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Norwegian Plans to Post All Ellingtonia on the Net
by Fradley Garner
OSLO: Do you have any information about Duke Ellington? Any concert programs, posters, clippings, memorabilia, photos, private recordings? An ambitious Norwegian jazz researcher is burning to get hold of such items--as scanned images or sound files. No need to part with the originals.Arne Neegaard has set himself a formidable goal: posting the details of ...
Musings at 38,000 feet
by Fradley Garner
Aboard SK910 to Copenhagen: The night after I flew into Newark from Denmark for a short visit this summer, I had dinner with Herb Spitz over in Greenwich Village. That's where I lived for five years before marrying a Dane and moving to her country to start a new career as a freelance writer.Herb ...
November 2007
by Fradley Garner
Specs Powell, 85, percussionist, pianist, vibraphonist. New York, NY, June 5, 1922--San Marcos (San Diego), CA, September 15, 2007. Gordon “Specs Powell, who beat a distinguished path from a drum stool, started by doubling on piano in his own Swing era combo, and later became one of the first black musicians hired by a ...
Lee Konitz' 80th: Charts Missing? Copy Them On Stage While You Spin Jokes
by Fradley Garner
MANNHEIM, Germany: Lee Konitz was on stage here for the last stop on his nonet's European tour in mid-October of 2007 when he discovered that he had left his own music charts at the previous stop, in Porto, Portugal.Panic? Konitz? Not on your life. Especially not at the concert celebrating the pioneer American saxophonist's ...
October 2007
by Fradley Garner
George Melly, 80, jazz and blues singer, author, raconteur. Liverpool, England, August 17, 1926--London, England, July 5, 2007.The Oscar Wilde of jazz? George Melly, an eccentric Englishman of many careers whose singing style invoked his idol, the blues singer Bessie Smith, died in London after a stretch of emphysema and dementia. He ...
September 2007
by Fradley Garner
Max Roach, 83, drummer, bandleader, composer, educator. Newland, NC, January 10, 1924--New York, NY, August 15, 2007. Max Roach, widely deemed the most innovative percussionist in contemporary jazz and a composer who leaped the boundaries of four-four time and standard instrument combinations, died August 15 in a New York hospice. He was 83 and ...
March 2006
by Fradley Garner
Pat Pace was the musical pride of Akron, Ohio, a classical and jazz pianist, accordionist, composer and teacher who made only two commercial recordings, decades ago, both released on obscure labels (one of them maybe his own). For the last 20 or so years, Pace had given up gigging and was living the quiet life, teaching ...
February 2006
by Fradley Garner
Romano Mussolini has joined the big band above. My scout, Jerry Gordon, forwarded a Reuters obit from Steve Barbone--a name that may ring a bell. “I am a jazz clarinetist based in Philadelphia, doing around 250 gigs a year," Barbone replied to my e-mail. “In 1999, I played at the Pee Wee Russell Memorial Stomp as ...
December 2005
by Fradley Garner
New Orleans struck up the band one Sunday this fall for the first jazz funeral in the music's birthplace since Hurricane Katrina opened the levees and laid waste to the Crescent City. “The brass band ... toted donated instruments, reported Shaila Dewan in The New York Times. “The procession leaders wore salvaged bits of their traditional ...
November 2005
by Fradley Garner
What was it like to record with Fats Waller? Fat's guitarist, Al Casey, called it “a light- hearted business. In the studio, “the record people would give him all those pop tunes the other artists refused. Fats would look through the music. 'OK,' he'd say. 'We'll try this one.' Then we'd make the record. Just like ...
