Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Michel Delville was born on April 30, 1969 in Liège, Belgium. He has been performing and composing alternative music since the mid-1980s. His bands include The Wrong Object, douBt, Machine Mass feat. Dave Liebman, Alex Maguire’s Electric 6tet, the New Texture Pan Tonal Fellowship, the Ed Mann Project, and the Moving Tones.
He has worked with Elton Dean, Annie Whitehead, Harry Beckett, Richard Sinclair, Ed Mann, Dagmar Krause, Benoît Moerlen, Karen Mantler, Geoff Leigh, Markus Stauss, Guy Segers, Klaus Blasquiz, Gilad Atzmon, and Dirk Wachtelear.
In 2009 Delville created the trio douBt with Alex Maguire and Tony Bianco and released their debut album, Never Pet a Burning Dog. The following year he was invited to join and coordinate Comicoperando, a tribute to the music of Robert Wyatt. The band toured Europe and Canada as a sextet in 2011, then went on to collaborate with the international collective 48 Cameras and Robin Rimbaud. In 2018 he was voted one of the three best electric guitarists of the year by Arnaldo DeSouteiro’s Annual Jazz Station Poll.
He has authored, edited or co-edited numerous books about comparative poetics and interdisciplinary studies and has been awarded several times for his writings. The rank of Officer of the Order of Leopold I was bestowed upon him in 2009, and he received the 2009 Prix Wernaers for research and dissemination of knowledge. He has recorded more than three dozen albums across the groups he has founded or been a part of.
Guitarist, writer and critic Michel Delville, who composes and performs in the jazz fusion and progressive rock genres, teaches literature at the University of Liège, and continues to compose and perform.
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The Quarantined Jazz Voyager
The Jazz Voyager is still practicing social distancing and masking at unknown vac gatherings because the airlines have extended my eCredit another year. The news is talking about another variant and this voyager is vigilant in remaining safe.
This week I am pulling from the library Phineas Newborn Jr. Plays Harold Arlen’s Music from Jamaica. It is an album by the pianist, produced by A. K. Salim, and recorded on September 7, 8 & 9, 1957 in New York City and released on the RCA Victor label. The album features his interpretations of compositions from the Broadway musical Jamaica.
Track List | 38:00 All compositions by Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
- Savannah ~ 4:10
- Little Biscuit ~ 3:03
- Cocoanut Sweet ~ 4:23
- Push De Button ~ 4:23
- Napoleon ~ 4:20
- Hooray For De Yankee Dollar ~ 3:31
- For Every Fish ~ 3:47
- Take It Slow, Joe ~ 4:20
- Pity the Sunset ~ 4:07
- Pretty to Walk With ~ 2:52
- Phineas Newborn Jr. ~ piano
- Ernie Royal (tracks 2, 4 & 6-9), Nick Ferrante (tracks 1, 3, 5 & 10) ~ trumpet
- Jimmy Cleveland ~ trombone
- Jerome Richardson ~ tenor saxophone, flute
- Sahib Shihab ~ baritone saxophone, alto saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
- Les Spann ~ guitar
- George Duvivier ~ bass
- Osie Johnson ~ drums
- Francisco Pozo, Willie Rodriguez ~ congas, bongos, timbale
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Daily Dose Of Jazz…
Norma Louise Teagarden was born in Vernon, Texas on April 28, 1911 into a musical family that consisted of her mother Helen, who played ragtime piano and taught; her brothers Charlie, a trumpeter, Clois, a drummer, and Jack, a trombonist. She performed with the latter in the 1940s and 1950s.
She performed on piano and violin during the early part of her career, which began in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In the 1920s she moved to New Mexico and worked in territory bands, returning to Oklahoma City in the 1930s. After another stint there she moved to California in the 1940s touring with her brother Jack from 1944–1947 and from 1952–1955.
Outside the Teagarden family, Norma worked with Ben Pollack, Matty Matlock, and Ray Bauduc. Eventually settling in San Francisco, California she often performed on solo piano and with bandleader Turk Murphy.
Pianist and violinist Norma Teagarden transitioned on June 6, 1996.
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Denzil DaCosta Best was born April 27, 1917 in New York City, New York into a musical Caribbean family originally from Barbados. Trained on piano, trumpet, and bass, he concentrated on the drums starting in 1943. Between the years 1943 and 1946 he worked with Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet and Chubby Jackson.
Known to sit in at Minton’s Playhouse, he took part in a recording with George Shearing in 1948 and was a founding member of his Quartet, remaining there until 1952. In 1949, he stepped out to play on a recording session with Lennie Tristano for Capitol Records and recorded later with Lee Konitz.
In 1953 a car accident fractured both legs and Best was forced into temporary retirement until 1954. His comeback had him playing with Artie Shaw, and then in a trio with Erroll Garner (1955–57), including Garner’s live album Concert by the Sea. He went on to play with Phineas Newborn, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday and Tyree Glenn. 1962 saw him in the drummer’s seat on Shiela Jordan’s first album Portrait of Sheila.
Best composed several bebop tunes, including Move, Wee, Nothing But D. Best, and Dee Dee’s Dance. With Thelonious Monk he composed Bemsha Swing and his composition 45 Degree Angle was recorded by Herbie Nichols and Mary Lou Williams.
Suffering from paralysis after the Jordan recording session, drummer, percussionist and composer Denzil Best, who was a prominent bebop drummer in the 1950s and early 1960s, transitioned after falling down a staircase in a New York City subway station at the age of 48 on May 24, 1965.
Three Wishes
Harold Vick was asked what his three wishes would be and he told Pannonica this:
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“To be able to play my instrument.”
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“Some money.”
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“And help a chick. You know: We have a common understanding!”
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