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The Mysteries of Jack Teagarden
Although he would have been astonished if you had told him he was in any way mysterious, Jack Teagarden is difficult to unravel. For one thing, Jack (or Big Tea or Mr. T.) was regarded as perhaps the finest trombonist of his time by musicians in and out of jazz: how about counting as your fans ...
Hear Ella, Stuff, and Ben in 1937!
Ella Fitzgerald, Stuff Smith, and Ben Webster recorded together in the late Fifties for a Norman Granz project Ella Sings The Duke Ellington Songbook. But they had been captured on disc twenty years before in what are much more fascinating circumstances. The good news is that the CD that is so delighting me is available and intensely ...
It's How You Play the Game
Two scenes from contemporary life in and around jazz, April 9 and 10, 2010: Last night I made a pilgrimage to the Knickerbocker Bar and Grill on University Place in New York City to hear the remarkable banjoist / singer Cynthia Sayer and the noble pianist Mark Shane. The two large rooms that house the Knickerbocker were crowded, although I ...
