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April 2009: From Sarah Vaughan to Little Richard
by Charlie B. Dahan
After a short hiatus, The Vault has reopened to review the latest in jazz and blues reissues, DVDs, books and other irresistible items. This month, we have books on the jazz age and Atlantic Records, CDs from Sarah Vaughan and Buddy Guy, and DVDs of Little Richard and Muddy Waters. Hazen Schumacher and ...
Chico Hamilton: Joyous Shout
by Donald Elfman
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 ...
The Everest Years
Label: Empire Musicwerks
Released: 2005
Track listing: Cherokee/Redskin Rhumba; Serenade to May; Molten Swing; Pompton Turnpike; East Side,
West Side; Charleston Alley; Skyliner; Blue Juice; Wild Man of the Fishpond; Southern Fried;
Smiles; Evergreens; Atardust; Take the 'A' Train; Goodbye; Early Autumn; Flying Home; I
Can't Get Started; Begin the Beguine; Darn That Dream; Midnight Sun; One O'Clock Jump;
Harlem Nocturne.
Charlie Barnet: The Everest Years
by David Rickert
During the '50s the Everest label was a preserve for big band leaders like Charlie Barnet whose days on the road were behind them, but still had a yen to hit the studios. Barnet's band could still hurl fireballs with the best of them, even twenty years after the height of his popularity, and although the ...
Charlie Barnet: The Everest Years
by Norman Weinstein
Charlie Barnet, a talented big band leader and saxophonist, must have found himself waking up on the days when these two albums, now packed on a single CD, were recorded in 1958, and thought he was in 1938. Sessions like these are what the term “retro" is all about. Everyone is quite workmanlike in the studio. ...
