MAUREESE ITSON
Maureese Itson is a renowned, up and coming Inspirational Saxophonist in the Seattle area. His desire is to inspire people to “Love God, Love People, and Live Amazing” through the gift of music. “It amazes me to see the joy and feel the love from people through music. Music awakens my soul”. He began his love for music growing up in Atlanta, GA. He is a retired Air Force veteran where he spent 20+ years serving. He has a lovely wife and daughter that he loves dearly.
Maureese has been featured on the local Trinity Broadcast Network “Seattle Praise the Lord”, The Washington State Fair, Argosy cruises, the Islander Yacht, and the Gaillard in Charleston, SC. He has performed and shared the stage with artist Michael Bolton, The Mighty Clouds of Joy, Gospel Jazz Artist Ben Tankard, Saxophonist Tom Braxton, Contemporary Christian artists “The Benions”, Jazz Trumpeter Bobby Medina, The Jazz Disciples, Toyin Adekale to name a few. Keep a look out for up coming events in the Seattle area, nationally and abroad from this sought after artist.
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Jack Sharpe was born on August 19, 1930 in London, England. He began playing tenor saxophone at age eighteen. He played with Vic Lewis and Teddy Foster in the early 1950s and freelanced in the London area.
While working as a taxi driver in 1953 he played with Dizzy Reece in 1954, then in Tubby Hayes’s band the following year until 1956. Jack played with Mike Senn in the Downbeaters after 1957, worked further with Hayes, and led his own sextet in 1958. He went on to promote and book other musicians.
In the early 1970s Sharpe managed a nightclub where he led the house band on weekends. By 1975 he had left music intermittently to continue driving a cab. He returned to jazz in 1985, playing with Alan Branscombe and leading a Tubby Hayes tribute band.
Tenor saxophonist and bandleader Jack Sharpe, who was mainly active on the London jazz scene, transitioned on November 4, 1994.
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Murray McEachern was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on August 16, 1915 and studied the violin at the Toronto Conservatory of Music as a boy, and played his first concert recital at Massey Hall at age 12. As a teenager he studied both the saxophone and clarinet, playing with Lucio Agostini and also appearing on CRBC with Percy Faith. Over time he became proficient on several instruments, including the trombone, bass and trumpet.
In 1936, he went to Chicago, Illinois in search of work and got a break as soloist on trombone for Benny Goodman’s big band. He also worked with the Jack Hylton orchestra and then with the Casa Loma Orchestra led by Glen Gray from 1937-41. In 1941, McEachern joined the Paul Whiteman orchestra and shortly after began entertaining U.S. troops during World War II. Two years after the end of the war he went to work with the Phil Moore orchestra.
Murray did studio work in his later career for Hollywood films, including solo performances in The Glenn Miller Story, Paris Blues and The Benny Goodman Story. In the 1960s he was in the Morey Amsterdam Orchestra for the Morey Amsterdam Show on Television Station KTLA in Los Angeles.
A successful recording artist as leader, McEachern toured Europe in 1972 and briefly worked with the Duke Ellington orchestra the following year. He was owner/director of the Tommy Dorsey orchestra from 1974-77.
Trombonist and alto saxophonist Murray McEachern transitioned on April 28, 1982.
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SURF RIDE | ART PEPPER
Saxophonist Art Pepper made his debut recording session of Surf Ride in Los Angeles, California on March 4, 1952, when he recorded tracks 4-6 on the album. Subsequent recording sessions took place on March 29, 1953 when he recorded tracks 1-3 and then on August 25, 1954 recording tracks 7-12. The three sessions resulted in the completion of the twelve takes that ultimately made it to the album.
The album was produced by Ozzie Cadena and originally released as a 12 inch LP on the Savoy label in 1956. The liner notes were written by Yasukuni Terashima and the cover offers a clear though slightly too wholesome California motif to be considered for an addition to the cheesy Fifties Batchelor Collection of “girls on covers “, though the redhead in bikini helps.
TRACKLIST | 37:25 All compositions by Art Pepper except where noted.-
- Tickle Toe (Lester Young) – 2:55
- Chili Pepper – 3:00
- Susie the Poodle – 3:14
- Brown Gold – 2:26
- Holiday Flight – 3:1
- Surf Ride – 2:54
- Straight Life – 2:52
- Cinnamon – 3:11
- Thyme Time – 3:30
- The Way You Look Tonight (Dorothy Fields, Jerome Kern) – 3:48
- Nutmeg – 3:15
- Art’s Oregano – 3:08
- Art Pepper – alto saxophone
- Jack Montrose – tenor saxophone (tracks 7-12)
- Russ Freeman (tracks 1-3), Hampton Hawes (tracks 4-6), Claude Williamson (tracks 7-12) – piano
- Monty Budwig (tracks 7-12), Joe Mondragon (tracks 4-6), Bob Whitlock (tracks 1-3) – bass
- Larry Bunker (tracks 4-12), Bobby White (tracks 1-3) – drums
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Peter John King was born on August 11, 1940 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England. He took up the clarinet and saxophone as a teenager, entirely self-taught. His first public appearances were in 1957, playing alto in a trad jazz group at the Swan Public House in a group organized by trumpeter Alan Rosewell. After the performance he chose to be a professional musician. He came under the strong musical influence of Charlie Parker developing a bebop style inspired by Parker.
In 1959, at the age of 19, he was booked by Ronnie Scott to perform at the opening of Scott’s club in Gerrard Street, London, England. In the same year, he received the Melody Maker New Star award. He worked with Johnny Dankworth’s orchestra from 1960 to 1961, and went on to work with the big bands of Maynard Ferguson, Tubby Hayes, Harry South, and Stan Tracey, the Brussels Big Band, and the Ray Charles band on a European tour.
He played in small groups with musicians such as Philly Joe Jones, Zoot Sims, Al Cohn, Red Rodney, Hampton Hawes, Nat Adderley, Al Haig, John Burch, Bill Watrous, and Dick Morrissey, Tony Kinsey, Bill Le Sage, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Williams, Jon Hendricks, and Anita O’Day. His musical curiosity led him to associate with freer idioms in John Stevens’ ‘Freebop’ group in the 1980s. He appeared on the soundtrack of the 1969 film The Italian Job. He was a member of the Charlie Watts Tentet.
From the early 1990s, his style matured and flourished as an improviser and a composer. He found ways to combine jazz and classical techniques without diluting either and he recorded the results on his albums Tamburello, Lush Life and Janus with the Lyric String Quartet.
He won the BBC ‘Musician of the Year’ award, appeared in the documentary film, No One But Me, discussing jazz vocalist Annie Ross and appeared in the movies Blue Ice and The Talented Mr. Ripley. His autobiography Flying High was widely praised for its candour and honesty about his musical career and personal life, his international associations in the jazz world, and the many years in which he battled addiction. Saxophonist, clarinetist and composer Peter King transitioned on August 23, 2020 in Putney, South London, England at 80.