摘自某云:
Eddie Higgins爱德华·海登·希金斯1932年2月21日在美国马萨诸塞州的剑桥降生。童年一直由他的母亲教育他。大学时,希金斯在芝加哥的夜总会里演奏钢琴。有时他领导他自己的三重奏组合,但是他有时也和包括艾尔·格雷,科尔曼·霍金斯,弗雷迪·哈伯德等在内的知名艺术家合作演出。虽然他的曲目有折衷的感觉,但是希金斯的风格承载着跳舞乐队时代一些艺术家的明显痕迹。他善于独奏也善于伴奏,他常常与他的歌手妻子梅雷迪思·丹布罗西奥合作演出。
如果你仔细听完这张专辑,会发现这的确是一张充满乐趣的作品。在《MinorSwing》中則有钢琴与贝斯的出色对话,听来新鮮有趣。纽约Avatar Studio的录音效果的确杰出,无怪乎许多艺人都指名要在此进行录音。标题曲中间有几段JayLeonhart的贝斯独奏,在演奏的时候你可以清楚地听到他口中喃喃着的旋律,音响效果实在好到沒话说!当然,这与Venus的唱片都经过他们家的24bitHyper Magnum Sound处理有着很大的关系。
摘自维基:
Born and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Higgins initially studied privately with his mother. He started his professional career in Chicago, Illinois, while studying at the Northwestern University School of Music. An elegant and sophisticated pianist, his encyclopedic harmonic approach and wide range of his repertory made him one of the most distinctive jazz pianists to come out of Chicago, gaining the respect of local and visiting musicians for his notable mastery of the instrument. Higgins also had the unusual ability to sound equally persuasive in a broad span of music, whether he was playing traditional swing, exciting bebop or reflexive ballads, providing the tone and stylistic flavor of each style, both as soloist and accompanist.
For more than two decades Higgins worked at some of Chicago's most prestigious jazz clubs, including the Brass Rail, Preview Lounge, Blue Note, Cloister Inn and Jazz, Ltd. His longest and most memorable tenure was at the long-gone London House, where he led his jazz trio from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, playing opposite jazz stars of this period, including Cannonball Adderley, Bill Evans, Erroll Garner, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery, Oscar Peterson and George Shearing, among others. Later, Higgins said the opportunities to play jazz music with Coleman Hawkins and Oscar Peterson were unforgettable moments. Higgins spent his time at the London House Restaurant with bassist Richard Evans and drummer Marshall Thompson. Higgins also worked for Chess Records as a producer.
During his stay in Chicago, Higgins also recorded a significant number of albums under his auspices and many more as a sideman with a wide variety of musicians, ranging in style from tenor saxophonists Hawkins to Sonny Stitt to Wayne Shorter; trumpeters Bobby Lewis to Harry Edison to Lee Morgan and Freddie Hubbard; and trombonists Jack Teagarden to Al Grey. His versatility was captured on stage and records, backing up singers and leading his own projects as both pianist and orchestrator, working in every jazz circle from dixieland to modal styles. Although he opted to decline the offer, Higgins was asked at one point by Art Blakey to join the seminal hard bop quintet, The Jazz Messengers.
In 1970, Higgins moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida and began spending winters in Florida and summers on Cape Cod, where he played in local clubs. Since the early 1980s, he traveled widely on the jazz festival circuit and performed frequently in Europe and Japan. His releases on the Japanese Venus label earned him number one in jazz sales on more than one album. After that, Higgins played his music mainly in East Asia including Japan and South Korea. During his career in East Asia, Higgins formed a successful trio with Joe Ascione (drums), and Jay Leonhart (bass).
In 1988, Higgins and jazz singer and pianist Meredith d'Ambrosio were married and became a popular team at clubs and festivals, as well as recording for Sunnyside Records. In 2009, dates in Japan and Korea were on his calendar of upcoming concerts, but were suspended due to a long illness.
Higgins died in Fort Lauderdale at the age of 77.
Style
Eddie Higgins's delicate tone and conception were often compared to those of Bill Evans, one of the most influential and successful jazz pianists. He mostly played bop and mainstream jazz music throughout his career. Higgins was at home playing melodies with swing-like feeling. His melodies had groove and swing-feeling without being superfluous. Such swing-feeling of Eddie Higgins was also often compared to those of Oscar Peterson and Nat King Cole.
Accomplishment
In 2009, Eddie Higgins received Jazz Disc Award from the most respected jazz magazine in Japan, Swing Journal. With his album, Portrait of Love, Higgins won the Best Album of the Year. In the same year, Higgins received another award from Best Engineering Album of the Year.
作者: savalone 时间: 2020-5-26 10:50
专辑列表:
1957 The Ed Higgins Trio
1960 Eddie Higgins 有,但是是和Bennie Green - The Swingiest (1958)合在一张了
1965 Soulero 有,但是是和 Hubert Laws - Laws' Cause合在一张了
1966 The Piano of Eddie Higgins 没找到
1967 Music from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 没找到
1979 My Time of Day 没找到
1979 Dream Dancing 没找到
1980 Sweet Lorraine
1982 Once in a While 没找到
1986 By Request
1990 Those Quiet Days 没找到
1992 By Request 和86年那张同名,只找到一张
1994 Zoot's Hymns
1996 Portrait in Black and White
1997 Haunted Heart
1998 Speaking to Jobim 没找到
1998 Again
1999 Time on My Hands
2000 Don't Smoke in Bed
2001 Bewitched
2001 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
2002 Dear Old Stockholm
2002 My Foolish Heart
2003 You Don't Know What Love Is
2003 Moonlight Becomes You
2004 If Dreams Come True
2004 Christmas Songs
2004 My Funny Valentine
2005 Amor
2006 Christmas Songs 2 没找到,圣诞歌专场
2006 A Fine Romance
2006 A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening
2006 Secret Love
2006 You Are Too Beautiful
2006 It's Magic
2008 A Handful of Stars
2008 Standards By Request 1st Day
2008 Standards By Request 2nd Day
2008 Portraits of Love作者: robin1911 时间: 2020-5-26 12:48
GOOD JOP! THANK YOU VERY MUCH 作者: coolspeedwolf 时间: 2020-5-26 13:32
相当精彩的大包!感谢!作者: dpt5596 时间: 2020-5-26 15:29
绝好的资源,下一个作者: pbcd 时间: 2020-5-26 16:30
【这可是超大的礼包啊 作者: gounud 时间: 2020-5-26 20:44
非常感谢您的无私分享,谢谢,下来听下 作者: chd9057359 时间: 2020-5-27 08:50
很厉害的收集 感谢楼主作者: 禧暮剧 时间: 2020-5-27 09:55
很好的 比较喜欢的 谢谢 作者: 李盼盼 时间: 2020-5-27 11:10
Venus Records厂牌很喜欢的钢琴家 ,谢谢!作者: 江湖小鲤鱼 时间: 2020-5-27 11:52
又是大包,感谢楼主分享 作者: sgtian 时间: 2020-5-27 21:48
非常好的一个音乐大礼包。作者: cgff 时间: 2020-5-27 23:43
谢谢楼主的分享 作者: 午夜Nova 时间: 2020-5-28 07:21
感谢分享,之前找Eddie Higgins的资源真的太费劲了 作者: wzp760918 时间: 2020-5-28 13:06
这个很牛的,感谢楼主分享,好东西 作者: louisdeer 时间: 2020-5-28 23:12
这是好货呀多谢楼主