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Backgrounder: Urbie Green - Persuasive Trombone
In February 1960, trombonist Urbie Green went into Fine Recording Studios and recorded most of The Persuasive Trombone Vol. 1 for Command. The remaining four tracks were recorded in March 1961. The record label was formed in 1959 by Enoch Light and sold to ABC Paramount late that year. Light was a dance band leader, producer, ...
Five New Videos of Count Basie
I'm always on the prowl for newly uploaded Count Basie videos. Yesterday, I found five I haven't seen before that appeared recently at YouTube: Here's Count Basie in a short called Hit Parade of 1943 with Dorothy Dandridge... Here's Part 1 of the Basie band in Milan on Italian TV in 1960... Here's Part 2 of ...
The Lost Trumpet of Don Ferrara
Jazz has much in common with a seabed littered with sunken ships that once transported gold. In addition to the musicians who today are household names, there are many other terrific musicians who didn't quite reach that status but were hailed by peers and disappeared early. Some abandoned their instruments for a more steady job. Others ...
João Gilberto: Buenos Aires, 1962
Between the release of João Gilberto in 1961 and Boss of Bossa Nova in 1963—and three weeks before the famed bossa nova concert at New York's Carnegie Hall on November 21, 1962—João Gilberto performed at Club 676 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. But he wasn't alone. Traveling with him were Os Cariocas, a phrase that translates as ...
Backgrounder: Nicola Stilo & Toninho Horta — 'Duets'
This week's Backgrounder comes courtesy of Bill Kirchner, who sent along Nicola Stilo and Toninho Horta's gorgeous album Duets (1999). Stilo is an Italian flutist and Horta is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. Both musicians play beautifully and are prolific, having recorded dozens of albums. Recorded in Rome, the album features the following tracks: Naima (John ...
Sharing The Joy - And Exuberant Swing - Of Jazz Guitar
Mark Whitfield puts his heart and soul into his guitar playing. And as an observer, listener, you can't miss it. He bends and reshapes notes, adds a soulful blues feeling, and rearranges familiar tunes to make them his own—-at least for the moment. And then there is the ever-present body English. He spins, he raises and ...
Carol Sloane: My 10 Favorite Tracks
Yesterday, I posted my full 2009 interview with the late Carol Sloane, which Matt Schudel quote for in Washington Post obit. Today, I thought I'd provide 10 of my favorite recordings by Carol: Here's Angel Eyes from After Hours, a demo tape recorded in 1959... Here's Prelude to a Kiss from Out of the Blue, with ...
Carol Sloane (1937-2023)
Carol Sloane, a superb singer with remarkable pitch who was widely considered to be the last great female big-band and club jazz vocalist to emerge at the dawn of the 1960s, just before the British Invasion swept over the record industry, died on January 23, 2023. She was 85. “Sloaney," as she was known to friends, ...
Steve Khan: Arrows
by AAJ Staff
By Steve Khan With The Blue Man not selling as well as Tightrope, Dr. George Butler requested that I have a co-producer for the next CD. I was lucky to be able to land the engineering / production talents of my old and dear friend, Elliot Scheiner. Elliot and I had recorded together on countless sessions, ...
Billy Taylor: Two Fresh Sound Releases
Between 1950 and 1960, jazz was dominated by elegant jazz pianists. The list is long and includes Oscar Peterson, Sonny Clark, Red Garland, Russ Freeman, Lou Levy, Ahmad Jamal and others. A pianist who belongs on this list but is often forgotten is Billy Taylor. Billy's technique was unrivaled in many ways because he covered so ...
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