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Warren Vache: Dream Dancing
by Michael P. Gladstone
Cornetist Warren Vache has been a mainstay of the New York jazz scene since the mid-1970s. He frequently appeared and recorded with Scott Hamilton's combo and developed a lengthy recording contract with Concord Records as well as appearing on the local club circuit. Vache is perhaps the prime mover in the stimulation of the continued interest and growth of post-war small combo swing and prior to his own groups worked with Benny Goodman and Kenny Davern. Most recently his continued ...
Continue ReadingWarren Vache: 2gether
by C. Michael Bailey
Close intimacy. There have been many memorable duet jazz recordings. Some that I would recommend to the listener are:Art Pepper and George Cables-- Tête-à-Tête (Galaxy 5147, 1982)Art Pepper and George Cables-- Going Home (Galaxy 5679, 1982)Archie Schepp and NHØP-- Goin' Home (Steeplechase 31079, 1994)Archie Schepp and NHØP-- Looking at Bird (Steeplechase 31149, 1994)Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie-- Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (Pablo 2310470, 1974)Frank Morgan and George Cables-- Double Image (Contemporary 14035, ...
Continue ReadingWarren Vache: Swingtime!
by Jack Bowers
Some album titles so accurately describe the contents that there's almost nothing meaningful that a poor review can say about it. Such is the case with Swingtime!, wherein what is advertised is precisely what one gets--a baker's dozen of inflexibly swinging sorties by trumpeter Warren Vaché and his New York City All--Star Big Band (underweight division). The band includes only two trumpets (Vaché and Randy Reinhart), two trombones, four saxophones and rhythm, but after listening for a few moments you ...
Continue ReadingSwingtime! / The Re-discovered Louis and Bix
by C. Michael Bailey
Archiving with a Difference. The German label Nagel Heyer is beginning to make a name for itself by documenting that rococo period in jazz between traditional and big band swing. My introduction to the label was the Terrie Richards Alden vocal release Voice With Heart (Nagel Heyer 048). I said in that review that, “In the realm of jazz, vocalist Terrie Alden, with the support of the Warren Vaché's quartet, effects a historically informed performance of an inventive collection of ...
Continue ReadingWarren Vache: Warren Plays Warren
by Jack Bowers
One of the first questions younger listeners may ask about the recipient of this tribute album is, “Warren who?" The name is Harry Warren, and while he's hardly as well--known or celebrated as Gershwin, Porter, Rodgers, Berlin or other icons of Tin Pan Alley, the marvelous songs Warren wrote--primarily for Hollywood films--were as popular in their time as any, and remain as familiar and often--played as most others in the Great American Songbook. Like every first--rank songwriter of that era, ...
Continue ReadingWarren Vache: Warren Plays Warren
by AAJ Staff
In my estimation, Harry Warren is the most underrated songwriter of the 20th Century. While very successful, he is less famous than his songs (“Lullaby of Broadway”, “There Will Never Be Another You”) or the people who sang them (Jolson, among many others.) While Gershwin and Coward became celebrities, Warren stayed in the shadows, quietly building an immense catalog. The songs are still here, and in the right hands are a gold mine. In an intimate setting with stellar rhythm, ...
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