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Chet Baker: La Voce
My favorite tracks of Chet Baker singing aren't in English. They're in Italian, and they were recorded in Rome in 1962 with the Ennio Morricone Orchestra. Yes, that Ennio Morricone, the composer of music for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, The Untouchables and more than 400 movies since 1959. But before Morricone expanded into ...
McCoy Tyner: Ballads & Blues
Pianist McCoy Tyner is best known for being a member of the John Coltrane Quartet beginning in 1960. During those years, Tyner re-invented the piano as a highly percussive, stirring instrument that churned the waters for Coltrane's abstraction and spiritual solos. For some strange reason, in late 1962 and the first half of 1963, Tyner was ...
Bob Lark and Phil Woods
By my count, trumpeter and flugelhornist Bob Lark and alto saxophonist Phil Woods have recorded six albums together prior to Woods' death in 2015. Their final collaboration, Thick as Thieves, recorded in 2009 at Chicago's Jazz Showcase, was just released. It's a solid swinger, despite my initial trepidation over the predictable song choices. What keeps the ...
Videos: Back Women Cross Over
African-American women came into their own in the early 1960s as solo pop singers. Long pegged as jazz or R&B recording artists in the '50s or members of girl groups in the early '60s, African-American women began to cross over to the pop charts thanks largely to exposure on major record labels, runs at supper clubs ...
The Harry South Songbook
Harry South is virtually unknown in the States today, but in the U.K. and throughout much of Europe, he was a highly regarded English jazz pianist, composer and arranger. South began his career in the early 1950s and remained active until 1990, when he died in March of that year. Interestingly, many of his small-group recording ...
Videos: Jackie & Roy
One of the hippest female jazz singers of the late 1940s and beyond was Jackie Cain. Jackie had an upbeat wholesomeness and sly sensibility that seemed to come naturally. When Jackie met pianist Roy Kral in Charlie Ventura's bop band of 1948, they married and the pair became a successful duo act in clubs throughout the ...
Interview: Aaron Diehl
Pianist Aaron Diehl has a way of making you think about what you're hearing. This happens on the ballads Single Petal of a Rose and Blue Nude from his The Bespoke Man's Narrative (2013). But Aaron also can make you think when turning up the heat with staggering command, as he does on Uranus and Broadway ...
Video: Many Faces of Bird
Over the course of two weeks at the Wiltern Thetare in Los Angeles in 1987, seven musicians and a singer performed a tribute to Charlie Parker. Called The Many Faces of Bird, the band featured Richie Cole, Lee Konitz, James Moody and Bud Shank (as); Lou Levy (p); Monty Budwig (b); John Guerin (d) and Bobby ...
Gus Bivona: Music for Swingers
Arcuiso “Gus" Bivona was never a household-name clarinetist like Artie Shaw or Buddy DeFranco, but during the big band era and throughout the 1950s, he was one of the finest and most relaxed swing studio clarinetists in the business. He also was a rock-solid alto saxophonist. Bivona came up in the late 1930s in Will Hudson's ...
Alan Broadbent: Developing Story
Alan Broadbent has had two spectacular careers. As a jazz pianist, he recorded with Woody Herman, Irene Kral, Gary Foster, Don Menza, Don Rader among others in the 1970s. His first leadership album, Palette, was recorded in 1979. Through the years, he has continued to record in the solo, duo, trio and small-group formats, working at ...
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