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Eugene Earl Bostic (April 25, 1913 – October 28, 1965) [1] was an American alto saxophonist. Bostic's recording career was diverse, his musical output encompassing jazz, swing, jump blues and the post-war American rhythm and blues style, which he pioneered.
Earl Bostic was a saxophone player who is often maligned, misjudged and/or misrepresented. He has been referred to as a pop instrumentalist, a screaming R&B saxophonist and a jazz musician. He was all of those, plus an outstanding technical player and improviser.
View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2001 CD release of "The Chronological Earl Bostic 1948-1949" on Discogs.
19 de oct. de 2016 · Earl Bostic. Bostic's distinctive style, strong on the sax and heavy on the beat, was quite successful in the rhythm and blues market in the 1950s. One of the few jazz musicians of his generation with formal training, Bostic studied composition at Xavier University in New Orleans in the early 1930s, and then spent several years ...
18 de may. de 2019 · Flamingo (Anderson-Grouya) by Earl Bostic & his Orchestra Influential jazz/R&B saxophone musician Bostic enjoyed his most popular mainstream success with this growling instrumental...
One of the more enigmatic artists in music history, Earl Bostic was among the most skilled saxophonists of all-time, his technical ability on par with anyone, reputedly cutting other legends such as Charlie Parker to pieces on the bandstand, yet he walked away from jazz in order to pursue a more commercial sound in rock ‘n’ roll and in the ...
