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Pat Friday: Ghost Vocalist
It's Friday, so what better day to celebrate Pat Friday, a singer you may have heard but never saw. Friday was a movie voiceover vocalist—the person who sang the songs after the actors mouthed the words. Friday was the singing voice of Lynn baritone (above), who starred in two films made by Glenn Miller—Sun Valley Serenade ...
Condon & Freeman: 1938-1950
On the Arts in Review page of today's Wall Street Journal, I review Eddie Condon & Bud Freeman: Complete Commodore & Decca Sessions, a new 8-CD box from Mosaic Records (go here). I must say, I was floored by the recordings. As most readers know, I've long been a dogmatic, self-proclaimed fan of post-1945 jazz individualists ...
More From Zoot's Tribute: '86
Yesterday I posted on a video that Bret Primack sent along from a memorial concert for Zoot Sims in 1986. Today, Bret sent along another, this time featuring Ira Gitler announcing Al Cohn and Friends, with saxophonists Al Cohn, Turk Mauro, Lew Tabackin, Al Klink and Bob Wilbur, and pianist Benny Aranov, bassist Bill Crow and ...
Zoot's Memorial Concert, 1986
Tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims died in March 1985. A year later, a memorial concert was held in his honor. Bret Primack sent along the following video, featuring Gerry Mulligan (bs), Roger Kellaway (p), Bill Crow (b) and Bobby Rosengarden (d). The date of the concert and location aren't immediately known. The video is courtesy of Turk ...
Interview: Carlos Lyra
Just before the British Invasion turned American teens into screaming consumers, a new style of romantic music with a jazzy Latin feel captured the hearts of young adults in the States. Known as the bossa nova, the music was a cooler cousin of Cuba's cha-cha-cha and a sophisticated folk form that was highly melodic and notably ...
B.B. King (1925-2015)
It was bitter cold in 2011 as I waited for B.B. King's two tour buses to arrive at the Independence Events Center just outside of Kansas City. It was early January and one of those florescent late afternoons where everything seems to be in black and white and the sun takes a slide at 3:30. When ...
Sal Mosca: Holland, 1992
Out today is a superb two-CD set of previously unreleased live solo recordings by pianist Sal Mosca at the Bimhuis in Amsterdam on November 14, 1992. The recordings on Sal Mosca: The Talk of the Town (Sunnyside) come from the Mosca estate, and the sound is superb. The two CDs feature all jazz standards, like Ghost ...
Wes Montgomery: The Beginning
Back in 2012, Resonance Records released a killer find—Wes Montgomery: Echoes of Indiana Ave. The album featured nine tracks from a tape made of the guitarist in 1957 and '58 at local clubs. I wrote about the album for The Wall Street Journal here. Now, the label has issued more Montgomery marvels—this time a two-CD set ...
Interview: Nancy Harrow
Vocalist Nancy Harrow may not be a household name, but in the early 1960s she recorded with some of the best jazz musicians in the business. The list included Dick Katz, Jim Hall, John Lewis, Phil Woods, Connie Kay and Gary McFarland. Modeling her vocal style of her favorite singer, Billie Holiday, Nancy specialized in a ...
Anita O'Day: Berlin, 1970
By 1970, Anita O'Day was over the hill. At clubs and in concert, she tended to stick with dowdy songs from the swing era that she had been singing for decades. When she took on new pop material, she tended to torture them with her famous note-bending style. And yet O'Day remained an artist throughout, sticking ...
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