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Buddy Rich: In a Zone of His Own
by Jack Bowers
One of the channels that came with my Dish Network package is Classic Arts Showcase, which is a treasure trove of film clips documenting classical, ballet, folk, pop and other forms of music that one is unlikely to see anywhere else (although some footage is presumably available on YouTube, which more and more seems to encompass ...
Bud Shank: Four Classic Albums
By Bud Shank
Label: Avid Records UK
Released: 2012
Track listing: CD1: Bag of Blues; Nature Boy; All This and Heaven Too; Jubilation; Do Nothin’ Till You Hear
From Me; Nocturne For Flute; Walkin’; Carioca; When You Wish Upon A Star; Put Your Dreams
Away; Thanks For The Memory; Tenderly; Danny Boy; Dinah; As Long As There’s Music; A
Romantic Guy; Steve Allen Theme. CD2: The Love Nest; Thou Swell; Tenderly; Over The
Rainbow; Long Ago And Far Away; I Never Knew; All The Things You Are; Body and Soul; BLue
Lou; Smoke Gets In Your Eyes; Deep Purple; Out Of This World; What A Difference A Day
Makes; Embraceable You; I’ll Take Romance; These Foolish Things; Someone To Watch Over
Me; You Are Too Beautiful; How Deep Is the Ocean; When Your Lover Is Gone.
Bud Shank: Four Classic Albums
by David Rickert
Bud ShankFour Classic AlbumsAvid Records UK2012Bud Shank is typical of the jazz musicians that roamed the West Coast in the fifties in that he was able to work comfortably in a variety of settings: big bands, the studio, and clubs. Like many of the other players, Shank also ...
Did Stan Kenton Swing? You Bet Your Walkin' Shoes He Did...
by Jack Bowers
I've been listening to a lot of Stan Kenton's music recently while coming to grips with the age-old question, did the Kenton orchestra really swing? The answer, to me, is a no-brainer: Yes, Kenton swung. Liberally and often. [Note: This of course depends on how “swinging" is defined; opinions may vary]. In his own way--although he'd ...
Miles Okazaki: Cleaning the Mirror
by Daniel Lehner
In the backyard of his home in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, guitarist Miles Okazaki has spent time constructing a multifaceted backyard/garden filled with overhanging plants, stone walkways and a wooden pavilion surrounding a table and benches. The slats of the pavilion's floor seem to have been crafted merely for aesthetic purposes, but there's another process at work: ...
Marching to a Jazz Tempo
by Jack Bowers
March came in like a lion in Albuquerque with no less than four blue-chip jazz concerts in the first five days, three of which I attended, passing on the first (the Charlie Christian Project featuring guitarist Michael Anthony and trumpeter Bobby Shew at The Outpost Performance Space) because Betty and I had seen basically the same ...
The Bill Harris Quintet: Inside-Out
by Edward Blanco
Portland, Oregon saxophonist Bill Harris is an educator, sideman and member of organist Steve Hall Quintet when not leading his own band. Growing up listening to jazz masters Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane and Phil Woods among others, he began playing woodwinds while in second grade and has favored the alto and tenor saxophones ever since. Though ...
Lukas Hein: Lukas Hein & Dialeto Brasileiro
by Jack Bowers
In the early 1960s, bright new rhythms traveled northward from Brazil, kindling a “bossa nova craze" that swept through the jazz world and spilled over into the realm of pop music, led by saxophonists such as Stan Getz, Bud Shank and Zoot Sims, and abetted by guitarists Charlie Byrd, Laurindo Almeida and others. After scoring a ...
In Good Company
By Bud Shank
Label: Capri Records
Released: 2011
Track listing: Caravan; Bopping With Bud; Agnieszka; Tip Top and Tickety Boo; Breaking Loose; The Time Lord; Almost Like Being in Love; In Good Company; Speak Low.
