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Bradley Sowash: For the Beauty of the Earth
by David Rickert
Jazz has always had a close tie to religion, from its roots in gospel music and spirituals to the divine musical quests of Coltrane and the Sacred Concerts of Ellington. However, few artists have mined the hymnal directly for source material, and fewer still have then recorded albums that have reflection and meditation as their key ...
Dueling Clarinets: Goodman and Shaw Centennial Collections
by David Rickert
In the Swing Era people were either Goodman fans or Shaw fans. Continuing with their excellent Centennial Collections, Bluebird presents a sampling of each artists' work along with a DVD of material that present the artist in a different light. Benny Goodman The Centennial Collection 2004 Back in the thirties, ...
Benny Goodman: "Sing, Sing, Sing"
by David Rickert
Part I in a series exploring the history of the Swing Era's greatest songs.The Paramount Benny Goodman and his band arrived at the Paramount Theater on the morning of March 3, 1937 to find throngs of students waiting in line. Goodman had assumed that this engagement, which started at 8:30 in the morning and ...
Jass
by David Rickert
David Fulmer Jass Harcourt 352 Pages ISBN: 0-15-101025-0 With Chasing the Devil's Tail David Fulmer gave us a captivating mystery set in turn of the century New Orleans, a city reeking of sweat and liquor where the sound of jass was heard blaring throughout the seedy brothels and ...
Satchmo Blows Up The World
by David Rickert
Penny von Eschen Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War Harvard University Press 329 pages ISBN: 0-674-01501-0 Many people believe that the United States won the Cold War not by foreign policy, but by “blue jeans and jazz." For those of us born in ...
Living With Jazz
by David Rickert
Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X Dan Morgenstern is the director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, a former editor and contributor for Down Beat , and author of Jazz People , one of the finest histories of jazz ...
Four Vocal LPRs: Ella, Blossom, Cole, Alexandria
by David Rickert
Freddie Cole “Waiter, Ask the Man To Play the Blues" Verve 1964 Add Freddie Cole to the list of musicians with better-known and more talented siblings. You might have heard of his brother Nat, who was both a top-notch jazz pianist and a talented pop singer, and Freddie Cole falls ...
Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Flies High
by David Rickert
Many of the great improvisers from the swing era were unable to hurdle the bebop fence into relevance in the fifties, but Coleman Hawkins continued to create worthwhile records up until the end of his life. How? Not by changing his style to suit the times, but by demonstrating that his approach could fit into a ...
Dave Brubeck Quartet: Jazz at the College of the Pacific
by David Rickert
Before he hit it big with Time Out, Dave Brubeck found a niche market with the college crowd. The tweed coat and horn-rimmed glasses set were eager to soak in all that he had to offer, and Brubeck can take part of the credit for turning jazz into a more academic pursuit than it was previously ...
The Ramsey Lewis Trio: The Sound Of Christmas
by David Rickert
Those who purchase a Christmas album are mainly looking for festive music suitable for decorating the tree or baking cookies and not an introspective, challenging listening experience. Thus an artist who records such a record must take into account what the audience wants to hear and not his own musical aspirations, which may be why Mingus ...
