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News: Obituary

Claus Ogerman (1930-2016)

October 17, 2016

Claus Ogerman, an achingly beautiful jazz-pop orchestral arranger whose signature sound behind singers and instrumentalists featured violins scored in a high register with the violas, cellos and bass playing sensually voiced chords below, died in Germany on March 8. He was 85. News of Ogerman’s passing more than seven moths ago seems to have escaped traditional ...

News: Video / DVD

Keyboard Event: 1981

October 13, 2016

On January 20, 1981, a keyboard concert was held at New York's Carnegie Hall featuring Ron Carter, Herbie Hancock, Eubie Blake, Buddy Williams, Sir Roland Hanna, Kenny Barron, Bobby Hutcherson, Hubert Laws, Stanley Clarke, Arthur Blythe, George Duke, Bob James, Charles Earland and Rodney Franklin. The following video features the entire One Night Stand: A Keyboard ...

News: Recording

Jack Sheldon: Jack's Groove

October 12, 2016

Back in the 1950s, Jack Sheldon was a trumpeter with many talents. He was part comic, actor and singer and completely at ease in his own skin. But as a musician, he played with deep sincerity and a brooding sensitivity, especially on ballads. He was beloved by everyone on the West Coast jazz scene, largely because ...

News: Recording

Jazz Goes Mod, 1962

October 11, 2016

In 1962, London was at a crossroads, musically. Throughout the 1950s, traditional jazz and skiffle dominated the live music scene. Lacking a robust and free radio environment thanks to rigid control of the airwaves by the BBC, young people and adults clung to what they knew. For the senior set, trad jazz, with its upbeat melody ...

News: Recording

Harry Allen: The Candy Men

October 10, 2016

There aren't many saxophonists who can pull off an album like The Candy Men (Arbors), a new release from Harry Allen's All Star New York Saxophone Band. The album is easily one of my favorites of the year. While I wrote the liner notes, you should know that I only write the notes to albums I ...

News: Video / DVD

John Coltrane: Cattin', 1957

October 7, 2016

Did John Coltrane record with Lester Young? Sadly no, but in 1957, he came pretty close as far as the ear is concerned. In May of that year, Coltrane recorded the album Cattin' for Prestige with tenor saxophonist Paul Quinichette (pronounced QUIN-ah-shay). Coltrane's sax mate on the album was known in the jazz media as the ...

News: Recording

Shirley Horn at the 4 Queens

October 6, 2016

If you were a female jazz vocalist who began your recording career in 1959 or later, you were almost certainly in trouble. Not only were you entering real estate already crowded with band veterans such as Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, June Christy, Carmen McRae, Julie London and Joe Stafford but you also ...

News: Recording

Doug Raney: Best for Last

October 5, 2016

For some reason, the best jazz albums are impossible to find—at sane prices, of course. There are plenty of mediocre ones out there—and many are re-issued over and over and over again through the years. But the real gems seem to disappear fast, and I'm not sure why. Perhaps it's because they're recorded by smaller labels ...

News: Recording

Mike Neer: Steelonious

October 4, 2016

I'm not a big fan of Thelonious Monk tribute albums. Heck, I'm not even keen on other musicians including his songs on their albums. No matter how accomplished the artist, Monk's music always feels like those paint-by-the-numbers coloring books from when I was a kid. Only Monk can bring the essential soul and turmoil to his ...

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Erroll Garner: Ready Take One

October 3, 2016

When Erroll Garner died in 1977, Martha Glaser, his long-time manager and the executor of his estate, refused to allow the pianist's unreleased Columbia material to be issued by the label. The long-running dispute dated back to 1960, when Glaser decided her client wasn't earning an appropriate sum based on the sales of his albums. She ...