Drummer Ray Bauduc began his career playing in theaters to accompany silent films. While still at school worked with the cornetist Emmett Hardy and the group “The Six Nola Jazzers. In 1924 he toured with the orchestra of Johnny Bayersdorffer, after which she found work with the group “The Scranton Sirens” which included Billy Lustig in 1925 and the violinist Joe Venuti with guitarist Eddie Lang in 1926. Then he spent a couple of years playing drums and dancing “tap dancing” as a member of Fred Rich’s band that he toured in the circuits of “vaudeville”.  Read the rest of this entry »

The man who would be leader of one of the most extraordinary jazz bands in history and make it the absolute paradigm of “swing band” to imitate, he begins receiving her first piano lessons from his mother, a laundress in love music. In 1923 he leaves for New York and listen to great pianists like “stride” prevailing at the time: Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and Willie “The Lion” Smith, primarily. His first important professional work came in 1925 when you are engaged in the group that accompanies singer and dancer, Katie Krippen. Shortly after participating in the “vaudeville”, a genre of music with lyrics spicy, which makes the famous “TOBA circuit” acronym “Theater Owners Booking Association, union of entrepreneurs specializing in entertainment for blacks in the U.S.  Read the rest of this entry »

Wife of trombonist, composer and creator of the group “Art Ensemble of Chicago Lester Bowie, the singer, Fontella Bass said in his teenage years in the field of Rhythm and Blues, as part of a musical directed by her husband. Years later bent for singing gospel and soul roots. The spiritual music, soul music, made it known in the world since it had some extraordinary talent to sing and interpret the music. Read the rest of this entry »

It was from the sixties, when the saxophonist, Gary Bartz (with equal skill mastered the alto and the soprano) was released reaching enormous popularity. At that time he recorded several albums as a sideman, accompanying the combustible drummer, Art Blakey and the no less explosive, Max Roach. It is also noteworthy collaborations with Jackie McLean, pianist, McCoy Tyner, or himself, Miles Davis. In short, Gary Bartz, is a sought-after musician in the jazz world stage and his experience alongside dedicated jazz figures, provided him with land that knew how to use to start a solo career. Read the rest of this entry »

Kenny Barron, began to take piano lessons at age twelve and in 1957 achieved its first participation in an orchestra. After a brief stint training for Philly Joe Jones and Yusef Lateef (1960), she moved to New York, where he worked with Ted Curson and then with James Moody, Lee Morgan, Lou Donaldson (1961).

The following year he played with Roy Haynes, before replacing (on the recommendation of James Moody) Lalo Schiffrin in Dizzy Gillespie’s quintet, which is disclosed and leaving in 1966 to play with Freddie Hubbard and Stanley Turrentine. In March 1970 he joined the quartet of Yusef Read the rest of this entry »

Ray Barretto was born in the heart of Brooklyn in New York, but it could be said that had the soul of salsa musician most proper of any Caribbean island city of skyscrapers. Barretto, is a major congueros of American music and his contributions to jazz since succeeding Mongo Santamaria in Tito Puente’s orchestra is very important.

Ray Barretto, who later became known as “Hard Hands” (hard hands) was born in 1929 in Brooklyn, New York, in the bosom of a Puerto Rican family on the birth of her passion for music through his mother, a passionate about everything sounded to Afro-Caribbean. At that time, his heroes were Latino stars as Arsenio Rodriguez and Machito. But then, to start listening on the radio to the great jazz artists as Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington, Barretto discovered musically, his other musical passion: Jazz . In those years, Barretto laid the foundation for later become one of the musicians in Latin jazz reference. Your environment and life experience and musical Hispanic ghettos of Harlem and the Bronx, and on the other hand his passion for the swing of Ellington, Basie and Goodman provided her things  Read the rest of this entry »

Charlie Barnet, was born in New York in a family of wealthy and influential in New York high society. At age eight she learned to play the saxophone and regardless of legal studies he wanted his family, embarked on a jazz band called “SS Republic” that crossed the Atlantic. On his return he was passionate about jazz, and after several skirmishes with his group for Texas and California in the late thirties, wandering through the black neighborhood of Harlem in search of the roots of that music played night after night.  Read the rest of this entry »

Alan Barnes is one of the most sought after musicians in British jazz. Considered one of the greatest virtuosos of the sax in the UK, from an early age showed a passion for music. Born in Altrincham, Cheshire, in 1959, he studied saxophone at the Conservatory of Leeds and in the 80s he joined the Midnite Follies Orchestra and the Pasadena Roof Orchestra.

He was later recruited by the band of Tommy Chase bebop, where it drew considerable attention as a rising star in the British jazz scene. Shortly after Chase left the band to form the Jazz Renegades with Steve White, with whom was an acclaimed success. In 1988, Alan was invited to join the Humphrey Lyttelton Band.  Read the rest of this entry »

The pianist and Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim began studying piano at age five with his parents and made his first official concert in Buenos Aires at seven, in August 1950. Barenboim family moved to Israel in 1952 and two years after the parents took Daniel to Salzburg to attend classes direction of Igor Markevitch. That same summer Barenboim met Wilhelm Furtwängler, played for him and attended some of the essays as a concert of the great conductor. In 1955 the young Daniel Barenboim studied harmony and composition with Nadia Boulanger in Paris.  Read the rest of this entry »

Gato Barbieri, tenor sax discovered thanks to an uncle jazz saxophonist and listening to Charlie Parker in 1944. Start playing the fife (clarinet small). For five years taking clarinet lessons in Buenos Aires, but also is interested in the alto saxophone and composition.

In 1955 he played in the orchestra by Lalo Schiffrin, and adopts the tenor saxophone. In 1962, after a short period of time in Brazil, has settled in Rome and works as with guitarist Jim Hall, and trumpeter Ted Curson. In 1965 he met Don Cherry in Paris and recorded two albums with him for Blue Note ” Complete Communion “(1965) and” Symphony For Improvisers “(1966). First recorded under his name in 1967 two albums ( “In Search Of The Mystery” and “Obsession.”) Then collaborates with Carla Bley and Charlie Haden on the “Liberation Orchestra. Read the rest of this entry »