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	Al McKibbon: a living history of Jazz: Al McKibbon and the Roots of Latin Jazz Latin Beat Magazine - Find Articles
		McKibbon's first musical influences were his father (who played tuba and guitar) and his mother (who sang as well as recorded on the popular player piano rolls of the time).
		I met with Al at his home and discussed many issues that left me in awe of who he is, in terms of the timeline of Latin jazz history and the vast contributions he has made.
		Al McKibbon: We basically spoke pigeon English to communicate but we understood each other primarily through our music.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FXV/is_3_15/ai_n13795071 (896 words)

	Al Mc Kibbon; Latin jazz and bebop bassist; 86 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Al McKibbon, whose robust acoustic bass anchored some of the most advanced and memorable jazz recordings of the 1940s and 1950s, died July 29 at a hospital in Los Angeles.
		McKibbon was a member of pianist George Shearing's popular quintet, and after settling in Los Angeles, he performed anonymously on many television shows and theme-song recordings, as well as with an all-star musical roster that included Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley and Nat "King" Cole.
		McKibbon was in New York, sitting in at Minton's Playhouse, the Harlem club where the bebop revolution was launched by Monk, Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050805/news_1m5mckibbon.html (704 words)

	Official Ticketmaster site. Al McKibbon tickets, dates
		Noted for his rich, resonant tone and metronomic precision, Al McKibbon was one of the premier bassists of the early bebop era, supporting giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and Thelonious Monk in addition to collaborating with percussionist Chano Pozo to forge the sound of Afro-Cuban jazz.
		Born January 1, 1919, in Chicago, McKibbon was the son of a minister who played tuba and guitar, often with Al's mother on piano accompaniment.
		While a student at Detroit's Cass Tech, McKibbon studied bass and piano, and by 17 was gigging steadily at the local nightclub the B&C. Later, he backed Kelly Martin at the Conga Club, followed by a stint with Jimmie Lunceford's former saxophonist Ted Bruckner.
	www.ticketmaster.ca /artist/759740?brand=none (789 words)

	Al McKibbon, jazz bassist, 86 - The Boston Globe
		LOS ANGELES -- Al McKibbon, a bassist who was an early participant in efforts to merge jazz and Latin rhythms, died Friday at Good Samaritan Hospital.
		McKibbon, who was a key member of pianist George Shearing's quintet in the 1950s, had been in declining health for several months, according to Gary Chen-Stein, a close friend of Mr.
		McKibbon was ''laying down as fine a Latin bass line as anyone ever has" and that he seemed to have an intuitive sense for the rhythms.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2005/07/31/al_mckibbon_jazz_bassist_86?mode=PF (399 words)

	eJazzNews.com : The Number One Jazz News Resource On The Net
		In the 1950s, McKibbon was a member of pianist George Shearing's popular quintet, and after settling in Los Angeles, he performed anonymously on many television shows and theme-song recordings, as well as with an all-star musical roster that included Ray Charles, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Cannonball Adderley and Nat "King" Cole.
		Later that year, McKibbon was in New York, sitting in at Minton's Playhouse, the Harlem club where the bebop revolution was launched by Monk, Gillespie and saxophonist Charlie Parker.
		From 1951 to 1958, McKibbon was the backbone of Shearing's quintet, but he left the road to settle in Los Angeles.
	www.ejazznews.com /print.php?sid=4799 (733 words)

	THE JAZZ ON THE LATIN SIDE ALL STARS VOL. 2"
		Our luminaries are Francisco Aguabella, Al McKibbon, Poncho Sanchez, Justo Almario, and Alex Acuña, among an incredible cast of musicians that we are very proud of in Southern California.
		Al was an integral part of the Dizzy Gillespie Band with Chano Pozo, later making some legendary recordings with Cal Tjader, George Shearing, Armando Peraza, Francisco Aguabella, The Jazz Cruzaders, and Mongo Santamaria, among many others.
		Al McKibbon has always walked the talk, that's why we all respect him so much.
	www.ubiquityrecords.com /cb030.html (701 words)

	Las Vegas SUN: Jazz Bassist Al McKibbon Dies at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Al McKibbon, a bassist who brought a masterly fusion of jazz and Latin music to the George Shearing quintet and other groups in the 1940s and '50s, has died.
		McKibbon died of kidney failure July 29 at Good Samaritan Hospital, said Gary Chen-Stein, a close friend.
		McKibbon moved to Los Angeles in 1958 and played in the staff orchestras of CBS and NBC, for movie soundtracks and on albums by Frank Sinatra, Randy Newman, Sammy Davis Jr.
	www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/text/2005/aug/06/080603117.html (325 words)

