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Request Records: Live At Club 15
by David Rickert
Request Records has recently issued a series of live recordings from Club 15 in Las Vegas, all from 1966. By this time Las Vegas was the world's playground, and a legion of entertainers descended there. Mike Gold broadcast the performances live from the club; his wife and the sound engineer recorded them for posterity. After Gold ...
Fats Waller: If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It!
by David Rickert
Fats Waller If You Got To Ask, You Ain't Got It! Bluebird Jazz 2006 The first thing that strikes you about Fats Waller's music is how much fun it is. Today we recognize Waller as one of the first geniuses of jazz, both as a composer and as a musician, ...
Charlie Parker: At Jirayr Zorthian's Ranch, July 14, 1952
by David Rickert
Jirayr Zorthian was a painter and sculptor whose large ranch was known for wild parties attended by hordes of intellectuals, artists and naked women frolicking about. Thus it's easy to see why Charlie Parker wound up there in 1952. This concert captures a moment that is mentioned in every serious Parker discography, but is only available ...
Gordon Jenkins / Marshall Royal: Gordon Jenkins with His Orchestra Presents Marshall Royal
by David Rickert
How to explain the bewitching power of sax and strings albums, especially for those who would never dare go near the easy listening section of their local music store? The best of these records, like Stan Getz's Focus (Verve, 1961) or Bird With Strings (Columbia, 1950), feature terrific arranging married to imaginative playing, reworking melodies, yet ...
Portrait Of Johnny: The Life Of John Herndon Mercer
by David Rickert
Gene Lees Portrait Of Johnny: The Life Of John Herndon Mercer Pantheon Books ISBN: 0-634-09929-9 384 pages 2004 When it comes to songwriting, lyricists don't get much credit. While many people may know, for instance, that Henry Mancini wrote the music for “Moon River, many fewer ...
Django Reinhardt: Memorial
by David Rickert
When Django Reinhardt switched from acoustic to electric guitar, his fans, feeling betrayed, called him “Judas." However, he later used this new instrument to record Blonde On Blonde, often considered one of the greatest rock records of all time. Actually, that was Bob Dylan. But Reinhardt's electric period, which encompassed the last few years ...
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Brotherman in the Fatherland
by David Rickert
It must have been something to catch a live performance by Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Of course he plays multiple instruments at the same time on albums, but wouldn't it have been cool to actually see him do it? Unfortunately, this trick tended to obscure Kirk's talents as an improviser and composer in some circles, as his ...
Various Artists: Atlas Jazz Explosion
by David Rickert
Rhythm & blues was a powerful musical force in the '50s, influencing the direction that many jazz musicians followed and paving the way for rock and roll. There was quite a market for R&B 45s, and small labels featuring eager young unknowns were able to carve out a niche in at least some jukeboxes. Many of ...
American Big Bands
by David Rickert
American Big Bands William F. Lee Paperback; 480 pages Hal Leonard Publishing ISBN: 0634080547 During the big band heyday of the thirties and forties there were thousands of bands playing around the country, saturating dance halls and the radio waves and entertaining people of all walks of life. ...
Pee Wee Russell: Portrait Of Pee Wee
by David Rickert
Pee Wee Russell was an early pioneer, a Dixieland veteran, and an inspired clarinetist with an unusual voice. No less than Gene Krupa once said that he had “the most fabulous musical mind... I've never run into anybody who had that much musical talent. During the fifties, long after his style of music had fallen out ...
