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Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz
by Chris May
Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...
Loren Schoenberg: From Benny Goodman to The Savory Collection
by AAJ Staff
Saxophonist, band-leader and writer Loren Schoenberg, now Executive Director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, spent an interesting childhood and teenager-hood growing up in New Jersey in the 1970s, meeting and befriending both Teddy Wilson and Hank Jones, and ultimately becoming employed by Wilson's famous '30s boss, Benny Goodman. Schoenberg was first an assistant to ...
Coleman Hawkins: The High and Mighty Hawk
by Samuel Chell
Recorded in England in 1958, this little-known session, originally released on the obscure Felsted label, is an inarguable gem. Perhaps even the word “masterpiece" is not too much of a stretch. It's doubtful that the putative “father of the tenor saxophone," Coleman Hawkins, made a better recording in the age of long-playing records, and it's just ...
Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday
by Ken Dryden
Billie Holiday Lady Day: The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2009 Billie Holiday has long been acknowledged as one of the greatest jazz vocalists of all time. With her extensive catalogue of recordings for several labels, Holiday's music has been readily accessible though relatively little live footage with audio ...
Sizhukong: Paper Eagle
by Ian Patterson
Jazz's first century has thrown up few examples of Chinese folk music which has found new voice in this idiom. Buck Clayton, in collaboration with Li Jinhui, spent two years in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, adapting Chinese folk music to ballroom jazz, but nothing was recorded. Jazz's second century should see a change in this situation, ...
Vienna Dialogues
By Buck Clayton
Label: Zoho Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Romance Op. 94 No. 2; Etude in E Flat Minor Op. 10 No. 6; May Breezes Op. 62 No. 1 (from
"Song without Words"); Immer Leiser Wird Mein Schlummer Op. 105 No. 2; Sonata #6;
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Dave Liebman & Bobby Avey: Vienna Dialogues
by John Kelman
An album based around music by Mendelssohn, Mahler and other classical composers might sound a little too polite for expressionist saxophonist Dave Liebman. But Vienna Dialogues, a followup to the more in-character Manhattan Dialogues (Zoho, 2005), demonstrates what anyone who has followed his career already knows. Liebman has always been a player who can immerse himself ...
Blue Mitchell
by Robert Spencer
All About Jazz contributing writer C. Andrew Hovan said it best: “Those of you that are longtime jazz fans, take a few minutes and see how many jazz trumpeters you can name in the next minute. All done? I'm sure many of you remember Miles Davis, Lee Morgan, Louis Armstrong, and Buck Clayton, just to name ...
Buck Clayton Swings the Village
By Buck Clayton
Label: Unknown label
Released: 2002
Track listing: Scorpio; Swingin' On The State Line; Horn O' Plenty; Rise And Shine; The One For Me' B.C. Special; Black Sheep Blues; Sparky; A Song For Sarah Cadillac Taxi; What A Beautiful Yesteryear; The Bower Bunch. (Total Time: 72:49).
The Buck Clayton Swing Band: Buck Clayton Swings the Village
by C. Michael Bailey
A bright re-release of Big Band music. Trumpeter and bandleader Buck Clayton was a mainstay of the '30s and '40s big band. Following that, Clayton led every stripe of band for the next 40 years. In the late 1980s, when age prevented Clayton to play his trumpet, he turned his attention to composition and arrangement ...
