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Count Bass D | August 25, 2001


Bob Florence Limited Edition - Auld Lang Syne

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A lot of you guys will somewhat recognize this. A popular tune played during New Years in celebration. Anyways, this recording means a lot to me. Bob Florence is one of my favorite composers and his big band is my favorite big band to listen to. This arrangement by him is one of my favorite recordings they’ve done. Sadly, Bob passed away a few years ago, but my girlfriend and I were so lucky to see the Bob Florence Limited Edition perform live in Santa Barbara this past year as their last tribute concert to one of the best. This was their favorite piece to close each concert with. Just this past Christmas, my girlfriend surprised me with the score to this piece as a gift, I was speechless when I saw it really…Thank you so much and I Love You Taylor! :] I’m planning to switch into music education, and once I am able to teach, this will be a piece my jazz band will play.

Anyways, there’s a little story about one of my favorite songs haha. Happy New Years everybody! Hello 2011! Follow www.tkizzee.tumblr.com!

npr: Billy Taylor, a pianist who became one of the country’s foremost ambassadors for jazz music — including many years as an NPR host — died Tuesday night. The cause was a heart attack, according to his daughter, Kim Taylor Thompson. He was 89. Born in 1921, Taylor had been a professional musician for more than six decades. After graduating from Virginia State College, he moved to New York in 1944; there, his first big gig was in the band of saxophonist Ben Webster. He would end up playing with essentially all the greats of that era, and many of them since. As a recording artist, he’s best known as the leader of a trio, a format he maintained since the 1950s, and also as the composer of the song “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free.” -From A Blog Supreme man…

npr:

Billy Taylor, a pianist who became one of the country’s foremost ambassadors for jazz music — including many years as an NPR host — died Tuesday night. The cause was a heart attack, according to his daughter, Kim Taylor Thompson. He was 89.

Born in 1921, Taylor had been a professional musician for more than six decades. After graduating from Virginia State College, he moved to New York in 1944; there, his first big gig was in the band of saxophonist Ben Webster. He would end up playing with essentially all the greats of that era, and many of them since. As a recording artist, he’s best known as the leader of a trio, a format he maintained since the 1950s, and also as the composer of the song “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free.”

-From A Blog Supreme

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RIP Teena Marie..

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Questlove - Goodbye Isaac 


Questo’s tribute to the late Isaac Hayes. Rest In Peace