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Backgrounder: Zoot Sims Plays Bossa Nova

April 8, 2022

Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims recorded two bossa nova albums for the Colpix label—New Beat Bossa Nova in August 1962 and New Beat Bossa Nova Vol. 2 in November of that year. They were nearly every bit as swinging as Stan Getz's Jazz Samba album recorded in February '62, just not as widely distributed and without the ...

News: Video / DVD

Color Videos: Horace Silver Quintet

April 7, 2022

While writing yesterday, I fell into a Horace Silver groove. Funk meets hard bop, with a twist of Silver's spectacular rhythmic counterpoint and chord voicings. Which sent me onto YouTube to see what was new with Horace. There, I found a bunch of videos that had been colorized. Now you can see and hear them, too. ...

News: Recording

Luis Mario Ochoa: Forever Lecuona

April 6, 2022

Born in Cuba, Luis Mario Ochoa today lives in Toronto. He emigrated to Canada in 1990, after completing an undergraduate degree in classical guitar at the University of Havana's Instituto Superior de Artes. In Canada, he expanded his musical career as guitarist, vocalist, composer, arranger and leader. His first album A La Cubana (1995) was among ...

News: Music Industry

Cool Jazz From Holland

April 5, 2022

European jazz in the 1950s has long fascinated me. World War II killed and injured tens of millions of people and seriously damaged countries' infrastructure, economies and the emotions of surviving populations. And yet, the optimism in these newly freed countries, supported by America's financial and military security, set them on a fast course to recovery. ...

News: Interview

Interview: Angela Verbrugge

April 4, 2022

Canadian singer Angela Verbrugge recently released her second studio album, Love for Connoisseurs (Gut String). I loved one of her video clips, read how hard she's been working and decided to interview her by email. Her new album is so beautiful and original. All 12 songs feature her lyrics to new or existing jazz compositions by ...

News: Recording

Mary Stallings: Songs Were Made to Sing

April 1, 2022

Mary Stallings is one of the finest living jazz singers. Her voice is deep, hip and swinging. Most of all, she has soul—lots of knowledge and experience built into her phrasing. Born in San Francisco in 1939, Stallings developed her singing chops in church before branching out to the citys' many clubs as a teen. These ...

News: Recording

Backgrounder: Lee Morgan's Lee-Way

March 30, 2022

Here's another in my Backgrounder series on great jazz albums you can play while working. Today, Lee Morgan's Lee-Way, a Blue Note album recorded in April 1960 and released in May 1961. The album featured Lee Morgan (tp), Jackie McLean (as), Bobby Timmons (p), Paul Chambers (b) and Art Blakey (d). The songs are Cal Massey's ...

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Bill Kirchner: For All We Know

March 29, 2022

Carol Fredette was a lovely and much-admired singer who see-sawed between cabaret and jazz. When she sang jazz, her voice grew hushed, as if telling you a secret. It also could become husky and rich, as on songs like This Is Always and Long Ago and Far Away. Born in 1940, she started singing right after ...

News: Recording

Jackie Paris & Anne Marie Moss Live at the Maisonette

March 29, 2022

On the afternoon of September 28, 1974, husband-and-wife singers Jackie Paris and Anne Marie Moss videotaped a gig in the Maisonette at New York's St. Regis Hotel. They were backed by Mike Abene on piano, Harvie S on electric bass and Steve Gadd on drums. The point of the taping was to support a TV-show concept ...

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Take Five with Ariel Bart

by AAJ Staff
March 25, 2022

Meet Ariel Bart Ariel Bart is a harmonica player and composer born in Israel in 1998 and currently based in Berlin. Her debut album, In Between, was released in May 2021 on Ropeadope. In the album, Ariel presents a unique approach to the harmonica and her composed melodies, which are inspired by the European jazz tradition ...