Mickey Roker
Tia Fuller: Decisive Steps
...Colorado and now a New Yorker, Fuller has honed her talent, playing with such names as Wycliffe Gordon, Mickey Roker, Jon Faddis, Jimmy Heath, and Gerald Wilson. She comes to this...
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Where Jazz Meets Blues
...jazz and blues, profoundly connecting the bedrock of them both. (Bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Mickey Roker surely help, too.) Mance rocks Yancey Special" hard. His left hand lays...
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PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Philadelphia Jazz Artists, the Landham Brothers, Perform at Michener Art Museum on February 20
...at age seven and was mentored by Shirley Scott. His work is influenced by jazz artists including Mickey Roker, Bobby Durham and Butch Ballard. In 1998, the brothers recorded The Landham...
Mickey Roker: You Never Lose the Blues
...be a musician in that milieu. On Feb. 12, 2008, All About Jazz participated in a video interview of Mickey Roker under the auspices of the Philadelphia Jazz Heritage Project, in...
INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Drummer Mickey Roker Interviewed at AAJ
Jazz News: Drummer Mickey Roker Interviewed at AAJ Drummer Mickey Roker Interviewed at AAJ Drummer Mickey Roker is a mainstay and icon of the jazz world, having a played with Dizzy...
Lee Morgan
...Harold Mabern, bassist Jymie Merritt and drummers Mickey Roker or Freddie Waits. Maupin, Mabern, Merritt and Roker are featured on the well-regarded 3-disc, Live at the Lighthouse,...
CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Saxophonist Tia Fuller Takes Decisive Steps, on Mack Avenue, March 16
...including the Duke Ellington Big Band, Nancy Wilson, T.S. Monk, Don Byron, Brad Leali, Wycliffe Gordon, Mickey Roker, Ralph Petersen, Jon Faddis, Rufus Reid, Jimmy Heath, Gerald Wilson,...
Easy Walker
...recorded for the Blue Note label in 1966 and performed by Turrentine with McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker. One additional track featuring an expanded line-up arranged by...
Rough 'n' Tumble
...Turrentine with Blue Mitchell, James Spaulding, Pepper Adams, McCoy Tyner, Grant Green, Bob Cranshaw, and Mickey Roker with arrangements by Duke Pearson. The Allmusic review by Jason...
Mickey Roker
...lively jazz scene in Philadelphia, where the great Philly Joe Jones became Roker's idol. Roker learned quickly, and he never stopped playing. In the early 1950s he started to gain...
That Healin' Feelin'
...by Silver with Randy Brecker, George Coleman, Houston Person, Bob Cranshaw, Jimmy Lewis , Mickey Roker and Idris Muhammad with vocals by Andy Bey, Gail Nelson, and Jackie...
There Will Never Be Another You (album)
...label in 1978, featuring a performance by Rollins with Tommy Flanagan, Bob Cranshaw, Billy Higgins and Mickey Roker. The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow states "Rollins was in a...
