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Charles Mingus: Changes One
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
One of my favorite Charles Mingus albums is Changes One, recorded for Atlantic Records at the tail end of December 1974. There something about the recording that exceeds even Mingus's high composing standards and exotic vision. The album is moody, brooding and reminds me of New York in the mid-1970s more than any other. Yesterday, when I re-listened to the album and heard Remember Rockefeller at Attica, Sue's Changes, Devil's Blues and Duke Ellington's Sound of Love, I was transported ...
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Sonny Rollins & Monk
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins didn't record much with pianist Thelonious Monk, but what they did record together remains remarkable. It's a shame they weren't brought together for more albums, but the timing wasn't quite right. By the late 1950s both Sonny and Monk were towering leaders in their own right blazing paths on their own sessions. For their first pairing, three songs were recorded for Prestige—Let's Call This, Think of One and Friday the 13th. The first two appeared initially ...
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11 Most Expensive Albums Ever Produced
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While the vast majority of artists are forced to record their music on a budget, we here look at eleven different instances in the history of recorded music when record labels spared no expense funding an artist album, although the return on such investments was not always proportionate. Guest post by Elyadeen Anbar of Soundfly's Flypaper Most of us record albums with budgetary constraints — that’s just our reality. Imagine waking up one day with unlimited resources at your fingertips. Here ...
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Video: Maynard Ferguson
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the fall of 1969, Maynard Ferguson toured Europe with a great book of arrangements and a clutch of American players, adding top local musicians along the way. On Nov. 29, he was in Vienna at the Konzerthaus, a formal hall that dates back to 1913. The band included Maynard Ferguson (tp, vtb), Dusko Goykovich (tp), Heinz Hermann (as), Brian Smith (ts, ss), Ferdinand Povel (ts); Pete Jackson (p), Toni Barnthaler (b) and Randy Jones (d). The songs performed were ...
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Composer/Keyboardist Carol Albert Keeps Her Career Momentum And Positive Vibes Flowing On A Vibrant Re-imagining Of The Al Jarreau Classic “one Way”
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Carol Albert
By Jonathan Widran, Music Connection and Jazziz Magazine A few months after energizing smooth jazz radio with her vibrant, optimistic early 2017 single “On My Way,” Atlanta based composer, keyboardist and vocalist Carol Albert keeps the positive, optimistic vibes and the momentum flowing with her fresh and vibrant re- imagining of legendary singer Al Jarreau’s classic “One Way.” The soulfully exotic, high energy piano driven tune, which evolves from gently seductive opening verses into a spirited, intensely grooving ensemble jam, ...
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Hank Mobley: Roll Call
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Starting with Soul Station, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley embarked on a powerful series of recordings for Blue Note in the 1960s. His sixteen releases recorded during the decade tapped into virtually every musical trend, including bossa nova, boogaloo, funk and soul. All featured Mobley at his peak, exhibiting a bossy muscularity with a smooth, slippery articulation on solos. What's more, he was paired with a wide range of top artists, giving each album a different feel. One of the finest ...
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Baden Powell: Tristeza on Guitar
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
In the States, guitarist Baden Powell remains one of the least known bossa nova pioneers of the late 1950s and 1960s. Rather than play the smoothed-out, laid-back samba popularized by João Gilberto, Luiz Bonfá, Carlos Lyra, Roberto Menescal, João Donato and Antonio Carlos Jobim, to name a few, he favored a more percussive attack that mixed Brazilian and African rhythms with a classical guitar approach. Powell also didn't travel much to New York, which by 1964 had become the commercial ...
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Rolf Ericson & American Stars
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
If you check the personnel of Charlie Barnet's band in 1949—the killer one with arrangements by Bobby Sherwood, Manny Albam, Pete Rugolo, Gil Fuller, Dave Matthews and Johnny Richards—you'll find a guy named Rolf Ericson in the trumpet section. Ericson sat next to horn players such as Maynard Ferguson, Lammar Wright, Doc Severinsen, Ray Wetzel and Shorty Rogers, as the personnel shifted on the road and in the recording studio. Ericson had come over to the States in 1947 from ...
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