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Art Tatum Trio, Chicago
A good deal of energetic call-and-response was stirred up on this site by my posting what was proposed as an authentic Art Tatum signature. Reader Gary Pajer has generously shared with us his father's postcard from the London House in Chicago, signed by the three members of a notable trio: Gary's father didn't remember an exact ...
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 ...
Pat O'Leary's Nightingale
If you had asked me, a few months ago, to tell you all I knew about Patrick O'Leary, I would have said, “Wonderful bass player--a real melodic sensibility and strong time--and an extraordinary jazz cellist. Witty fellow, a good sort." And I would have directed you to some of the videos I've taken at The Ear ...
The Voice of Music
I began my jazz life rather innocently as a Listener: a child sitting close to a V-M (The Voice of Music, it said on the inside lid) three-speed phonograph. I can summon up the worn brown felt of the turntable, the pattern of the speaker grille. And as I listened to the record of the moment ...
Dan Block's Vivid Imaginations
Dan Block is a peerless reed player, arranger, composer, bandleader. A new CD captures his many imaginations whole. The picture (by Dan's daughter Emma) adorns the cover of his Ellington tribute, FROM HIS WORLD TO MINE. Tributes to Ellington, hoever well-intentioned, have often become self-limiting, even formulaic. Some musicians try to duplicate the sound of famous ...
"Benny Goodman's Boys" (Plus Molly Ryan) on July 11, 2010
The PENNSYLVANIA JAZZ SOCIETY will present their annual JAZZFEST with a TRIBUTE TO BENNY GOODMAN on Sunday, July 11, 2010, from noon to 5:30 p.m. at the Plainfield Township Fire Company Hall, 6480 Sullivan Trail, Wind Gap, PA 18091. The two bands featured that day are THE MIDIRI BROTHERS and DAN LEVINSON'S PALOMAR QUARTET. The Midiri ...
Jim Fryer and Friends, Sweetly (June 2, 2010)
I was at Birdland last Wednesday, listening to David Ostwalds Louis Armstrong Centennial Band. The LACB always attracts first-rank players, but this edition was remarkable because it was an All-Star All-Leader Band (with none of the expected tensions): David on tuba and vaudeville commentaries; Vince Giordano on banjo, vocal, and guitar; Jon-Erik Kellso on trumpet; Dan ...
One Person's "Modern"
When I was in graduate school, we knew that “modernism" began around the First World War; we are now in post-modernism," although the name makes me itchy, especially when it's collapsed into pomo." I feel a kinship to “modernism" as practiced by Woolf, Joyce, Kandinsky, Stravinsky, and so on. Looking at the world through rose-colored glasses ...
"Search Engine Terms," 2010
It's that time again: our irregular compendium of the odd ways that 1) people find this blog, and 2) what they think they are looking for, often the answer to a question or an attempt to locate something vaguely defined. Here are seven, with some often flippant commentary attached. fats waller vs billie holiday I wish ...
Our Friend, Joe Boughton (1934-2010)
Meadville,Pennsylvania. Joe Allen Boughton, 76, of 283 Jefferson Street, passed away on May 18, 2010, surrounded by loved ones after a courageous battle with cancer at the Crawford County Care Center. Joe was born on May 17th 1934 in Odell, Nebraska. He was the only son of the late Newell and Elsie ...
