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Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 5)

May 24, 2010

Few events epitomize the disarray jazz was beginning to experience at the start of the 1960s than Charles Mingus' Town Hall concert of October 12, 1962. During this period, musicians increasingly were wresting control of their recordings away from producers who for years had imposed rigid structure on sessions. Mingus, for all of his creative vision ...

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Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 3)

May 23, 2010

Between 1945 and 1972, only about a dozen groups changed the sound of jazz. In almost all cases, these highly influential ensembles introduced a completely new jazz style through innovative composition and instrument configuration. One of those groups was the Chico Hamilton Quintet, which in 1955 brought a new level of sophistication to jazz. Chico's vision ...

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Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 2)

May 23, 2010

Like many aspiring musicians in Los Angeles in the 1930s, Buddy Collette picked up the clarinet and never looked back. During the Depression and into the 1940s, music was the only way out of the city's dense-packed black neighborhoods. But in the very late 1940s, with the rapid rise of television and expansion of the movie ...

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Interview: Buddy Collette (Part 1)

May 18, 2010

Buddy Collette is famous for a bunch of things: The reed and woodwind player helped develop West Coast chamber jazz in the mid-1950s. He was one of first black musicians to work steadily in the Los Angeles studios and the first to perform on television. Buddy recorded playing upward of 10 instruments and appeared on more ...

Article: Album Review

Buddy Collette: The Polyhedric Buddy Collette

by AAJ Italy Staff
January 22, 2010

Esce finalmente in compact forse il più bel disco inciso da Buddy Collette nel suo soggiorno italiano del marzo 1961. Il sassofonista e flautista californiano era stato invitato al 6° Festival Internazionale del Jazz di Sanremo e fu tanto attratto dall'atmosfera del nostro Paese che rimase per circa tre settimane. Ebbe un ingaggio in un locale ...

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Article: Big Band Report

Deck the Halls with Big Band Carols

by Jack Bowers
October 3, 2009

With the holiday season on track and hastening toward us like a runaway locomotive, it's time once again to hunker down and prepare for the annual onslaught of “Rudolph," “Frosty the Snowman," “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus," “Sleigh Ride," “Silver Bells," chestnuts roasting on an open fire and everyone's perennial favorite, “White Christmas." Not to ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Chico Hamilton: Now and Then

by Joel Roberts
August 2, 2009

Chico Hamilton Twelve Tones of Love Joyous Shout 2009 The Original Chico Hamilton Quintet Complete Studio Recordings Fresh Sound 2009 It would be a huge understatement simply to say that ...

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Article: Profile

Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout

by Donald Elfman
March 1, 2009

When Chico Hamilton was a boy growing up in Los Angeles, the film studios used to send trucks out to pick up the little African-American children to play natives in their Tarzan movies. “It was work, after all, and we got paid for it," says the drummer, now 87 years of age. “And what you learned ...

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Article: Live Review

L.A. Jazz Scene 2008: Alive and Swingin'

by Chuck Koton
January 22, 2009

The Los Angeles scene has often been referred to in patronizing terms by jazz lovers, musicians and writers. It has been said that the city's laid-back vibe deprives musicians of the energy that a New York audience can impart to the bandstand. Others complain that the growth of a hip jazz scene has been impeded by ...

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