	Obituary: AL MCKIBBON Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Perhaps the resonance of McKibbon's playing was due to the fact that he played a bass made by Jacob Steiner, the 'German Stradivarius', in 1650.
		McKibbon, whose father played tuba and guitar and whose mother recorded on piano rolls, studied bass and piano at High School in Detroit and began his career playing in local bands.
		In fact it was the birth of Afro-Cuban jazz, and McKibbon was to stay involved in Latin music for the rest of his career.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050801/ai_n14828122 (947 words)

	Transitions / passings \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		AL McKIBBON, 86: His robust acoustic bass anchored some of the most advanced and memorable jazz recordings of the 1940s and 1950s.
		McKibbon was at the center of the heady bebop musical revolution in New York.
		McKibbon died July 29 at a hospital in Los Angeles.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050807/news_mz1j07trans.html (1017 words)

	- (Latinastereo) - Conozcamos la salsa - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		En esta última conoció al pianista Dave Brubeck y al saxofonista Paul Desmond, con quienes tocó y grabó en octetos experimentales.
		Un buen día, al escuchar que un tipo llamado Nick Espósito buscaba un bongosero que pudiera tocar en una de sus grabaciones, él, un afiebrado de la música, se unió al proyecto.
		Al buscar un nuevo elemento rítmico en el son oriental para estructurar su famoso danzón titulado “ El bombín de Barreto”, José Urfé definió la forma actual del danzón cubano.
	www.latinastereo.com /genteLatina/conozcamos/Default.shtm (3827 words)

	McKibbon House--A Southern Treasure Bed and Breakfast Inn located in Montevallo, Alabama near Birmingham Alabama, ...
		McKibbon House--A Southern Treasure Bed and Breakfast Inn located in Montevallo, Alabama near Birmingham Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, and Montgomery, AL--Quiet
		Montevallo: Located in Shelby County, at the geographic center of Alabama.
		McKibbon House is three blocks ahead on the left.
	www.mckibbonhouse.com /Locate_Us (325 words)

	Veteran jazz bassist Al McKibbon dies - Music
		Veteran jazz bassist Al McKibbon has died of kidney failure.
		One of the last great string bass players from the bebop era, he was little known publicly but was famous among musicians and performed with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk.
		After moving from New York City to Los Angeles in 1958, McKibbon played in the staff orchestras of TV networks Cbs and Nbc, for movie soundtracks and on albums by Frank Sinatra, Randy Newman and Sammy Davis Jr, among others.
	music.monstersandcritics.com /news/article_1039722.php (177 words)

	[Deathwatch] Al McKibbon, musician, 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		LOS ANGELES (AP) - Al McKibbon, a bassist who brought a masterly fusion of jazz and Latin music to the George Shearing quintet and other groups in the 1940s and '50s, has died.
		One of the last great string bass players from the bebop era, he was little known publicly but was famous among musicians.
		McKibbon became interested in Latin music while working with Dizzie Gillespie, who was experimenting with combining jazz and Afro-Cuban rhythms.
	slick.org /pipermail/deathwatch/2005-August/001201.html (282 words)

	Music: Rhythm and Views (Tucson Weekly . 09-07-99)
		BASSIST AL MCKIBBON has appeared on more classic jazz recordings than most people own in their collection.
		Latin percussion mixed with jazz harmony is nothing new, but McKibbon's presence at its inception gives this record added significance.
		Still, if your loyalties rest with those who'd say we, the public, are obliged to help those less fortunate by suffering through their public therapy sessions, here's a 22-song helping of Willis, culled from numerous albums as well as offering rarities and unreleased material.
	weeklywire.com /ww/09-07-99/tw_qscans.html (599 words)

	Jazz - latest news stories and headlines on jazz music and jazz artists.
		Bebop era jazz bassist Al McKibbon dies from kidney failure at 86
		LOS ANGELES -- Al McKibbon, a bassist who brought a masterly fusion of jazz and Latin music to the G...
		LOS ANGELES - Al McKibbon, a bassist who brought a masterly fusion of jazz and Latin music to the Ge...
	archive.wn.com /2005/08/08/1400/jazz (312 words)

	Thelonious Monk - Notes - 'The Giants of Jazz' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gillespie, Blakey, Monk, Stitt, Kai Winding, Al McKibbon.
		The Giants, as men as well as of music, played a gig in Israel and gave Sonny all the money so he wouldn't be short at the end of the tour.
		McKibbon, a rock, timelessly holding the rhythm section together.
	www.howardm.net /tsmonk/gojnotes.php (402 words)

