WARREN HILL

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Warren Hill

Warren Hill in 2007
Background information
Origin
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s)
JazzAdult contemporary
Occupation(s)
Musician
Instrument(s)
Alto saxophoneSoprano saxophone
Years active
1982-present
Label(s)
Jive/NexusRCADiscoveryNaradaKoch
Associated acts
Restless HeartRuss Titelman
Website
http://www.warrenhill.com/
Warren Hill (born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada[1] is a Canadian jazz and adult contemporary musician. A graduate of Berklee College in Boston, Massachusetts, Hill performed at his own graduation day in 1988, where he caught the attention of record producer Russ Titelman, who helped him sign a record deal with RCA Records in 1991, and Hill released his debut album Kiss Under the Moon that year. He also backed Chaka Khan and Natalie Cole in the early 1990s.
Throughout the 1990s and into the 2000s, Hill continued to release albums: Devotion came out in 1993 and Truth in 1994. By 1997, he had switched to Discovery Records, where he released 1997's Shelter and 1998's Life Thru Rose Colored Glasses. Love Life followed in 2000 on the Narada label, followed by Love Songs and A Warren Hill Christmas in 2002, PopJazz in 2005. In 2008, he signed to Koch Records, issuing La Dolce Vita in June of that year.[2]
Contents[hide]
1 Discography
1.1 Albums
1.2 Singles
1.3 Guest singles
2 References
3 External links
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[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums
Year
Title
US Top Jazz
Label
1991
Kiss Under the Moon
11
RCA
1993
Devotion
6
1994
Truth
6
1997
Shelter
8
Discovery
1998
Life Thru Rose Colored Glasses
18
2000
Love Life
10
Narada
2002
Love Songs
A Warren Hill Christmas
2005
PopJazz
17
PopJazz
2008
La Dolce Vita
Koch

[edit] Singles
Year
Title
Chart Positions
Album
US Smooth Jazz
2008
"La Dolce Vita"
2
La Dolce Vita

BIX

Bix Beiderbecke
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Bix Beiderbecke

Bix Beiderbecke in 1924
Background information
Birth name
Leon Bismark Beiderbecke
Born
March 10, 1903(1903-03-10)
Origin
Davenport, Iowa,[1] U.S.
Died
August 6, 1931 (aged 28)
Genre(s)
JazzDixieland
Occupation(s)
Musiciancomposer
Instrument(s)
Cornet, Piano
Years active
1924-1931
Website
bixbeiderbecke.com
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist and composer, as well as a skilled classical and jazz pianist.
One of the leading names in 1920s jazz, Beiderbecke's career was cut short by chronic poor health, exacerbated by alcoholism. Critic Scott Yanow describes Beiderbecke as the "possessor of a beautiful, distinctive tone and a strikingly original improvising style. Beiderbecke's chief competitor among cornetists in the 1920s was Louis Armstrong, but (due to their different sounds and styles) one really could not compare them."[2] Bix Beiderbecke recorded many jazz standards during his career in the 1920s and early 1930s, including "Riverboat Shuffle", "Copenhagen", "Davenport Blues", "Singin' the Blues", "In a Mist", "Mississippi Mud", "I'm Coming, Virginia", and "Georgia On My Mind".
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1 Early life
2 Career
3 Death
4 Influences
5 Influence on later musicians
6 Popular culture
7 Name
8 Compositions by Bix Beiderbecke
9 Major Recordings, 1924-1930
10 Cover Versions of "In a Mist"
11 Cover Versions of "Davenport Blues"
12 Honors
13 References
14 External links
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[edit] Biography
Richard Rodney Bennett was a pupil at Leighton Park School, the Quaker school in Reading, studied at the Royal Academy of Music with Howard Ferguson and Lennox Berkeley. During this time, he attended some of the Darmstadt summer courses, where he was exposed to serialism. He later spent two years in Paris as a student of the arch-serialist Pierre Boulez.
Bennett taught at the Royal Academy of Music between 1963 and 1965, and the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, United States from 1970 to 1971, and was later International Chair of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music between 1994 and the year 2000. He received a CBE in 1977, and was knighted in 1998.[1]
He was the tutor of the celebrated composer Grayston Ives.
As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians, Bennett has produced over two hundred works for the concert hall, and fifty scores for film and television, as well as having been a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years. Studies with Boulez in the 1950s immersed him in the techniques of the European avant-garde, though he subsequently developed his own distinctive dramato-abstract style. In recent years, he has adopted an increasingly tonal idiom.
In 1995, to celebrate its 200th issue, Gay Times magazine published list of people regarded as important to the British lesbian and gay community. Bennett was named as one of the key musical figures on the list.[2]

