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Anton Fig: Behind the Band Stand, Part 1

by Ben Scholz
March 14, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 It's around 3 o'clock in early January, that melancholy time of year where the day perpetually feels like 7 pm. We're standing on West 53rd Street between Broadway and 8th Avenue around the corner from the entrance to The Ed Sullivan Theater. A light haze of snow is falling ...

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Charlie Harrington Signs With Power Wristbuilders

August 17, 2012

Award-Winning Acclaimed Artist, Charlie Harrington, has signed with POWER Wrist Builders. Charlie, an in demand session player with a well-established reputation as a first call drummer, is proud to endorse the fine quality products offered by POWER Wrist Builders. POWER Wrist Builders began operations in 1990 by the creator and designer, Terry A. Loose. POWER Wrist ...

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Interview: Ed Shaughnessy (PT. 2)

July 11, 2012

Few kickoffs by a drummer are as signature as Ed Shaughnessy's start to Johnny's Theme, the Paul Anka song that the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson used each night. As a kid growing up, I associated the sound of Ed's drums at the start of the theme as the official end of a child's day and ...

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Interview: Ed Shaughnessy (PT. 1)

July 10, 2012

Drummer Ed Shaughenssy has pretty much seen it all. He played with Charlie Parker and many other beboppers in the late 1940s and early '50s. He was in Charlie Ventura's band at the famed Pasadena Concert in 1949. In the '50s, he recorded with Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Tony Bennett, Chris Connor, Teddy Charles, ...

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Rick Drumm: Seizing the Day

by Ian Patterson
May 28, 2012

It's good to have dreams, but it's even better to follow them, to see them take shape before your eyes and to live them. Rick Drumm has lived more than one dream. Three years as drummer with NORAD, the North American Air Defense Band, was followed by two years drumming in the famous Ringling Bros. and ...

Article: Big Band Report

Marching to a Jazz Tempo

by Jack Bowers
April 5, 2012

March came in like a lion in Albuquerque with no less than four blue-chip jazz concerts in the first five days, three of which I attended, passing on the first (the Charlie Christian Project featuring guitarist Michael Anthony and trumpeter Bobby Shew at The Outpost Performance Space) because Betty and I had seen basically the same ...

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Introducing Booker Little

by Robert Levin
July 25, 2010

[Editor's Note: This interview last appeared in Jazz & Pop, 1970. Little died in 1961, just a few months after it was originally published in Metronome.] Booker Little, twenty-three year-old composer, arranger and trumpet player (the order is arbitrary, each role has equal importance to him), has lately come to demonstrate, in recordings and ...

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Take Five With Charlie Harrington

by AAJ Staff
May 23, 2009

Meet Charlie Harrington: The consummate Charlie Harrington has been playing drums since the age of five and has played professionally since the age of 15. He studied with Ray Bauduc for two years and later with Tim Tull and went on to finish First Place in the Slingerland/Louie Bellson National Drum Contest.

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Queen of the Juke Box "Live", 1948-1955

By Dinah Washington

Label: Baldwin Street Music
Released: 2001
Track listing: Want to Cry; It's Too Soon to Know; I'll Never Be Free; I Cross My Fingers; Harbor Lights; Only a Moment Ago; I Wanna Be Loved; My Heart Cries for You; Time out for Tears; It's Too Soon to Know; N Y, Chicago & LA; Baby Get Lost; Dinah Talks; I Wanna Be Loved; I Won't Cry Anymore; Please Send Someone to Love; Tell Me Why; Cold Cold Heart; Wheel of Fortune; Mixed Emotions; Blow Top Blues; Such a Night; My Lean Baby; NY, Chicago & LA; Mixed Emotions; Come Rain or Come Shine; Dinah Talks; I Diddie.

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