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Bud Shank Alto Saxophonist Was Immersed in West Coast Jazz Scene
Bud Shank, the alto saxophonist who was a key figure in the West Coast jazz scene of the 1950s, has died. He was 82. Shank died Thursday night at his home in Tucson of pulmonary failure, friends said. A versatile musician with an adventurous nature, Shank also played flute and -- during a productive period of ...
Bud Shank: California Dreamin'
The great jazz musician Bud Shank has died at the age of 82. He had one of the most unlikely backgrounds for any jazz musician, growing up not in the urban welter of cultural ferment or in the musically rich backwaters of the South -- but on a farm in Ohio. He may not have been ...
Ex-Centrum Jazz Port Townsend Artistic Director Bud Shank Dies at 82
PORT TOWNSEND -- Bud Shank, former artistic director of Centrum's Jazz Port Townsend program and a renowned alto jazz saxophonist whose career spanned 60 years, has died at his home in Tucson, Ariz. He was 82. Cause of death was listed as pulmonary failure. While Shank had “some ongoing health issues," according to JazzTimes.com, the Web ...
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"
by Jack Bowers
The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...
Vic Lewis (1919-2009)
Vic Lewis, a British bandleader whose intensive admiration for Stan Kenton and other West Coast jazz artists led him to form one of Britain's most admired American-sounding jazz orchestras of the late 1940s and 1950s, died on Monday in the U.K. He was 89. Most American jazz fans are unfamiliar with Lewis, primarily because the bandleader ...
Bud Shank: Never at a Standstill
by Ken Dryden
Bud Shank has long been labeled as a cool or “West Coast Jazz" stylist, though the veteran alto saxophonist, now in his seventh decade as a performer, has long evolved past such labels. An alum of Charlie Barnet, Stan Kenton and Howard Rumsey's Lighthouse All Stars, Shank first began leading his own quartet during the '50s ...
Bud Shank: The Original - The Pacific Jazz Years
By Bud Shank
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: When Lights Are Low; Old Devil Moon; The Nearness Of You; How Long Has This Been Going On / Tea For Two; Lullaby Of Birdland; Somebody Loves Me; Moonlight In Vermont; The King; Bags Of Blues; Nature Boy; All This And Heaven Too; Jubilation. CD2: Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me; Nocturne For Flute; Walkin?
Jazzed Media Wins 2008 Videographer Award for Bud Shank Film
The international Videographer Awards, which recognizes excellence in the film and video industries, has honored Jazzed Media with a 2008 Award of Distinction for the documentary film Bud Shank “Against the Tide". The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz ...
Bud Shank: Still Going Strong at Eighty-Two
by Jack Bowers
At a time when most of his contemporaries are content to relax on a couch or easy chair and watch their favorite TV programs and sporting events, alto sax superstar Bud Shank is on a roll. Hard on the heels of Graham Carter's splendid documentary of Shank's career, Against the Tide: Portrait of a ...
Bud Shank "Against the Tide" Documentary by Jazzed Media Awarded Telly Awards Bronze
The international Telly Awards, which recognizes excellence in the film and video industries, has honored Jazzed Media with a 2008 Bronze award for the documentary film Bud Shank “Against the Tide". The documentary film was produced and directed by multi-Grammy nominated and award winning filmmaker Graham Carter, founder of Jazzed Media. Jazzed Media produces jazz CDs ...
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