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Thad Jones/Mel Lewis: 1966
The Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra is considered by many to be the last great virtuoso big band. Launched in 1966 at the Village Vanguard, the orchestra was loaded with superstars and stylists and featured many arrangements by Thad Jones. The early lineup included Jones and Lewis along with pianist Hank Jones, saxophonists Jerome Richardson, Jerry Dodgion ...
Phil Urso and Carl Saunders
One of the finest albums of the early 2000s is Phil Urso and Carl Saunders Salute Chet Baker. Recorded in 2002 for the Jazzed Media label, the album featured tenor saxophonist Phil Urso and trumpeter Carl Saunders backed by a trio of Keith Waters (p), Colin Gieg (b) and Paul Romaine (d). The album revived the ...
Count Basie: July '61 and '68
On July 20, 1961, the Count Basie Orchestra was in the south of France at the Antibes International Jazz Festival. There, the band played Splanky, Blee Blop Blues (the first two songs were incorrectly labeled on the film), Shiny Stockings, I Need to Bee'd With, Every Day I Have the Blues (with Lambert, Hendricks and Ross ...
Video: Evans and Bennett
You probably know that at the end of September 1976, Bill Evans and Tony Bennett completed recording their second duet album, Together Again, for Tony's Improv label. What you don't know is that soon after they finished, Evans and Tony were taped in a studio performing The Bad and the Beautiful (solo by Evans) Lucky to ...
Half-Dozen Rosemary Clooneys
Rosemary Clooney was a bandleader's singer. On record, she could swing, she had intonation and she sounded extraordinarily relaxed and comfortable with herself, which is partly why Bing Crosby loved her so much. The other part is she seemed fun to be around. But it was on television where the rest of the nation fell in ...
Bill Watrous: In Love Again
After spending the early 1960s as a top New York studio trombonist, Bill Watrous caught a break in 1967 and recorded his first leadership album—In Love Again, for MTA Records. Given Watrous's beautiful tone, which was akin to Urbie Green's, I'm not quite sure why he couldn't land a much larger label like Verve, Roulette or ...
Interview: Elliot Lawrence
I've long loved Elliot Lawrence's music. His big band recordings of the late 1940s and 1950s had superb swing and sensitivity, especially on Gerry Mulligan arrangements. The band was tight, well rehearsed and always loaded with the best musicians in the business. After my last post on Elliot back in August, singer Marlene VerPlanck sent me ...
Bob Freedman on Dick Twardzik
Following my post last week on pianist Dick Twardzik and his death in 1955 of a heroin overdose, I received an email from saxophonist and arranger Bob Freedman, who has worked with Maynard Ferguson, Sarah Vaughan, Grady Tate, Buddy Morrow, Lena Horne, Joe Williams, the Thad Jones and Mel Lewis band and many others. (For my ...
Getting Into Jazz, Part 1
Yesterday I received an email from a friend of a reader who said he was interested in listening to jazz but wasn't quite sure how to approach the music or the history. To this person, jazz seemed tremendously exciting but overwhelming in terms of where to start. Rather than respond in detail, I told the writer ...
How Wee Became Allen's Alley
Several years before drummer Denzil Best wrote Move, he came up with a catchy bebop line known as Wee. Where Wee was conceived and how it was named is not known to me. But shortly after it made the rounds among musicians playing at New York's clubs on 52nd St., Leonard Feather held a recording session ...
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