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Mills Brothers Christmas
What better way to usher in the hushed, mellow holidays ahead than with the Mills Brothers singing a series of Christmas songs. Vocal groups don't get much better than this... Here's I Believe in Santa Claus... Here's I'll Be Home for Christmas... Here's On This Christmas Eve... Here's My Christmas Song for You... ...
Documentary: Louis Prima
Louis Prima goes back further than you think. Born in New Orleans, his first surge of popularity came in the 1930s, when he was a trumpeter-bandleader with a swinging singing voice. He wrote Sing, Sing Sing, which sounds just like him once you know it came from his pen. In the 1940s, Prima leveraged his heritage ...
17 Boxed-Set Discoveries
Earlier this week I featured my favorite new CD discoveries. Today, my favorite boxed sets from 2014 in a range of genres, from country and jazz to rock and folk, for those still looking for a gift idea... Ronnie Milsap: The RCA Albums Collection (Sony). I like my Nashville country straight up. Because I'm a romantic, ...
Videos: Frank Sinatra, 1943
On September 3, 1942, Frank Sinatra left the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra after nearly three years as its star vocalist. On his own as a solo act, Sinatra signed with Columbia. The problem was, however, that the American Federation of Musicians' ban was still on, forcing Sinatra to record a cappella with backup singers for the label. ...
CD Discoveries of the Month
With the holidays just days away, you've probably been looking for a way to reward yourself or treat someone special to great music. Here are a batch of superb albums worth considering... Solitary Moon: Ginger Berglund & Scott Whitfield Sing The Johnny Mandel Songbook (Bi-Coastal Music). This swinging, singing duo is backed by a big band ...
Marlene VerPlanck: 'I'm in Love'
Vocalist Marlene VerPlanck came up in the business in the late '50s when pop and jazz lived together. She began singing in 1952 and recorded her first album for Savoy in '55 with pianist Hank Jones, bassist Eddie Jones and drummer Kenny Clarke. A year later came a tour with Charlie Spivak's Orchestra, where she met ...
The Legacy of Sam Cooke
Earlier this week, I wrote an essay for The Wall Street Journal (go here) on the life and legacy of Sam Cooke 50 years after his shooting death in Los Angeles on December 11, 1964. Though remembered mostly for his hits, Cooke has been largely forgotten for many of his other accomplishments. In a nutshell... Cooke ...
Lennie Tristano: Chicago 1951
One of the most important live recordings of the Lennie Tristano Sextet with Lee Kontiz and Warne Marsh has just been released. The material has never before been issued, and the sound is superb, capturing the group's cool sound at its peak and at a critical moment in jazz history, just a year before Lee Konitz ...
Videos: Bud Powell in Europe
Yesterday it poured in New York with a whipping wind, turning the city into the inside of a car wash. As always, I spent the day indoors writing (except for my daily pre-dawn, 1-mile swim). For some reason the weather made me want to listen to The Complete Bud Powell on Verve. No other jazz pianist ...
Interview: Ginny Mancini
Some of Artie Shaw and Mel Torme's finest recordings came in 1946, when both were signed to the Musicraft label in Los Angeles. Torme at the time fronted a vocal quartet known as the Mel-Tones. What set the Mel-Tones apart was their hip spin on the band vocal groups popular at the time. Torme wrote the ...
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