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Jazz Lab is an album by American jazz trumpeter Donald Byrd and ... the album 4½ stars, stating: "With some of the best arrangements heard in jazz and excellent solos by Gryce, Byrd, and Flanagan, Jazz Lab makes for an excellent introduction to the hard bop ... Tommy Flanagan (tracks 1-3 & 6), Wade Legge (tracks 4, 5 & 7) - piano;
Hace 1 día · In 1978, after appearing for years as a sideman and also an accompanist to Ella Fitzgerald and Tony Bennett, pianist Tommy Flanagan (1930-2001) formed his Super Jazz Trio, with bassist Reggie Workman and drummer Joe Chambers. This album was the group’s first release, but had only limited distribution in the United States. It was reissued ...
Released. 1996 — US. CD —. Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, Stereo. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1995 CD release of "Jazz Lab / Modern Jazz Perspective" on Discogs.
Tommy Flanagan. Thomas Lee Flanagan (March 16, 1930 – November 16, 2001) was an American jazz pianist and composer. He grew up in Detroit, initially influenced by such pianists as Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, and Nat King Cole, and then by bebop musicians.
Tommy Flanagan was as lucid, refined and swinging a pianist as any in the history of jazz. Influenced initially by the light touch and fluent execution of Teddy Wilson and the relentless virtuosity of Art Tatum, he added the harmonic and rhythmic punch of bebop musicians like Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk to his armoury, and emerged as one of ...
This excellent CD combines two COLUMBIA albums, 'Jazz Lab' & 'Modern Jazz Perspective'', recorded in 1957 and co-led by trumpeter Donald Byrd(1932-2013) & alto saxophonist Gigi Gryce(1925-83) with Tommy Flanagan, Wade Legge or Wynton Kelly(piano); Wendell Marshall(bass) & Art Taylor(drums).
20 de dic. de 2022 · In addition to hosting Jazz à la Mode since 1984, Tom writes the jazz blog and produces the Jazz Beat podcast at NEPM. He began working in jazz radio in 1977 at WCUW, a community-licensed radio station in Worcester, Massachusetts.
