Nica's Tempo is the most common latter-day title of an album by the Gigi Gryce Orchestra and Quartet, recorded and first released in late 1955. While side...
7 KB (665 words) - 22:22, 3 July 2024
Pannonica de Koenigswarter (redirect from Baroness Nica de Koenigswarter)
Gigi Gryce's "Nica's Tempo", Sonny Clark's "Nica", Horace Silver's "Nica's Dream", Kenny Dorham's "Tonica", Kenny Drew's "Blues for Nica", Doug Watkins'...
20 KB (2,193 words) - 15:51, 17 June 2024
"Nica's Dream" is a jazz standard composed by Horace Silver in 1954. It is one of many songs written in tribute to jazz patroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter...
2 KB (223 words) - 09:21, 7 October 2021
Moving Out (Prestige, 1954) Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 (Blue Note, 1957) Nica's Tempo (Savoy, 1955) In Orbit (Riverside, 1958) The majority of the contents...
14 KB (389 words) - 16:42, 21 August 2024
12017) 1955 Introducing Nat Adderley Nat Adderley Wing (MGW 60000) 1955 Nica's Tempo Gigi Gryce Savoy (MG 12137) 1955 Byrd's Eye View Donald Byrd Transition...
24 KB (197 words) - 06:34, 31 August 2024
Gryce with Monk as a sideman on October 15, 1955, for Gryce's album Nica's Tempo, and the second version was recorded on February 10, 1964, for the album...
55 KB (6,986 words) - 02:50, 27 August 2024
"Evening in Casablanca" and "Satellite" for their "unusual structures" and "Nica's Tempo" for being "constructed more from key centres than from chords, [it]...
3 KB (197 words) - 09:14, 19 June 2023
compositions have been covered extensively ("Minority", "Social Call", "Nica's Tempo") and have become minor jazz standards. Gryce's compositional bent includes...
32 KB (4,375 words) - 18:36, 18 April 2024
"Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 8:03 "Nica’s Tempo" – 4:04 "Don't Worry 'bout Me" (Rube Bloom, Ted Koehler) – 7:42 Gigi...
3 KB (161 words) - 17:20, 20 September 2022
under the group name Gigi Gryce Quartet, occupying Side 2 of the album Nica's Tempo. As the next Riverside album, The Unique Thelonious Monk consisted of...
8 KB (730 words) - 11:20, 3 July 2024