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Doc: Ben Webster in Europe
In this 31-minute documentary of Ben Webster in Europe in 1967, there are whimsical moments and moments of great artistry. In '67, Webster moved to Amsterdam for a year, where director Johan van der Keuken captured him on film between March and June. It's a vastly humanistic mid-length portrait that showcases Webster's sense of humor and ...
Art Farmer on Prestige: 1953-'55
Much attention by jazz fans has been paid to the Blue Note label, and deservedly so. But the first half of the 1950s really belongs to Bob Weinstock and Prestige. While Prestige album 10-inch covers weren't as beautifully designed as those by Paul Bacon at Blue Note, the music released on Prestige between 1951 and 1955 ...
Jane Hall: Song in My Heart
Jane Hall's first and only album, With a Song in My Heart, was released in 2017. The album was recorded in the 1980s as a gift to her husband, the great jazz guitarist Jim Hall. I first heard about the recording a couple of weeks ago, when Devra Hall Levy, Jim and Jane's daughter, told me ...
Gigi Gryce: Jazz Lab
The year 1957 was a bountiful one for Gigi Gryce. The alto saxophonist teamed with trumpeter Donald Byrd and formed the Jazz Lab, a group that allowed Gryce to record and perform his compositions and those by other artists with a particular feel and with varying tempos and moods. From February to September 1957, Gryce and ...
Alice Darr: Feature Story
In January, I posted on obscure singer Alice Darr, who recorded her first album in 1962. While researching another subject recently, I came across a feature on the singer in the Cumberland News in Cumberland, Md., from January 31 1963. The headline was “Local Singer to Record Second LP Album Soon." It's hard to know why ...
7 Videos of French Vocal Groups
I love French vocalese groups that take on jazz of the 1950s. There's something about hearing the lyrics (in many cases written by Jon Hendricks) with a Parisian feel. Here are seven video clips of formidable French vocal groups in the style of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross: Here are the Blue Stars in 1956 singing George ...
Harry Edison: The Swinger
Trumpeter Harry “Sweets" Edison is perhaps best known for providing chrome-tinged obbligatos behind jazz-pop singers. His muted trumpet can be heard playing tightly wound touches on the albums of singers such as Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. When they paused between verses, arrangers had Edison fill the space. At times, he mirrored the vocalist's phrasing before ...
Michel Legrand (1932-2019)
Michel Legrand, a French pianist who began writing arrangements for jazz musicians in the early 1950s before becoming one of the new sophisticated sentimentalists of American film in the 1960s and beyond as a composer, arranger and conductor, died on January 26. He was 86. Legraand's jazz recordings began with Dizzy Gillespie and the Paris Operatic ...
Videos: Nine Live Sax Solos
This week, the weather in New York has been all over the place. On Monday, the temperature was in the single digits. Yesterday it was 60 and pouring rain. In celebration of the thermometer's versatile range, let's end the week with nine live smokin' saxophone solos: Here's Sonny Rollins playing On Green Dolphin Street... Here's Joe ...
Perfect Album: Newport Message
Over three days in May 1958, Maynard Ferguson's band was in New York to record an album for Roulette. The result was A Message From Newport, one of the most powerful big band albums ever recorded. That July, the Ferguson band performed at Freebody Park in Newport, R.I., at the Newport Jazz Festival. The band played ...
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