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Other Places: A Brubeck Jazz Profile
On his excellent blog, Jazz Profiles, Steve Cerra's new subject is Dave Brubeck. He is taking for his text the extensive booklet notes I wrote for the four-CD Brubeck box called Time Signatures: A Career Retrospecitve. When it popped up today, I read the essay for the first time in years. To adapt what Paul Desmond ...
Interview: George Avakian (Part 5)
Columbia's first 12-inch jazz LP was George Avakian's idea. In 1950, when company president Ted Wallerstein played George a test pressing of Benny Goodman's band live in 1938, George knew instantly what he was listening to: Goodman's famed Carnegie Hall concert, which had been languishing in a closet and had never been released in its entirety. ...
The Disco Biscuits Change the Anthem
By: Brian Bavosa The Disco Biscuits It's only hours before the lineup announcement for Camp Bisco 9 as I speak with bassist Marc Brownstein. A world-renowned festival hosted by The Disco Biscuits which originated in 1999, the annual event has seen its share of evolution over the years. Built slowly upon the roots of a regional ...
Interview: George Avakian (Part 4)
By the mid-1950s, George Avakian was a record-industry rainmaker. As head of Columbia's Pop Album Department, George had enormous power. When he decided to sign talent, there was no question about whether the artist had the chops or stamina. Both were a given, since George had sized up both carefully in advance. The only question that ...
Out of the Rifftides Past: David Newman
Now and then the Rifftides staff rummages through the archives, wondering what was on the blog early in its history. Yesterday we found a review from four years ago, to the day. It discusses an album by a musician whose death in January, 2009 gives the last line poignancy we could not have anticipated when the ...
Interview: George Avakian (Part 3)
If you were a record producer in the late 1940s, you pretty much had to invent the job. At the dawn of the LP era, there were no rules, no models and no mentors. As George Avakian discovered at Columbia Records, new ways to package pop and jazz music for long-playing albums had to be developed. ...
Sinan Bakir Performs Original Music, from Blues to Ballads
As a teenager in Turkey, Sinan Bakir fell under the spell of the electric guitar after attending a rock concert. Little did he know that his newfound passion would lead him to the United States and a career as a jazz musician and educator. Yet, as the guitarist's performance at West Hartford's Szechuan Tokyo on Saturday ...
Jazz Saxophonist David S. Ware is Live -- And Very Much Alive -- In Brooklyn
By Tad Hendrickson Stories about jazz musicians with health problems too often end sadly, so it was more than a little uplifting to see that saxophonist David S. Ware's did not. Ware had been in declining health in recent years because kidney dialysis was no longer as effective as it needed to be. Finally, in May ...
Interview: Carol Sloane (Part 2)
No matter how hard singer Carol Sloane worked in the late 1950s, the odds of becoming a nationally known big band singer were against her. Younger audiences no longer found romance in the songs of Tin Pan Alley, and fewer adults were going out to hear music let alone dance. Touring with a big band, even ...
Interview: George Avakian (Part 2)
In 1938, recordings by the latest swing bands were plentiful. The three major record companies that dominated the market (RCA, Columbia and Decca) saw to that. But earlier releases from the 1920s and 1930s that were recorded by companies that had gone bust were out of print. And other than a magazine or two, there were ...
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