand of jazz with pop inflections that contributed to their selection in the U.S. State Department’s American Music Abroad program—in this case a tour to Central Asia—where Aberdeen performed. Held Together includes folk songs from around the world, featuring collaborators the band met while traveling, including Mongolian throat-singer and beatboxer Beatbox Ray and the children's ensemble Ayalguu, featuring traditional Mongolian ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today!

Along with Lester Young in the '30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the '40s, and Zoot Sims in the '50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack's a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive “signature sound". It's an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called “a ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today!

Along with Lester Young in the '30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the '40s, and Zoot Sims in the '50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack's a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive “signature sound". It's an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called “a ...

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today!

Along with Lester Young in the '30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the '40s, and Zoot Sims in the '50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack's a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive “signature sound". It's an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called “a ...

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TV / Film

Doc: Jack Sheldon, 2008

Doc: Jack Sheldon, 2008

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Who was Jack Sheldon and why does he matter? Part of the answer can be found in Trying to Get Good: the Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon, a documentary released in 2008. Produced by Doug McIntyre and Penny Peyser, the film is part biography, part confessional and part intervention as Sheldon and his music colleagues shed light on the West Coast jazz scene in the 1950s and Sheldon's playing gifts and puckish personality. Jimi Mentis sent along links to the ...

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Obituary

Jack Sheldon (1931-2019)

Jack Sheldon (1931-2019)

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Jack Sheldon, a West Coast jazz trumpeter who, in the 1960s, as jazz recording opportunities dried up, began to diversify into film studio work, TV acting, comedy, singing and a regular vocal part on the children's animated series School of Rock, died on December 27. He was 88. Sheldon was most notable for his clean, round sound on the trumpet and his easy-going personality and good cheer, which often seeped into his music. Sheldon spoke on camera in the Chet ...

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Obituary

Jack Sheldon, 1931-2019

Jack Sheldon, 1931-2019

Source: Rifftides by Doug Ramsey

It is sad to report that the great trumpeter Jack Sheldon has died at the age of 88. Sheldon sang with spirit, style, phrasing and good humor that paralleled his trumpet playing. This video is from his 1984 appearance at Lulu White’s Mahogany Hall in the New Orleans French Quarter. The other members of his band were Dave Frishberg, piano; John Pisano, guitar; and Dave Stone, bass. The tune is Duke Ellington’s “Don’t Get Around Much Anymore.” For more about ...

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Event

Robert Fripp’s Introduction To The Guitar Circle Four-Day-Long Event For Guitar Players And Music-Lovers To Be Held In Saratoga Springs, NY - October 22nd - 26th, 2020

Robert Fripp’s Introduction To The Guitar Circle Four-Day-Long Event For Guitar Players And Music-Lovers To Be Held In Saratoga Springs, NY - October 22nd - 26th, 2020

Source: Glass Onyon PR - William James

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE GUITAR CIRCLE October 22-26th. 2020 If music is to enter our world, the role of the audience is as necessary as the role of the musician. So, for the first time in the life of Guitar Craft and the Guitar Circle, we are inviting audients to this Intro, to learn the techniques and approaches available to Crafty Guitarists. Music has its own intelligence, but can music change the world? If so, how? How does ...

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Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today!

Along with Lester Young in the 30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the 40s, and Zoot Simms in the 50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack\'s a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive “signature sound". It\'s an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called “a ...

Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jack Sheldon

Source: Michael Ricci

All About Jazz is celebrating Jack Sheldon's birthday today!

Along with Lester Young in the 30s, Dizzy Gillespie in the 40s, and Zoot Simms in the 50s, Jack Sheldon is one of the Original Lions of the West Coast Sound. Jack\'s a premier improviser, is one of only a handful of trumpet players throughout jazz history who has developed his own distinctive “signature sound". It\'s an inimitable sound that comes from his heart and soul, what Miles Davis called “a ...

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