Pony Boy Records

18/08/2024

Charles Mingus walks into a jazz record store… comes out with a new release… hitting the charts this week… Pony Boy All-Star Big Band.

Aug 25 5-Rights Brewing Cø, Marysville

(Handmade Jazz Farm Saag and coffee roast for contrast and clickybait - baby chicks and puppies next time)

05/03/2024

Toasting our dear friend Bill Ramsay who passed on to the main stage over the weekend. So much music history - and personal history onstage and offstage. He introduced me to Red Kelleys’ and to Steve Allen and to Ernestine Anderson and all the South Sound players.

Bill later became a subject of “Conversations and Deconstructions - Jazz Traditions by the Pony Boy Large Ensemble” - I recorded an interview at his home, and worked the recording into a sampler which was played live along with new big band music…

Here is “I. Opening and Bill Ramsay” - you can hear Bill telling some of his favorite stories. Woody’s Nook, Evergreen Ballroom, Red Stories…

Tracy Knoop, Alexey Nikolaev, Travis Ranney, Greg Metcalf, Vern Sielert, Thomas Marriott, Jay Thomas, Dan Marcus, David Bentley, John Hansen, Larry Holloway, Greg Williamson, John Silverman, Doug Haire, Pony Boy All-Star Big Band, Pony Boy Records…

Provided to YouTube by The Orchard EnterprisesOpening - Bill Ramsay · Greg Williamson · The Pony Boy Large EnsembleConversations and Deconstructions - Jazz T...

08/10/2015

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02/04/2015

Jim Wilke on KPLU's "JAZZ NW" show this week: "Singers Rule" features PAUL GREEN's new Pony Boy Records CD "CREATIVITY."

Fried Bananas (One For Dex) at the 28:00 mark... "really a very good one"

Stream the whole show: audio from the web - originally aired Mar 29, 2015.

http://www.kplu.org/post/singers-rule-weeks-jazz-northwest

Some singers you may not have heard before are featured on this Sunday's Jazz Northwest from 88.5 KPLU. Perhaps most surprising is a seven member a

01/04/2015

BOXLEY'S, Sat April 4, 7-10pm
CD Preview PAUL GREEN "CREATIVITY"

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22/03/2015

3/22/15
Frank Kohl Quartet plays at Smalls Jazz Club in New York.

www.smallsjazzclub.com

This is the official website for Smalls Jazz Club in Greenwich Village, New York City!

07/03/2015

Frank Kohl Quartet "Invisible Man" now available at iTunes.

"Soaring solos and swinging tunes - unveil a spirit tuned into the moment... Kohl’s clearly mastered technique, his guitar solos sing true with room for breath and emotion." - Steve Griggs, Earshot Jazz Magazine

Invisible Man - Frank Kohl, Steve Laspina & tom kohl

Preview and download Invisible Man on iTunes. See ratings and read customer reviews.

31/01/2015

Young Lizard and B-3 Birthday Boy Ty Bailie is alluding to a Superbowl half-time announcement... he's got some hot new projects going in L.A. - wonder what he could be up to?

In the spirit of the Superbowl, we will go ahead and drop a commercial for the newest Young Lizards release "Freebird and Other Jazzy Things" (Mastered for iTunes)

with Ty Bailie, Chris Fagan, Dave Peterson and Greg Williamson. Download it now, and have it ready for half-time, or the Puppy Bowl.

Preview and download Freebird and Other Jazzy Things (feat. Chris Fagan, Dave Peterson, Ty Bailie & Greg Williamson) on iTunes. See ratings and read customer reviews.

12/12/2014

Fri 12/12 Boxleys
Living Jazz Legend: RONNIE PIERCE!
wReuel Lubag (pno), Michael Glynn (bs), Greg Williamson (drms). 7-10pm.

A rare opportunity to interact with history...

Ronnie Pierce is a Seattle jazz legend and member of the Seattle Jazz Hall of Fame - and a man with a million stories and even more jokes. Seriously funny stuff - you can't make this up.

"Conversations & Deconstructions"
http://www.ponyboyrecords.com/files/conversations/conversations.html

Music and Interviews woven together into a sonic sculpture of
NEW big band music, stories, memories and jokes.
BILL RAMSAY, RED KELLY, RONNIE PIERCE, BUDDY CATLETT & FLOYD STANDIFER, QUINCY JONES, DAVE TUTTLE

16/11/2014

Buddy Catlett left for the big band stand this week... Here's his CD release "Here Comes Buddy Catlett"

Buddy's only release as a leader, "Here Comes Buddy Catlett" (Pony Boy Records 2004, with Jay Thomas and Greg Williamson) received a review which noted a different side to Buddy's playing:
"...Deeper thinkers should go straight to the thirteen-minute "Blue Monk/Mysterioso/Round Midnight" and hear Catlett stretch out twice in his tastefully restrained way. He plays unaccompanied during the second solo, delivering a clinic in sparse lyrical phrasing—and here's where listeners will find out if they can relate. Some won't; there are players young and old with more flair and complexity, and the only cutting-edge element is 21st century sound quality brought to some Count Basie-era thinking." - Mark Sabatini

07/09/2014

5 slightly hidden treasures.

07/09/2014