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Andre Previn: Early Jazz Years
Today, Andre Previn is viewed by many jazz fans as a jazz pretender—a dyed-in-the wool classical pianist and conductor and a prolific film composer who can manage jazz impersonation but shouldn't really be considered among jazz's piano greats. All of which is complete nonsense if you are aware of Previn's early jazz recordings. If you aren't, ...
Jazz On Film... Beat, Square & Cool, Vol. 2 In The Highly Acclaimed Jazz On Film Box Set Series
Beat Square & Cool—the 2nd box set in the Jazz on Film series following last year’s Film Noir—is not just a collection containing some of the greatest jazz-inspired film scores ever recorded, but it also tells the story of how jazz (mostly drawing from the bebop that was one of the defining American subcultural and artistic ...
Dave Pell: Remembers John Kirby and Big Small Bands
by C. Michael Bailey
Historical recreations of music are nothing new. Every tribute recording ever released is one. In the 1980s and '90s, classical music went through its “period instrument-performance practice" phase, where the entire Baroque, Classical and early Romantic repertoires were recreated using instruments and metronomic markings from the 18th and 19th Centuries. In the late 1950s, jazz was ...
Shelly Manne: Three Classic Albums Plus
by David Rickert
Shelly ManneThree Classic Albums PlusAvid Records2012During the 1950s heyday of the West Coast scene, drummer Shelly Manne hit on a formula for sucessful albums: pick a Broadway play or television score and turn some of the best songs into swinging jazz. After the success of My Fair Lady ...
Stephanie Nakasian: The Renaissance Woman of Jazz
by Nick Catalano
For decades, Stephanie Nakasian has been swinging through an immensely challenging jazz repertoire with astonishing aplomb. Her audacious ventures into vocal territory that others have carefully avoided have resulted in recordings and performances of unrivaled excellence. From pioneering vocal efforts with singer Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross to the rigorous charts of The Danish Radio Big ...
Andre Previn: Four Classic Albums
By Andre Previn
Label: Avid Records UK
Released: 2011
Track listing: Disc 1: Something's Coming; Jet Song; Tonight; I Feel Pretty; Gee,
Officer Krupke!; Cool; Maria; America; It's Delovely; Porterhouse; Heat
Wave; 40 Below; You Stepped Out Of A Dream; Claudia; You Do
Something To Me; Call For Cole; Everything I've Got; Some Antics; It
Only Happens When I Dance With You; General Cluster; I'll Remember
April. Disc 2: Much Too Late; You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To; It
Could Happen To You; Low and Inside; I'm Beginning To See the Light; I
Could Write A Book; That Terrific Rainbow; Bewitched; Take Him; Zip; It's
A Great Big Town; What Is A Man; I'm Talkin' With My Pal; Do It the Hard
Way.
Catching Up
by Jack Bowers
As our most recent column was devoted exclusively to the Ken Poston / LAJI event, “Modern Sounds," held October 20-24 at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel, and to the day-long tribute to bandleader Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of his birth that followed, a number of substantive items slipped through the cracks. Before they ...
Andre Previn: Four Classic Albums
by David Rickert
Andre PrevinFour Classic AlbumsAvid Group 2011 Andre Previn may not be as well known as fellow West Coast pianists Vince Guaraldi and Dave Brubeck, but he nevertheless created a respectable body of work, mostly as a trio with drummer Shelly Manne, with whom he created a series ...
"Modern Sounds," or: Running a Marathon in Full Body Armor
by Jack Bowers
From October 19-25 Betty and I were at the Los Angeles Marriott Airport Hotel to attend Modern Sounds, the L.A. Jazz Institute's four-day salute to West Coast jazz, followed by a day-long tribute to Stan Kenton on the hundredth anniversary of the legendary bandleader's birth. We arrived a day early to be primed and ready for ...
Irene Kral: Second Chance
by Jim Santella
Singer Irene Kral (1932-1978) communicated with her audience through more than just music; she could make everyone in the room believe in what she had to say and take the message home with them for keeps. Recorded in 1975, this program of jazz standards features a nightclub performance with vocalist, acoustic piano trio and swirling emotions.