[edit] Music
Despite his early studies in modernist techniques, Bennett's tastes are catholic, and he has written in a wide range of styles, being particularly fond of jazz. Early on, he found success by writing music for feature films, although he considered this to be subordinate to his concert music. Nevertheless, he has continued to write music for films and television; among his scores are the Doctor Who story The Aztecs (1964), Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award, Murder on the Orient Express (1974), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and won a BAFTA, Enchanted April (1992), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994), and The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1998). He is also a prolific composer of orchestral works, piano solos, choral works and operas. Despite this eclecticism, Bennett's music rarely involves crossover of styles.

[edit] Selected works

[edit] Instrumental works
Impromptus (for guitar) (1968)
Concerto for alto saxophone
Concerto for Stan Getz (ten sax, timpani & strings)
Elegy for Davis
A Little Suite, based on selections from his song cycles The Insect World and The Aviary.
Farnham Festival Overture (1964) for orchestra
Morning Music for wind band
Reflections on a Sixteenth Century Tune for string orchestra or double wind quintet (1999)
Sonata for solo guitar (1983)
Sonatina for solo clarinet
Summer Music for flute and piano
Symphony no.1 (1965)
Symphony no.2 (1968) commissioned by the New York Philharmonic
Symphony no.3 (1987)
Trumpet Concerto for trumpet and wind orchestra
Scena II (solo cello) commissioned by the Music Department of the University College of North Wales, Bangor, with funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council, and first performed by Judith Mitchell on 25 APril 1974

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GIL EVANS

Gil Evans
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Gil Evans

With Ryo Kawasaki at Sweet Basil in New York City,1982
Background information
Born
May 13, 1912(1912-05-13)
Died
April 20, 1988 (aged 75)
Genre(s)
Jazz, Modern Creative, Third stream
Occupation(s)
Composer
Years active
1933-1988
Label(s)
Impulse!, Prestige Records
Notable instrument(s)
Piano
Gil Evans (13 May 1912 in Toronto, Canada – 20 March 1988 in Cuernavaca, Mexico) was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States. He played a seminal role in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz-rock, and collaborated extensively with Miles Davis.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Born Ian Ernest Gilmore Green, his name was changed early on to Evans, the name of his stepfather. His family moved to Stockton, California, where he spent most of his youth. After 1946, he lived and worked primarily in New York City, living for many years at Westbeth Artists Community. [1]
Between 1941 and 1948, he worked as an arranger for the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. Evans' modest basement apartment behind a New York City Chinese laundry soon became a meeting place for musicians looking to develop new musical styles outside of the dominant bebop style of the day. Those present included the leading bebop performer Charlie Parker himself. In 1948, Evans, with Miles Davis, Gerry Mulligan, and others, collaborated on a band book for a nonet. The group was booked for a week at the "Royal Roost" as an intermission group on the bill with the Count Basie Orchestra. Capitol Records recorded 12 numbers by the nonet at three sessions in 1949 and 1950. These recordings were reissued on a 1959 Miles Davis LP titled Birth of the Cool.
Later, while Davis was under contract to Columbia Records, producer George Avakian suggested that Davis work with any of several arrangers. Davis immediately chose Evans. The three albums that resulted from the resulting collaboration are Miles Ahead (1957), Porgy and Bess (1958), and Sketches of Spain (1960). Another collaboration from this period, Quiet Nights (1962) was issued later, against the wishes of Davis, who broke with his then-producer Teo Macero for a time as a result. Although these four records were marketed primarily under Davis's name (and credited to Miles Davis and the Gil Evans Big Band), Evans's contribution was as important as Davis's. Their work coupled Evans's classic big band jazz stylings and arrangements with Davis's solo playing. Evans also contributed behind the scenes to Davis' classic quintet albums of the 1960s.
From 1957 onwards Evans recorded, under his own name, Big Stuff (1957, aka Gil Evans & Ten), New Bottle Old Wine and Great Jazz Standards (a.k.a. "Pacific Standard Time", 1957-58), Out of the Cool (1960), and The Individualism Of Gil Evans (1964). Among the featured soloists on these records were Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Johnny Coles and Cannonball Adderley. In 1965 he arranged the big band tracks on Kenny Burrell's Guitar Forms album. Evans was quite warm to Latin and Brazilian music. 1966 he recorded a 'special' Latin album with his orchestra, Look To The Rainbow, for the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto. Evans toured extensively during 1972-87, performing frequently in European concerts and festivals, and traveling twice to Japan, once with Jaco Pastorius.
For a man of his generation and training, Evans was surprisingly open to new directions in popular music. In the 1970s, following Davis and many other jazz musicians, Evans worked in the free jazz and jazz-rock idioms, gaining a new generation of admirers. Evans had a particular interest in the work of rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix's 1970 death made impossible a scheduled meeting with Evans to discuss having Hendrix front a big band led by Evans. In 1974, he released an album of his arrangements of music by Hendrix. In 1986, Evans produced and arranged the soundtrack to the film of the Colin MacInnes book Absolute Beginners (film), therefore working with such contemporary artists as Sade Adu, Patsy Kensit's Eight Wonder, The Style Council, Jerry Dammers, Smiley Culture, Edward Tudor-Pole, and, notably, David Bowie. In 1987, Evans recorded a live CD with Sting, featuring big band arrangements of songs by and with The Police.
In April 1983 the Gil Evans Orchestra was booked into the Sweet Basil jazz club (Greenwich Village, New York) by jazz producer and Sweet Basil owner Horst Liepolt. This turned out to be a regular Monday night engagement for Evans for nearly five years and also resulted in the release of a number of successful albums by Gil Evans and the Monday Night Orchestra (produced by Horst Liepolt). One of these albums, Bud and Bird, won the Grammy award for Best Jazz Instrumental Performance, Big Band in 1989.
In 1986, Evans was inducted into the Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame.[citation needed]
Evans died in the same Mexican city as Charles Mingus, Cuernavaca.[1]

