Results for "Benny Goodman"

Announcing the Winner of the Mosaic Records "The Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions" Giveaway!

February 27, 2009

Louie Bellson Dies at 84

February 16, 2009

We regret to announce the unexpected passing of Louie Bellson on February 14, 2009. Tenative plans are for an L.A. area funeral, followed by funeral and burial in Moline, Illinois, his boyhood home. Details forthcoming. Condolences and cards to: Mrs. Louie Bellson c/o Remo, Inc. 28101 Industry Drive ...

Scott Hamilton: Is Expatriatism on the Rise?

by Nick Catalano
February 8, 2009

During my years as a jazz writer I have spent considerable time interviewing and writing about musicians who, for one reason or another, decided to pack up and establish permanent residency outside the United States. Many of the old beboppers (Art Farmer, Johnny Griffin, Ed Thigpen and others) whom I had encountered through the years were ...

The Story of Jazz Guitar

by AAJ Staff
January 27, 2009

While in its early days, jazz guitar was considered a rhythm instrument alongside the banjo of Dixieland. In 1940, Charlie Christian and his Gibson ES-150 changed that and elevated guitar to lead instrument status alongside the saxophone and trumpet--instruments that could acoustically cut through the sound of a piano-bass-drums rhythm section. Here, we encapsulate some of ...

Enter the Mosaic Records "The Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions" Giveaway

January 22, 2009

All About Jazz readers are invited to enter the Mosaic Records The Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions 7-CD set giveaway starting today. We'll select one lucky winner at the conclusion of the contest on February 22nd. Click here to enter the contest (Following Benny Goodman at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.) Good ...

Sonny Rollins: Still Seeking the Lost Chord

by R.J. DeLuke
January 13, 2009

The Saxophone Colossus. The greatest living improvising musician. A musical god. Sonny Rollins has been called all these things at one time or another by fans across the globe, as well as by those involved in the pursuit of music criticism and jazz history. There's no question he is the greatest remaining icon to come out ...

40th Anniversary Concert (Live at Carnegie Hall)

By Benny Goodman

Label: Vocalion
Released: 2008
Track listing: Let's Dance; I've Found a New Baby; Send in the Clowns; Loch Lomond; Star Dust; I Love a Piano; Roll 'em; King Porter Stomp; Rocky Raccoon; Yesterday; That's a Plenty; How High the Moon; Moonglow; Lady Be Good; Jersey Bounce; Seven Come Eleven; Someone to Watch Over Me; Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone; Benny Goodman Medley: Don't Be That Way/Stompin' at the Savoy/And the Angels Sing/Why Don't You Do Right/A String of Pearls/Sing, Sing, Sing/Christopher Colombus/Goodbye.

Frank Macchia: Saxolollapalooza

by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
December 14, 2008

Way in the background on some classic big band recordings, there is a high-pitched aural glow, a sustained, ethereal, almost liturgical hum coming from somewhere in the reeds section. Duke Ellington's “There Shall Be No Night," from the great Blanton/Webster Band box set (Bluebird, 1990), has it. Partly it's the recording technology of the time, sufficiently ...

The Columbia and OKeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (#240)

December 5, 2008

"His quicksilver tone, his insistent drive to swing the music, his ability to execute cleanly the most dramatic filigrees of passages – all these qualities made him one of the most imitated instrumentalists in the world." --Robert J. O'Meally, Dir. of Jazz Studies, Columbia Univ. The Swinging Sound Of Benny Goodman You ...

Oscar Peterson: Oscar Peterson: The Complete Clef/Mercury Studio Recordings of The Oscar Peterson Trio (1951-1953)

by Samuel Chell
October 27, 2008

How do you criticize pianist Oscar Peterson? The two primary meanings of such a question expose the divide among those who must confront his talent--and, like it or not, no musician or supporter of the music can duck the issues raised by the most prolifically recorded pianist in jazz history. To the one camp, Peterson's playing ...