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Discovering Wardell Gray: An Interview with Biographer Richard Carter
by Victor L. Schermer
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [This is one of two interviews and an article intended to bring readers' attention to the under-recognized tenor saxophonist, Wardell Gray, whose brief career spanned the transition from swing to bebop and whose life was cut short by sudden and tragic circumstances.] Richard Carter ...
Why the World Should Remember Wardell Gray
by Victor L. Schermer
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 [This article is a commentary to accompany All About Jazz interviews about Wardell Gray with filmmaker Abraham Ravett and biographer Richard Carter, all of which are intended to bring readers' attention to this outstanding but under-recognized tenor saxophonist whose brief career spanned the transition from swing ...
Artie Shaw: Classic Bluebird and Victor Sessions
by Samuel Chell
Artie ShawClassic Bluebird and Victor SessionsMosaic Records2009Shortly after its critically acclaimed box set comprising clarinetist Benny Goodman's essential recordings-- The Columbia and Okeh Benny Goodman Orchestra Sessions (2009), which was released to coincide with the centenary of the “King of Swing"--Mosaic Records has done it again. The Classic ...
Dodo Marmarosa: Troubled Pianist Made Brief But Lasting Impact On Jazz
Michael “Dodo" Marmarosa was a reclusive personality who flitted in and out of jazz history after making an initial but lasting impact as one of the progenitors of bebop in the mid to late 1940s. He was said to have been a prodigiously gifted child at the piano in his native Pittsburgh, where his school mates ...
Michael "Dodo" Marmarosa: Legendary jazz pianist
Michael “Dodo" Marmarosa, a piano wunderkind who was for about a decade one of the most sought-after pianists in the history of jazz, died Tuesday of an apparent heart attack. He was 76. For the past few years, Mr. Marmarosa was a resident at the VA Medical Center in Lincoln Lemington, where he occasionally played piano ...
Up In Dodo's Room
Label: Spotlite Records
Released: 1996
Track listing: Solo Piano (early 1946); Deep Purple; Tea For Two; Charlie Parker Septet (March 28, 1946); Bird Lore; Howard McGhee Sextet (October 18, 1946) alternate takes; Dialated Pupils; Up In Dodo's Room; Solo piano (early mid 1947); Tone Paintings I; Tone Paintings 11; Trio (early/mid 1947) master takes; Bopmatism; Charlie Parker Septet; Dodo's Dance; Trio master takes; Trade Winds; Dary Departs; Cosmo Street; Trio (December 3, 1947) alternate takes; Bopmatism; Dodo's Dance; Tradewinds; Dary Departs; Dary Departs; Cosmo Street;
The Chicago Sessions
Label: Affinity
Released: 1989
Track listing: Mellow Mood; Cottage For Sale; April Played The Fiddle; Everything Happens To Me; On Green Dolphin Street; Why Do I Love You; I Thought About You; Me And My Shadow; Tracy's Blues; You Call It Madness; Gone With The Wind; Someday; Automation; Dodo's Tune; Analysis; Only A Rose;
The Modern Jazz Piano Album
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1986
Track listing: Bebop In Pastel; Seven Up; Blues In Bebop; Supersonic; Supersonic - Master; On A Planet; Air Pocket; Celestia; 's Wonderful; Nichols And Dimes; Who's Blues; My Lady Gingersnap; The Night Is Young; Blue Room; Why Was I Born; My Foolish Heart; Twins; Polka Dot; I'll Remember April; High Score; Hyacinth; Joy Bell; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Fine And Dandy; Budo; I Married An Angel; The Jazz Message (Freedom For All);
The Modern Jazz Piano Album
Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 1980
Track listing: Bebop In Pastel; Seven Up; Blues In Bebop; Supersonic; Supersonic - Master; On A Planet; Air Pocket; Celestia; 's Wonderful; Nichols And Dimes; Who's Blues; My Lady Gingersnap; The Night Is Young; Blue Room; Why Was I Born; My Foolish Heart; Twins; Polka Dot; I'll Remember April; High Score; Hyacinth; Joy Bell; I Didn't Know What Time It Was; Fine And Dandy; Budo; I Married An Angel; The Jazz Message (Freedom For All);
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