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Hot Track: Rumpus Room
Newly signed to MGM Records in 1951, clarinetist Buddy DeFranco formed a powerhouse big band featuring Bernie Glow, Don Joseph, Dickie Mills and Dale Pierce (tp); Frank “Ace" Lane, Al Robertson and Fred Zito (tb); Buddy DeFranco (cl); Angelo Cicalese and Gene Quill (as); Buddy Arnold and Eddie Wasserman (ts); Danny Bank (bar); Teddy Charles (vib); ...
Maynard Ferguson: New York, 1950
In December 1950, the Stan Kenton Orchestra appeared on Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town TV broadcast. While the variety show hosted by an awkward Sullivan aired on CBS, not many people saw the band's newest addition—trumpeter Maynard Ferguson. Television was in its infancy then and few homes had one. Fortunately tapes survived of Kenton's first ...
Tessa Souter: Picture in B&W
Discovering something new about your ancestry has to be an awakening experience. I would imagine that learning the truth about your heritage would hit you like a bucket of cold water, instantly washing away past assumptions and putting your personal history in sharp focus. When singer Tessa Souter found out in 1984 that her birth father ...
Sol Yaged: Clarinet Swing
In 1955, clarinetist Sol Yaged was playing at New York's Metropole at Seventh Avenue and 48th Street. In 1960 he was at Nick's on Seventh Avenue South and 10th Street. In the early 1970s, Yaged led a quartet in New York with pianist Marty Napoleon at Jimmy Weston's on 54th Street between Park and Lexington Avenues. ...
New Monk: Denmark 1963
On March 5, 1963, Thelonious Monk was in Copenhagen, Denmark, to begin a short European tour. That night, he performed at the city's Odd Fellows Mansion, named for the local branch of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows that bought the rococo building in 1900. Monk was joined by Charlie Rouse (ts), John Ore (b) and ...
Doc: British Trad Jazz
After World War II, Britain was a mess. The country had been bombed during the war, the country lost roughly a half-million people and Britain had to borrow significantly to pay its war bills. On the home front, the post-war economy was in miserable shape and the government instituted austerity measures such as rationing. The mood ...
Hot Track: I Talk to the Trees
In an effort to capitalize on Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Lowe's Broadway winning streak in the 1950s, Orrin Keepnews of Riverside Records produced an album in July 1959 of Chet Baker playing their songs. Aptly titled Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Lowe, the album featured the lyrical trumpeter accompanied by some of ...
Bud Powell at Birland, 1953
The modern jazz piano starts with Bud Powell. It's almost impossible to listen to any post-World War II jazz pianist without first studying the recordings of Powell. If you're new to Powell, the best entry point is The Complete Bud Powell on Verve, a five-CD set that covers Powell in a trio studio setting from 1949 ...
Songs By Jackie Paris
The high-point of singer Jackie Paris's recording career came in November 1955. Over the course of three days, Paris recorded Jackie Paris for the Wing label, a Mercury subsidiary (the album also is known as Songs by Paris). Paris's voice was at its romantic club-cool peak, but even more impressive was the arranger—Manny Albam—and the players ...
Guy Lafitte's Quartet and Quintet
Paris was loaded with French saxophonists in the years immediately after World War II. Native-born eed players included Alix Combelle, Michel de Villers, Michel Attenoux, William Boucaya, Maurice Meunier, Andre “Teddy" Hameline and Andre Debonneville, Armand Conrad, to name a handful. One of the best of the French soloists was Guy Lafitte (above). More on him ...
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