Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman, Stanley Turrentine, Yolanda Brown, Kirk Whalum, Jay Beckenstein, Eddie Daniels. Excerpt: Dick Morrissey Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey (9 May 1940, Horley, Surrey - 8 November 2000, Deal, Kent ) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute . Life Background Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain s pre-eminent sax player at the time. Self-taught, he started playing clarinet in his school band at the age of sixteen and then joining the Original Climax Jazz Band. Going on to join trumpeter Gus Galbraith's Septet, where alto-sax player Peter King introduced him to Charlie Parker 's recordings, he began specialising on tenor saxophone shortly after. Making his name as a hard bop player, he appeared regularly at the Marquee Club from August 1960, and recorded his first solo album at the age of 21, It s Morrissey, Man! (1961) for Fontana, featuring Stan Jones on piano, Colin Barnes on drums, and The Jazz Couriers founding member Malcolm Cecil on bass. He spent most of 1962 in Calcutta, India as part of the Ashley Kozak Quartet, playing three 2-hour sessions seven days a week, before returning to the UK and forming his quartet with Harry South - who had also been in the quartet in Calcutta - on piano. They were joined by former The Jazz Couriers bassist Phil Bates and variously, another ex-The Jazz Couriers member, Bill Eyden, Jackie Dougan or Phil Seamen on drums. The Dick Morrissey Quartet recorded three LPs, Have You Heard? (1963); the live recording Storm Warning! (1965) on Mercury; and Here and Now and Sounding Good! (1966). The quartet, played regular London gigs at The Bull's Head, Barne...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jazz Fusion Saxophonists: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman. To get started finding Jazz Fusion Saxophonists: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Jazz Fusion Saxophonists: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman, Stanley Turrentine, Yolanda Brown, Kirk Whalum, Jay Beckenstein, Eddie Daniels. Excerpt: Dick Morrissey Richard Edwin "Dick" Morrissey (9 May 1940, Horley, Surrey - 8 November 2000, Deal, Kent ) was a British jazz musician and composer. He played the tenor sax, soprano sax and flute . Life Background Dick Morrissey emerged in the early 1960s in the wake of Tubby Hayes, Britain s pre-eminent sax player at the time. Self-taught, he started playing clarinet in his school band at the age of sixteen and then joining the Original Climax Jazz Band. Going on to join trumpeter Gus Galbraith's Septet, where alto-sax player Peter King introduced him to Charlie Parker 's recordings, he began specialising on tenor saxophone shortly after. Making his name as a hard bop player, he appeared regularly at the Marquee Club from August 1960, and recorded his first solo album at the age of 21, It s Morrissey, Man! (1961) for Fontana, featuring Stan Jones on piano, Colin Barnes on drums, and The Jazz Couriers founding member Malcolm Cecil on bass. He spent most of 1962 in Calcutta, India as part of the Ashley Kozak Quartet, playing three 2-hour sessions seven days a week, before returning to the UK and forming his quartet with Harry South - who had also been in the quartet in Calcutta - on piano. They were joined by former The Jazz Couriers bassist Phil Bates and variously, another ex-The Jazz Couriers member, Bill Eyden, Jackie Dougan or Phil Seamen on drums. The Dick Morrissey Quartet recorded three LPs, Have You Heard? (1963); the live recording Storm Warning! (1965) on Mercury; and Here and Now and Sounding Good! (1966). The quartet, played regular London gigs at The Bull's Head, Barne...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Jazz Fusion Saxophonists: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman. To get started finding Jazz Fusion Saxophonists: Ron Holloway, Wayne Shorter, Dick Morrissey, Joe Henderson, Michael Brecker, Eddie Harris, Joshua Redman, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.