Word: bebop
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...Learning from Performers program. Sanabria, along with Bauzá, performed at Harvard with the jazz band in the early ’90s, and looks forward to “keeping Mario’s legacy alive” during this performance. Lynch’s background is in bebop and jazz; his interest in Latin music came as an “outgrowth” of his passion for jazz, he says. According to Everett, he is the trumpeter of choice for Eddie Palmieri, a pioneer of Afro-Caribbean music. “Jazz and Latin really go hand...
DIED. Freddy Fender, 69, three-time Grammy winner who began his career as "El Bebop Kid," singing Elvis songs in Spanish, and in 1975 topped the pop and country charts with Before the Next Teardrop Falls; of lung cancer; in Corpus Christi, Texas. Born Baldemar Huerta to migrant parents in South Texas, he based his stage name on the brand of his guitar and later joined two critically acclaimed Tex-Mex bands, the Texas Tornados and Los Super Seven...
DIED. Hilton Ruiz, 54, classical prodigy turned versatile Latin jazz and bebop pianist who collaborated with Joe Henderson, Tito Puente and Charles Mingus, recorded more than a dozen albums, including Steppin' into Beauty and Enchantment, and saw his elegant, polyrhythmic compositions featured in such films as American Beauty and Crimes and Misdemeanors; after having been found last month with severe head injuries outside a bar in New Orleans' French Quarter; in New Orleans, where he had been working on a project to benefit hurricane victims...
...antics that he stomped offstage. Yet on this night of May 15, 1953, at Toronto's Massey Hall, the musicians, along with drummer Max Roach, somehow pulled together to give an incandescent, unforgettable performance. Captured in a low-fi taping by Mingus and Roach, the concert showed what bebop--and live jazz--was all about...
...weekend, he returns to his college town—only this time he’ll be playing across the Charles in Cambridge’s Regattabar Jazz Club. After leaving school, Rosenwinkel toured internationally with famed vibraphonist Gary Burton. He later joined Paul Motian’s Electric Bebop Band, where he flourished throughout the early 90s. Since then, Rosenwinkel has established himself as an original sound—not such an easy thing to do in a jazz scene crammed with guitarists and appraised by critics who claim that Pat Metheny and John Scofield have already closed...