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Tour of the Louis Armstrong House Museum
by Bob Jacobson
When Louis Armstrong came home from a road trip one day in 1943, he handed the cab driver the address of the new home his wife Lucille has picked out as a surprise, the first home he had ever owned. Since the house they pulled up to was in a racially-mixed neighborhood, Louis thought the cabbie ...
Footprints: The Life and Work of Wayne Shorter
by Bob Jacobson
Michelle Mercer Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter Tarcher ISBN 158542353X 2004 Consider the length and breadth of Wayne Shorter's career - nearly half a century playing and composing, long tenures with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Miles Davis, Weather Report, forays ...
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz
by Bob Jacobson
Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz Terry Gibbs, with Cary Ginell Scarecrow Press 2003 Terry Gibbs recently turned eighty. He's still going strong. Having lived longer than all his bandleaders and most colleagues, he felt very free to relate his experiences with them in this autobiography last year. The results ...
Mary Lou Williams: Mary Lou Williams Presents Black Christ of the Andes
by Bob Jacobson
Calling this album mainstream is a bit misleading, since it includes four pieces of choral/sacred music and one avant-garde cut. In a way, it's the perfect mirror of where Mary Lou Williams was in the early 1960's, coming out of a nearly ten year absence from performance. At the beginning of that period she had devoted ...
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams
by Bob Jacobson
Soul on Soul: The Life and Music of Mary Lou Williams Tammy L. Kernodle Northeastern University Press 2004 Five years ago Linda Dahl gave us Morning Glory, the first book-length biography of pianist/composer/arranger Mary Lou Williams. Now Tammy Kernodle, Associate Professor of Music at Miami University (Ohio) has covered much ...
The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra: Tribute to a Generation: A Salute to the Big Bands of the WWII Era
by Bob Jacobson
Read the subtitle of this album and you probably won't be disappointed. Look over the song list. Understand that these tunes do not include vocals. Issued to coincide with the recent unveiling of the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., Tribute to a Generation features tunes made famous by Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey, ...
Ivan Lins, Cubanismo at The Clifford Brown Jazz Festival
by Bob Jacobson
First, some words about the festival itself. This five day program would be impressive in any location but in a city of under 80,000 makes it even moreso. This is a totally free program sponsored by the City of Wilmington (Delaware)with support from eighteen businesses. This year's program included Lou Donaldson, Jazz Messengers alumni, Nnenna Freelon, ...
Dave Brubeck Quartet
by Bob Jacobson
Baltimore's Artscape Festival August 2000 Talk about class. Before one note was played, Dave Brubeck introduced the members of his band. They were Randy Jones on drums, Chris Brubeck on electric bass and trombone and Bobby Militello on alto sax. Artscape, by the way, is a free weekend-long festival of the arts ...
Jazz Anecdotes
by Bob Jacobson
Bill Crow Oxford Univ. Press 1990, 350 pages ISBN: 0-19-507133-6 With material from over one hundred sources, bassist Bill Crow compiled a very rich collection of jazz lore and humor. From the marvelous cover photo of Roy Eldridge cracking up Lester Young, to the last page's variations on the old ...
Stardust Melody: The Life and Times of Hoagy Carmichael
by Bob Jacobson
Stardust Melody Richard M. Sudhalter Oxford Univ Press ISBN 0195131207 I approached Stardust Melody skeptically. With two Carmichael autobiographies recently re-released, did we really need this biography? Could Sudhalter, so steeped in Hoagy Carmichael's music as a trumpteter/bandleader, be objective about the composer's music?Would the author ...
