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Sonny Rollins + Thelonious Monk
One of jazz's big turning points came on October 25, 1954, when Sonny Rollins altered the direction of the tenor saxophone at Rudy Van Gelder's studio in his parents' Hackensack, N.J., house. The session for Prestige featured Sonny, Thelonious Monk on piano, Tommy Potter on bass and Art Taylor on drums. Up until then, Sonny's sound ...
Roland Kirk: Limelight/Verve Albums
With the exception of Sun Ra, few jazz artists were more visually arresting than Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Blind from adolescence, Kirk wore dark glasses and often performed with multiple reed instruments hung around his neck or lodged in his mouth. Uninitiated listeners automatically assumed Kirk's music wouldn't be easy to grasp or likable. The funny thing ...
Four CD Discoveries of the Week
What do Sonny Rollins and Michael Jackson have in common? They're both in my column this week, along with a Lou Reed tribute and a rare trio recording by Francy Boland in 1967. Sonny Rollins—Road Shows Vol. 3 (Doxy/OKeh). There's a majestic quality to Sonny on tour. You can hear it in the audience—whether it's Japan, ...
Interview: Marcos Valle
I'm a huge fan of Marcos Valle's music. Who isn't? If you love Samba de Verão—known in the U.S. as Summer Samba (So Nice)—then you know what I'm talking about. As soon as I heard Marcos was going to be making a rare New York appearance at Birdland May 27-31 with the legendary Roberto Menescal, I ...
Stockholm Sweetnin': Surreal Sirens
Earlier in the week I was doing some research and stumbled on what has to be the oddest version of Quincy Jones's Stockholm Sweetnin'. It features two singers, Kersti Johanson and Marje Aare—and that's about all I know, except in the video clip they appear to be at the museum at night, almost in a dream ...
Sylvia Telles: Bossa Tragedy
Sylvia Telles is my favorite female bossa nova vocalist. In 1961 she was the first Brazilian bossa nova artist to record songs in both English and Portuguese, setting a high bar for bossa nova singers who followed. Telles was on the rise when she was killed in an auto accident in Brazil in December 1966. Signed ...
Vince Guaraldi and Charlie Brown
American post-war snark dates back to October 2, 1950. On that date, Charles M. Schultz's Peanuts comic strip was syndicated by Universal, and Charlie Brown, the strip's protagonist, evolved into an upbeat punching bag for a wide range of recalcitrant characters ranging from an annoying girl to a wiseguy dog. Schultz had tapped into the social ...
Joe Wilder (1922-2014)
Joe Wilder, a trumpeter with a polished, punctuating sound whose ferocious recording schedule starting in 1942 with big bands, R&B groups and small jazz ensembles left him little time to record as a leader, died May 9. He was 92. Known to insiders as “Junior," Joe was such a clean and distinct player that he often ...
Video: '60s Studio Musicians
Many jazz fans think of the 1960s and '70s as a time when pop-rock radio hits marginalized jazz artists while young, sub-par musicians raked in the dough. The truth is a little different. Many of the young rock bands of the 1960s and '70s may have looked cool in magazines and on TV, but the music ...
Jazz Score: 'Una Bella Grinta'
One of my favorite and little-known jazz scores for a mid-1960s film was recorded in Italy. The film was the 1965 Italian drama Una Bella Grinta (The Reckless), written and directed by Giuliano Montaldo, who followed up with Grand Slam in 1967, starring Edward G. Robinson, Klaus Kinski and Janet Leigh. The spectacular music for Una ...
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