Trumpeter and bandleader Bill Warfield owes a lot to the late Lew Soloff, a beloved and respected trumpet player. Soloff is best known for his searing trumpet on the classic song “Spinning Wheel” from ...
Lew Soloff, a trumpet player who was an early member of Blood, Sweat and Tears and whose jazz career included performances with his own ensembles and with Gil Evans, Ornette Coleman, Chuck Mangione, ...
Trumpeter Lew Soloff, and the Harmonie Ensemble New York, conducted by Steve Richman, release their version of Sketches Of Spain 50 years after Miles Davis' original Columbia recording. The 1960 ...
I decided at that point that I wanted to play the trumpet again.” Eventually, Warfield would get to know, study, and record with Soloff, who died in 2014 at age 71. Warfield’s latest album, For Lew, ...
Nothing matches a big band’s combination of power and lyricism. The Bill Warfield Big Band proved this to more than 100 people Saturday night at Bethlehem’s Zoellner Arts Center. The program was “For ...
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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Celebrated within the jazz community as a multi-talented musician, Lisa Maxwell, ...
Renowned trumpeters Lew Soloff, left, and Randy Brecker. Brecker will perform at the NJCU Alumni Bag Jazz Band "Tribute to Lew Soloff" on Sept. 16.Soloff died on March 8, 2015. (Photo courtesy of NJCU ...
WASHINGTON - There was a lot of "looking up" going on when the Jazz Ambassadors of The United States Army Field Band performed at Music Education Week in Washington for MENC: The National Association ...