Orrin Keepnews
Appearances
Part of Bluebird's very admirable reissue of all of Fats Waller's 1934-42 Victor recordings, this three-CD set has the [more]
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As any Monk aficionado knows, his solo piano performances were wonderful, idiosyncratic, living works of art that often wound up [more]
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P. Bouk; A few words from Cannonball; Gemini; Work Song; More words from Cannonball; Trouble in Mind; Dizzy's Business.
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Thanks to its ownership of some of Cannonball Adderley's Riverside recordings, Capitol was able to stretch the definition of Best of Cannonball [more]
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This collection of Bechet tracks cut between 1932 and 1941 would be worth owning if for nothing else than the inclusion of his one-man-band recording of "Sheik of Araby," [more]
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This CD includes many of Tommy Dorsey's very best recordings from 1939-1942 along with four selections dating from 1944-1945. During this period the sound of his orchestra had changed [more]
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This is the sixth studio album cut by Thelonious Monk under the production/direction of Teo Macero for Columbia and as such should not be confused with the original motion [more]
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This CD differs from the previous release of "The Far East Suite" by the inclusion of four "new" alternate takes. This particular nine-part suite was arguably Duke [more]
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Jazz giants like Jack McDuff, Sonny Stitt, Kenny Burrell, and Bobby Hutcherson all contribute tracks and brush shoulders with jazz middleweights like Wallace [more]
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This single CD (a 1998 reissue) has ten selections taken from the Muse and Landmark catalogs of the 1970s, '80s and early '90s. The ten selections all feature [more]
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Biography
- Born Mar 2nd 1923 in New York, NY
One of the most respected of all jazz producers, Orrin Keepnews has had a long and productive career. He graduated from Columbia University in 1943 and was originally primarily interested in Dixieland. Keepnews wrote for the Record Changer starting in 1948, which was started by his friend Bill Grauer. Four years later he helped reissue '20s recordings with Grauer when they started RCA Victor's X label. Keepnews and Grauer founded the Riverside label in 1953, and soon Keepnews became interested in more modern jazz styles. The label scored a coup when they signed up Thelonious Monk in 1955, and other important artists produced by Keepnews for Riverside during the next decade included Wes Montgomery, Bill Evans, and Cannonball Adderley, all of whom did some of their finest work under the producers' creative guidance. Riverside was a significant label during its existence, which ended in bankruptcy in 1964 shortly after Grauer's death. Keepnews continued producing records on a freelance basis. In 1966 he founded the Milestone label, running it until it was purchased by Fantasy in 1973. Since the Riverside catalog was also acquired by Fantasy (the year before), Keepnews had the opportunity to produce reissues of classic sessions that he had originally been involved in. He served as vice-president of Fantasy throughout most of the '70s; in 1985, he founded yet another label (Landmark, which was acquired by Muse in 1993), and through the years, Keepnews has been involved in a countless number of important record dates, more recently producing reissues by the Bluebird and RCA labels. In addition to his work as a producer, Keepnews has written many liner notes and occasional articles through the years, working with Grauer to put out the wonderful -Pictorial History of Jazz in 1956, and collecting together his articles for the semi-autobiographical -The View from Within in the late '80s. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
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