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Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi

May 11, 2021

There's a cross-dressing quality about the first three tracks on Getz Meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi. You hear the baritone and tenor saxophones but things seem a little inside out. The baritone has Stan Getz's mildness and the tenor sounds more like Mulligan's bouncing attack. In fact, Verve producer Norman Granz recorded just such a switch, which ...

News: Recording

Oscar Peterson: Girl Talk

May 10, 2021

As JazzWax readers know, I'm fairly picky about my Oscar Peterson albums. I find the pianist most spectacular when the song choices are spot-on and he's completely in the pocket and swinging. In other words, when I suddenly realize my right foot is tapping. Girl Talk is one of those Peterson albums. The second volume in ...

News: Video / DVD

Wayne Shorter: Timeless Sound

May 7, 2021

Wayne Shorter remains one of America's most fascinating living jazz legends. His sound on the tenor saxophone is muscular, hypnotic and so evocative of the 1960s. His original compositions remain relevant, with their yearning, political undertow and modal scales. So it's puzzling that there are so few YouTube clips of him live in the 1960s leading ...

News: Video / DVD

Joy Marshall in Holland, 1965

May 6, 2021

Earlier this week, I posted on jazz-pop vocalist Joy Marshall, who moved to London in 1962, married, divorced and remained there until her untimely death in 1968. David Chilver in London sent along a link to the following clip of Marshall in the Netherlands in 1965 on Dutch television. First we hear Yesterdays, a solo by ...

News: Video / DVD

The Sad Story of Joy Marshall

May 4, 2021

Throughout the 1960s, American singer Joy Marshall was an accomplished jazz-pop vocalist who was and still is virtually unknown in the U.S. Her anonymity here has much to do with her relocating to the London in June 1962, at age 25. Marshall said she never considered herself a jazz singer in interviews, though her pop recordings ...

News: Interview

Mrs. Shelly Manne Turns 100

May 3, 2021

Flip Manne, Shelly Manne's wife, was born May 3, 1921 in Vermont, rode horses and took dance lessons from an early age. To celebrate her 100th birthday today, I decided to reprise an interview I did with her in 2015 on her career and her drummer husband's. I've also added followup material that Flip provided several ...

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Billy Eckstine's Ballads 1947-1951

May 1, 2021

In 1947, vocalist Billy Eckstine became a solo performer, much the way Frank Sinatra had in 1942. Signing with MGM, Eckstine played to the young female market that dreamed of love. At first marketed to the Black urban market, Eckstine on MGM crossed over to the pop charts, racking up 18 hits between 1947 and '51. ...

News: Music Industry

Glimmers of hope, turning a corner

April 30, 2021

This 2021 edition of Jazz Appreciation Month underscored the notion that we can’t take the music or its makers for granted. Especially after the past year: clubs shuttered temporarily or permanently, or forced to present music to their supporters virtually via webcasts because of limited or no live audiences. Musicians without steady gigs or, in some ...

News: Video / DVD

What Ever Happened to Hazel Scott?

April 29, 2021

Hazel Scott was an enormously talented jazz and classical pianist whose popularity soared in the early 1940s. She appeared regularly at New York's Cafe Society in 1941, performed at Carnegie Hall in 1943, went to Hollywood, married Congressman Adam Clayton Powell in 1945 and was the first woman to have her own TV show in 1950. ...

News: Recording

Complete Bill Jennings on Prestige 1959-60

April 28, 2021

Guitar pickers are in a class of their own. Sandwiched between Tiny Grimes in the mid-1940s and early '50s and Green Green in the 1960s and '70s was Bill Jennings. Born in Indianapolis, Jennings began recording in 1946 as a sideman in the Stuff Smith Quartet and would become a hero to Indy native and guitarist ...