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Composers Sing Their Thing
I thought we'd do something a little different to start the week. Here are five nifty clips of composers playing and singing their own songs: Here's Joe Bushkin with Rosemary Clooney and the Hi-Lo's in 1956 singing Oh Look at Me Now. Dig Rosey's confidence and beautiful phrasing (and who knew Bushkin could sing this well!)... ...
Why Otis Redding Matters
In its heyday, soul music was powered by sheer romantic emotion that was animated by gritty riffs, a strong beat and an uninhibited determination to make audiences feel. Over time, soul evolved through artists' varied personal and regional experiences. For example, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin brought the church to soul. James Brown gave soul a ...
Sue Raney: The Capitol Years
Yesterday I spent the day writing and listening to Sue Raney's Capitol recordings between 1956 and 1960. Sue's voice during this period is like a bell shrouded in mist. Somehow she managed to surround her clear, ringing intonation with a breathy huskiness, forcing you to listen and relax at the same time. It was quite a ...
Armstrong and Jordan: Two Sides
In August 1950, trumpeter Louis Armstrong and alto saxophonist Louis Jordan record two sides together as a duet. Their pairing by Decca producer Milt Gabler was natural, since both superstars were signed to the label at the time. The recordings—Life Is So Peculiar and You Rascal You—are so good, it's a shame they didn't record a ...
Pete Jolly and A&M
Between 1968 and 1970, West Coast pianist Pete Jolly recorded three albums for Herb Alpert's A&M label. Each had a different sound, tapping into Jolly's smooth mood feel, his aggressive jazz keyboard style and his inventiveness on electronic instruments. All three were produced by Herb in Los Angeles. In late 1967, Herb's success with the Tijuana ...
21 New CD Discoveries
I wish I had more time to review new releases. Unfortunately, my schedule is jam-packed these days and no longer permits the luxury. But over the holidays, I was able to take time out to dig in and let you know about the new albums I had set aside. Hey, better late than never, right? Here ...
New Year's Day Recordings
Want to know what New Year's Day sounded like over the years? The following are studio recordings made on January 1 Here's the Varsity Eight's TNT recorded on Jan. 1, 1926... Here are the Blue Mountaineers with Fit as a Fiddle and Taboo Taboo, both recorded in London on Jan. 1, 1933.... Here's Lizzie Miles ...
Julie London: A Good Cry
Julie London sang Cry Me A River several times on TV over the years after she made the song her own in 1956. Written by Arthur Hamilton in 1953 for Ella Fitzgerald to sing in the film Pete Kelly's Blues (1955), the song was dropped in 1954 during production. Cry Me a River was then offered ...
The Sax Section:"Shazam"
Back in the 1950s, a group of guys in New York were in such demand by local recording studios that they became known informally as “the sax section." This prolific reed section often swapped out players and included Phil Woods, Sam Marowitz, Gene Quill and Hal McKusick (as), Al Cohn, Eddie Wasserman and Zoot Sims (ts) ...
Robert Campbell in Film
Several weeks ago I posted on Jessica Ferber's haunting new book on the photos of Robert Campbell, who died homeless in Vermont in 2002. Jessica rescued boxes of his images and negatives from the shelter and just published a book of Campbell's work (go here), which features jazz musicians, folk artists and Greenwich Village in the ...
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