3/16/06

The Musical life of Gigi Gryce/Jazz history site


Here's a site with some bios of some under-recognized players like Gigi Gryce, Teddy Charles, Joe Locke, Elmo Hope, Kent Glenn (who I had the pleasure of playing with many times in Portland and in NYC), Carl Perkins, Tiny Kahn, Benny Powell, Lucky Thompson and Frank Strozier (one of my all-time favorite alto players).

I just ordered Noal's biography on Gigi Gryce, it look's extremely interesting. Did you know that he converted to Islam and changed his name to Basheer Qusim?

Noal Cohen's Jazz history site

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thanks, David. Very nice site!