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Shorty Rogers: 'Jazz Scene USA'
If you're a YouTube hound, then you're certainly familiar with a clip or two from 1962 featuring flugelhornist Shorty Rogers and His Giants. Those clips—in relatively poor audio and visual condition—make up part of Rogers' appearance on Jazz Scene USA, a nationally syndicated show produced by Steve Allen. Last week, Jimi Mentis in Athens provided a ...
Interview: Carol Stevens, Part 2
Singer Carol Stevens has a terrific phone voice. It's identical to her singing voice in the late '50s—husky, feminine and full of character. Naturally, it was a pleasure interviewing her—both for the content and just to hear her articulate her points. Carol in the '60s and beyond continued to sing at clubs in New York and ...
Johnny Carisi: Jazz Workshop
Some of the smartest and most innovative East Coast jazz recordings made in the mid-1950s were for RCA's short-lived Jazz Workshop series. They albums were recorded just as the 10-inch LP began to fade and were replaced by 12-inch discs. The larger album had been used for classical music since 1948, when the LP was first ...
Interview: Carol Stevens, Part 1
About a year ago, I came across a fascinating album from 1957 by a female vocalist named Carol Stevens. The album was That Satin Doll (Atlantic). What made the album so interesting was that the singer spent a few songs using her voice as an instrument, tonally improvising along to the melody. Her timbre also was ...
'Count on the Coast': Basie, '58
In June and July 1958, the Count Basie Orchestra was booked into the Crescendo at 8572 Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood. The club (along with the Interlude) was owned by disc jockey Gene Norman, who had purchased the property in 1954 from singer Billy Eckstine when the space was named the Chanticlair. Norman renamed the club ...
Gene Rodgers: Lost Pianist
One of jazz's most enduring hits is Coleman Hawkins' October 1939 recording of Body and Soul. The rendition ranks pretty near the top of every jazz fan's list of favorites in terms of daring and influence. The tenor saxophone came into prominence after Hawk's recording and its sound would never be the same. [Pictured above, Gene ...
'Tonight Show' Theme: Evolution
Back in 1962, when Johnny Carson was named to take over as host of The Tonight Show in New York, he needed a theme song. Carson quickly found one, and for the next 30 years, Johnny's Theme—with its drum-driven intro, brassy fanfare and swinging arrangement—became associated with late-night programming, adult humor and jazz. Most of the band's ...
Stan Kenton: Germany, 1953
Between 1949 and 1951, Stan Kenton led a 39-piece band known as the Innovations in Modern Music Orchestra. The band's dreamy, Wagner-esque jazz arrangements were hip for a brief period but soon took on the characteristics of a wobbly truck transporting too much fine furniture. The orchestrations didn't click with young audiences and Kenton's musicians grew ...
Anne Phillips: 'I Remember Birdland'
In 1959, Anne Phillips recorded Born to Be Blue (Roulette)—one of the finest female vocal albums of the year. I posted about it here in 2011 along with my conversation with Anne. A few days ago, Anne and I exchanged emails and she shared with me new lyrics she wrote to the melody of Lullaby of ...
LH&R: 'Playboy's Penthouse,' '59
In October 1959, Dave Lambert, Jon Hendricks and Annie Ross appeared on Hugh Hefner's new TV variety show, Playboy's Penthouse. The show, hosted by Hefner, actually was taped in the Chicago studios of WBKB-TV, with the set designed to appear as though the viewer were attending a hip, late-night adult party at Hefner's rooftop apartment with ...
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