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Joe Bucci: Wild About Basie!
In the 1950s and early '60s, virtually every city in the country had a top jazz or R&B organist. If you were a club owner, the organ's ability to impersonate the tonality of virtually any instrument meant you could hire one player and wind up with the sound of a full orchestra. And, if the player ...
Tommy LiPuma (1936-2017)
Tommy LiPuma, a five-time Grammy winning pop and jazz record producer whose passion for music and musicians resulted in career-changing albums for a range of artists, including Randy Newman, George Benson, Bill Evans, Natalie Cole, Paul McCartney and Diana Krall, died on March 13. He was 80. A long-time fan of my writing, both for The ...
Jackie Paris + Anne Marie Moss
Right at the peak of his recording career, when The Song Is Paris (Impulse) was released in 1962, Jackie Paris felt the jazz earth crumble beneath his feet. In the late 1940s and '50s, he had been among New York's hippest club singers, a jazz musician's singer. But by the early '60s, Paris was never able ...
Gary Burton on Telephone Song
On May 22, 1964, the Stan Getz Quartet with Astrud Gilbert appeared at New York's Cafe Au Go Go. Among the songs they performed was the Telephone Song, by Roberto Menescal, Ronaldo Bôscoli and Norman Gimbel. The gig was recorded for a live album released by Verve in December called Getz Au Go Go. Here's Gilberto ...
Celso Fonseca: Like Nice
Back in the late 1950s, when the bossa nova was first emerging in Rio de Janeiro, the music was all about a feathery touch. The acoustic guitar had to sound barely strummed, as if the breeze were whistling through the strings. The vocals had to sound almost whispered. Early masters such as João Gilberto, Johnny Alf, ...
Mike LeDonne: That Feelin'
I've long been a secret fan of organist Mike Le Donne. I say secret because he doesn't know (yet). I began listening to jazz in the early 1970s by collecting exciting organ combo albums. I still love Hammondites Don Patterson, Shirley Scott, Leon Spencer Jr., Charles Earland and Brother Jack McDuff. Add Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, ...
Rosemary, Pete and Jeri
The Rosemary Clooney Show, which aired in 1956 and 1957, is an endless source of surprising appearances. Here's trumpeter Conte Candoli with Clooney and Jeri Southern on piano. You have to click on the blue “Here's" in the previous sentence because the person who posted the show disabled the function that allows me to embed YouTube ...
Gary Smulyan at Le Duc
There's nothing quite like a bad-ass baritone saxophone. Baritones tend to divide into two camps on the leadership side. There's the Gerry Mulligan approach, which sounds muscular and mannered. And there's the Pepper Adams school, an unchained approach that leaps on you like a panther. This low-register, uninhibited and gruff sound has its roots in the ...
Barbara Carroll (RCA Years)
In February, just after pianist Barbara Carroll's death, I posted a tribute in which I focused on the grace of her chord voicings and swing time in the early 1950s. From 1954 to 1956, she was with RCA and recorded five superb albums. Prior to these dates in the '50s, Carroll recorded 10-inch albums for the ...
Dave Brubeck: Zurich '64
In September 1964, the Dave Brubeck Quartet was in Zurich, Switzerland, on one of its countless tours of Europe. The group—Brubeck on piano, Paul Desmond on alto saxophone, Eugene Wright on bass and Joe Morello on drums—appeared at the city's Kongresshaus concert hall. Desmond's Take Five had become a massive hit for the group, and Dave ...
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