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Various Artists: Period's Jazz Digest
by David Rickert
Period Records was a high-end classical label that also dabbled in jazz and blues for a brief time in the fifties. The Jazz Digest LPs sampled the label's jazz and blues output, a move that at the time was innovative and proved to be quite popular. It was thus possible to hear Charles Mingus and Big ...
Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie
by David Rickert
Donald L. Maggin Dizzy: The Life and Times of John Birks Gillespie Harper Collins 422 Pages ISBN: 0-688-17088-9 Dizzy Gillespie towers over the history of jazz, a true giant among his peers. Over a lengthy and successful career he spearheaded two major jazz movements and played with virtually ...
More Verve Vocalists: New LPRs
by David Rickert
Ella Fitzgerald Hello, Dolly! Verve 2005 (1964) There's an odd bit of trivia contained in this album. The biggest hit from the record, Ella's version of the Beatles' “Can't By Me Love, shows how widespread the influence of rock and roll became (which eventually spelled the downfall of ...
Dizzy Gillespie: Career 1937-1992
by David Rickert
Even people who don't listen to jazz know who Dizzy Gillespie is. His black beret and cock-eyed trumpet were a familiar image of cool to a generation of hipsters who grew up idolizing the jazzbo lifestyle. And of course, along with Charlie Parker and others who gathered at Minton's, he helped shape the direction that jazz ...
Chet Baker: Career 1952-1988
by David Rickert
This Chet Baker collection begins and ends, appropriately enough, with two different versions of “My Funny Valentine. One is from the pioneering Gerry Mulligan Quartet at the early part of Baker's career; the other comes from a live performance two weeks before his untimely death. The critics hated his version of the song, as did many ...
The Columbus Jazz Orchestra: Swingin' the Midwest
by David Rickert
When Kenny Drew Jr. came into town as a guest soloist with the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, he couldn't believe he'd be performing six shows. He wondered who exactly the audience would be. In a similar fashion, when Byron Stripling took over as artistic director for the CJO, many people asked him which university had ...
Swing: A Mystery
by David Rickert
Rupert Holmes Swing: A Mystery Random House ISBN: 1-4000-6158-X 372 pages Rupert Holmes has written award-winning Broadway musicals and popular television programs, and arranged and conducted a Striesand album. Oh yeah, and he's a terrific mystery writer, too, as his new book Swing demonstrates. Swing is ...
The Jazz Moods Series
by David Rickert
Louis Armstrong Jazz Moods | Hot: Louis Armstrong Columbia 2005 The Hot Five and Hot Seven Recordings are the hallmark of any jazz collection, but they're also some of the finest jazz records ever made. They will always be a cornerstone of the Columbia catalog, and deserve to be remastered ...
The Rhythm Method: New LPRs
by David Rickert
Gene Krupa Gene Krupa Plays Gerry Mulligan Arrangements Verve 1958 Gene Krupa left Benny Goodman to form a band that played nothing but killer-dillers, the fiery numbers like “Sing, Sing, Sing that caused riots at the Paramount. It wasn't too long before Krupa realized that a more even-tempered approach was ...
Tommy Dorsey: "Marie"
by David Rickert
Brotherly Love It all started, or rather ended, with a tempo change. The Dorsey Brothers Orchestra broke up when Tommy Dorsey abruptly walked off the stage during an engagement at the Glen Island Casino after an argument over the tempo of a tune. However, the seeds of discord had been planted long ago. The Dorsey Brothers, ...