Sir Stan Tracy

The Formative YearsStan was born in Kings College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London in 1926 and grew up an only child in Tooting in South London. Unwilling to be evacuated at the outbreak of war, his education came to an end at the age of 12 and he kept his mother company while his father worked in a West End Club. As his household had no radio or gramophone, his musical input came from listening to his neighbours' radio from the bottom of the stairs and his mother's 'black note' efforts on their upright piano. He fell in love with a shiny accordion in a nearby shop and Stan's musical career began, soon being adept enough to enter local talent competitions.
The Forties 1943 - Aged 16 he joined the variety troupe ENSA entertaining the country's workers as an accordionist.First gig was at a factory in Cosham, Sussex.He later joined a gypsy accordion band1944 - Stan took up the piano, having heard recordings of boogie-woogie giants Albert Ammons and Meade Lux Lewis.1945 - Having successfully avoided the authorities for two years, Stan was eventually called up and enlisted in the RAF.1946 - Joined the RAF Gang Show touring productions by Tony Hancock in Egypt & Palestine.1948 - Left the RAF and, working in London, came across Ronnie Scott and Laurie Morgan who steered Stan towards taking up jazz full time.
The Fifties 1951 - Made his debut recording with Eddie Thompson's Quintet which featured a 16 year old Tubby Hayes.Signed up for 'Geraldo's Navy', performing on the Queen Mary and Coronia, which took him to New York where he heard Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington amongst others.1952 - Toured with the Roy Fox Band.1952/54 - Worked and recorded with Kenny Baker and Victor Feldman.1955 - Worked and recorded with the Malcolm Mitchell Orchestra1956 - Stints with Ronnie Scott, Tony Crombie, Kenny Graham.Joined Ivor & Basil Kirchin's group.1957 - Short US tour with Ronnie Scott's band.1957/59 - Joined the Ted heath Orchestra, a very popular 'jazzy' dance band which toured home and abroad extensively, playing piano and vibes and contributing arrangements.1958 - Recorded his debut as a leader, 'Showcase'.1959 - Formed his own group MJ6.Recorded 'Little Klunk'Began his seven year tenure at the brand new Ronnie Scott's Club.
The Sixties From 1959 to 1966 Stan was resident pianist at the now world famous Ronnie Scott's Club in London's Soho, where he served an arduous but unique apprenticeship accompanying, often for several weeks at a time, the giants of American jazz. Amongst Stan's particular favourites were Sonny Rollins, Ben Webster, Roland Kirk, Dexter Gordon, Freddie Hubbard, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn. He also accompanied notoriously 'difficult' musicians such as Stan Getz, Don Byas and Lucky Thompson. Throughout these years Stan also recorded extensively as a sideman and topped the Melody Maker polls annually as best pianist, composer and arranger. In addition to this workload he managed to fit in the following:1960 - Married his third wife, Jackie.1961 - Had their son, Clark.1962 - Had their daughter, Sarah.Played in the stage show 'A Thurber Carnival'.Formed his own quartet with Bobby Wellins.1962/64 - Performed with New Departures, a jazz poetry vehicle with Michael Horovitz.1964 - Recorded 'Just Friends' with Paul Gonsalvez & Tubby Hayes.1965 - Wrote and recorded 'Under Milk Wood'.1966 Recorded soundtrack of 'Alfie' with Sonny Rollins.1966 - Recorded 'Alice In Jazz Land' with his first big band.Left Ronnie Scott's due to poor health.1967 - Toured and recorded with Ben Webster and Zoot Sims.1968 - Recorded 3 'concept' albums for his contract with Columbia Records including his least favourite of all time - 'Latin American Caper'.1969 - Formed new trio with Dave Green and Bryan Spring, the nucleus of most of Stan's groups over the following nine years.Stan recorded many albums as a band leader during this decade which may be found under his discography.
