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Mary Osborne: Phantom Guitarist
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Despite the vast re-issue market both here and abroad, some jazz artists, sadly, continue to be overlooked. One of those is guitarist Mary Osborne. Despite appearing on 40 known jazz sessions and leading 10 dates, only a clutch of her sides is in print at iTunes and just a few at Spotify. Osborne led record dates as early as 1946 and '47 for Signature, Aladdin, Decca and Coral. She also had a beautiful singing voice. Then came a session with ...
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StLJN Saturday Video Showcase: Spotlight on Kenny Barron
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today, let's take a look at some video clips featuring pianist Kenny Barron, who will be performing with vibraphonist Stefon Harris starting next Wednesday, February 4 through Saturday, February 7 at Jazz at the Bistro. This will be his first time playing at the Bistro since 2010, when he did a run of duo piano performances with the late Mulgrew Miller. He also led his own group there back in 2006. Now 71 years old, Barron is a Philadelphia native ...
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Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan: 1963
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In 1962, Annie Ross had to take a health break from the wildly successful vocal trio Lambert, Hendricks & Ross. In her place, Yolande Bavan (above) was hired. When I interviewed Yolande in 2007 three months after starting this blog, she told me the story of how she came to join the group (you can read all three parts of my interview here, here and here). Cruising YouTube yesterday, I came across Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan on Ralph Gleason's TV ...
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Video: Art Pepper, 1964
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Right after recording Smack Up in October 1960, Art Pepper took the cash from the session and went to a friend's house to buy two condoms of heroin. What he didn't know when he exited is that the residence was under surveillance and that he was on the detectives' list of regular buyers. Busted, Pepper, a repeat offender, was held in the local jail before being sent to San Quentin. When he was released in 1964, it was as if ...
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Video: Bill Evans in Iowa, 1979
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Two months after appearing on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz radio show in November 1978, Bill Evans hit the road. Right after the new year, the pianist was in Iowa with his trio—bassist Marc Johnson and drummer Joe La Barbera—at the Maintenance Shop in Ames. During their run, the trio was taped for Public Television. You can purchase the results on DVD—The Bill Evans Trio, Live in Iowa—at the Fresh Sound site here. To my ears, the performance ranks among this ...
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Music Education Monday: Video workshops with Urbie Green & Delfeayo Marsalis
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Education Monday series, we've got a bone to pick with someone, via video workshops from jazz trombonists Urbie Green and Delfeayo Marsalis. Green, now 88 and retired from music, was known for his technical prowess, both as a soloist and bandleader and as a sideman with the big bands of Woody Herman, Gene Krupa and others, while Marsalis is part of the famous New Orleans family that includes his dad, pianist Ellis Marsalis, and brothers Wynton, ...
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Rare Nick Travis Performance
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Nick Travis (1925-1964) played trumpet in a variety of big bands including those of Woody Herman, Ray McKinley, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Ina Ray Hutton and Jerry Wald; all of those in the 1940s. The list got longer in the ‘50s, when he worked with Herman again, and with Jerry Gray, Bob Chester, Elliott Lawrence, Jimmy Dorsey, the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra and Maynard Ferguson’s Birdland Dream Band. Travis was active in New York studios in the late ‘50s and early ‘60s ...
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Blizzard of '78 Playlist
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
With a record-breaking snow storm bearing down on New York, I thought I'd share a story with you—and some music. On the morning of Monday, February 6, 1978, I lived in Boston. I was a junior at Northeastern University, a five-year school that allowed you to spend half the year working at a job related to what you wanted to do when you graduated. I worked at The New York Times through college, and my work period the previous year ...
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