Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Eddie Calhoun was born November 13, 1921 in Clarksdale, Mississippi and raised in Chicago, Illinois. During the late Forties, he worked with Dick Davis and Ahmad Jamal in the early 1950s. Through the decade he played with Horace Henderson, Johnny Griffin, Roy Eldridge, Billie Holiday, and Miles Davis. He joined Erroll Garner in 1955 and played with him through 1966, recording extensively and touring worldwide.
After his time with Garner, Calhoun settled again in Chicago, where he played with vocalist and pianist Norvel Reed from 1967 to 1968. For two years from 1972 to 1974, he ran a nightclub called Cal’s in Chicago and led a sextet at the Fantasy Club from 1975 to 1980.
1980 to 1986 saw him accompanying pianist Lennie Capp before joining the Chicago All-Stars alongside Erwin Helfer for a tour of Europe. Never recorded as a leader, he recorded ten albums as a sideman during his career. Double bassist Eddie Calhoun passed away on January 27, 1993 in Paradise Lake, Mississippi.
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Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions
Pianist Eric Reed featured guest on Conversations About Jazz on November 12
Hammonds House Digital invites you to join us for Conversations About Jazz & Other Distractions hosted by former jazz radio host and founder of Notorious Jazz, Carl Anthony. On Thursday, November 12 at 7:30 pm (EST), Carl’s special guest will be pianist, composer, and band leader Eric Reed. For the jazz novice and jazz head alike, this program is free and will stream live on Hammonds House Museum’s Facebook and YouTube
Through more than a quarter-century on the jazz scene, Eric Reed has been the leader of numerous ensembles. As a leader he’s recorded 24 albums beginning with Soldier’s Hymn-Dedicated to Art Blakey in 2007 and most recently with Everybody Gets The Blues, released in 2019. Reed is also a solo performer, composer, producer, educator, and sideman with many artists, including extended stints with Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Buster Williams, and Wynton Marsalis. Whatever the context, whatever the style, he consistently provides fresh ideas, virtuosic chops, intellectual clarity, and an unwavering will to groove. For more information: http://ericreed.net/.
Hammonds House Museum is generously supported by the Fulton County Board of Commissioners, Fulton County Arts and Culture, the City of Atlanta Mayor’s Office of Cultural Affairs, AT&T and WarnerMedia.
Hammonds House Museum’s mission is to celebrate and share the cultural diversity and important legacy of artists of African descent. The museum is the former residence of the late Dr. Otis Thrash Hammonds, a prominent Atlanta physician and a passionate arts patron. A 501(c)3 organization which opened in 1988, Hammonds House Museum boasts a permanent collection of more than 450 works including art by Romare Bearden, Robert S. Duncanson, Benny Andrews, Elizabeth Catlett, Jacob Lawrence, Hale Woodruff, Amalia Amaki, Radcliffe Bailey and Kojo Griffin. In addition to featuring art from their collection, the museum offers new exhibitions, artist talks, workshops, concerts, poetry readings, arts education programs, and other cultural events throughout the year.
Located in a beautiful Victorian home in Atlanta’s historic West End, Hammonds House Museum is a cultural treasure and a unique venue. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they continue to observe CDC guidelines, but look forward to welcoming in-person visitors soon! For more information about upcoming virtual events, and to see how you can support their mission and programming, visit their website: hammondshouse.org.
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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
POWER TO THE PEOPLE 11.12.20
As I sit socially distanced from the rest of the world ever vigilant of this pandemic, the next choice from the library is Power To The People by jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson. The album was recorded on May 23 and May 29, 1969 at Plaza Sound Studios in New York City and released on Milestone Records the same year.
Produced by Orrin Keepnews, all songs are written by Henderson except Opus One-Point-Five and Lazy Afternoon. It was his first to feature an electric instrument with Hancock playing the electric piano. This Quarantined Jazz Voyager is looking forward to listening to this lineup of talented musicians.
Track Listing | 42:27- Black Narcissus ~ 4:50
- Afro-Centric ~ 7:00
- Opus One-Point-Five (Ron Carter) ~ 4:56
- Isotope ~ 4:53
- Power to the People ~ 8:42
- Lazy Afternoon (Moross, Latouche) ~ 4:33
- Foresight and Afterthought (An Impromptu Suite in Three Movements) ~ 7:33
- Joe Henderson — tenor saxophone
- Mike Lawrence — trumpet (2, 5)
- Herbie Hancock — piano (3, 4, 6), electric piano (1, 2, 5)
- Ron Carter — bass
- Jack DeJohnette — drums
As you listen I hope you enjoy this great addition to the jazz catalog. Continue your social distancing, wear your masks and stay healthy. During this sabbatical from flying and investigating jazz around the globe, enjoy the listen and know that the world and I will be back.
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Charlie Mariano was born Carmine Ugo Mariano on November 12, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Italian immigrants. Growing up in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston, after high school, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps during World War II. After his discharge, he attended Schillinger House of Music, now Berklee College of Music. He was among the faculty at Berklee from 1965–1971.
Moving to Europe in 1971, he eventually settled in Köln, Germany, with his third wife, Dorothee Zippel. He played with one of the Stan Kenton big bands, Toshiko Akiyoshi, his second wife, Charles Mingus, Eberhard Weber, the United Jazz and Rock Ensemble, Embryo and numerous other notable bands and musicians.
He was known for his use of the nadaswaram, a classical wind instrument from Tamil Nadu. He recorded thirteen albums as a leader and another sixty records as a sideman, working with Shelly Manne, Eberhard Weber, Manny Albam, Max Bennett, Chet Baker, Philip Catherine, Serge Chaloff, Peggy Connelly, Herb Ellis, Maynard Ferguson, Michael Gibbs, John Graas, George Gruntz, Chico Hamilton, Bill Harris, Bill Holman, Jackie and Roy, Elvin Jones, Quincy Jones, Mel Lewis, Arif Mardin, Toshiko Mariano, Vince Mendoza, Modern Jazz Quartet, Mike Nock, Nat Pierce, Herb Pomeroy, Irene Reid, Johnny Richards, Jimmy Ricks, Shorty Rogers, Frank Rosolino, Sal Salvador, Fredy Studer, Harvie Swartz, McCoy Tyner, Sadao Watanabe, Stu Williamson.
Alto and soprano saxophonist Carmine Mariano passed away from cancer on June 16, 2009
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Sonny White was born Ellerton Oswald White on November 11, 1917 in Panama City, Panama. He took the nickname Sonny while a member of Jesse Stone’s band in the middle of the 1930s. Later in the decade, he played with Willie Bryant, Sidney Bechet, Frankie Newton, and Teddy Hill alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Kenny Clarke.
He recorded several sessions with Billie Holiday, with whom he had a yearlong affair in 1939, and their engagement was announced in Melody Maker that May. A member of different line-ups backing Holiday in New York between January 1939 and October 1940, Sonny performed on the classic recording of Strange Fruit.
The 1940s saw him spending time in the bands of Artie Shaw, Benny Carter, with whom he played before and after his World War II military service. He would play again with Carter, Dizzy Gillespie, Big Joe Turner, Lena Horne, Dexter Gordon from 1944 to 1946, and Hot Lips Page in 1947.
In the 1950s he played with Harvey Davis and then with Wilbur De Paris, remaining with the latter until 1964. In the 1960s he freelanced with Eddie Barefield, among others, and was working with Jonah Jones at the time of his death. Pianist Sonny White passed away on April 28, 1971 in New York City.
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