got harder after ‘Don’t Let The Sun Catch You Crying’ seized up at No. 6, though it did establish the group in North America. Backed by new Pacemakers, Gerry Marsden (vocals, guitar) became a popular draw on Swinging Sixties nostalgia revues. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Berry Gordy | Sixties | Rock ...
Gerry Mulligan was the leading exponent of the baritone saxophone in jazz, and one of the key instigators of the style that came to be known as cool jazz. Along with trumpeter Chet Baker, Mulligan came to exemplify the cool ethos in the 1950s; he returned to the roots of that style with his Re-Birth Of The Cool (1992). ...
instrument than as the carrier of bass lines. The baritone saxophone player came into his own with Harry Carney of Duke Ellington’s band and Jack Washington in Count Basie’s orchestra. Gerry Mulligan took the solo baritone to new heights and established a style of playing that continues today. The baritone has also attracted the attention of art-music composers, most notably ...
(Vocal/instrumental group, 1970–present) An Anglo-American trio formed in the UK by Gerry Beckley (guitar, vocals, keyboards), Dewey Bunnell (guitar, vocals) and Dan Peek (guitar, vocals, keyboards), sons of US military personnel and British mothers. America’s acoustically backed three-part harmonies were reminiscent of Crosby, Stills and Nash. Best-known for the transatlantic 1972 hit ‘Horse With ...
solo jazz instrument. A wonderfully lyrical player, he came up in Los Angeles’ Central Avenue jazz clubs in the 1940s and worked with Lionel Hampton, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan and alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce. In 1959–62 he and tenor saxophonist Benny Golson led the Jazztet, which had a hit with ‘Killer Joe’. Farmer was based in Europe ...
(Piano, b. 1966) The son of Broadway composer Moose Charlap and singer Sandy Stewart, Bill Charlap was inducted into professional jazz by Gerry Mulligan and has been critically acclaimed for his deft playing, superb taste and unfailing swing feel. In 2004 he succeeded pianist Dick Hyman as director of the long-established, prestigious jazz series at New York’s ...
(Piano, vocals, b. 1942) A graduate of New York’s Brill Building school of songwriting, King teamed up with lyricist and future husband Gerry Goffin to compose many 1960s smashes for other artists, although ‘It Might As Well Rain Until September’ was a hit for King under her own name in 1962. Goffin and King split up in ...
(Trumpet, 1929–88) Chet Baker was an icon of cool at the height of his fame in the 1950s. His recording of ‘My Funny Valentine’ with Gerry Mulligan in 1952 established him as a star of the emerging cool jazz genre; his boyish, film-star looks (later ravaged by drug abuse) and a light, seductively lyrical trumpet style assured his ...
up the guitar at the age of 11, inspired by both rock and blues players. He attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. After making his recording debut with Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Scofield would become a member of the Billy Cobham/George Duke band for two years. In 1977 he recorded with Charles Mingus and then joined Gary ...
(Vocals, 1943–2003) One of pop’s fairy tales. Eva Boyd was baby-sitting for Gerry Goffin and Carole King when they asked her to demo a new dance-craze song, ‘The Loco-Motion’. It was a 1962 worldwide No. 1, later covered by Kylie Minogue. Follow-up ‘Keep Your Hands Off My Baby’ also charted. The Crystals’ Goffin-King single ‘He Hit Me (And ...
issues, failed marriages, drug dependency and depression. In 1984, his father shot him dead during a family argument. Styles & Forms | Sixties | Rock Personalities | Gerry & The Pacemakers | Sixties | Rock ...
curious instrumentation and the arrangements themselves showed originality, as did the sense of tranquillity created by the lack of range in dynamics and tempo. Further arrangements by Evans and Gerry Mulligan resulted in the landmark 1949–50 sessions, later dubbed the ‘Birth Of The Cool’, which paved the way for cool jazz. That new style, which took off on ...
three years. The next two albums, First Light (1978) and Sunnyvista (1979), slowly built their fan base, but didn’t sell. Their next album, a project produced by Gerry Rafferty, could not find a label. Finally, Shoot Out The Lights (1982) was lauded by critics and sold well in the UK and in the US. The Thompsons ...
‘Well You Needn’t’ 1952–54 Complete Prestige Recordings, ‘Bemsha Swing’, ‘Blue Monk’ 1957 Monk’s Music, ‘Ruby My Dear’ Styles & Forms | Fifties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Gerry Mulligan | Fifties | Jazz & Blues ...
small bands. He worked with Benny Goodman intermittently over four decades, and was part of Woody Herman’s famous ‘Four Brothers’ saxophone section (1947–49). His small groups included stints with Gerry Mulligan (1954–56) and tenor saxophonist Al Cohn, a partnership resumed on many occasions. Styles & Forms | Fifties | Jazz & Blues Personalities | Frank Sinatra | Fifties | ...
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