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May Jazz at Charlie O's
Great jazz performances at Charlie O's this May including the return of our own Jack Sheldon for his regular Wednesday gigs. A very special Saturday performance on the 16th presenting the music of John Beasley with John Heard, Roy McCurdy and outstanding vocalist Dwight Trible. Followed by a birthday celebration for Denise Donatelli on the 21st, ...
The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...
Louie Bellson: Tasteful Drummer, Sweeter Guy
by Jack Bowers
To say that drummer extraordinaire Louie Bellson, who left us on February 14, 2009 at age eighty-four, had a remarkable career would be to explicitly understate the record. Bellson's success at age 17 in a nationwide contest sponsored by one of his idols, Gene Krupa, and Slingerland Drums set the talented wunderkind on a path that ...
Tateng Katindig Trio Live One Night Only April 2, 2009 Upstairs at Vitello's New Jazz Room
Pianist Eduardo Katindig Jr. known to his family, friends and the music circle as “Tateng" is making a rare appearance April 2nd 2009 with his Trio ,vocals April Williams, in “The Hippest new Jazz Room in Studio City" and making waves as a Jazz pianist in the Los Angeles area. He was born in the Philippines ...
The Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra Gets "Thrasched"
by Jack Bowers
The thirty-third annual Albuquerque Jazz Festival ended its two-day run on February 21, 2009. The event is devoted mainly to performances by high school and middle school bands, while the grand finale features the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra with invited guests, this year the saxophone quartet Thrascher (Randy Hamm, soprano; Tim Ishii, alto; Ed Petersen, tenor; Glenn ...
The Lost Bill Holman Charts
Label: MAMA Records
Released: 2007
Track listing: Three Little Words; Ow; Mahogany Run; Primrose; Dearly Beloved; The Hook; We
The Carl Saunders Exploration: The Lost Bill Holman Charts
by Jack Bowers
The Bill Holman charts unearthed here by the Carl Saunders Exploration weren't so much “lost as overlooked--hidden away for some two decades in a closet at the home of geologist/saxophonist Ted Richardson in Houston, Texas. On the other hand, as none of them had ever been recorded, they may accurately be described as “found. The charts ...
Can You Dig Being Dug?
Label: Itsus Jazz
Released: 2005
Track listing: There Will Never Be Another You; Happy Go Lucky; Can You Dig Being Dug?; Yesterdays;
Calming Notion; Midi Evil Blues; One Note Samba; What Can I Say?; The Girl from Cancun;
Blues on the Side. (77:45)
Carl Saunders: Can You Dig Being Dug?
by Jack Bowers
Somewhere in the dimly remembered past, before the scufflers were hip and everyone knew what was happenin', there were “hepcats who devised a language all their own, one in which it wasn't difficult to imagine one saying to another, “Hey, man, can you dig being dug? That shopworn phrase, which serves as the title of trumpeter ...
Salute to Chet Baker
By Phil Urso
Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2004
Track listing: Jumpin' Off A Clef; For Minors Only; Halema; Mister B.; This Is The Thing ; Funk In Deep Freeze; My Funny Valentine; Baby Breeze; Way To Go; Worryin' The Life Out Of Me; Line For Lyons.
