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How Rock 'n' Roll Happened
Sixty years ago today, Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock hit #1 on all three of Billboard's pop charts at the time. It was the first time an R&B song accomplished that feat, and it signaled the birth of rock 'n' roll. Not the music, the attitude. As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (go ...
Ralph Burns: Swingin' Herd
I'm on a bit of a Ralph Burns tear—listening to both the recordings I've owned for some time and grabbing those that I'm unearthing through a deep dive into his discography. What makes Burns special is that he could write beautifully for strings on one album and then tear your heart out with his charts for ...
Ralph Burns: Warm for Jazz
Years spent with Woody Herman from late 1943 on as a pianist and arranger gave Ralph Burns an edge when he needed musicians for his own leadership albums. In January 1958, during a period when he was orchestrating for artists signed to Decca, Burns arranged an album under his own name called Very Warm for Jazz. ...
Armstrong and Bernstein, 1956
On July 14, 1956, Louis Armstrong and His All-Stars participated in the Guggenheim Concert at Lewisohn Stadium in New York. The stadium was on the campus of City College in Manhattan (and was razed in 1973). This was the first concert by the New York Philharmonic to feature jazz musicians, with the Dave Brubeck Quartet performing ...
Aretha Franklin: Amsterdam 1968
In May 1968, Aretha Franklin was in her prime when she performed in Amsterdam during her first tour abroad. She was there to promote her new album, Lady Soul, after switching to Atlantic Records. Aretha and the Sweet Inspirations, her backup singers, were placed on a stage crowded with musicians and fans with little security down ...
Bob Whitlock (1931-2015)
Von “Bob" Whitlock, a West Coast jazz bassist and the last surviving original member of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet who joined the influential piano-less group in the summer of 1952, died yesterday in Long Beach, Calif., of a stroke. He was 84. Without a piano in the Mulligan quartet, Bob had to work doubly hard to ...
CD Discoveries: June 2015
So many great albums came in over the past four weeks, I wanted to wait until month's end to get them all in. Here are 12 gems... Charenee Wade—Offering: the Music of Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson (Motema). Singer Charenee Wade brings just the right level of vocal passion, soulful seduction and sensitivity to songs by ...
Fluter's Ball: Flutes Revealed
Last November, I posted on Henry Mancini's Fluter's Ball, a wistful song with four flutes from his score for the suspense-thriller Experiment in Terror (1962). The problem at the time of my post is that the personnel on the session was never captured, so there was no way of knowing who the flutes were. Soon after my ...
Jazz Legends, in Their Words
Yesterday, producer Tommy LiPuma sent along a link to a documentary from the BBC featuring interviews with jazz legends Louis Armstrong, Lil Hardin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie,Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald. The display is a bit pinched on the sides, but the joy and the music come through just the same. Here's the documentary... ...
Mary Lou Williams: 1978
Three years before her death in 1981, pianist Mary Lou Williams performed an extraordinary concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival. Here's nearly an hour of her playing solo, which will give you a full sense of her brilliance and significance. If you can't watch all of it, let it run in the background as you work. ...
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