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The Sound of Feeling, 1968
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In November 1968, Verve Records released what today may seem like an unusual album but back then was perfectly in sync with the youth-focused times. The LP was called Leonard Feather Presents... The Sound of Feeling and the Sound of Oliver Nelson. Recorded in 1966 (the Nelson big band tracks) and 1967 (the vocal tracks), and produced initially by Creed Taylor and then Jesse Kaye after Creed left for A&M to start CTI, The Sound of Feeling featured a Los ...
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Fania Boogaloo: It's a Good, Good Feeling
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Back in the 1960s, there were the Billboard pop and R&B charts. Everything was rock and soul, Black and white, uptown and downtown. But if you lived in New York, as I did then, in Washington Heights, you knew there was a third stream—boogaloo. You could hear it coming out of the open windows of apartments on summer weekends in Washington Heights, from 140th to 175th streets, and in East Harlem. Amazing what you'd hear in the days before air ...
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3 Questions To Ask Yourself When You're Feeling Overwhelmed As An Artist
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HypeBot
As an independent artist struggling to make a place for yourself in the music industry, it's easy to start to feel overwhelmed and burnt out. Here we look at three important questions to pose to yourself when the burdens of navigating a truly challenging business have become too great. Guest post by Angela Mastrogiacomo of the TuneCore Blog Being a musician or an entrepreneur doesn’t exactly come with a guide book, does it? Truth be told, I spent a good ...
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A Family Feeling: Temple University Jazz Faculty Record New Music By Bruce Barth
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All About Jazz
In June, six members of Temple University’s noted jazz faculty gathered in Bunker Hill Studio in Brooklyn to record eight tracks of new music composed by Bruce Barth. Terell Stafford, director of Jazz Studies at Temple, lead the charge and the result, Family Feeling, is a reflection on the warm camaraderie between Terell Stafford (trumpet); Dick Oatts (also/soprano saxophone); Bruce Barth (piano); Tim Warfield, Jr., (tenor/soprano saxophone); David Wong (bass); and, Byron Landham (drums) that has been forged over many ...
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Big John Patton: Certain Feeling
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Big John Patton wasn't big. Playing the organ-combo circuit in late 1961 and early '62, a club owner began calling him “Big Bad John." The name was inspired by Jimmy Dean's record, Big Bad John, which was released in September of that year and went to #1 on Billboard's pop chart in early November. Patton told an interviewer he resisted the name at first but soon came to like it. It's unclear whether he deleted the word “bad" or Blue ...
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Music Education Monday: Feeling the funk with Paul Jackson and Mike Clark
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Though bassist Paul Jackson and drummer Mike Clark both have extensive lists of credits, they still may be best known as the funky foundation of the Headhunters, the band that backed keyboardist Herbie Hancock in the 1970s and subsequently spun off into an independent act. The slippery, off-beat syncopation of interlocking drum and bass tracks powering compositions like Hancock's “Palm Grease" and “Actual Proof" and the Headhunters' own “God Make Me Funky" was distinctive at the time and retains its ...
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Steve and Eydie: That Holiday Feeling!
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Long-time JazzWax readers know that each year at this time I pick my favorite vintage holiday album. To make the grade, the album has to be from the '50s or '60s and have the perfect mixture of pop, jazz and swing—with a dash of Rockwellian sentiment. It also has to do a swift job of taking us back to a time when stuffed animals were oversized, candy was homemade, black rubber snow boots had metal clasps and fireplace blazes had ...
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Enter the "Christian McBride - The Good Feeling" CD Giveaway at All About Jazz!
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All About Jazz
