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Interview: Stanley Kay (Part 2)
The late Stanley Kay told me he was most proud of two career highlights: being hired by Buddy Rich and founding the DIVA Jazz Orchestra. Let's cover the second one first: In 1990, Stanley was conducting a band in which Sherrie Maricle was playing drums. Taken with Sherrie's playing, Stanley asked her if other female jazz ...
Herbie Hancock: A Shared Commonality
By: Dennis Cook Hancock by Douglas Kirkland Herbie Hancock has been putting out albums since the early 1960s but he's never made one quite like The Imagine Project (released June 22 on his own Hancock Records). A far cry from the landmark jazz he created with Miles Davis or even the Headhunters, The Imagine Project took ...
Gregg Allman Receives Liver Transplant
UPDATES TO BE POSTED REGULARLY ON GREGGALLMAN.COM Gregg Allman As part of his continued recovery from Hepatitis C, Gregg Allman recently underwent a successful liver transplant operation at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, FL. Allman had been on a waiting list for the transplant and is looking forward to a speedy recovery. I feel pretty ...
Interview: Lou Donaldson (Part 3)
Between mid-1955 and the start of 1957, Lou Donaldson did not record for reasons he outlines below. Instead, he booked a long string of urban clubs across the country and toured them back and forth while fronting a quintet that included organist Big John Patton. Along the way, Lou became creatively comfortable with the sax-organ sound, ...
Interview: Stanley Kay (Part 1)
Stanley Kay, Buddy Rich's drummer in the late 1940s, died on Monday (June 21st) in New York after a long illness. He was 86. To the uninitiated, my description of Stanley's occupation in the first sentence may sound odd. Buddy Rich's drummer? Buddy Rich was a drummer. Except that Stanley played drums when Buddy Rich sang ...
We All Make Music Interviews B.J. Jansen
B.J. Jansen was featured by the Music Industry Blog, “We All Make Music," today. Here is an excerpt from the feature article,"B.J. Jansen on Helping Artists Help Themselves." “B.J. Jansen accepts and welcomes the changes faced by the music industry. Rather than look at them as catastrophic, Jansen ...
Interview: Lou Donaldson (Part 2)
Jazz writers aren't in complete agreement about the first hard-bop recording. Many point to Miles Davis' Walkin', recorded in April 1954. Others choose recordings from slightly later. I'd have to say that the first hard-bop date--where the trumpet and saxophone operate in unison with an r&b feel, backed by big steady, swinging beat--would have to be ...
Jimmie Noone, Jazz Clarinet Pioneer
For those unfamiliar with the sound of clarinetist Jimmie Noone, here he is with his 1928 Apex Club Orchestra--Doc Poston, alto sax; Earl Hines, piano; Bud Scott, banjo; Johnny Wells, drums--playing EVERY EVENING (I MISS YOU) courtesy of “ptm51 on YouTube (see below). Noone (1894-1944) should be known to a wider audience today, and a new ...
Robert Randolph: Shot of Love
By: Dennis Cook Robert Randolph As Robert Randolph & The Family Band approach their first decade together, all evidence is their game is tighter than ever. Boldly emerging from the gospel community, Randolph - easily the greatest innovator on his weapon of choice, pedal steel guitar, since Red Rhodes reshaped the instrument with Michael Nesmith in ...
Noted Author Nat Hentoff Interviewed at AAJ...And More!
Nat Hentoff was eleven years old when, walking down the road one day in Boston, he heard music so exciting that he shouted with pleasure and ran into the shop to learn that the music was of clarinetist Artie Shaw. In that moment was born a love affair with jazz which has lasted seventy-four years thus ...
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