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At age 88, saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess proves that you do get better with time. His latest cd “Once Is Not Enough” features some of best jazz musicians in game. Artists like Terell Stafford, Steve Turre, Winard Harper, Rufus Reid, Gerald Clayton, and Peter Washington.
Born Frank Wellington Wess on January 4th, 1922 in Kansas City, Missouri but moved to Washington, DC when he was ten. Early as a child he began playing the saxophone and eventually the flute when he attended high school. Wess began playing jazz in high school where he was classmates with the legendary Dr. Billy Taylor. He started out on alto and eventually advanced to tenor. Upon graduation he played for the Army during World War II where played the tenor sax and clarinet.
Upon his return from the war he backed musicians like Bull Moose Jackson, Lucky Millinder, and Billy Eckstine. He grew tired of hitting the road so he played professionally around the Washington, DC area. In 1953 Count Basie asked him to join has band where he became one of his arrangers as well as tenor saxophonists and flutists. During his stint with Basie his bandmates included Harry “Sweets” Edison, Joe Newman, Marshal Royal, Frank Foster, and Snooky Young. Wess played with Basie until 1964 where he won the Downbeat Poll Awards for best flautist six years in a row.
Frank is a 2007 NEA Jazz Master inductee and is still touring all over the world. To order his latest disc or to find out his upcoming tour dates, visit him on the web at www.frankwess.org.
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Sirens Ballroom, Hobart, November the 5th
Genre: Indie, Rock
Region: Hobart, TAS
Members: Adam Ouston - Guitar + Vox, Carl Higgs - Synth, Chris Wessing - Drums + Percussion, Peter Ferguson - Bass Guitar
Sounds Like: Bowie & Eno, Echo & the Bunnymen, Joy Division/New Order
Influences: The Cocteau Twins, the associates, Scott Walker
Artist Website: www.allfiresthefire.com
A. Wess Mitchell, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, Austrian Ambassador Wolfgang Waldner, Wolfgang Sobotka (the First President of the Austrian National Council) and Ambassador David O'Sullivan (Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the United States)
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"Koen Wessing's Chili, September 1973 is a shocking document from a socially concerned and politically engaged Dutch photojournalist. Published in 1973, just months after the fall of Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet’s coup d’etat, it describes the tense days of the military attempt to root out public opposition in the streets of Santiago. Books on Books 8 reproduces every page spread from Wessing’s gritty documentation of Chile’s darkest historical moment. The art historian and film theorist, Pauline Tereehorst, contributes a contemporary essay called The Man in the Grey Suit."
Art work for the National Portrait Gallery London / Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2008 by Ilya van Marle
one of my favorite elevators. fast and seethrough =)
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elevator of taylor wessing / see my own most recent faves: runterfahrgerät (k_k) ;)
Wess Mitchell, US Assistant Secretary of State meets with NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller
Dorothy Ashby plays the harp on the Frank Wess track "Charmaine" on the Various Artists "Lusty Moods" 1963 LP on the Moodsville Records Label. Moodsville Records was a division of Prestige Records.
Dorothy Ashby plays on "Charmaine":, which is headed by flutist Frank Wess on the Moodsville compilation record album called "Lusty Moods". "Charmaine" is the first track on side two of this 1963 LP. Herman Wright on bass and Art Taylor on drums are also featured on this track.