	Al McKibbon, Latin Jazz and Bebop Bassist, Dies at 86
		Al McKibbon, Latin Jazz and Bebop Bassist, Dies at 86
		Al McKibbon, 86, whose robust acoustic bass anchored some of the most advanced and memorable jazz recordings of the 1940s and 1950s, died July 29 at a hospital in Los Angeles.
		McKibbon told Latin Beat magazine this year, "but we understood each other primarily through our music."
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/03/AR2005080302219_pf.html (708 words)

	Al McKibbon
		I was born Alfred McKibbon on January 1st, 1919 at 12:00am in Chicago, Illinois.
		My Family moved to Detroit, Michigan two years later.
		recollections copyright © Alfred McKibbon All Rights Reserved
	www.bassland.net /1bigal.htm (409 words)

	The Duke Ellington Music Society
		I mentioned that if Al only played at the start of the session, it could not have been in Harlem Air-Shaft, since that selection was the last one in the session.
		Al confirmed that he was on the session sheet and was paid for the session because that is the union rule.
		Al was most definite that, although he "ran through" the first number with the band, he did not have the opportunity to record.
	www.depanorama.net /dems/053a.htm (5650 words)

	Al McKibbon photos, info and news - People
		McKibbon was credited with interesting Tjader in Latin music while he played in Tjader's group.
		In 1999, at age 80, he recorded his first album in his own name, "Tumbao Para Los Congueros Di Mi Vida" (Blue Lady Records), which was nominated for a Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Performance.
		McKibbon's second album, "Black Orchid" (Nine Yards Music), was released in 2004.
	people.monstersandcritics.com /archive/peoplearchive.php/Al_McKibbon/biog (288 words)

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		By the early 1980s, Ferrer had retired from music, but was lulled back by U.S. musician Ry Cooder to perform with a group of older Cuban artists on the "Buena Vista Social Club album," which won a Grammy in 1999.
		Jazz Bassist Al McKibbon*, famous for fusing jazz and Latin music as part of the George Shearing quintet and other groups in the 1940s and ‘50s, died July 29 of kidney failure at the age of 86.
		Born in Chicago to a musical family and raised in Detroit, Alfred Benjamin McKibbon is best known for merging Afro-Cuban and fl jazz.
	www.eurweb.com /printable.cfm?id=21687 (389 words)

	McKibbon House Bed and Breakfast Inn - Montevallo, Alabama - BBOnline.com / Introduction
		Beautifully restored 1900 Victorian home in a quaint college town, in Shelby County, in the geographic center of Alabama.
		Smoking is permitted on verandahs and on the lawn.
		McKibbon House Bed and Breakfast Inn is a member of the following associations:
	www.bbonline.com /al/mckibbon (357 words)

	DevraDoWrite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It seems like just weeks ago that Al and his daughter, Alison, were here at the house — we ended up going out for seafood dinner, Al loved seafood — but that was five months ago.
		When John put down his bass to become a fulltime manager, it was Al that he hired to play bass with the George Shearing Quintet.
		Al’s first-person bio, which includes photographs from his personal collection, can be read online here.
	www.devradowrite.com /?m=200507 (5479 words)

	Al McKibbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1947, after working with Lucky Millinder, Tab Smith, J.
		In the 1950s he recorded with the Miles Davis nonet, Earl Hines, Count Basie, Johnny Hodges, Thelonious Monk, George Shearing, Cal Tjader, Herbie Nichols and Hawkins.
		He also wrote the Afterword to Raul Fernandez' book, Latin Jazz, part of the Smithsonian Institution's series of exhibitions on jazz.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al_McKibbon (263 words)

	MP3's, Album van de Week, Concertagenda, Jarigen and More!: Al McKibbon overleden
		Jazzbassist Al McKibbon is op 86-jarige leeftijd overleden aan de gevolgen van een nierziekte.
		McKibbon was niet erg bekend bij het grote publiek, maar was wel beroemd onder muzikanten.
		Hij heeft onder meer opgetreden met legendes als Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk and Dizzy Gillespie.
	bianc.web-log.nl /mp3/2005/08/al_mckibbon_ove.html (616 words)

	Al McKibbon MP3 Downloads - Al McKibbon Music Downloads - Al McKibbon Music Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Noted for his rich, resonant tone and metronomic precision, Al McKibbon was one of the premier bassists of the early bebop era, supporting giants like Dizzy Gillespie, Coleman Hawkins, and...
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	The Giants of Jazz - Recorded Live at the Victoria Theatre in London (Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet; Art Blakey, drums; ...
		In 1971, a true SUPER group was formed of Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, and Al McKibbon.
		Each was already an established superstar, and all major group leaders themselves with the exception of McKibbon.
		They agreed to leave their own groups and set out on a 42 concert world tour starting in Australia and New Zealand.
	www.audaud.com /article.php?ArticleID=1389 (519 words)

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