The Hollys frequented many of New York's music venues, including The Village Gate, Blue Note, Village Vanguard, and Johnny Johnson's.

Notable jazz bassists from the 1940s to the 1950s included bassist Jimmy Blanton ( 1918 – 1942 ) whose short tenure in the Duke Ellington Swing band ( cut short by his death from tuberculosis ) introduced new melodic and harmonic solo ideas for the instrument ; bassist Ray Brown ( 1926 – 2002 ), known for backing Beboppers Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Art Tatum and Charlie Parker, and forming the Modern Jazz Quartet ; hard bop bassist Ron Carter ( born 1937 ), who has appeared on 3, 500 albums make him one of the most-recorded bassists in jazz history, including LPs by Thelonious Monk and Wes Montgomery and many Blue Note Records artists ; and Paul Chambers ( 1935 – 1969 ), a member of the Miles Davis Quintet ( including the landmark modal jazz recording Kind of Blue ) and many other 1950s and 1960s rhythm sections, was known for his virtuosic improvisations.

The Village Gate, the Village Vanguard and The Blue Note ( since 1981 ), hosted some of the biggest names in jazz on a regular basis.

Also of importance are his five Blue Note recordings, collected in the Miles Davis Volume 1 album.

Category: Blue Note Records artists

Carter also performed on some of Hancock, Williams and Shorter's recordings during the sixties for Blue Note Records.

He was a sideman on many Blue Note recordings of the era, playing with Sam Rivers, Freddie Hubbard, Duke Pearson, Lee Morgan, McCoy Tyner, Andrew Hill, Horace Silver and others.

* 1991: Meets Bach ( Blue Note )

* 1992: Friends ( Blue Note )

* 1994: Jazz, My Romance ( Blue Note )

* 1995: Mr. Bow Tie ( Blue Note )

* 1995: Brandenburg Concerto ( Blue Note )

* 1998: So What ( Blue Note ) trio with Kenny Barron and Lewis Nash

* 1999: Orfeu ( Blue Note )

* 2001: When Skies Are Grey ( Blue Note )

* 2002: Stardust ( Blue Note )

* 2003: The Golden Striker ( Blue Note )

* Electric Byrd ( Blue Note, 1970 )

* Kofi ( Blue Note, 1969 – 70 )

* Empyrean Isles ( Blue Note )

* Maiden Voyage ( Blue Note )

* Speak Like a Child ( Blue Note )

* Gene Harris of the Three Sounds ( Blue Note, 1972 )

1 & 2 ( Blue Note )

Blue Throat was slumped with his back against the bar, elbows supporting his massive frame.

He didn't stop till he was within three feet of Blue Throat and by that time the gang leader's right hand was on the butt of his revolver.

In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

It was the abrupt end of Blue Throat's dictatorship in Petrie.

After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

It was her job to stand at the foot of the stairs, and, just as the First Lady stepped off the last tread, Mama would straighten out her long train before she marched to the Blue Room to greet her guests with the President.

In addition, Blue Cross coverage for all employees and their dependents was extended to provide the full cost of semi-private hospital accommodations.

The effluent was collected through two pipes and discharged to the Blue River through a surface drainage ditch.

In the Blue Ridge meeting, the audience was warned that entering a candidate for governor would force it to take petitions out into voting precincts to obtain the signatures of registered voters.

Blue ribbon for one dozen white eggs was taken by Nyberg.

Eckstein was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.

Callinectes sapidus | Blue crab was used on the eastern and southern coast of what is now the U. S. mainland.

The U. S. military began targeting food crops in October 1962, primarily using Agent Blue ; the American public was not made aware of the crop destruction programs until 1965 ( and it was then believed that crop spraying had begun that spring ).

But time and the investigations of subsequent explorers have shown that Abbadie was quite trustworthy as to his facts, though wrong in his contention — hotly contested by Beke — that the Blue Nile was the main stream.

Blue Lightning, a game with After Burner-like graphics, was especially notable and featured in TV advertising for the console.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

The breed's characteristic gene mutation was maintained through linebreeding to the point where the condition was a fixed property in the Belgian Blue breed.

The downtown area through which the tunnels were to be dug was largely landfill, and included existing Red Line and Blue Line subway tunnels as well as innumerable pipes and utility lines that would have to be replaced or moved.

The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force.

Blue Steel was the result of a Ministry of Supply memorandum from 5 November 1954 that predicted that by 1960 Soviet air defences would make it prohibitively dangerous for V bombers to attack with nuclear gravity bombs.