One of the prettiest octet albums of the 1950s was Tadd Dameron's Fontainebleau. Recorded in March 1956, the album for Prestige featured Kenny Dorham (tp), Henry Coker (tb), Sahib Shihab (as), Joe ...
[Tadd Dameron] had a profound gift of melody, like George Gershwin and Duke Ellington. He created melodies that instantly stuck, but it took a while to figure out how and why. For Engelhardt, who ...
Some jazz devotees know Tadd Dameron as the composer of such classics as “Hot House,” “Good Bait” and “If You Could See Me Now.” Others recall him as a supple pianist, whose many collaborators ...
Dameron was a composer and pianist who fused the sophisticated arrangements of the Big Band era with bebop's complex harmonies. A new biography... Tadd Dameron, A Jazz Master With A 'Lyrical Grace' In ...
Jazz pianist, arranger and composer Tadd Dameron was born 94 years ago on Feb. 21, 1917, in Cleveland, Ohio. During the 1940s and '50s, after working for several years as an arranger for big bands ...
In the 1940s and '50s, Tadd Dameron worked with everyone who was anyone in jazz, from Miles Davis to Artie Shaw, Count Basie to John Coltrane. Everything Dameron touched had one thing in common, says ...
In the 1940s and '50s, Tadd Dameron worked with everyone who was anyone in jazz, from Miles Davis to Artie Shaw, Count Basie to John Coltrane. Everything Dameron touched had one thing in common, says ...