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Jim Hall (1930-2013)
Jim Hall, a soft-spoken and sophisticated postmodernist jazz guitarist who recorded as a leader and with many of the most visionary artists on the East and West coasts, offering swinging rhythmic support and piercing melodic solos, died on December 10. He was 83. Thanks to early friendships with prolific artists and a reputation for being a ...
Jack Reardon (1934-2013)
Songwriter Jack Reardon, who wrote the lyrics to The Good Life in 1962 (music by Sacha Distel), died Dec. 3. He was 79. Jack wrote the lyrics to dozens of great songs, but The Good Life stands out. It was one of those songs that any artist in any music genre could pick up and knock ...
Even More Big Tenors
Since I'm now tenor crazy after featuring great saxophonists all week, I went in search of video featuring even mightier reed players. How about Dexter Gordon, Budd Johnson, Buddy Tate, Illinois Jacquet and Arnett Cobb on the same stage engaging in a tenor battle? Here's the clip. Jacquet is in the cream suit, Tate is in ...
Arnett Cobb: Tough Tenor
It's shaping up to be tenor sax sort of week. After all that Charlie Ventura over the past bunch of days, I found myself in the mood for Arnett Cobb. Born in Houston, Cobb played in locally bands until 1942, when he joined the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Cobb played with Hampton until 1947—a critical period during ...
Charlie Ventura on Baritone
Saxophonist Charlie Ventura has gotten a bum rap. For too long he's been thought of as a Coleman Hawkins clone and his vast contributions to jazz and R&B have been overlooked or ignored. His name no longer comes up in jazz circles, and his recordings are rarely heard or praised. I can't think of the last ...
Steve and Eydie: That Holiday Feeling!
Long-time JazzWax readers know that each year at this time I pick my favorite vintage holiday album. To make the grade, the album has to be from the '50s or '60s and have the perfect mixture of pop, jazz and swing—with a dash of Rockwellian sentiment. It also has to do a swift job of taking ...
Thanksgiving Jazz Feast
Once again, it's time for our annual JazzWax Thanksgiving dinner. Except here, there's no crackling fireplace or smell of roast turkey, stuffing and candied yams. Instead, we feast on music with titles that are perfect for this American holiday... Are We There Yet?—Tony Coe Quartet Just Arrived—Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) Chasin' the Bird—Charlie Parker What Is ...
Video: Lighthouse All-Stars, 1958
The Lighthouse All-Stars was the house band at the Lighthouse in Hermosa Beach, Calif., that was formed in the early 1950s by bassist Howard Rumsey, who managed the club. Many top musicians who relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1950s played in the band while “working off their card"—an expression that meant waiting the required ...
Woody, Kennedy and Me
Fifty years ago today, only one jazz recording session took place in the U.S. More than six hours after news broke that President Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Woody Herman decided there wasn't much point in worrying about what he couldn't control and moved forward with the second recording session for what would become Woody ...
Hal Gaylor: The Trio, '61
The history of modern jazz is stocked with sensational trios. These include the Nat King Cole Trio, the Red Norvo Trio, the Oscar Peterson Trio, the Thelonious Monk Trio, the Jimmy Giuffre 3, the Horace Silver Trio, the Ahmad Jamal Trio, the Wes Montgomery Trio and the Bill Evans Trio among many others. Now add one ...
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