Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Lauderic Caton was born on August 31, 1910 in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago was the fourth son and last of the eight children. An autodidact on guitar, which he played professionally from the age of 17, however, he was also proficient on saxophone, double bass, and banjo.
After spending time in Guadeloupe and Martinique, he moved to Europe in 1938, playing in Paris, France with guitarist Oscar Alemán. Soon he was in Brussels, Belgium playing with Ram Ramirez, Jean Omer, Harry Pohl, and Jamaican Joe Smith. While in Antwerp, Belgium he played with Gus Clark and Tommy Brookins.
Influenced by Lonnie Johnson and Charlie Christian, he first began using an amplifier in 1940. Lauderic played in England with Don Marino Barreto and saxophonist Louis Stephenson, with whom he became a frequent collaborator. Together they led a house band at Jig’s Club.
He has worked with Cyril Blake, Johnny Claes, Bertie King, Harry Parry, Dick Katz, and Coleridge Goode. Late in the 1940s Caton played with Ray Ellington and Ray Nance, playing under the pseudonym “Lawrence Rix” for legal reasons. Later in his life he also taught and built custom amplifiers.
Leaving music at the end of the 1950s, he was the musical arranger for Walking on Air. Guitarist Lauderic Caton, who was an early proponent of the use of electric guitar in Britain, particularly in jazz, passed away in London, England on February 19, 1999. He is buried in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
More Posts: history,istrumental,music
Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Gilbert Rovère was born on August 29, 1939, Toulon, France and attended the Conservatory of Nice studying the double bass. He becme one of the most in-demand musicians in France in the Sixties.
He appeared and/or recorded with Bud Powell, Dexter Gordon, René Thomas, Jean-Luc Ponty, Barney Wilen, Al Haig, and Steve Grossman among others. For several years during his career Rovère was a member of the Martial Solal Trio with Daniel Humair.
Bibi was hired by Duke Ellington to play a Paris recording session with the orchestra and Alice Babs in 1963. He also hired him the following year to play with one of Duke’s small groups on the Italian Riviera.
Bassist Gilbert ‘Bibi’ Rovère, who received the Prix Django Reinhardt award in 1967, passed away from cancer in southern France on March 13, 2007 in Gorbio, France. He was 67.
Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Rabih Abou-Khalil ربيع أبو خليل, was born August 17, 1957 in Beirut, Lebanon and studied the oud at the Beirut Conservatory with oudist Georges Farah. After moving to Munich, Germany at 21, he studied classical flute at the Academy of Music under Walther Theurer.
Combining elements of Arabic music with jazz, rock, or classical music, he has earned praise as a world musician years before the phrase became a label. Along with Tunisian oud virtuosos Anouar Brahem and Dhafer Youssef, he has helped establish the oud as an important instrument of Ethno jazz and world fusion.
Among other musicians, Abou-Khalil has worked with ARTE Quartett, Alexander Bălănescu, Luciano Biondini, Milton Cardona, Sonny Fortune, Michel Godard, Joachim Kühn, Howard Levy, Charlie Mariano, Ricardo Ribeiro, Steve Swallow, Kenny Wheeler. He has recorded for ECM, Enja, MMP, Granit, and World Village record labels.
Rabih has hosted the 13 part documentary television series Visions of Music, that explores the blending of jazz with different music styles of the world. The music of the TV-series was released on the album Visions of Music – World Jazz by Enja Records.
Oudist Rabih Abou~Khalil continues to be active in music, composing, recording and performing worldwide.
More Posts: bandleader,composer,instrumental,music,oud
Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Tommy Vig was born on July 14, 1938 in Budapest, Hungary. Internationally recognized as a child prodigy by the age of 6, he played drums with his father, clarinetist Gyorgy Vig and performed concerts on Budapest State Radio, at the City Theatre, the Academy of Music, and the National Circus. By age 8, he made the album The World Champion Kid Drummer with Austrian jazz players in Vienna, Austria including Hans Koller, Ernst Landl, and the Hot Club of Vienna for Elite Special. The following year his drumming won him the 1947 MGM-Jazz Competition in Budapest and as a result made several recordings with the Chappy’s Mopex Big Band for His Master’s Voice.
