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Chuck Redd: 40 Years On the Road
by Mark Robbins
Chuck Redd is a busy, busy man. This interview took place after one of his many sets during the North Carolina Jazz Festival, which celebrated its fortieth anniversary at the beginning of 2020. Coincidently, Redd is also celebrating his 40th anniversary of being on the road as one of the most versatile and in-demand drummers and ...
Take Five with Christian de Mesones
by Christian de Mesones
About Christian de Mesones Christian Big New York" de Mesones has been playing bass guitar for decades. At 18, he graduated from the world-famous Bass Institute of Technology (now the Musician's Institute) in Hollywood, California where he studied with such greats as Abraham Laboriel, Pat Martino, and the late Tommy Tedesco. He ...
Glen Campbell: 1936-2017
by C. Michael Bailey
Well, that moment has come that we have known was an inevitable certainty and yet stings like a sudden catastrophe. Let the world note that a great American influence on pop music, the American Beatle, the secret link between so many artists and records that we can only marvel, has passed and cannot be replaced -my ...
The Guitars Inc: Invitation
Last week, when I posted on Tommy Tedesco's 1965 album, The Guitars of Tom Tedesco, I included a print ad I had found for Magnatone amps from 1958. The ad featured five guitarists in a recording studio—Al Hendrickson, Howard Roberts, Bill Pitman, Bob Gibbons and Tommy Tedesco. All five appear on the Four Freshmen and Five ...
Tommy Tedesco: Studio Monster
One reason pop rock sounded so good in the 1960s was because many musicians who appeared on the recordings began as studio jazz musicians in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were brilliant sight-readers, understood swing and improvisation, and had the ability to play in any style and add their own twists to give the ...
Dr. Dre: Straight Outta Compton
by Solomon J. LeFlore
I read a headline today in Daily Variety (motion picture industry magazine) that said: Straight Outta Compton chronicles the origins and history of N.W.A. ("Niggaz With Attitude"), arguably the most influential hip hop group in the history of American music. The title is taken from the title of their 1988 debut studio album, and it is ...
Filmmaker Denny Tedesco
by Alan Bryson
Although the '60s and '70s are considered by many to be a golden era in music, for decades the people who played the instruments on many of the most popular and iconic recordings of that era were essentially unknown. Fortunately, over the last couple of decades that has begun to change. Several excellent music documentary films ...
Quincy Jones: An Evening With A Legend
by Solomon J. LeFlore
I love jazz! I love everything about it... the improvisation, syncopation, the forceful rhythm, and the fact that it is truly America's original art form. Its unique and innovative use of brass and woodwind instruments and the piano is jazz. And, it is as American as apple pie. Ask 100 different people What is ...
Don Ellis: Haiku
by John Kelman
One of the more tragic casualties of the 1970s was Don Ellis. Emerging from the big bands of Maynard Ferguson, Charlie Barnet, and Ray McKinley, the trumpeter began releasing albums under his own name in the early 1960s, distanced from his mentors' more mainstream big band sound. Beginning in small ensembles with free-thinking players such as ...