Friday, June 20, 2025
Gary McFarland • The In Sound
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Stan Getz • Big Band Bossa Nova
Review by Richard S. Ginell
Saturday, August 17, 2024
VA • 50s and 60s Jazz Hits
Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Oscar Peterson, Julie London, John Coltrane, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, Bill Evans, Gary McFarland, Sonny Stitt, Lee Konitz, Etta James, Charlie Parker, Anita O'Day, Billie Holiday …
Monday, August 5, 2024
The Gary McFarland Orchestra • The Jazz Version Of ''How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying''
Artist Biography by Douglas Payne
Largely forgotten now, Gary McFarland was one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz during the early '60s. An "adult prodigy," as Gene Lees accurately noted, McFarland was an ingenious composer whose music could reveal shades of complex emotional subtlety and clever childlike simplicity. While in the Army, he became interested in jazz and attempted to play trumpet, trombone, and piano. In 1955, he took up playing the vibes. Displaying a quick ability for interesting writing, he obtained a scholarship to the Berklee School of Music. He spent one semester there and with the encouragement of pianist John Lewis, concentrated on large-band arrangements of his own compositions. He attained early notoriety and success working with Gerry Mulligan, Johnny Hodges, John Lewis, Stan Getz, Bob Brookmeyer, and Anita O'Day. McFarland began devoting more attention to his own career by 1963 when he released what is often regarded as his most significant recording, The Gary McFarland Orchestra/Special Guest Soloist: Bill Evans. He also recorded in small-group settings, which featured his clever vibes playing. The success of his instrumental pop collection, Soft Samba, allowed McFarland to form his first performing group. But his recordings thereafter, more often than not, featured an easy listening instrumental pop bent. McFarland went on to excellent work with Gabor Szabo, Shirley Scott, Zoot Sims, and Steve Kuhn, but only rarely featured his outstanding compositional talents (as in 1968's America the Beautiful). He formed the short-lived Skye Records label with Szabo and vibist Cal Tjader in the late 60s and continued to record prolifically. By the late 60s, though, he was forgottenby his initial jazz followers and he died in 1971 after being poisoned in a New York City bar.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/gary-mcfarland-mn0000662149/biography
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Sunday, April 21, 2024
VA • Great Vibes!
Milt Jackson, Cal Tjader, Roy Ayers, Terry Gibbs, Gary Burton, Eddie Costa, Bobby Hutcherson, Gary McFarland, Dave Pike, Lionel Hampton ...
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
VA • The Bossa Nova Exciting Jazz Samba Rhythms - Vol 6 of 6
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