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Chet Baker: Boston, 1954
by Richard J Salvucci
Is there any reason to write anything more about Chet Baker? Stuff of legend, subject of multiple books, focus of a classic documentary: Surely, someone, somewhere hadn't written a doctoral dissertation on him in American studies. Great player, not so great person, or, whatever kind of person, not so great player. You sort of get to ...
Live Trane: Never Before, Never After
by David Liebman
NEA Jazz Master and much celebrated saxophonist, composer, bandleader, educator and author Dave Liebman recounts the life-changing experiences of witnessing live performances by John Coltrane as told to Dave Kaufman. I always say my epiphany was the first time I saw Coltrane in February of 1962 at Birdland. The fact that I even knew ...
Harry Allen's All Star New York Saxophone Band: The Candy Men
by Edward Blanco
The legendary Four Brothers reed section of Woody Herman's famous “Second Herd" big band of 1947, (Herbie Steward, Zoot Sims, Stan Getz and Serge Chaloff) is reimagined and reinvigorated by jazz icons Harry Allen, Eric Alexander, Grant Stewart and Gary Smulyan on the exciting, swinging and audacious recording of The Candy Men by Harry Allen's All ...
Larry Dickson Jazz Quartet: Summergold Promises
by Jack Bowers
Cincinnati-based baritone saxophonist Larry Dickson's new album, Summergold Promises, is almost a companion piece to his previous enterprise, Second Springtime, which was appraised favorably here less than a year ago. The word “almost" is necessary because Dickson's front-line partner on Springtime, tenor saxophonist Brent Gallaher, has been replaced by trombonist Bill Gemmer, lending the quartet a ...
Gerry Mulligan: The Emarcy Sextet Recordings
by C. Andrew Hovan
While there are many reasons why the cool jazz movement on the west coast was a somewhat short-lived era, one of the key aspects of its quiet demise was the decidedly harder-edged music coming out of New York at about the same time period. Back around 1955, hard bop was making its ascendency and this might ...
Time Check: A Paucity of Riches?
by Jack Bowers
On May 18, Betty and I flew to Los Angeles to attend Time Check: A Buddy Rich Alumni Reunion, a four-day panorama sponsored by the L.A. Jazz Institute and held at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel, about a stone's throw or two from the LAX airport. We arrived early afternoon so we could also be present for ...
Gerry Mulligan: Three Videos
Let's end the week with three more terrific Gerry Mulligan videos that only recently went up on YouTube: Here's Gerry Mulligan and Ben Webster on the Dinah Shore Show in 1962... Here's Shore singing with Mulligan and Webster. A shame they didn't record an album that evening... And here's Mulligan conducting and soloing with ...
Mulligan, Brubeck & Desmond
Let's stick with baritone saxophonist Gerry Mulligan today. Yesterday, I came across a terrific video of All the Things You Are by the Dave Brubeck Trio in 1971 at the Newport Jazz Festival featuring Mulligan and alto saxophonist Paul Desmond. Of course, Desmond had been a key member of the Dave Brubeck Quartet from the early ...
Gerry Mulligan: Jeru
One of the loveliest small-group jazz albums of the early 1960s was Gerry Mulligan's Jeru. Recorded in June 1962 for Columbia, Jeru featured the swinging baritone saxophonist at his tenderest. Produced by the session's drummer, Dave Bailey, a close friend of Mulligan, the album focuses heavily on mid-tempo ballads. Mulligan is backed by a traditional rhythm ...
Lana Meets Jazz - 5a Edizione
by Paolo Peviani
Lana Meets Jazz -5a Edizione Lana 09.04-08.05.2016 Giunto alla sua quinta edizione, quest'anno il Lana Meets Jazz ha programmato concerti per un'intera settimana. Una dimensione importante, che accanto alle più che legittime soddisfazioni per la crescita ed il successo del festival, impone agli organizzatori Helga Plankensteiner e Miki Lösch una riflessione ...
