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Backgrounder: Walter Davis Jr. - 'Davis Cup' (1959)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Walter Davis Jr. was an exceptional hard bop pianist and composer. He was commanding and percussive, similar in this regard to Horace Silver. As a leader, Davis made a bunch of terrific albums for Blue Note, and one of his best was his first—Davis Cup. The album was recorded on August 2, 1959. The reason I include the date here is because Davis Cup was the first full album to be recorded at Rudy Van Gelder's newly constructed studio in ...
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Walter Davis Jr.: Davis Cup
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
On August 2, 1959, Rudy Van Gelder opened his newly built Englewood Cliffs, N.J., recording studio. Between 1952 and August 1959, Rudy had been recording jazz albums for Blue Note and other labels in a soundproof room at his parents modernist white stucco home a few miles away in Hackensack. The first album recorded in Hackensack was the 10-inch Gil Melle Quintet/Sextet for Blue Note. The room Rudy used is featured widely in many of Francis Wolff's photos with the ...
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Matt Wilson's Christmas Tree-O Jingling All the Way to Lovin Cup on December 15th
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Jazz@Rochester
Bop Arts (Tom Kohn and the Bop Shop's nonprofit side) is bringing Matt Wilson and his Christmas Tree-O to Lovin' Cup Brews & Bistro on Thursday, December 15th, at 8:00 pm. Tickets are $18 advance/$20 door. Lovin Cup is a great venue for music, but if you want to sit, you better get there early when the doors open at 7. New York based drummer and Grammy nominee Matt Wilson is one of today's most called for jazz drummers and is ...
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Jon Lundbom and Big Five Chord - Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! Quavers! (Hot Cup, 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Hot Cup Records can always be counted on to build a refreshingly post-modern view of jazz, whether it is the ironic beauty of Mostly Other People Do the Killing to the country/jazz experiment Pretend It's the End of the World. Irony and irreverence are the key to their aesthetic, but never at the expense of the music. Jon Lundbom's Quavers mixes a fascinating Sharrock/Sanders aesthetic to elements of funk and post-modern fusion. Joining Lundbom on guitar are some of the ...
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A Cup of "Ko-Ko"
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Riffs on Jazz by John Anderson
"Ko-Ko“ was a songrecorded on this date in 1940 by the famous Blanton-Webster version of the DukeEllington Orchestra (bassist Jimmy Blanton and saxophonist Ben Webster werefeatured soloists). Ellington said that the song was meant to evoke CongoSquare in New Orleans (where Louis Armstrong Park is now), a place whereAfrican-Americans gathered on Sundays in the pre-jazz days of the nineteenthcentury to dance to drum music. The Duke originally intended it to be part ofhis musical history that eventually became the jazz ...
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Spain and the Netherlands, Jazz, and the World Cup
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Groove Notes
The World Cup is over, and I suppose the time has come for me to stop complaining. I was cheering for Holland from the beginning, and was crushed when the Netherlands lost to Spain in the final minutes of overtime in the final, in what in general was a pretty good game.
These two countries are soccer superpowers, but have also made some nice contributions as far as jazz musicians go.
The Dutch boasts a drummer who is a virtuoso ...
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A Cylindrical Paper Cup Filled with Booze
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Brilliant Corners, a Boston Jazz Blog
Way back in the Lost Hang post, I said I'd fill in the details about Little Stevie's trumpet lessons with John Coffey. Here goes.My first trumpet teacher came to the house. A big jolly man, he reached down to his butt and said to me, “Now, you can tell your jughead friends this, but don't tell your mother. When you play, you gotta press down like you're fartin'. See what I mean?"After this, my parents got ...
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What is That Weird Hum During World Cup Games?
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All About Jazz
Is there something wrong with your television set, or has a swarm of angry bees invaded the World Cup pitch?
Neither the strange noise you're hearing during today's World Cup games (and for the rest of the tournament, presumably) is the sound of thousands of vuvuzelas. But what, pray tell, is a vuvuzela? A vuvuzela is a long plastic horn popular with South African soccer fans, who blow them en masse during games. Played by producing a raspberry sound with ...
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The Sounds and Songs of Stanley Cup Rivals
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Michael Ricci
While the Flyers and the Blackhawks have waged a fierce battle for the Stanley Cup, the singing of “God Bless America" and “The Star-Spangled Banner" has its own competition for bragging rights between the cities of Philadelphia and Chicago.
Kate Smith singing “God Bless America," which had become a Flyers talisman, in 1975. The Flyers won the Cup that year.
If it happens on ice and it involves hitting and scoring, The Times's Slap Shot blog is on it. Go ...
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Bryan and the Haggards - Pretend It's the End of the World (Hot Cup)
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Master of a Small House
Country and jazz have rarely been congenial bedfellows. Sure, there's the heyday of western swing to consider and much more recent cross-pollinations like the Blue Note-backed collaboration between Wynton and Willie, but more often the genres reflect and oil and water dynamic. Cue Bryan and the Haggards, a hardcore honky-tonk freebop collective who aims to mend any flattened fences while simultaneously removing any need for them in the first place. A swift survey of the roster reveals how well the ...
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