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Ben Webster: At The Renaissance
by Richard J Salvucci
When tenor saxophonist Scott Hamilton first came up in the 1980s, his style was so, well, unusual, that a live audience would sometimes tentatively ask “Ben Webster?" Whether Hamilton regarded that as a compliment--it was--or the musicological equivalent of “Play Melancholy Baby for me" only Hamilton could have said. But the comment also acknowledged that the saxophone had gone through a convulsive period in which honks, shrieks, fragments and semitones had become the norm. Yes, there were melodic players, like ...
Continue ReadingJimmy Rowles
by Carol Sloane
Part 1 I had just finished my night's work at a long-since vanished jazz club in Greenwich Village called Hopper's. I was singing with The New York Jazz Quartet: Sir Roland Hanna, George Mraz, Richie Pratt, and Frank Wess. The year was 1977. Mraz said he was going to walk over to Bradley's* to listen to the legendary jazz pianist Jimmy Rowles, and invited me along. I was very eager to hear the great California musician who had played for ...
Continue ReadingJimmy Rowles & Ray Brown: The Duo Sessions
by AAJ Staff
With considerable charm and elegance, Jimmy Rowles and Ray Brown breeze through 18 tunes, some standards and some jazz classics and some fairly obscure, without seeming to work up a sweat. These two consummate professionals, revered by fellow musicians, were teamed to produce two Concord albums in the late 1970’s. In spite of the loss of Rowles, Brown’s staying power remains remarkable even until this day as he continues touring and recording with his trio. Brown’s preference for the piano ...
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