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Jazz Piano Workshop, 1965
The following concert in Berlin in 1965 may well be the greatest piano jazz summit ever documented on film. It featured Earl Hines, Teddy Wilson, John Lewis, Lennie Tristano, Bill Evans and Jaki Byard. I have no idea why the sound goes dead when Evans comes out, but I snooped around and found the segment elsewhere and ...
Videos: Art Tatum at the Piano
Speaking of jazz piano, fans may be unaware that videos of Art Tatum in action exist and that the piano master also appeared in a couple of movies. There's also tape of Tatum's voice, which turns a name on a record label into a warm and charming guy... Here's Tatum at New York's 3 Deuces, at ...
Bill Evans on Video: 1965-66
My favorite years for Bill Evans were 1965 and '66. There's a maturity, elegance and confidence in his playing that reached a peak then, as well as an innocence and humility that makes the music endearing. Songs were chosen well and explored with swinging depth at each playing. Yesterday I came across three new Bill Evans ...
Jess Stacy: Swing Pianist
The swing era is widely considered to be the golden age of big bands. Which is true, but the decade also was a period of widespread jazz piano genius. Before the trumpet and saxophone became all the rage on the heels of Louis Armstrong, followed by the electric guitar, the piano was jazz's elegant superstar. The ...
Elliot Lawrence: Jazz Goes B'way
If New York's jazz studio scene had a high point, it's probably 1956 and '57, just as the 12-inch LP became popular and just before stereo intruded with its odd sonics. During those two years, labels set high LP production quotas and producers were dispatched to line up numerous recording dates. With the pressure on, many ...
Lucky Thompson + Hank Jones
When jazz musicians are paired perfectly, they sound like a key sliding into a lock. To the listener, the combination is magic, especially as each plays off the other. Examples include Lester Young and Billie Holiday, Al Cohn and Zoot Sims, Red Garland and Miles Davis, and Jim Hall and Paul Desmond. Add saxophonist Lucky Thompson ...
Paul Horn (1930-2014)
Paul Horn, a West Coast saxophonist, clarinetist and flutist who added edgy sophistication and nocturnal cool to chamber jazz ensembles in the 1950s and went on to pioneer World jazz in the '60s and beyond, died on June 29 after a brief illness. He was 84. Horn began recording with the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra in 1956 but ...
Russ Freeman: West Coast Poet
Russ Freeman was one of the most recorded ensemble pianists on the West Coast in the 1950s and one of the most poetic. His first recording was with Charlie Parker at a Los Angeles club in 1947, but once the LP made inroads in the early 1950s, Freeman recorded steadily with Chet Baker, John Graas, Shorty ...
Bill Clifton and Bill Evans
Piano jazz in the late 1940s featured around 50 remarkable players, including Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Al Haig, Teddy Wilson, Earl “Fatha" Hines, John Lewis, Erroll Garner, Hampton Hawes, Lennie Tristano, Duke Jordan and Oscar Peterson. But if you move the needle slightly toward the jazz-pop realm, you'll find just as many pianists who ...
Chubby Jackson: New York, 1949
In 1944, bebop was virtually ignored by the country's jazz fans—except those in New York, where the new style had first been recorded earlier that year. Viewed initially as unintelligible gibberish and way too fast for dancing, the new style was too complicated. Few musicians could play it authentically, since too few bebop recordings were on ...
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