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Finding Sonny Clark
Sam Stephenson's JAZZ LOFT PROJECT blog is one I visit regularly—not only for its subject matter but for the caliber of Sam's prose. Often the site's subject is the magical and mysterious music and life revolving around Eugene Smith, photographer and thinker and friend of jazz. But today I was captivated by a black-and-white picture of ...
Now Hear This: Hal Smith on Zutty Singleton
Zutty Singleton: Face Drives the Train A friend once remarked that playing in a band with Zutty Singleton “was like trying to stay ahead of a freight train that was bearing down on you." Indeed, when Singleton was inspired, the pulse of his drumming took on the power of a highballing freight! One of the best ...
Deep Passion: Menno Daams - David Lukacs and Friends
It's been a wonderful day for swinging jazz—tender and hot—because I found these four performances on YouTube. The peerless (and under-heralded) trumpeter, arranger, composer Menno Daams has started his own YouTube channel ("menno779") and its videos include these four delightful performances by the “Daams-Lukacs Orchestra" of jazz classics—homages to Bix, to Louis, and Duke—that are evocations ...
For Louis and Sidney Bechet (June 2010)
Thanks to “jazze 1947," here is a video clip from the June 2010 Askersunds Jazz Festival—featuring Bent Persson's Hot Five focusing on the repertoire of Louis Armstrong and Sidney Bechet in the early Twenties — from the Clarence Williams Blue Five to the Hot Fives and Sevens. Bent is, as always, luminous on trumpet and cornet; ...
Ensemble Joys: "Say 'Si Si'"!
The New Orleans musicians—even the ones who took expansive solos as the nature of jazz changed—knew how important inspired ensemble playing was. It would have been very bad form to cut short a romping group effort and simply dilute its force into a series of solos with the rhythm section. And this principle is perfectly demonstrated ...
Savory Delights
Like many other jazz fans, I first heard the name Bill Savory in the liner notes (by George Avakian) to a series of Benny Goodman airshot performances issued on Columbia Records after the astonishing success of their 1938 Carnegie Hall jazz concert issues. I learned that Savory was a pioneering engineer, friend to many jazz musicians, ...
Don't Miss Jazz at Chautauqua 2010!
There are still seats available for the September 2010 Jazz at Chautuaqua. That means plenty of hot music, rhythm ballads, lesser-known but beautiful songs from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood . . . all performed by a celebrated cast of musicians and singers. The party begins on Thursday, September 16, 2010, at the Hotel Athenaeum ...
Now is the Time . . .
Calling all cats! I wrote some weeks ago about Mike Durham's plans for a new version of the Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival — a Classic Jazz Party to be held at the same location (the comfortable Village Newcastle Hotel) for three days in November 2011 —Friday to Sunday, November 4-6. Mike's musician list is once ...
Philippe Souplet Strides (and More)
A friend recently sent a YouTube clip of a new stride pianist, someone I'd never heard before. So permit me to share the pleasure of meeting Monsieur Philippe Souplet: Edgar Sampson's IF DREAMS COME TRUE is one of the test pieces within the genre, since those who ...
Looking For Louis, then and Now
But which one? The sound on the records, the iconic image on the television screen, or the actual person? In the spring of 1967, I was fourteen—someone who had secretly listening to Louis Armstrong records for a few years. And I was fortunate enough to be alive when Louis was popular—HELLO, DOLLY! was still vivid in ...
