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Perfection: Serge Chaloff - 'The Most!' (1949)
One of jazz's many paradoxes is that West Coast jazz was created largely by East Coast jazz musicians, and East Coast jazz was heavily influenced by West Coast musicians. Shorty Rogers, Gerry Mulligan, Shelly Manne, Terry Gibbs, Don Fagerquist and Dave Pell, to name just a handful, were artists who grew up on the East Coast. ...
Mike Abene's Charts for Maynard Ferguson
Following my Perfection post last week on Mike Abene's rip-roaring composition and arrangement of The Fox Hunt for Maynard Ferguson in 1962, Bill Kirchner sent along a treat. As post-1960 jazz orchestral arrangers go, Mike is among the finest, and his charts for Ferguson's big band are gracefully ferocious. Bill's treat? He put together all 17 ...
Take Five With Clarinet And Composer Kinan Azmeh
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Meet Kinan Azmeh Hailed as a “virtuoso, intensely soulful" by The New York Times and “spellbinding" by the New Yorker, Syrian-born, Brooklyn-based genre-bending composer, clarinetist and improvisor Kinan Azmeh has been touring the globe with great acclaim. He has collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, John McLaughlin, Daniel Barenboim and the New York Philharmonic, among others. Azmeh is ...
Kenny Wheeler Legacy: The Lost Scores
Kenny Wheeler isn't a household name in many American jazz circles. The Canadian trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer was based in the U.K. starting in the 1950s. As a composer and arranger of jazz orchestral scores, he was among the most inventive, daring and gifted in the post-1960 era. [Photo above of Kenny Wheeler in 1988, courtesy ...
Brazilian Vocalist: Dóris Monteiro (1934-2023)
Dóris Monteiro was a Brazilian radio and recording vocalist and actress who became a national star before the bossa nova emerged on LPs in 1957. Once the pop craze took hold, Monteiro switched to the genre and had many hit albums and television appearances. What I love about her voice is her relaxed, lyrical approach and ...
Backgrounder: Art Farmer and Hal McKusick, 1956-58
Two of the prettiest and most sophisticated players in the 1950s were trumpeter Art Farmer and alto saxophonist Hal McKusick. They recorded often throughout the decade in big bands and ensembles but they only recorded 19 tracks in the quintet format—two albums in all. In the years before Hal died, in 2012, we spoke often by ...
Take Five with violinist and ETHEL member Kip Jones
by AAJ Staff
Meet Kip Jones Kip Jones (violin) is known for his ebullient and innovative solo performances in a style he describes as “experimental folk." Kip is a member of the acclaimed ETHEL string quartet and can often be found performing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art as its Ensemble-in-Residence. Kip is preparing to premiere Monk arrangements for ...
The Return of Pablo Records
In the early 1970s, I worked for a few months at Sam Goody's in Manhattan on Third Ave. and 43rd St. The store manager wanted me in the rock section, but I kept drifting down to the jazz department to talk with Harry Lim. Harry was quiet and looked unassuming to the average record-buyer, but I ...
10 Albums to Cure Midwinter Blahs
The real-feel temperature in New York yesterday was 21F, with fluorescent-gray skies and a stiff, frosty wind coming out of the Northeast. Midwinter had officially arrived, and so did the blahs. Rather than trick myself out of this time of year with upbeat music, I like to feed into the hushed, introspective mood. Here are 10 ...
Backgrounder: Mundell Lowe - Satan in High Heels
Back in the early 1960s, if you opened a tabloid newspaper in New York like the Post or Daily News, you often saw small ads for risque films that were strictly for adults. These were the pre-ratings years, when kids were only allowed in to see Disney films and similar fare. The films I'm referring to ...
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