Muniini K. Mulera

Blowing in from Chicago - Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore

Blowing in from Chicago - Clifford Jordan & John Gilmore

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicNovember 6, 20210 comments

#Clifford #Jordan #John #Gilmore #Jazz #Bebop #Blue #Note #Chicago

Blowing in from Chicago Clifford Jordan – tenor saxophone John Gilmore – tenor saxophone Curly Russell – bass Art Blakey – drums Blue Note BLP 1549 Mono Recorded March 3, 1957 Recorded by Rudy Van Gelder Hackensack, New Jersey Produced by Alfred Lion ...

Horace Silver: Swinging, grooving master of hard bop piano

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicSeptember 2, 20210 comments

#Horace #Silver #hard #bop

Name: Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver Born: September 2, 1928 Norwalk, Connecticut, USA Died: June 18, 2014 New Rochelle, New York, USA Instrument: Piano A great composer, Horace Silver was one of the finest pianists of the hard bop jazz music. His recordings for Blue ...

Tina Brooks: Forgotten tenor saxophonist in life, revered by connoisseurs in death.

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicFebruary 20, 20210 comments

#Tina #Brooks #Blue #Note #Jazz #Hard #Bop

Tina Brooks. Tina, as in tiny or teeny because of his small size and gentle, shy nature. A name hardly known, yet up there with the best tenor saxophonists of the Golden Age of Jazz music. Tina Brooks belongs in that top tier club that had in its ranks people like John Coltrane, Hank ...

Kenny Dorham – trumpet master

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicJanuary 6, 20210 comments

#Kenny #Dorham #Jazz #Hard #Bop

Kenny Dorham – trumpet master Born August 30, 1924 in Fairfield, Texas Died December 5, 1972 in New York, New York One of the great trumpet masters and composers of Bebop/Hard Bop. His recordings on the Blue Note label stand shoulder to shoulder with those of better celebrated ...

Edward Lee Morgan (1938-1972): lee-way

By Muniini K. MuleraMy Kind of Music Jazz MusicMay 12, 20200 comments

#Lee #Morgan #Jazz #Hard #Bop #trumpet

To my ears, Edward Lee Morgan was the best of the best trumpeters in the Hard Bop idiom.His very premature death, gunned down by his spouse while he was at work at Slug's Saloon, a club in New York City, ended a very brief but brilliant career of a young man that had enjoyed great ...