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Count Basie: High Voltage

November 22, 2016

Over the course of five years, Chico O'Farrill arranged part or all of 11 Count Basie albums—from Basie Meets Bond in 1965 to High Voltage in 1970. Born in Havana, O'Farrill attended a military academy from 1936 to 1940 in Georgia where he began playing trumpet. He returned to Cuba after graduation and concentrated on arranging. ...

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Young People's Concerts: Jazz

November 18, 2016

In early 1964, Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic staged a series of Young People's Concerts at the newly opened Lincoln Center that married storytelling with different forms of music, including classical, jazz and folk. The point was to narrate original children's stories on stage while the New York Philharmonic or jazz and folk groups ...

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Mose Allison: Favorite Tracks

November 17, 2016

Yesterday, with the passing of jazz-folk pianist Mose Allison on Nov. 15, I posted a remembrance and my 2010 JazzWax interview in its entirety. Today, I want to feature 10 favorite Mose clips, so we all can appreciate how important and special he was. Here they are: Here's Warm Night (1957)... Here's Parchman Farm (1957)... Here's ...

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Mose Allison (1927-2016)

November 16, 2016

Mose Allison, a jazz-folk pianist and singer-songwriter who brought white rural imagery to the urban jazz scene and was highly regarded by every musician who played with him, even those who were initially wary of his Mississippi roots, died on Nov. 15. He was 89. Mose was one of a kind. While Dr. John and Leon ...

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Lee Morgan: The Rajah

November 15, 2016

On Nov. 19, 1966, Lee Morgan headed out to Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and Rudy Van Gelder's recording studio with tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Cedar Walton, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Billy Higgins. When they arrived, the quintet recorded what I consider to be a perfect album. The songs were beautifully selected, the material was well ...

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Leon Russell (1942-2016)

November 14, 2016

Leon Russell, a singer-songwriter and pianist who spent much of the early 1960s appearing on pop hits as a Los Angeles studio musician and who, in the years that followed, was a solo artist and composer of hits such as A Song for You, Tight Rope, This Masquerade and Superstar, died on Nov. 13. He was ...

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Lena Horne and Gabor Szabo

November 11, 2016

There are plenty of jazz albums in the rock era that, on paper, never should have worked but did and still do, exceptionally well. Joe Pass's The Stones Jazz (1966) is one. Paul Desmond's Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970) is another. Add Lena & Gabor (1970) to the list. When the album by vocalist Lena Horne ...

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Jack Sheldon: Ray Charles Profile

November 10, 2016

In May 1961, Jack Sheldon recorded what today is one of his rarest and most interesting albums—A Jazz Profile of Ray Charles (Reprise). Over two days, the West Coast trumpeter recorded with a trio—Marty Paich (p, org), Joe Mondragon (b) and John Markham (d). The album came out in July, with Charles writing the back-jacket notes. ...

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Music for the Day After

November 9, 2016

Whether you're overjoyed or devastated by the results of the American Presidential election, I'm turning JazzWax over to organists today to help readers celebrate or cope. The organ is the only instrument I know that can have it both ways: Here's Terry Bradford playing Walk With Me... Here's someone's beautiful mother playing a gospel organ... Here's ...

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Joe Henderson: Mirror, Mirror

November 8, 2016

Largely forgotten today is Joe Henderson, and I'm not quite sure why. Perhaps it's because the tenor saxophonist made his mark in the 1960s, when fewer jazz fans were paying close attention. Or maybe it was because most of his best albums during the period were sideman dates. Or it could be that Wayne Shorter and ...