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Article: Extended Analysis

Charlie Parker: The Complete Masters 1941-54

by Chris May
January 27, 2012

Charlie ParkerThe Complete Masters 1941-54Universal France2012 It is possible that more “complete" collections of the work of Charlie Parker have been released than there were recordings made by the saxophonist. And as you beat your way through the box set undergrowth, caution is required. Few of the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann

January 12, 2012

All About Jazz is celebrating Jay McShann's birthday today! “The Last of the Blue Devils” Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie, established what came to be known as the Kansas City sound: blues rooted jazz driven by swinging horns laid over a powerful ...

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Article: Live Review

The Evan Moore Quartet: Little Rock, March 5, 2011

by C. Michael Bailey
March 18, 2011

The Evan Moore Quartet Featuring Brittany CampbellJerry B'sLittle Rock, ArkansasMarch 5, 2011 Few will mistake Little Rock, Arkansas for a jazz mecca. The city was not the jazz hotbed that Kansas City and Memphis were. but that does not mean that there is no jazz in the city. In the ...

News: Birthday

Jazz Musician of the Day: Jay McShann

January 12, 2011

All About Jazz is celebrating Jay McShann's birthday today! Jay McShannJay McShann-piano, composer, recording artist, bandleader (1916-2006) “The Last of the Blue Devils” Jay “Hootie” McShann landed in Kansas City in the 1930s, and along with fellow pianist and bandleader Count Basie... more Website | Photos | Articles Follow ...

News: Radio

Riverwalk Jazz Class of '30: Surviving on a Song

January 8, 2011

This week on Riverwalk Jazz, the Jim Cullum Jazz Band and special guest artists Clark Terry, Vernel Bagneris and Nina Ferro celebrate the great popular songs and jazz created at the beginning of the Great Depression. The show also features an encore appearance by the late Kansas City piano great, Jay McShann. The show can be ...

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Article: Record Label Profile

Storyville Records: A Treasure Trove of Swinging Jazz

by Chris May
December 22, 2010

Since its foundation during the European revivalist movement of the early 1950s, Copenhagen-based Storyville Records has grown into a major repository of New Orleans, big band and mainstream recordings. With something approaching 600 releases in its back catalogue, the label is a treasure trove of jazz that swings. Founded in 1952 by Danish jazz ...

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Article: Bailey's Bundles

Retta Christie with David Evans and David Frishberg: Volumes 1 and 2

by C. Michael Bailey
August 6, 2010

Vocalist Retta Christie exists at the curious intersection of country & western, swing and film music. Country music and jazz may seem strange bedfellows, but bedfellows they have been since the 1920s and bandleaders Spade Cooley and Bob Wills, Jay McShann and Count Basie all slumming together in Great Plains dance halls. It is from this ...

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Article: Unsung Heroes

Vic Damon, 30th Street Studio, Village Vanguard

by Sean Dietrich
August 2, 2010

The oft forgotten recording studio. It's humble presence remains under-acclaimed. Electric lights suspended high above a giant mess of cables. Omniscient microphones standing tall, appraising the heart of arrogant musicians who approach. Scribbled papers rest on music stands, while heated brawls are incubated among hot headed horn players. This is where music is born. And yet ...

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Article: Big Band Report

For the Grand Prize: April Is . . . ?

by Jack Bowers
April 4, 2010

Did you know that April is Jazz Appreciation Month? Neither did I until I chanced upon a press release to that effect. According to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Jazz website, there are “celebrations in all 50 states and 40 countries." If I'm not mistaken, New Mexico is one of those 50 states, and no one here ...

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Article: Film Review

Masters of American Music Series: Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Billie Holiday

by Eugene Holley, Jr.
February 14, 2010

The Story of Jazz Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker Thelonious Monk: American Composer The Many Faces of Billie Holiday Naxos 2010 These four DVDs--separate broadcasts of the Masters of American Music TV series, originally released in eighties--seem by today's standards, like some ...