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Jazz Vocalist Beats The Odds To Relaunch Singing Career
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Dorothy Riley
Columbus, OH: “I've suffered two broken necks and I'm still singing Jazz, not singing the Blues." Eight years after breaking her neck for the second time, experienced Jazz vocalist Kate Ross is relaunching her singing career both on stage and with a planned debut CD. Titled People Make the World Go Round the CD will be available on CDBaby, iTunes and Amazon in September. Over the years her distinctive contralto and Jazz/R&B style have graced dozens of venues in the ...
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Interview: Phil Everly
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
The Everly Brothers were among the most influential vocal groups of the late 1950s and early '60s. Starting with By e Bye Love in '57, the duo transformed the way rock and folk sounded through 1967 after their string of hits crossed over from country to the pop charts. What's especially remarkable about their widespread impact is that rock's primary influence at the time was R&B—expressive, big-beat music that helped white rock acts add energy and freedom to performances and ...
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Dave Pell on Boots Brown
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted about Shorty Rogers and his rock-and-roll recordings for RCA as Boots Brown and His Blockbusters. Those recordings included the cream of the West Coast jazz scene, including tenor saxophonist Dave Pell. Today, I gave Dave a buzz to find out why Rogers—and everyone else—bothered and shunned credit. First, a word about Dave, who was an instrumental part of the West Coast jazz sound in the '50s. He was one of the first to have success with the ...
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Interview: Davide Recchia
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Eric Taylor
Q: Where did the interest in music originate from? A: I started becoming interested in music when I listened to some blues artist like Son House, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, and many others of that kind of blues. So I start to play my guitar to became a bluesman like that. Q: Were your parents supportive of your musical ambitions? A: Oh yes, my father taught me how to play the first thing on guitar, but in my house there ...
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David Allyn: Where You At?
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Singer David Allyn joined Jack Teagarden's band in early 1940—just months after Frank Sinatra began singing with Tommy Dorsey. Both singers learned a great deal about phrasing from their trombonist bosses. When Sinatra left Dorsey in '42 to record as a solo artist at Columbia, Allyn went into the Army. After Allyn returned to the States in the mid-40s and recovered from battle shock suffered in North Africa, he began singing with Boyd Raeburn's band. While Sinatra became a heartthrob ...
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Interview: David Crosby
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
A month ago, I spent nearly two hours with David Crosby in New York at the duplex of his friend. The apartment was on a perilously high floor of the Time Warner condo apartments in New York and had a majestic view of Central Park. David was in town to appear with bandmates Stephen Stills and Graham Nash at a Jazz at Lincoln Center concert celebrating Crosby, Stills & Nash's (CSN) music. My conversation with David appears in today's Wall ...
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Jutta Hipp: The Inside Story
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Last week I posted on German pianist Jutta Hipp, who recorded in the 1950s before disappearing from the jazz scene. I also mentioned that Katja von Schuttenbach—a jazz historian and journalist —had researched and written about Hipp. I sent Katja a handful of questions and she kindly responded. Here's our e-conversation: JazzWax: Jutta Hipp seems like a tragic figure—in part a victim of her own issues. Do we know what she went through as a teen living under Nazi rule? ...
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Interview: Nils Lindberg
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I posted on composer, arranger and pianist Nils Lindberg's 1963 album Trisection, a superb but almost unknown orchestral jazz recording. I also provided a bit of background on Sweden's 100-year love affair with jazz. Today, a conversation with Nils on Sax Appeal (1960) and Trisection (1963)—two of his early jazz albums recorded in Stockholm: JazzWax: What was your major influence when writing and arranging Sax Appeal? Nils Lindberg: The songs I wrote for Sax Appeal were inspired by the ...
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