Jazz Articles about Frank Severino

About Frank Severino

Album Review

Les McCann: Never A Dull Moment! Live from Coast to Coast 1966-1967

Read "Never A Dull Moment! Live from Coast to Coast 1966-1967" reviewed by Stefano Merighi

by Stefano Merighi
October 31, 2024

Vi sono sempre stati musicisti di jazz per i quali la musica è immediatezza, semplicità, gioia di vivere, empatia senza fronzoli. Les McCann era uno di questi. Il pianista del Kentucky, morto alla fine dello scorso anno, ha sempre privilegiato una comunicazione diretta con il suo pubblico, basata su quell'irresistibile mix di swing, soul con venature gospel che ne hanno messo a fuoco il marchio di fabbrica. Eppure, negli anni '70, anche Les ha subito una fascinazione per ...

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Les McCann: How's Your Mother?

Read "How's Your Mother?" reviewed by Robert Spencer

by Robert Spencer
October 1, 1998

“How's Your Mother?" is a live date from 1967 that has lain in the can from then to now---not because there is anything lacking about it (quite the contrary!) but as a testament to the cornucopia of great music that was lying around everywhere in 1967, so that Trane's Interstellar Space (and around a hundred others) didn't see the light of day until the Seventies, Alfred Lion over at Blue Note was writing to Dexter Gordon that some of his ...

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Les McCann: How's Your Mother?

Read "How's Your Mother?" reviewed by Douglas Payne

by Douglas Payne
September 1, 1998

This intriguing, previously unreleased set captures Les McCann's working trio with bassist Leroy Vinnegar and drummer Frank Severino live at the Village Vanguard on July 16, 1967. It's an exceptionally well recorded fifty-minute set that mixes four group originals with two Cole Porter tunes and two unfortunate pop staples of McCann's ("Goin' Out of My Head," “Sunny"). McCann was at a career high at this point, as his artistically satisfying Limelight years were ending and his successful eight-year run on ...