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Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Louis Smith: Smithville – Blue Note 1594

by Marc Davis
February 3, 2015

Sometimes, thumbing through the old Blue Note catalogue, you wish for something brand new. Something not the usual Jimmy Smith--Lee Morgan--Lou Donaldson--Horace Silver. And then you find it and wonder, “Who is this guy? And what ever happened to him?" Louis Smith is that guy. The trumpeter recorded exactly two Blue Note ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron – The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings

by Marc Davis
January 18, 2015

There aren't many jazz records I'd consider essential. This is one. Granted, Fats Navarro isn't in the pantheon of jazz trumpeters. For starters, he didn't live long enough. He died in 1950 at age 26, so his discography is short. For another, Navarro's brief career overlapped that of trumpet legend Dizzy Gillespie, and came ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Lee Morgan Indeed! – Blue Note 1538

by Marc Davis
January 7, 2015

The first time Lee Morgan entered a recording studio, he was just 18 years old and he was leading his own band. More impressive, that band included soon-to-be-legendary pianist Horace Silver and drummer Philly Joe Jones. This is the CD of that 1956 recording session. While the players were great, the music is merely ...

Article: Interview

Don Glanden: Remembering Clifford Brown

by Victor L. Schermer
October 15, 2014

Benny Golson's timeless ballad, “I Remember Clifford" is but one measure of the reverence and love with which Clifford Brown was regarded by musicians, friends, family, and fans. The affection in which he was held during his lifetime was made all the more poignant by his untimely death at the peak of his rapidly advancing career. ...

Article: My Blue Note Obsession

Kenny Dorham: The Complete ‘Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia – Blue Note 1524

by Marc Davis
October 6, 2014

I think I have a new favorite hard bop record. For many years, I considered Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers the perfect hard bop band--the Beatles of the bop set. I still do. I don't know how Blakey managed to find the very best up-and-coming jazz musicians in America, year after year, but ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Fats Navarro

September 24, 2014

All About Jazz is celebrating Fats Navarro's birthday today! “Fats was a spectacular musician because, in a time when cats arrived on the scene with nothing, he came on with everything: he could read, he could play high and hold anybody\'s first trumpet chair, he could play those singing, melodic solos with a big beautiful sound ...

Article: New York Beat

More from Clifford Brown

by Nick Catalano
August 30, 2014

Ever since I wrote the biography of Clifford Brown (Oxford University Press, 2000) I've been hoping that someone would come forth with some newly discovered recording, some new photos of Brownie, or some new piece of information about his life that wasn't available at the time the book was published. One of the great bonuses of ...

Article: New York Beat

Horace Silver: Recollections and Retrospections

by Nick Catalano
July 1, 2014

In the halcyon days of the first Birdland (the early 50's) Monday night was jam session night and the house rhythm section featured a young pianist named Horace Silver. Though in his early 20's (he was born in 1928) Silver appeared much younger and his diminutive figure at the keyboard is still etched in my mind ...

Article: Book Review

Paul Combs: Dameronia: The Life and Times of Tadd Dameron

by Victor L. Schermer
June 13, 2014

Dameronia: The Life and Times of Tadd Dameron Paul Combs 264 Pages ISBN: # 978-0-472-03563-2 The University of Michigan Press2013 “There is enough ugliness in this world; I'm interested in beauty."--Tadd Dameron “Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early ...

Article: Take Five With...

Take Five With Martin Uherek

by AAJ Staff
March 21, 2014

Meet Martin Uherek: I am a young professional saxophonist from Slovakia. I have a deep admiration for the legendary jazz musicians of the '40s through the '60s. I am a leader of several bands-- notably the Martin Uherek Quartet and Jazz Pianoless Trio. My newest project is Stories of Jazz (Self Produced, 2014), ...