Friday, June 26, 2015

The Bill Warfield Big Band - The City Never Sleeps

Styles: Trumpet Jazz, Big Band
Year: 1993
File: MP3@320K/s
Time: 49:53
Size: 114,6 MB
Art: Front

(4:29)  1. Sonnyside of the Street
(4:53)  2. Samba de Loves Me
(6:19)  3. City Prelude
(8:45)  4. The City Never Sleeps
(6:14)  5. A Little Circus Music
(5:45)  6. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
(4:37)  7. Salsa en Mi Alma
(3:46)  8. Tentigo
(5:00)  9. Daahoud

Warfield, Bill [William Leonard Warfield Jr.], trumpet, composer, arranger, educator; b. Baltimore, MD, 2 March 1952. His mother is Margaret Annabelle Baublitz Warfield (birthdate: 1/30/1921, place of birth: Owings Mills, Maryland). His father is William Leonard Warfield (birthdate 5/3/1919, place of birth, Hudson, Maryland).

His brother is John Cleveland Warfield (born 7/7/1959,Baltimore,Maryland). Bill studied trumpet with the following:  Lee Cutair 1961-64, Fred Frey 1962-63, Richard Mooreland 1964, Richard Daniel 1965-70, Allen Chambers 1965-67, Raymond Moore 1966-74, Rob Roy McGregor 1974-75, Jimmy Maxwell 1982-83, Lew Soloff 1990-94, Vince Penzarella 2000-2001.  He studied composition with Hank Levy 1970-74, Ray Wright 1986, Bob Brookmeyer 1989, and ear training with Caris Liebman, 2001-present. He's attended  Owings Mills Elementary School, Franklin Jr. High School, Franklin High School, Peabody Conservatory, Towson State University, University of Maryland Baltimore, Manhattan School of Music, and the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop. At the Manhattan School of Music, he got his M.M., Jazz Commercial performance, Trumpet, and his Jazz Commercial performance, Trumpet. He has taught from 1996-present at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, as an Assistant Professor, Music and at the University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL as an Assistant Professor, Jazz Trumpet. From 1992-1999, he taught at Towson University, Towson, MD, as an Adjunct Professor, Graduate and Undergraduate Divisions, Jazz Trumpet. He also taught at Brooklyn College, The City University of New York asDirector, Jazz Ensemble and The Dalton School, New York, NY, at Jazz Studies Director. In the fall of 2000,  Bill Warfield composed and conducted a concert with the The Yellow Jackets entitled "Beneath the Stacks, Second Line of the Industrial Revolution," which was performed at Lehigh University and featured the Lehigh Valley Jazz Repertory Orchestra.

Among his other accomplishments is a commission by the government of Spain to arrange and produce Hollywood Jazz, a musical review for the 1992 Olympic year, and a commission by the Berlin Radio Orchestra to write two works for big band.  He has been commissioned by the US Air Force Airmen of Note, and has appeared with the United States Navy Commodores as a clinician.  Warfield has performed with many well known jazz and commercial artists including Ornette Coleman, The American Jazz Orchestra directed by John Lewis, Mel Lewis, Paul Anka, Mel Torme, Randy Brecker, David Sanborn, Sonny Stitt, Sheila Jordan and Lester Bowie, among others.  He was an NBC staff musician for the 1995 VIDA awards and has been an orchestrator for Eddie Palmieri and Lester Bowie.  Early in his career, Warfield was a performer and contributing writer for the Bill Kirchner Nonet on Seabreeze Records.  

Presently, he is on the advisory board of the Baltimore Jazz Orchestra, where he plays lead trumpet.  In 1996 and 1997, The Bill Warfield Big Band was featured at Birdland in New York City as part of the Apple Band Cavalcade.  The Bill Warfield Big Band was featured at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in 1994 and 1998, and at the New York City Brass Conference 1991, 95, 97, 98, and 99.In addition to his professional career as an international performer, recording artist, bandleader and producer, Bill Warfield is currently Assistant Professor in the Lehigh University music department.  In 1997 he founded The Lehigh Valley Jazz Repertory Orchestra, a non-profit organization dedicated to the recreation of classic jazz performances as well as the creation of new works for jazz orchestra.His spouse is Carol Heft, born in Philladelphia PA 3/11/1954, an artist. ~ Bio  http://www.jazz.com/encyclopedia/warfield-bill-william-leonard-warfield-jr

Personnel: Bill Warfield (trumpet, leader), Andy Fusco, Walt Weiskopf, Bob Hanlon, Tom Olin, Rich Perry, Chris Potter, Alex Stewart (saxophones), David Diggs (oboe, clarinet, piccolo, tenor saxophone), Bob Millikan, Lew Soloff, John Eckert, Jeff Parke, Tony Kadieck (trumpets), Herb Besson, Conrad Herwig, Larry Farrell, Matt Finders, George Flynn (trombones), Greg Cogan (piano), Chris Rosenberg, Dave Stryker (guitars), Mike Richmond, Jeff Fuller (acoustic bass), Tim Horner, Alan Bates (drums), Emedin Rivera (percussion).

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