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Interview: Bill Crow, Part 4
Most non-musicians think all jazz bass players are fundamentally alike. They believe they aren't there for us but simply to keep time for the band, the way a transmission is for a car. As one person who isn't a bass fan told me some years ago, “There's a reason they stand in the back, behind the ...
Interview: Bill Crow, Part 3
In the ealry 1950s, Bill became exquisite on the bass while playing and recording with some of the era's finest collaborative jazz musicians. Yesterday, Bill and I covered his year with Stan Getz. Today, Bill talks about working with a growing number of leading artists in tjhe 1950s, including Al Haig, Jimmy Raney, Marian McPartland, Jackie ...
Interview: Bill Crow, Part 2
Bill Crow came to the bass accidentally in 1950. But he was ready for the challenge. Within two years, he was recording with Claude Thornhill and then Stan Getz. But Bill was no ordinary bassist. Listening to the Stan Getz recordings today. he's the second loudest instrument after Getz, his right hand driving the band with ...
Chris Walters Digs The Masterful Composers
Nashville-based pianist and singer Chris Walters dug deep into the Great American Songbook—and two of his own worthy gems—in what mostly was a tip of the hat to icons George Gershwin and Cole Porter at the Gulf Theater in Punta Gorda, Florida on Saturday, March 18. Walters called this tour “Rhapsody in Burlesque"—-melding a reference to ...
Interview: Bill Crow, Part 1
About 10 years ago, I interviewed legendary bassist Bill Crow at length for JazzWax Then the tapes went missing. Naturally, I was mortified and depressed. It was a great interview and sadly, our conversation seemed to be lost to history. My workload steadily increased and I forgot about the interview and the mishap. [Photo above of ...
The Art Of The Duo Personified
The jazz duo is the ultimate musical challenge. With just two musicians on stage, there is no coasting allowed. You're either doubling on the melody, listening intently to anticipate how to respond to the other player's solo, comping behind him—or all of the above. That fine art was in the spotlight at the 42nd edition of ...
Backgrounder: Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers
With spring less than a week away, it's time for upbeat West Coast jazz. The last time I posted on Shorty Rogers was over the holidays when I highlighted The Swingin' Nutcracker. Before that, I featured Chances Are It Swings as a Backgrounder. This week, it's the finger-snapping Shorty Rogers Plays Richard Rodgers, as suggested by ...
A Night of Classic Jazz and Other Gems
Gems from the Great American Songbook, opera and operettas, and a few classic-jazz staples were in the splendid mix when The Midiri Brothers brought their quintet to Punta Gorda FL on Monday, March 13 for their first Charlotte County Jazz Society appearance. Paul and Joe Midiri have both serious chops and a love for the instrumental ...
Sonny Stitt, Shirley Scott and Walter Bishop Jr.
Baltimore's Left Bank Jazz Society was formed in 1964. It's claim to fame was promoting more than 800 jazz concerts at the city's Famous Ballroom at 1717 North Charles Street. Nearly every major jazz artist who came through the city was booked by the Society into the Ballroom, its interior modeled after New York's Roseland Ballroom. ...
Mark Murphy, 1972-1991 (Pt. 2)
Yesterday, on what would have been vocalist Mark Murphy's 91st birthday (he died in 2015), I posted 10 favorite clips in the early part of his career, between 1956 and 1962. Murphy then left for the U.K.,where he remained until his return in 1972. When he arrived back in the U.S., there was a new artistic ...
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