The Seventies Following Stan's departure from Ronnie Scott's there was an almost destitute period of very little activity, which his wife Jackie acted upon. She and Hazell Miller formed the Grass Roots Jazz Club in South London to provide work for friends and family. She also established the first London based Jazz Summer School, assisted with funding from the GLAA and ILEA. She also helped to set up the Musicians' Action Group with a steering commitee of new and established jazz musicians to lobby for better funding.1970 - Recorded 'Webster's Dictionary' with Ben Webster, also contributing string arrangements. 1971 - Builds musical partnerships with younger musicians such as Mike Osborne, John Surman, Trevor Watts.1972 - Stan forms 'Splinters' which included Kenny Wheeler, Tubby Hayes, Phil Seaman and John Stevens.1973 - Stan celebrated 30 years in jazz with his first Queen Elizabeth Hall Concert, the first jazz concert ever to be staged there. It was a sell-out, and Stan was back on the map just when he thought his musical career had hit the bottom.Stan forms 'Tentacles'.1974 - Stan forms his Octet.He teams up with virtuosic pianist Keith Tippett (TNT) for a series of dates and recordings.1975 - Stan wrote a suite for string quartet based on Spike Milligan’s "Small Dreams of a Scorpion’ which was performed by the Delme Quartet.His 'Under Milk Wood' recording topped the Melody Maker Best Jazz Album poll (the only British jazz record in the Top Ten).Stan formed his own record company - Steam Records. He recorded his own work with British musicians but, with no distribution outside the UK, sales were always small. Steam Records are now a sought-after collectors item.1976 - Stan made a new recording of Under Milk Wood with Donald Houston at the Wigmore Hall. This was followed by a very successful UK tour which further boosted his career.1977 - BBC1 broadcast a documentary, 'Original' in their Omnibus series, about Stan's life. Worked with his Quartet and Octet.1978 - Stan toured the UK with his Octet opposite Gil Evans' Orchestra.Collaborated with John Surman, recording 'Sonatinas'.Stan's son, Clark, joins Stan's groups on drums.1979 - Worked around the country with his new Quartet (Art Themen, Roy Babbington, Clark Tracey), Octet (Qrt + Malcolm Griffiths, Harry Beckett, Jeff Daly & Don Weller) and newly formed Sextet (Qrt + Tony Coe & Alan Wakeman). 1979 Commissioned by Bolton Festival to write The Crompton Suite for a new sextet.
The Eighties1980 - Toured South America and Mexico with his Quartet for the British Council.1980 Worked in Europe with Dutch saxophonist Gijs Hendriks.1982 - Toured The Middle East & Greece for the British Council.1984 - Received from BASCA the Gold Badge Award for Services to the British Music Industry.Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music.Premiered and toured 'The Poets Suite' in Northern Ireland.1985 - Jazz Journal International award for Musician of the Year.1985 Toured and recorded with Sal Nistico and own Quartet.1986 OBE in The Queen’s Birthday Honours.He was a member of Rolling Stones drummer, Charlie Watts’ 32 piece big band.Received Schlitz Award for Jazz Composition.1987 - Jazz Journal International awards for Musician of the Year and Record of the Year.1987 Toured with Charlie Rouse and own Quartet. 1988 - Toured and recorded with Thelonious Monk's tenor player Charlie Rouse.
