Charlie Ventura

...Where did you learn to play bebop? Marian McPartland: In Chicago. One night in the late 1940s I went to hear Jackie and Roy with Charlie Ventura after Jimmy and I worked the Brass Rail. To hear Jackie [Cain] and Roy [Kral], and Charlie, was...

In this article: Marian McPartland, Bill Evans, Jimmy McPartland, Jackie Cain, Denny Zeitlin, Dick Hyman, and Aspirin

...learning to play any standards. Konitz began his professional career in 1945 with the Teddy Powell band as a replacement for Charlie Ventura. The engagement apparently did not start out smoothly, as Ventura is said to have banged his...

In this article: Lee Konitz, Lennie Tristano, Benny Goodman, Gerry Mulligan, Birth of the Cool, Jerry Wald, Elvin Jones, Charlie Parker, and Miles Davis

...was in a jazz trio in New York City. Mitchell became known for performing and/or recording with Mundell Lowe, Chubby Jackson, Charlie Ventura, Woody Herman, Red Norvo, Gerry Mulligan, and, after joining the West Coast jazz scene in the early...

In this article: Red Mitchell, Roger Kellaway, New York City, Oregon, West Coast jazz, Cornell University, Ben Webster, and Phil Woods

...issues led to the group's dissolution. "It was so bad that we were on the bandstand once and he and Charlie were going at each other. Charlie got so mad that he just threw his saxophone on the stand and walked off the stage. So Buddy says...

In this article: Marty Napoleon, Louis Armstrong, Buddy Rich, Gene Krupa, Original Memphis Five, Phil Napoleon, Joe Sullivan, and New York City

He also performed in the West Coast jazz and soul jazz mediums. During the 1950s he played swing music with Lionel Hampton, and also Charlie Ventura. In the early 1960s he began performing with musicians like Cat Anderson, among others. He...

In this article: Lou Blackburn, Charles Mingus, West Coast jazz, Cat Anderson, Lionel Hampton, The Turtles, The Beach Boys, Mombasa, and Berlin

They first joined forces in 1946, and in 1996 they celebrated their 50th anniversary as a vocal duo. Jackie and Roy were with Charlie Ventura's band during 1948-1949 (which gave them a great deal of recognition); Lou Stein's "East of...

In this article: Jackie Cain, Roy Kral, Alec Wilder, Lou Stein, Shelly Manne, Barney Kessel, and Abc-paramount

...association with Gene Krupa's big band in the 1940s, has died. He was 81. Kennedy died April 3 of pulmonary disease at his home in Ventura, according to his daughter Lorraine Sutton. The best years of Kennedy's career were the 1940s, when...

In this article: Gene Krupa, My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Louis Prima, RSS Feeds, and How High the Moon

Charlie Ventura (born Charles Venturo; December 2, 1916 - January 17, 1992) was a tenor saxophonist and bandleader. Ventura was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He had his first successes working with Gene Krupa. In 1945 he won the...

In this article: Lung cancer, Down Beat, Jackie Cain, Gene Krupa, Jackie Gleason, Roy Kral, Pleasantville, New Jersey, and Las Vegas

...and Charlie Shavers among others. Following time spent playing bebop with Allen Eager and Max Roach in 1946, he worked with Charlie Ventura from 1947 to 1949 and again in 1953-54. In the interim he played with Benny Goodman in 1949-50.

In this article: Bob Carter, Allen Eager, New York City, Bob Harrington, Kurt Edelhagen, Charlie Shavers, Tony Scott, Stuff Smith, and Max Roach

...and musical siblings. By the time he was a teenager he was accompanying bands, and would go on to play with Woody Herman and Charlie Ventura. He moved to New York, and then to Cape Cod in 1966. During the 1980s, he could often be heard at the...

In this article: Dave McKenna, E-mail, George Masso, Ted Williams, New York City, and New England