| Early Bird Records | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1989 |
| Genre | Jazz |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | New York City |
| Official website | rainbowjazz.com |
Early Bird Records is an independent record label that issues rare recordings. [1]
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Bassist Mickey Bass appears on many of the albums, including Sentimental Mood and Another Way Out, sessions which he led. [2] The label also released Mickey B's Juke Box Revue in two volumes.
Mickey Bass is an American bassist, composer, arranger, and music educator. He was born Lee Odiss Bass III. He has played with Chico Freeman, John Hicks, and Kiane Zawadi.
A notable release by "The Reunion Legacy Band", featuring Gary Bartz, Charles Tolliver, Grachan Moncur III, John Hicks and Mickey Bass. [3]
Gary Bartz is an American jazz saxophonist.
Charles Tolliver is an American jazz trumpeter and composer.
Grachan Moncur III is an American jazz trombonist. He is the son of jazz bassist Grachan Moncur II and the nephew of jazz saxophonist Al Cooper.
Cedar Walton's Timeless All-Stars released an album featuring Bobby Hutcherson, Steve Turre and others. [4]
Cedar Anthony Walton, Jr. was an American hard bop jazz pianist. He came to prominence as a member of drummer Art Blakey's band before establishing a long career as a bandleader and composer. Several of his compositions have become jazz standards, including "Mosaic", "Bolivia", "Holy Land", "Mode for Joe" and "Fantasy in D".
Robert Hutcherson was an American jazz vibraphone and marimba player. "Little B's Poem", from the 1966 Blue Note album Components, is one of his best-known compositions. Hutcherson influenced younger vibraphonists including Steve Nelson, Joe Locke, and Stefon Harris.
Stephen Johnson Turre is an American jazz trombonist and a pioneer of using seashells as instruments, a composer, arranger, and educator at the collegiate-conservatory level. For fifty-five years, Turre has been active in jazz, rock, and Latin jazz – in live venues, recording studios, television, and cinema production. In March 2018 he was anonymously referred to as a transgressor in an online editorial entitled "Token Girl," a piece which discussed misogyny within the Juilliard jazz program.
Bobby Timmons' Live at Connecticut Jazz Party (1964) features Sonny Red, Sam Jones and Mickey Bass. [5]
Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively.
Sonny Red was an American jazz alto saxophonist and composer associated with the hard bop idiom among other styles.
Samuel Jones was an American jazz double bassist, cellist, and composer.