Completing his studies at the Bartók Conservatory in 1955 and the Ferenc Erkel Music High School in 1956, due to the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, he fled to Vienna, where he played concerts with Fatty George and Joe Zawinul. A move to the United States saw him on scholarship at Juilliard School of Music. Since then he has been writing and conducting concerts.
In 1970 Vig relocated to Los Angeles, California where he worked in the studios of Warner Bros., Fox, Universal, CBS, Columbia, ABC, Disney, Goldwyn, MGM, and Paramount. He played on 1500 studio sessions in Hollywood, two Academy Awards, and produced, directed, and conducted the official 1984 Olympic Jazz Festival for the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee. He wrote the music for 30 films and television shows, and added percussion on the recording of Quincy Jones’s soundtrack to Roots.
Vig has worked with Red Rodney, Don Ellis, Cat Anderson, Terry Gibbs, Art Pepper, Milcho Leviev, Joe Pass, the Miles Davis-Gil Evans Big Band. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Tony Curtis, Woody Allen, Judy Garland, Tony Bennett and Rod Stewart.
Since 2006, vibraharpist, drummer, percussionist, xylophonist and marimba player Tommy Vig, who has won several awards, has been performing concerts with his wife, appearing on radio and television, and recording albums.
More Posts: bandleader,drums,educator,history,instrumental,jazz,marimba,music,percussion,vibraharp,xylophone
The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
Having completely adapted to a new modus operandi for living this glorious life, I remain vigilant in my social distancing and reminding myself of music I haven’t listened to in a long time. This week I’m pulling out the late great Roy Hargrove who had the vision to record With The Tenors of Our Time. It’s a 1994 release on the Polygram Record label that was recorded at Teatro Mancinelli and Giani Grascinelli Sound Service with executive producer Richard Seidel. The album’s art direction and design is by David Lau, photography by James Minchin, liner notes by Jimmy Katz.
>Others in the team contributing to the production of this album were Larry Clothier ~ production, engineering, mixing; Ed Rak ~ engineering, mastering, mixing; Robert Friedrich ~ assistant engineering; Troy Halderson ~ mastering; Camille Tominaro ~ production coordination; and Nelly Muganda ~ make-up and hair stylist.
Track Listing | 72:56- Soppin’ the Biscuit (composer Roy Hargrove, featuring Stanley Turrentine) ~ 7:59
- When We Were One (composer Johnny Griffin, featuring Johnny Griffin) ~ 5:59
- Valse Hot (composer Sonny Rollins, featuring Branford Marsalis, Ron Blake) ~ 6:57
- Once Forgotten (composer Pamela Watson, featuring Ron Blake on tenor and soprano saxophone) ~ 5:45
- Shade of Jade (composer Joe Henderson, featuring Joe Henderson) ~ 5:24
- Greens at the Chicken Shack (composer Cyrus Chestnut, featuring Johnny Griffin) ~ 5:45
- Never Let Me Go (composer Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, featuring Rodney Whitaker) ~ 5:36
- Serenity (composer Joe Henderson, featuring Joe Henderson) ~ 5:35
- Across the Pond (composer Roy Hargrove, featuring Joshua Redman) ~ 6:47
- Wild Is Love (composer Robert Mickens and G. Brown, featuring Stanley Turrentine) ~ 6:50
- Mental Phrasing (composer Roy Hargrove, featuring Ron Blake, Joshua Redman) ~ 6:25
- April’s Fool (composer Ron Blake) ~ 3:54
- Roy Hargrove – trumpet, flugelhorn (2,4,7,10), production
- Cyrus Chestnut – piano
- Rodney Whitaker – bass
- Gregory Hutchinson – drums
- Ron Blake – soprano, tenor saxophone
- Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
- Joe Henderson – tenor saxophone
- Branford Marsalis – tenor saxophone
- Joshua Redman – tenor saxophone
- Stanley Turrentine – tenor saxophone
More Posts: adventure,album,club,genius,jazz,museum,music,preserving,restaurant,saxophone,travel,trumpet