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Miles Davis: Milan, 1964

April 11, 2016

On Oct. 11, 1964, the Miles Davis Quintet was in Milan performing at the Teatro Dell'Arte. The quintet at that time consisted of Davis (tp), Wayne Shorter (ts), Herbie Hancock (p), Ron Carter (b) and Tony Williams (d). The last full song they played was Victor Feldman's Joshua, which Feldman had written for Miles Davis's Seven ...

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Sonny Rollins on Disco Monk

April 8, 2016

In May 1979, Sonny Rollins recorded his composition Disco Monk at the Berkeley, Calif., studio of Milestone Records for his album, Don't Ask. Two months later, Sonny performed the song at the Pori Jazz Festival, held at the Riihiketo School in Pori, Finland. Now the live version of Disco Monk appears for the first time on ...

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Phil Urso & the Jomar Dagron 4

April 7, 2016

In 1959, tenor saxophonist Phil Urso recorded a terrific album for the Legacy label with the Jomar Dagron Quartet in Louisville, Colo. Jomar Dagron wasn't a transplanted Scandinavian jazz musician. In fact, there was no such person named Jomar Dagron. It was a first-name amalgam of drummer Jo Jo Williams, baritone saxophonist Marvin Halliday, organist Dag ...

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Ralph Marterie: Big Band Man

April 6, 2016

There's nothing I love more than telling you about jazz albums that are news to even the most seasoned listeners. This was true about Ted McNabb & Co., the Metronomes' Something Big!, Leo Gooden's Leo Sings With Strings and about a dozen other albums. Today I have another one for you. But before I get into ...

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Forrest Westbrook: Remarkable

April 5, 2016

Last June, I wrote about an album that pianist Forrest Westbrook recorded with trumpeter Carmell Jones. As I wrote in my post, “Not well known among jazz fans, Forrest Westbrook was rather reclusive on the West Coast as a recording artist, appearing only on several Si Zentner big band albums in the early 1960s and an ...

News: Obituary

Gato Barbieri (1932-2016)

April 4, 2016

Gato Barbieri, a fiery tenor saxophonist born in Argentina whose music for film and albums could whip up images ranging from steamy seduction to hysterical passion, died on April 2. He was 83. Influenced by the spiritual free-jazz of John Coltrane and Coltrane's disciples in the 1960s and Sonny Rollins in the 1970s, Barbieri nearly always ...

News: Video / DVD

June Christy: Bossa Nova, 1963

April 1, 2016

If you search June Christy's discography for Bossa Nova, you'll see that the song was never released on an album, just as Capitol single. For years, the song has escaped Christy fans. The music was written by Christy's husband, Bob Cooper, and the words were by Rogers Turrentine, a television writer. Last summer, Turrentine uploaded the ...

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Benny Goodman in 1981

March 29, 2016

In 1981, Greg Jackson began a TV interview show for CBS Cable called Signature. Ahead of its time, the format featured the subject up close and Jackson off-camera asking the questions in a friendly, engaging tone that seemed to be a cross between Dick Cavett and Charlie Rose. In this TV interview, we get to hear ...

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Early Chris Connor: 1953

March 25, 2016

It's no secret that three of my favorite female vocalists are Julie London, Sarah Vaughan and Chris Connor. Yesterday, I was listening to Chris with Stan Kenton in the spring of 1953 and Sy Oliver in December of that year. Prior to Kenton, Chris in 1952 recorded as a solo singer with Jerry Wald and then ...

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Docs: History of Reggae

March 24, 2016

From Jamaican independence in 1962 came the horn-centric Ska, the sound-system movement, the rise of Rastafarianism and the emergence of the pop Rocksteady sound in 1966. As economic conditions in the country worsened in the late 1960s, reggae was born, with its new drum feel and stuttering basslines that sped up Rocksteady and added a socially ...