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Dave Brubeck: Brubeck In Wonderland
by David Rickert
Brubeck recorded his most durable work with Time Out, which launched a series of successful albums by the stately jazzman for the Columbia label in 1959. However, his earlier works for the Fantasy label, which find him fully entrenched in the cool scene, are arguably more rewarding. Brubeck had not yet stumbled upon the gimmickry of ...
The Boswell Sisters: Nothing Was Sweeter
by David Rickert
Although they were the hottest act in their heyday in the thirties, nobody bothers much with the Boswell Sisters anymore. Most people are familiar with their particular style of jazz vocals--tight-knit harmonies and group vocal gymnastics--through their imitators, like the Andrews Sisters. But the Boswell Sisters were much more than that. Consider the fact that Ella ...
John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays The Sound Of Music
by David Rickert
Everyone is familiar with Coltrane's classic recording of “My Favorite Things. However, what many people may not know is that Coltrane was so taken with the musical that his first project for the Impulse! label was an entire album of songs from the stage classic. Bob Thiele shelved the project after it was finished, claiming it ...
It's About That Time: Miles Davis On And Off The Record
by David Rickert
Richard Cook It's About That Time: Miles Davis On And Off The Record ISBN: 978-0-19-532266-8 Oxford University Press 373 pages Hardcover, January 2007 Miles Davis is one of the most thoroughly researched and documented musicians of all time. So a writer who wants to present him ...
Django Reinhardt: Keep Cool: Guitar Solos 1950-53
by David Rickert
Django Reinhardt's last years are his least well known. Facing artistic obsolescence while jazz fans who once embraced him were hooked on the latest thing, Django assembled a new quintet of players schooled in bebop instead of swing to produce some records that were decidedly modern in feel. Long gone were the Hot Club with Stephane ...
Ronnie Scott: Birth Of A Legend
by David Rickert
Ronnie Scott stares out at you from the cover shot on Birth of a Legend with a confident glare, as if to dare you to suggest that the Brits couldn't play as well as their American counterparts overseas. This two-disc set of the saxophonist's various musical exploits indeed proves that across the pond in the forties ...
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra: The Colors of Jazz
by David Rickert
It may come as a surprise, but the Columbus Jazz Orchestra has more season ticket holders that the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and it plays a series of concerts to packed houses every year. All this even in a town like Columbus, Ohio, which is not exactly known as a jazz mecca. What is the secret ...
Oscar Peterson: Birth of A Legend: Oscar Peterson Historic Carnegie Hall Concerts
by David Rickert
Legend has it that Norman Granz wanted to introduce Oscar Peterson to America through his Carnegie Hall concerts, but the Canadian citizen couldn't obtain a work visa to allow him to appear. So Granz planted him in the audience and asked him to appear on stage with bassist Ray Brown for a set. The pianist wowed ...
Chris Connor: All About Chris
by David Rickert
Chris Connor is one of many blond-haired kittens whose vocals were popular during the fifties. Like many of her fellow canaries, she got her start in the big bands (Thornhill's and Kenton's, in this case) before becoming successful enough to strike out on her own. Leaving the big band sound behind for the intimacy of the ...
Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas
by David Rickert
If you were born in the sixties or later, there's a good chance that your first exposure to jazz was through the Peanuts Christmas special. Today the whimsical music of Vince Guaraldi seems inseparable from this holiday classic, but it almost didn't happen that way; producer Lee Mendelson originally envisioned either Dave Brubeck or Cal Tjader ...
