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Jack's Gone! No He Isn't; Yes He Is; No He Isn't...!
by Jack Bowers
As I sat down to write this month's column, word came that trumpeter Jack Sheldon had died. No sooner had I written a few words about that when word came that trumpeter Jack Sheldon had not died. After some back-and-forth on the internet (is he or isn't he?), the last report, it seems, was the true ...
Gold Medalists Abound at Big Band Olympics
by Jack Bowers
As this is being written, Betty and I are just back from a ten-day visit to California, the first six days of which would be of absolutely no interest to readers of this column. The last four, however, were spent at the Los Angeles Airport Marriott Hotel attending the L.A. Jazz Institute's “Big Band Olympics," which ...
Bobby Bradford: Self-Determination in the Great Basin
by Clifford Allen
Born in Cleveland, Mississippi in 1934 and raised between Dallas and Los Angeles, trumpeter Bobby Bradford began playing with Ornette Coleman in Los Angeles in the 1950s, and replaced Don Cherry in an unrecorded Coleman quartet during the early 1960s. However, the most significant partnership in Bradford's musical life was with the clarinetist and composer John ...
Dave Pell on Don Fagerquist
If you're unfamiliar with trumpeter Don Fagerquist [pictured], that's about to change. The now nearly forgotten West Coast trumpeter had one of the richest tones in the business in the 1950s and 1960s, and he made everything he played sound melodic and effortless. Fagerquist's solos were like tennis balls rolling out of a can onto a ...
The Mike Vax Big Band Featuring Alumni of the Stan Kenton Orchestra: Sounds from the Road
by Nicholas F. Mondello
The traveling autobus--the road to the road--has frequently been used as a symbolic metaphor in movies, books, commercials and, of course, songs of all kinds. Bus travel seems to have an oddly romantic element. In the halcyon days of the barnstorming big bands, bus and car travel were the only direct ways to get to the ...
The Dave Pell Octet Plays Rodgers & Hart
By Dave Pell
Label: Milestone Records
Released: 2000
Track listing: Why Do You Suppose?; Have You Met Miss Jones?; You Are Too Beautiful; Mountain Greenery; A Ship Without a Sail; The Blue Room; I've Got Five Dollars; Sing for Your Supper; It Never Entered My Mind; The Lady Is a Tramp; Spring Is Here; Ten Cents a Dance.
Chances Are It Swings
Label: RCA Victor
Released: 1972
Track listing: Chances Are; No Such Luck; It's Not For Me To Say; Lilac Chiffon; I Just Don't Know; Who Needs You. Everybody Loves A Lover; Come To Me; My Very Good Friend In The Looking Glass; You Know How It Is; A Very Special Love; Teacher, Teacher.
Fair And Warmer!
By June Christy
Label: Capitol Records
Released: 1957
Track listing: I Want To Be Happy; Imagination; I've Never Been In Love Before; Irresistible You; No More; Better Luck Next Time; Let There Be Love; When Sunny Gets Blue; The Best Thing For You; Beware My Heart; I Know Why (And So Do You); It's Always You.
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