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Bob Cranshaw + Kay Starr
Bob Cranshaw (1932-2016), a Chicago-born jazz bassist who began recording in 1957 and became a significant force in the 1960s starting with Sonny Rollins' seminal album, The Bridge, in 1962, died on Nov. 2. He was 83. At a time when even the best jazz bassists seemed interchangeable to the average listener, Bob's playing stood out ...
Mixing a YouTube Cocktail
I've always been a bit of a YouTube nut. After Google, it's the single most important educational and entertainment tool on the web. But from time to time, I come across videos with great images but lousy audio. So I've started mixing what I call “YouTube Cocktails." My YouTube Cocktail involves watching one video while listening ...
King of Jazz: Two-Color Print
In April 1930, at the advent of the “talkie," Universal Pictures released King of Jazz. The 105-minute film was a revue of Paul Whiteman's music through film and animation. But what made the movie truly special was that it was released using a two-color process. Color films weren't new, per se. France had released the first ...
John Zacherle (1918-2016)
John Zacherle, a rail-thin B-movie actor who in the late 1950s and '60s became a wildly popular host of children's television shows in Philadelphia and New York, where he appeared dressed as a ghoulish undertaker with a sophisticated wit and sinister laugh, died on Oct. 27, four days before Halloween. He was 98. Zacherle's death may ...
Stan Getz in L.A.: 1953 and '55
In April 1953, Stan Getz was in New York recording for Norman Granz's Clef label. He was joined by Bob Brookmeyer on valve trombone, John Williams on piano, Bill Crow on bass and Al Levitt on drums. This group was a revamped version of the Stan Getz Quintet formed after guitarist Jimmy Raney left the group ...
Harold Vick: Steppin' Out
To pay the bills and gain experience in the 1950s, a surprising number of jazz saxophonists began their careers in R&B bands. The list is too long to run out here but it includes John Coltrane, Benny Golson, Stanley Turrentine, Hank Crawford and Tina Brooks. There certainly was plenty of work at urban bars in African-American ...
Four Anita O'Day Videos
Today, four videos of Anita O'Day—a couple that just recently went up at YouTube and a couple of gems that have been up there for a while. All are out, way out... Here's Fly Me to the Moon... Here's 'S Wonderful... Here are two TV interviews—one with Tom Syder and the other with Harry Reasoner of ...
Al Stewart (1927-2016)
Al Stewart, a first-chair swing trumpeter who recorded on some of the most significant New York big-band recordings of the late 1940s and '50s and toured with many marquee jazz orchestras, died on Oct. 17 in Sarasota, Fla., according to his daughter, Amy Abigail Stewart. He was 89. A superb studio sight-reader, Al was in the ...
The Intimate Keely Smith
Keely Smith spent the 1950s in the shadow of her husband, Louis Prima. Both Smith and Prima were superbly talented for different reasons. Prima was a natural showman, a terrific musician and a high-energy R&B crooner. But Smith was the better vocalist. As Prima's straight-faced sidekick, Smith occasionally joined him in a comedic duet. When she ...
Earl Bostic: Alto-tude
From Earl Bostic's first record date in 1939 with the Lionel Hampton Orchestra on Haven't Named It Yet , it was clear that the alto saxophonist was different. There was a sharp eagerness in his alto saxophone, a jumping swing feel at age 27 that was fresh and aggressive. He was a natural storyteller on the ...
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