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Documentary: Bobby Womack
Soul singer-songwriter Bobby Womack died on Friday, June 27, at age 70. His career lasted 50 years, and he played a role in the recording careers of Sam Cooke, Sly Stone, the Rolling Stones and many other artists. His heartfelt sound is probably closest to Marvin Gaye and his influence was substantial, connecting gospel to romantic ...
History of American Rock
How did rock and roll become a multibillion dollar business and wind up as the sound of eternal youth? In this three-part BBC documentary, Born to Be Wild: The Golden Age of American Rock, all the strings are pulled together in a mostly smart video history of the rock album and tour. If there's a knock, ...
CSNY's Historic 1974 Tour
Today it sounds like standard operating procedure, but in 1974, sending a rock band out to play extended sets at 31 stadiums, raceways and arenas that held up to 50,000 fans per venue had never been attempted before. That's exactly what promoter Bill Graham convinced Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young to do in July of that ...
Louis Armstrong: All-Stars, Live
The word “supergroup" emerged in 1969 during the rock-album era to describe bands comprised of at least three powerhouse musicians who had established reputations in other groups. Top supergroups of the time included Cream; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Blind Faith; Bad Company; Emerson, Lake & Palmer; Derek and the Dominos and Asia. The thinking behind ...
Studio Rio: 'Brazil Connection'
Back in the early late 1990s, before the proliferation of high-speed modems and iTunes, I spent most Saturday mornings at Tower Records near New York's Lincoln Center. The large corner store had lots of listening stations in different sections, so you could use headphones to audit new music before buying. Toward the back of the first ...
Interview: Frankie Valli
I grew in the 1960s on the streets of Washington Heights in Manhattan. In the summer, no one went away to camp. You had your bike, your baseball cards, change for Stein's Candy Store and a bathing suit. That was it, and that was all you needed. Some of my fondest summer memories were spent standing ...
Horace Silver (1928-2014)
Horace Silver, a pianist who in 1952 and '53 pioneered two prominent jazz styles—funk and hard bop—and went on to lead one of the most exciting and successful hard bop quintets of the 1950s and early '60s before helping to develop jazz-boogaloo starting in the mid-'60s, died on June 18. He was 85. Discovered by Stan ...
Sam Donahue's Navy Band
Today, when we think of swing in uniform during World War II, Major Glenn Miller and the Army Air Force Band (1942-44) most often come to mind. Artie Shaw led the Navy Dance Band starting in 1942, but the orchestra didn't have much of an opportunity to record after deployment to the Pacific. After performing on ...
Frankie Trumbauer and Me
The jazz saxophone starts with Frankie Trumbauer in the 1920s. All of the greats of the 1930s and '40s were fans, including Lester Young. In addition to playing C-melody saxophone (between the tenor and alto in size) and recording with Jean Goldkette, Red Nichols, Paul Whiteman, and Bix Beiderbecke, Trumbauer was a skilled pilot who joined the ...
'Getz/Gilberto' Turns 50
In early 1963, the bossa nova was still a novelty in the U.S.—something like “cha-cha-cha lite." Yes, a year earlier Stan Getz had released Jazz Samba—which became a hit album with a hit single, Desafinado—and Dave Brubeck had released Bossa Nova USA. But both albums were really jazz interpretations of the real thing being recorded with ...
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