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Jazz Documentary: Killer B3 (2013)
Today marks the start of the third annual JazzWax Film Festival. Each December, between the holidays, I switch from music to film and hopefully introduce you to films you haven's seen in some time or have never viewed before. For my opener, I'm screening Killer B3, a fabulous 2013 documentary on the Hammond B3 organ directed, ...
BBC Documentary on Chess Records
In my new Rock Concert book, I interviewed Marshal Chess, son of Leonard Chess, who co-founded the fabled Chess label with his brother Phil. As readers of my book know, Marshal goes into great detail on the label's founding and how Chess artists such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley came to invent rock 'n' roll ...
Herbie Nichols Interview in 1962
If you combined records by Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell and Duke Ellington and played the result backward, you'd wind up with Herbie Nichols. Just kidding, but the flavors of all three pianists permeate the essence of Nichols's original music. In truth, Nichols's sound was distinct and robust, and a terrific adventure. [Photo above of Herbie Nichols ...
My take on the best jazz recordings of 2021
‘Tis the season for the outpouring of Top 10 lists, and their many variations, for jazz, world events, etc. The jazz lists tend to have a lot of variation depending on the individual reviewer's personal tastes, as well as what he or she listened to during the year.* Bottom line, all are extremely subjective. These choices ...
Video: Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, 1971
Yesterday, I found two outstanding YouTube clips that went up in November. Though Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt recorded extensively together in the late 1940s and '50s, these clips feature Ammons and Stitt separately in 1971. In June, Just Jazz, a TV show on WTTW, a UHF public broadcasting station in Chicago, welcomed the Gene Ammons ...
Kenny Washington delights - again
Oakland CA-based singer Kenny Washington is a marvel, plain and simple. And his return performance to Artis Naples' All That Jazz series on Wednesday, December 13 showcased the diminutive singer's skills,tone and wide range, and his artful scatting on two of the evening's 10 tunes. Washington was special guest with the Naples Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra, which ...
Jimin Park Plays Giant Steps—8 Ways
Jimin Park is a South Korean jazz pianist, composer and educator who received a full scholarship to Boston's Berklee College of Music, graduating in 2017. That year, she won second prize in the World Championship Old-Time Piano Playing contest and has won several awards in classical competitions. Recently, Bill Pauluh turned me on to this clip ...
New band, new venue, lots of smiles
One of the great joys in hearing live jazz is a night when talented players who've never performed together get on stage and find instant chemistry that makes it sound like they've been a working group for years. That was the case on Monday, December 13, when hard-bopping saxophonist Greg Abate returned for his sixth Charlotte ...
Live Nancy Wilson Clips in the '60s
Want to hear something freaky? Last night I had a sudden urge to watch newly uploaded videos of Nancy Wilson and share them with you today. When I went onto her Wikipedia page after writing my post, I realized she had died on December 13 three years ago to the date. Why I had the urge ...
Jazz in the name of love - and loving it
With co-leader Dan Miller out of town, tenor saxophonist Lew Del Gatto brought in guitarist Frank Portolese to join the fun for the weekly quartet gig at The Barrel Room in downtown Fort Myers on Thursday, December 9. Trumpeter Miller was busy with jazz faculty duties at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. So the ...
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