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Backgrounder: Johnny Richards Something Else
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my very favorite big band albums is Johnny Richards' Something Else. Recorded for Bethlehem in Los Angeles in August 1956, the album features Richards compositions and arrangements and a band that will make West Coast jazz fans gasp. Waltz Anyone featured Pete Candoli, Buddy Childers and Maynard Ferguson (tp); Stu Williamson (tp,v-tb); Tommy Pederson, Frank Rosolino and Milt Bernhart (tb); John Cave (fhr); Albert Pollan (tu); Charlie Mariano (as); Richie Kamuca (ts); Ronnie Lang (bar,pic); Bill Holman (bassax); ...
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Something Else! Vincent Herring Septet Honors Cannonball Adderley At Birdland from September 6-10, 2022
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Something Else!, will launch at Birdland on September 6-10, 2022 with two sets a night at Birdland Jazz Club and Birdland Theater. The shows will feature Vincent Herring, alto saxophone, James Carter, tenor sax, Jeremy Pelt, trumpet, Russell Malone, guitar, David Kikoski, piano, Essiet Essiet, bass and Johnathan Blake, drums. Something Else! is the only Blue Note album by Cannonball Adderley recorded and released in 1958 and became an iconic masterpiece presenting funky, soulful and bluesy Jazz which was the ...
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Perfect Album: Something Else
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
I was going to post today about a “Hot Track" but decided instead to simply start a new feature called “Perfect Album." Yesterday I was listening to Johnny Richards' Something Else, one of my absolute favorite big-band albums. Something Else was recorded for Bethlehem in Hollywood on August 2 and 3, 1956. What made Richards (above) special as an arranger was his fiery romanticism and percussive moodiness. A highly progressive writer, Richards thought big. Really big. And he loved his ...
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Something Else! Interview: Allen Toussaint, Hall of Fame Singer-Songwriter and Producer
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Allen Toussaint, fonky-fonky pianist, writer and producer of untold hit songs, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and first-chair favorite son, makes his annual appearance this week at the 2012 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival – a tradition, he says, “which I dearly, dearly love.” Then, he plans to resume a completely revitalized solo recording career alongside Joe Henry, who oversaw Toussaint’s swinging triumph Bright Mississippi a couple of years ago. In a career dating back to the 1950s, ...
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Something Else! Interview: Drummer Danny Seraphine, Formerly of Chicago
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Chicago co-founder Danny Seraphine is putting the finishing touches on his second album with California Transit Authority—which fashioned its name and its muscular jazz-rock approach from his old group's initial sound: “If you love early Chicago, then you are going to love this," Seraphine said in the latest SER Sitdown. “I'm very proud of it, and I think everybody in the band is." A group co-founder, Seraphine had been in two prior groups with eventual Chicago saxophonist Walt Parazaider and ...
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Something Else! Featured Artist: Stevie Wonder
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Stevie Wonder will be honored this month as a United Nations Messenger of Peace, during a benefit concert to be held Nov. 11 in Hollywood. We'd like to add to that resume line: Messenger of Funk, Sweet Soul and Pure Unfettered Get Down. Don't believe us? Too young to remember? Let's take a spin through the stacks ... LIVING FOR THE CITY (INNERVISIONS, 1973): In 1973 I was in eight grade, living in Middletown, Connecticut. My little middle school was ...
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Something Else! Interview: Jazz Trumpeter Nicholas Payton
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Trumpeter Nicholas Payton may have begun his journey as part of the traditionalists in the early-1990s Young Lions movement, but he couldn't have emerged any further afield. In fact, Payton's upcoming R&B-infused project Bitches is only just now seeing the light of day, in a completely remixed format, after being rejected last fall by the stalwart jazz label Concord. [ONE TRACK MIND: New Orleans-born trumpeter Nicholas Payton offers insight into his varied career, from Satchmo to 'Sonic Trance'—and sings the ...
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Something Else! Interview: Jazz Legend Jimmy Cobb
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Jimmy Cobb, the lone survivor of legendary jazz dates featuring Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dinah Washington, Wes Montgomery and others, continues to furiously drum—even while carrying the torch. The 82-year-old's newest album is called Remembering Miles. Cobb will also begin a tour celebrating the music of Coltrane on Thursday, continuing through Nov. 5 with Javon Jackson, Mulgrew Miller and Nat Reeves. Each project, in its own way, celebrates collaborations on Davis' Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain and Porgy and ...
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Ornette Coleman - Something Else!!! (Contomporary, 1958, OJC 2011)
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Music and More by Tim Niland
Listening with today's ears it is sometimes hard to understand how controversial alto saxophonist and composer Ornette Coleman's music was during the first few years of his career. It's a testament to his perseverance and vision that was once radical has by now been so thoroughly absorbed into the jazz mainstream that it hardly raises an eyebrow. To say that Coleman scuffled before his break is an understatement: a brutal baptism by fire in Texas Rhythm and Blues bands and ...
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Something Else! Interview: Billy Sherwood, Formerly of Yes
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Billy Sherwood has had a busy year—producing the new solo album by former King Crimson/UK/Asia singer John Wetton, co-leading the terrific third release from Circa and then issuing his own well-conceived solo recording. He is, of course, best known for trying to sew together the frayed scraps of that ever-evolving prog-rock amalgam Yes in the 1990s, overseeing the initial reforming of the band's classic line up for the first time in decades. Through the course of the '90s, he would ...
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