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Edith Piaf: 1915-2015
by Bruce Lindsay
2015 is the centenary of one of the best-loved, most charismatic singers of the twentieth century. For some that singer is Billie Holiday, for others it's Frank Sinatra: but for many more, especially in the French-speaking world, it's the legendary Edith Piaf. 1915-2015, a vinyl-only Best Of collection, establishes the case for Piaf's status beyond doubt.
Christmas Jazz Begins Thanksgiving Day
Jazz Lovers Radio announces the beginning of the Christmas Jazz season with a sprinkling of Christmas Jazz favorites starting Thanksgiving Day. Each week in December, more holiday tracks will be added to the Jazz Lovers Radio playlists as Christmas Day approaches. The most listenable Christmas Jazz in the world will be featured around the clock starting ...
JACO (The Film)
by John Kelman
Jaco Pastorius JACO (The Film) Slang East/West 2015With author Bill Milkowksi's extraordinarily detailed and honest accounting of Pastorius' life in his biography--first published in 1996 but reissued nearly a decade later as Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius: Deluxe Edition (Backbeat Books, 2005), with a hundred pages of ...
Lou Volpe: Remembering Ol' Blue Eyes
by Edward Blanco
The year 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Frank Sinatra's birth (December 12th 1915) and as expected, there have been many tributes to the Chairman of the Board but perhaps, none as unique as the instrumental homage by guitarist Lou Volpe on the splendid Remembering Ol' Blue Eyes: (Songs of Sinatra). Why? Because Volpe's finger-picking lyrical ...
Three Views of Jaco: Weather Report: The Legendary Live Tapes 1978-1981 / JACO: The Film & Original Soundtrack
by John Kelman
It's hard to believe that, despite being gone for 28 years, bassist/composer Jaco Pastorius remains not just an important figure in the world of jazz, but beyond its broadest purview as well. His seemingly sudden appearance on a series of four albums in 1976 demonstrated that this was an artist with virtually no restrictions. In addition ...
Richard Shelton: An Englishman In Love In L.A.
by Edward Blanco
English-born actor Richard Shelton is a veteran of British theatre and television who recently moved to the United States for the opportunities that Hollywood may offer. As an actor, Shelton played the role of Frank Sinatra on the London stage in a play based on the book 'Rat Pack Confidential,' a dream come true for the ...
Bill Miller: Robbie Williams
To the best of my knowledge, pianist Bill Miller, who accompanied Frank Sinatra for more than 50 years, never recorded an album under his own name. He led a sextet in the early 1960s, but only while accompanying Sinatra on tour. In interviews prior to his death in 2006, Miller intimated that he occasionally played gigs ...
Kamasi Washington e il Questionario di Proust
by AAJ Staff
All About Jazz: Il tratto principale della mia musica. Kamasi Washington: Un'energia libera. La mia musica è molto varia, va in tante direzioni diverse, ma in ogni brano c'è energia e c'è libertà. AAJ: La qualità che desidero nei musicisti che suonano con me. K.W.: Mi piacciono i musicisti ...
M'Balia: Halfway There
by C. Michael Bailey
Halfway There is the debut recording of one Philadelphia- native M'Balia Singley, a talented singer matriculating from Yale with a degree in history and Temple with one in law. That is an embarrassment of riches. But can counselor Singley translate all of this brain power into music? Her life arc had her practicing law and raising ...
Sinatra on TV in '65
As years go, 1965 marked a significant cultural turning point. With teen audiences screaming at concerts for the Beatles and the Supremes, pop-rock and soul began to lock up a sizable slice of the record market. At the exact same time, the future was becoming a national obsession, helped along largely by the space race and ...