The Nineties 1990 - Stan transcribes and performs excerpts from Duke Ellington's Sacred Music Concerts for Big Band and choir, premiereing at Durham Cathedral for its 900th anniversary celebrations. The music has been performed subsequently in cathedrals across the land.1992 - British Jazz Awards - Best Pianist.1993 - Awarded Fellowship of the City of Leeds College of Music.Jazz Journal International - Album of the Year.Guardian/Wire Awards - Best Composer of the Year.BBC Radio 2 Jazz Awards - Composer/Arranger.British Jazz Awards - Best Composer/Arranger & Best Album Release for Portraits Plus (also nominated for the Mercury Music Prize).50th Anniversary Concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall, recorded and released on Blue Note International.Stan composes for the classical ensemble The Ebony Quartet.1994 - British Jazz Awards - Best re-issue CD for Under Milk Wood.1995 - British Jazz Awards - Best Composer/Arranger & Best Small Group.When Stan was invited to appear at The Jazz Club in Hong Kong, the club contacted Governor Chris Patten who arrived with the Head of Arts from the British Council. Thereafter, he commissioned Stan to write a suite which captured the colony's cultural vitality.Stan forms new Quartet with Gerard Presencer, Andrew Cleyndert and Clark Tracey.1996 - Stan's 70th Birthday Concert at Queen Elizabeth Hall which reunited Stan with his old partner Bobby Wellins. 1997 - British Jazz Awards - Best Composer/Arranger.Received Hon.D. Lit. - University of Hertfordshire.Received Silver Medal - Worshipful Company of Musicians.'The Hong Kong Suite' for Stan's Octet was premiered in Beijing and Guangzhou in mainland China - the first British jazz musician to perform there. In Hong Kong they gave the last performance at Government House before the changeover.1998 - Stan takes Under Milk Wood on the road again with Bobby Wellins back on board with narration by acclaimed actor Philip Madoc.1999 - British Jazz Awards - Best Composer/Arranger.Stan’s Big Band is one of the highlight of the Ellington Centennial celebrations on the South Bank at the Queen Elizabeth Hall.Stan was Sue Lawley’s guest on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4.Stan and his Quartet toured Canada, performing at six major Canadian jazz festivals including the Montreal International Jazz Festival.His Quartet perform at the British Ambassador's residence in Washington D.C.
2000 - present 2001 - Stan's Big Band headlines at the Royal Festival Hall and is the first jazz band to perform at newly opened Tate Modern Museum in London2002 - Lifetime Achievement Award at BBC Jazz AwardsStan receives an Arts Council commission to write and perform 30 minutes of music with Clark Tracey in an 11-piece project called "Continental Shift"Stan's Big Band perform Ellington's Sacred Music at Chelmsford CathedralStan works in Vicenza with Evan Parker2003 - Multi-screening of Channel 4's TV documentary on Stan: "The Godfather of British Jazz"2004 - Stan's Big Band perform Ellington's Sacred Music at Rochester Cathedral2005 - Stan's Quartet appear in concert on 'Jazz Britannia', a TV programme highlighting British Jazz Stan's Quartet performs at Rotterdam Festival with Benjamin HermanStan receives Parliamentary Awards Best Album of the Year for his Quartet album "The Last Time I Saw You"2006 - Stan performs in Novara with Louis MoholoVicenza and Brecon Jazz Festivals make Stan their featured artistStan's Big Band perform Ellington's Sacred Music at St.Pauls CathedralStan's Quartet performs in Roccella and his Trio perform opposite Wayne Shorter at The BarbicanStan holds his 80th bithday concert at the Bull's Head, London

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