Results for "Hal McKusick"

Hal McKusick

Born: June 1, 1924

George Russell Remembered

by Duncan Heining
June 21, 2023

How is it that one of the most significant figures in modern jazz is so often overlooked when histories of the music are written? And how come one of its most important composers is not immediately acknowledged when jazz is discussed? Therein hang a number of tangled tales. The centenary of composer, musician, bandleader, ...

April Songs -Soulful Singles - Lesser known '50s players!

by David Brown
April 4, 2023

This week on the Jazz Continuum, a set of April themed tunes from Sarah Vaughn to Anthony Braxton, soulful singles from Sugar Pie DeSanto to Irma Thomas, plus a swinging' set of lesser-known jazz men from the '50s and more. Playlist Thelonious Monk “Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:00 Charlie ...

William Parker, Gretchen Parlato, Miles Davis and More

by Jerome Wilson
November 23, 2022

This show, from August 2021, features what was then brand-new music by William Parker, Mark Masters, and Gretchen Parlato as well as older music by Miles Davis, Roberta Piket, and Hal McKusick. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & ...

From Lee Konitz and Charlie Parker to Ed Neumeister and Matt Ulery

by Jerome Wilson
October 26, 2022

This show has a wide variety of classic and contemporary modern jazz, touching on Charlie Parker, Ed Neumeister, Uri Caine, Matt Ulery, and Lee Konitz among others. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't' Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) 00:00 Phronesis “Breathless" ...

Jazz on TV: Don Elliott and Hal McKusick

January 21, 2022

Yesterday, Jim Eigo sent along a terrific video that Evan Spring posted on the Jazz Research List. The video had been up at YouTube since 2014 and features an episode from a WCBS-TV series in New York called American Musical Theatre. The hour-long show aired from 1959 to 1965—a period considered by many to be the ...

My Early Years with Bill Evans, Part 2

by Chuck Israels
July 10, 2020

Bassist and composer Chuck Israels was raised in a musical family. He studied the cello and played guitar in junior high school. Later musical training took place at Indian Hill, a summer workshop in the arts directed by his parents, and at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City. A year at Massachusetts ...

Nick Travis: A New York Studio Jazzman

by Richard J Salvucci
February 28, 2020

It may well be that in the world of the Internet, no one is ever truly forgotten. That's obviously true of people commonly known as “the great and the good." Yet even in the more obscure branches of human endeavor, the principle holds. Nowhere, more so, it seems, than in music, and even in ...

Five Solos by Hal McKusick

June 7, 2018

Yesterday, I was thinking about the late Hal McKusick. So I thought I'd share five clips with you of Hal playing solos: Here's Hal on also saxophone playing Don't Worry About Me... Here's Hal on You're Everywhere... Here's Hal playing I'm Glad There Is You on clarinet... Here's Hal on alto saxophone playing Irresistible You... Here's ...

Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank?

by Geoffrey Wills
September 15, 2015

The following is an excerpt from “Chapter 2: Early Encounters with Jazz" of Zappa and Jazz: Did it Really Smell Funny, Frank? by Geoffrey Wills (Matador, 2015). When, at the age of fourteen, Zappa entered Mission Bay High School in jny: San Diego in 1955, his first exposure to the elitist snobbery of ...