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Red Norvo's Spotlight Band on Film
The distinguished jazz film scholar Mark Cantor offers another cinematic mystery: “In Back Beats and Rim Shots, Warren Vache and Johnny Blowers discuss a band put together by Red Norvo, under the sponsorship of Coca Cola, for an overseas tour during World War II. The tour never happened, but before the band broke up a film ...
Remembering Karl Watt
One of the many delights of having a blog is meeting people--not always in person--who enrich your life with their presence, their music, their stories. One such person is banjo player Candace Brown, who's a member of Chris Tyle's Silver Leaf Jazz Band. I had posted a clip of that band in full flower, playing the ...
England Swings!
“like a pendulum do," is the Sixties refrain that comes to mind, but I have other evidence to present here. Our UK sojourn so far has offered many charity shops and second-hand bookshops, and a few jazz oases, potential and real. The potential one was spotted in York: unfortunately, in the fashion of used CD shops, ...
Connee Boswell, 1934: "Isn't It a Shame?"
Even though Ella Fitzgerald insisted that Connee Boswell was her first and perhaps greatest influence, Connee hasn't been given her due. Perhaps because there hasn't been a proper reissue of her solo recordings (as opposed to the well-deserved attention given to the recordings she made with her sisters) listeners don't pay enough attention to her solo ...
The Hot Antic Jazz Band at Whitley Bay (July 9, 2010)
This one's for Nancie Beaven, one of this blog's most ardent readers, currently ensconced in Connecticut. Nancie is a great admirer of the Hot Antic Jazz Band and of its cornetist, Michel Bastide. Several times during the 2010 Whitley Bay International Jazz Festival, I had ample opportunity to see why. The HAJB also sported Jean-Francois Bonnel ...
Joel Press and Michael Kanan (June 29, 2010)
I had first heard the saxophonist Joel Press on a CD called HOW'S THE HORN TREATING YOU? some years ago. I was delighted by his imagination, his ease, his sense of self--he knows and has lived through an entire jazz tradition from Lester and Hawkins to free jazz and beyond, but he sounds utterly like himself. ...
"Pay Attention!" Celebrating Jake Hanna (August 8, 2010)
The greatest artists have a way of making us comfortable. We see them, unannounced, come on the stage, and we relax and get ready to be delighted. “This is going to be wonderful!" we think, before the first note has been played. Hank Jones and Milt Hinton and Ruby Braff and Vic Dickenson and another dozen ...
Mike Durham's Brilliant Idea (Another One!)
Mike Durham is not only a fine trumpet player and soulful man. He's also the embodiment of musical generosity--with his wife Patti (herself inimitable) he has given the world twenty Whitley Bay International Jazz Festivals. The 2010 one was announced as the final one, and I think all the musicians and listeners had their joy tinged ...
Tenors of the Times (Part One): June 27, 2010
The EarRegulars were an all-reed edition (no brass need apply for that one Sunday) last week, June 27, 2010: Greg Cohen, bass; James Chirillo, guitar; Harry Allen and Scott Robinson, tenor saxophones. There were no JATP antics that night; rather, the four musical lines reminded me greatly of beautiful vines, creating a tapestry of lovely sounds ...
