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Take Five with Accordionist Nathan Koci
by AAJ Staff
Meet Nathan Koci Nathan Koci is a composer, performer, and music director working across a variety of styles and disciplines, from jazz to theater to dance to improvised and experimental musics. His album Solomon Diaries Vol IV & V (Adhyaropa Records, 2025) with clarinetist Sam Sadigursky is a modern take on Klezmer jazz. As ...
Bob Florence Limited Edition: Tribute
Bob Florence was a monster arranger, composer and pianist whose big bands were on par with the best of them in the late 1950s and beyond. Unfortunately, he didn't have a high enough profile for household recognition. Nevertheless, Florence's charts had the kick of a mule and plenty of swing. On June 15, 2008, a month ...
Woody Herman: Thundering Herd, 1977
Last week, I heard from Peter Coppock, who came across a newly posted concert by Woody Herman and His Thundering Herd in 1977. As Peter rightly noted, “The late '70s Herds get overlooked. Woody is in a groovy mood here and using a cane because he had just survived a near fatal car accident. “I met ...
Perfection: Lennie Tristano - Wow (1949)
Between bebop in the mid—and late 1940s and hard bop in the mid-1950s and beyond, an exciting but short-lived jazz style surfaced known as cool. The movement was a product of formally educated jazz musicians who, at the tail end of the '40s integrated classical and jazz. The artists were had started out in bop but ...
Joe Pass: Virtuoso (1973)
One of the best-selling jazz guitar albums up to 1973 was Joe Pass's Virtuoso. The jet black LP with Pass on the cover in shadow came out ahead of the December holidays and gave Norman Granz's Pablo label massive visibility. It also motivated a generation of listeners to take up the jazz guitar. Now Craft Recordings ...
Horace Silver: North Sea Jazz Festival, 1994
My apologies. TypePad, the platform on which JazzWax sits, experienced server problems and was down yesterday and this morning, keeping me from posting. Hey, it happens. [Photo above of Horace Silver in a publicity still] Now that it's back up, I'm serving up an hour of Horace Silver and his band at the North Sea Jazz ...
Backgrounder: Rosinha de Valença (1964)
Rosinha de Valença was a Brazilian singer-songwriter and one of her country's finest acoustic guitarists. Born Maria Rosa Canelas in 1941, she learned to play by accompanying music on the radio. Translated into English, her professional name means Rosinha from Valença, a city in the state of Rio de Janeiro. The name was given to her ...
Perfection: David Allyn - Love Is a Serious Thing (1962)
Frank Sinatra had a soft spot for singer David Allyn. His affection and help in Las Vegas wasn't based on pity. David had suffered psychologically during his service in World War II and went to prison for eight years on drug charges after attempts to self-medicate led to addiction. Sinatra admired Allyn because he was a ...
John Von Ohlen: The Baron (1973)
The Fender Rhodes electric piano was most popular with jazz and soul musicians and groups from 1970 to 1978, when affordable synthesizers began to replace the warm, dreamy-sounding instrument. For me, the greatest concentration of top-notch Rhodes albums arrived between 1971 and 1973. As you might imagine, I'm a bit of a Rhodes nut and have ...
Oscar Moore: Enchanting Guitar, 1945-'65
One of the finest and most rewarding box sets to cross my desk this year is The Enchanting Guitar of Oscar Moore: The 1945-1965 Years. Released by Fresh Sound, this three-CD set with terrific liner notes by Jordi Pujol is both captivating and illuminating. Best known as the guitarist in the famed Nat King Cole Trio ...
