Illinois Jacquet

EVENT: Gerry Mulligan Tribute Concert Presented by Juilliard Jazz Features Guest Artist, Saxophonist Gary Smulyan, and the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra - Wednesday, February 29, 8 PM, Juilliard's Peter Jay Sharp Theater 02/06/2012

TV/FILM: PBS' 'American Masters' to Air New Tribute to Cab Calloway for Black History Month 01/25/2012

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Sonny Stitt: Varitone Redux 12/20/2011

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: "Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl - Expanded Edition" on Hip-O Select / Verve 07/26/2011

INTERVIEW/PROFILE/TRIBUTE: Lionel Hampton Extraordinary 07/19/2011

One of the great tenors, Illinois Jacquet's 1942 "Flying Home" solo is considered the first R&B sax solo, and spawned a full generation of younger tenors (including Joe Houston and Big Jay McNeely) who built their careers from his style, and practically from that one song. Jacquet, whose older brother Russell (1917-1990) was a trumpeter who sometimes played in his bands, grew up in Houston, and ...more