John E. Carisi (Feb. 23, 1922 - Oct. 3, 1992) was an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
trumpeterThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
and
composerA composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...
.
John E. Carisi (Feb. 23, 1922 - Oct. 3, 1992) was an
AmericanThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
trumpeterThe trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC...
and
composerA composer is a person who creates music, usually by musical notation, for interpretation and performance. The level of distinction between composers and other musicians varies, which affects issues such as copyright and the deference given to individual interpretations of a particular piece of...
.
Carisi was member of
Herbie FieldsHerbie Fields was a jazz musician. He attended New York's famed Juilliard School of Music and served in the U.S. Army from 1941–1943....
's Orchestra (1938-1943) and
Glenn MillerGlenn Miller , was an American jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big Bands"...
's
Airforce Band. After the war he worked with
Ray McKinleyRay McKinley was an American jazz drummer, singer, and bandleader.McKinley got his start working with local bands in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, before joining Smith Ballew in 1929, when he met Glenn Miller. The two formed a friendship which lasted from 1929 until Miller's death in 1944....
,
Claude ThornhillClaude Thornhill was an American pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader...
,
Charlie BarnetCharles Daly Barnet was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", and "Southland Shuffle".-Early life:...
,
Urbie GreenUrban Clifford "Urbie" Green is an American professional jazz trombonist who toured with Woody Herman, Gene Krupa, Jan Savitt, and Frankie Carle.
, and
Benny GoodmanBenjamin David Goodman was an American jazz musician, clarinetist and bandleader, known as "King of Swing", "Patriarch of the Clarinet", "The Professor", and "Swing's Senior Statesman"....
.
He was trained by acclaimed composer
Stefan WolpeStefan Wolpe was a German-born composer.Wolpe was born in Berlin. He attended the Berlin Conservatory from the age of fourteen, attended the Berlin Hochschule für Musik 1920-1921. He studied composition under Franz Schreker and was also a pupil of Ferruccio Busoni...
. His minor-
bluesBlues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre created within the African-American communities in the Deep South of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
composition "Israel" has been performed and recorded by noted
jazzJazz is a musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
artists such as
Miles DavisMiles Davis III was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer.Widely considered one of the most influential jazz musicians of the 20th century, Miles Davis was, with his musical groups, at the forefront of several major developments in jazz music including cool jazz, hard bop, free jazz...
(
Birth of the CoolBirth of the Cool is an album which compiles twelve songs recorded by the Miles Davis nonet for Capitol Records in 1949 and 1950. Featuring unusual instrumentation and several notable musicians, the music consisted of innovative arrangements strongly inspired by classical music, and marked a major...
),
Bill EvansWilliam John Evans was an American jazz pianist. His use of impressionist harmony, inventive interpretation of traditional jazz repertoire, and trademark rhythmically independent, "singing" melodic lines influenced a generation of pianists, including Herbie Hancock, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, Don...
, and
Gil EvansGil Evans was a jazz pianist, arranger, composer, and bandleader, active in the United States...
.
He worked with
Cecil TaylorCecil Percival Taylor is an American pianist and poet. Classically trained, Taylor is generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an extremely energetic, physical approach, producing complex improvised sounds, frequently involving tone clusters and...
on an album for Impulse! in 1961, and arranged
Marvin StammMarvin Stamm is an American bebop trumpeter.Stamm began on trumpet at age 12, and attended college at North Texas State University where he was a member of the world renowned One O'Clock Lab Band. Following this he played with Stan Kenton's Mellophonium Orchestra from 1961 to 1963, and with Woody...
's 1968 album
Machinations.
Selected discography
- Miles Davis & Gil Evans Orchestra: Miles Ahead
Miles Ahead is a jazz album by Miles Davis released in 1957. This was the first album after Birth of the Cool that Davis recorded with Gil Evans, with whom he would go on to release albums such as Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain. Gil Evans combined the ten pieces that make up the album in a...
(Columbia, 1957)
- Gil Evans: Gil Evans & Ten
Gil Evans & Ten is the first album by pianist, conductor, arranger and composer Gil Evans as a leader and was released on the Prestige label in 1957...
(Prestige, 1957)
- Gil Evans: Into The Hot (Impulse! Records; 1961)
- John Carisi, Eddie Sauter
Edward Ernest Sauter was a composer and jazz arranger who achieved renown among musicians during the swing era....
, Christian WolffChristian Wolff is an American composer of experimental classical music.-Biography:Wolff was born in Nice in France of German parentage. His family moved to the United States in 1941, and he became an American citizen in 1946...
, Stefan Wolpe: Counterpoise (hat(now)ART; 2000)
Literature
- Hentoff, Nat: Liner Notes to Into The Hot (Impulse!, 1961)
- Morton, Richard & Cook, Brian: The Penguin Guide To Jazz on CD, Second Edition, 1994 & Sixth Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-051521-6
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