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Red Norvo: The Modern Red Norvo
by Charlie B. Dahan
The most interesting of the initial three Savoy Jazz reissues is the Modern Red Norvo release. This long overdue collection features Norvo’s virtuostic vibraphone playing, but while he comes from the big band school (having played with Paul Whitehead orchestra), the personel that surround Norvo provide a fascinating glimpse into an artist and a music in ...
Charlie Parker: Best of The Complete Live Performances on Savoy
by Charlie B. Dahan
Another exciting reissue from the 60th birthday celebration of Savoy Records is a Charlie Parker live concert recording. The album culminates three separate performances broadcast over radio from the aptly named Royal Roost Club (a/k/a The Metropolitan Bopera) in New York City. The recording displays Parker at his most vital and without a ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Odyssey 1945-1952
by Charlie B. Dahan
One of the first re-issues from the recently 60 year old, newly revived, Savoy label is a retrospective of the works of John Birks ‘Dizzy’ Gillespie that span the years from 1945 to 1952. During this pivotal time jazz moved away from the pop swing / big band music of the era into the newer exploratory, ...
Willie King and the Liberators: Living in a New World
by Charlie B. Dahan
Willie King follows his critically acclaimed album “Freedom Creek,” with an equally masterful recording of conscious blues that while highly entertaining, packs the punch of a Bob Marley song. On “Living in a New World,” King turns his insightful observation from statements on social injustice and prejudice to thoughts of redemption and optimism that despite everything ...
Duke Ellington, et al.: 1969: All-Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington
by Charlie B. Dahan
Duke Ellington celebrated his 70th birthday on April 29, 1969 as a guest of President Richard Nixon at the White House. In addition to receiving the distinguished Medal of Freedom, Ellington witnessed an all-star tribute concert featuring many of the day’s great jazz musicians in their prime, which until now, was lost. Recently a cassette belonging ...
Louis Armstrong: Satch Blows The Blues
by Charlie B. Dahan
Soon after Louis Armstrong left King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band and just before he began to record under his own name, he accompanied many of the great blues singers of the 1920’s. Armstrong can be heard on numerous sessions with singers such as Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. Armstrong had the touch and the feel needed ...
Louis Armstrong: The Best of the Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings
by Charlie B. Dahan
Last year bore witness to one of the most exciting box-sets in a long time when Sony Legacy released “The Complete Louis Armstrong and the Hot 5 and Hot 7 Recordings.” This box commemorated the 100th birthday of one of the world’s greatest musicians, artists and innovators in the early period of his career. For those ...
Cedar Walton Trio featuring Dale Barlow: Manhattan After Hours
by Charlie B. Dahan
Cool enough to play at your dinner party, yet hot enough for a serious listen, The Cedar Walton’s Trio releases “Manhattan After Dark” featuring Dale Barlow. Walton is among the elite of jazz history. He has appeared on such legendary recordings as John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps’ and several others by Art Blakey (whose ...
Jimmy Smith: The Fantastic Jimmy Smith
by Charlie B. Dahan
The Fantastic Jimmy Smith, documents the beginnings of a remarkable career in music. This album is from the period of 1953-1955 when Smith first began to dedicate himself to the organ. While the recording here do not match the level of his later sides, the album provides insight into a man about to become ...
Deanna Bogart: Live
by Charlie B. Dahan
Sometimes it takes a live recording for the public to finally fully appreciate a recording artist. Much like James Brown’s “Live at the Apollo” or Peter Frampton’s “Frampton Comes Alive,” the picture that is Baltimore Washington, D.C. stalwart, Deanna Bogart, comes through loud and clear on her self released live album. Vocalist/Pianist/Saxophonist Deanna Bogart has ...
