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Jazz pianist, composer, arranger, conductor, big-band leader, and author from Cincinnati, Ohio. Born March 19, 1939. Died March 21, 2020. In Groups: Fabian Zone Trio, Jazzberry Patch, John Richmond Quartet, Lee Konitz Big Band, The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band, The Mike Longo Trio, The New York State Of The Art Jazz Ensemble, Dizzy ...
May 28, 2019 · By Michael Mellia. Michael Joseph Longo, born 3/19/39 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the pianist and musical director for Dizzy Gillespie group in the sixties and seventies, upon completing his six-month tutelage under Oscar Peterson. He has also played with Cannonball Adderly, Coleman Hawkins, Red Allen, and Paul Chambers to name just a few.
MIKE LONGO is a big band, soul jazz, rnb, latin jazz, fusion, funk jazz hard bop music artist. This page includes MIKE LONGO's : biography, official website, pictures, videos from YouTube, related forum topics, shouts, news, tour dates and events, live auctions, online shopping sites, detailled reviews and ratings and the full discography of albums: studios, live, compilations (boxset), EPs on ...
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Mike Longo (1937–2020) was the consummate jazz man — a pianist, composer, and educator whose career spanned almost seven decades. He is best known for his long association with Dizzy Gillespie, the legendary bebop trumpeter, who appointed Longo to be the bandleader of the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet from 1966 through 1975, and later as the pianist in the Dizzy Gillespie All Star Band.
Mike Longo, a Steinway artist, has performed with a list of jazz legends that include saxophone great Cannonball Adderley, Henry Red Allen, Coleman Hawkins, George Wettling, Gene Krupa, Nancy Wilson, Gloria Lynn, Jimmy Witherspoon, Joe Williams, Jimmy Rushing, James Moody and many others. It was in the mid-60s when Longo’s trio was playing at ...
Apr 9, 2020 · Mike Longo, a jazz pianist, composer and educator best known for his long association with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, died March 22 in Manhattan. He was 83. The cause was from the coronavirus, Dorothy Longo, his wife of 32 years, said. As a musician and a composer, said Matthew Snyder, who had studied composition with Longo and played baritone ...
