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On White Guys Playing The Blues, and Benny Goodman Practicing Nude
by Mort Weiss
Yes, I drank muddy water--and slept in a hollow log! Um, hmm! I said that I steady drank muddy water, and slept in a hollow log. Ah huh! An' all I wanna do is tell my story on dis here music blog. Oh, yeah!The blues. If you can't play them, you ain't never had ...
Don Redman: Setting the Template
by Jim Gerard
As someone who came to jazz as a young man in the 1970s, I can attest that subsequent generations of both its chroniclers and, even sadder, its practitioners, have succumbed to the peculiarly and regrettable American disease of a-historicism. They've shoved jazz history through a sieve, reducing it from an epic tale of heroic ...
Bassist/vocalist Anthony Caceres Inspired By Earth, Wind & Fire
Q: When did it start for you, the decision to become a vocalist? A: I decided to pursue singing seriously back in 2006 while I was on tour with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Up to that point I was primarily a sideman performing on electric bass and upright bass with many different groups. Q: Was jazz ...
Herbie Mann: An Amalgamation of Everything
by Bob Kenselaar
[Flauist Herbie Mann was often ahead of the trend with his wide explorations into sounds from everywhere. When I asked him in this 1978 interview where music in general was heading, he talked about a broad mix--"an amalgamation of everything"--which might be a good way to describe Mann's overall career, except that it doesn't account for ...
Classic Coleman Hawkins Sessions 1922-1947 (#251)
This set is expected to be released late May/early June “Almost all of the recordings Hawkins made throughout a 45 year period were outstanding examples of improvisation, but among them were masterpieces by which all jazz tenor saxophone solos will forever be judged.” —John Chilton, The Song Of The Hawk The Coleman Hawkins Set You’ve Been ...
This Week On Riverwalk Jazz: A Conversation With Benny Carter Biographer Ed Berger
This week Riverwalk Jazz recalls the 9-decade career of saxophonist, trumpeter, composer, and arranger Benny Carter with music and memories from the maestro himself and an interview with Ed Berger, Associate Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. Berger was Carter’s road manager and one of the authors of the definitive biography, Benny ...
Dave Brubeck: The Inspired Moment of Unity
by Bob Kenselaar
[Standing tall with a flowing salt-and-pepper mane, Dave Brubeck had a broad smile and was quick to laugh when I met him in the fall of 1978 at publicist Peter Levinson's New York office for this interview. He was enjoying his tour with the New Brubeck Quartet, the group he formed with his sons. He reminisced ...
Dick Hyman's Life In Music This Week On Riverwalk Jazz
In a recent edition of “A Blog Supreme" on NPR Jazz, Dick Hyman was referred to as “A Living, Breathing Encyclopedia Of Jazz." This week, Riverwalk Jazz celebrates the music of Dick Hyman. Hyman discusses the musical influences that shaped his career, and he joins The Jim Cullum Jazz Band on pieces by his favorite composers, ...
Karen Johns & Company: Peach
by Edward Blanco
The multi-talented Karen Johns is known not only as a singer, but also as a songwriter, actress and a playwright. The highly entertaining and truly sweet Peach, by Johns & Company, features songs from her swing-jazz musical play, Once There Was A Peach. Their third jazz album and eighth overall, the group delivers an exciting, infectious ...
Jazz Musicians with Eccentricities
by Chris May
Some of the 20th century's greatest eccentrics were jazz musicians. That is no surprise, given the link which psychologists long ago suggested exists between creative thinking and “abnormal" behavior, and which has been confirmed by recent neurological research locating both activities within the same area of the brain. Trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong's lifelong ...
