Results for "JazzWax by Marc Myers"

Bobby Hutcherson: France, 1969

October 9, 2013

Searching around YouTube yesterday, I found a gorgeous clip. The following video features vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson with tenor saxophonist Harold Land on July 25, 1969 at the Juan Les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes, France. They were backed by Stanley Cowell (p), Reggie Johnson (b) and Joe Chambers (d). This clip features the quintet on Herzog, ...

Interview: Ginger Baker

October 8, 2013

Ginger Baker is not a rock drummer. His words, not mine. In today's Wall Street Journal (go here or please buy the paper), I profile Ginger, who, as a founding member of Cream in 1966, revolutionized rock drumming with lengthy, poly-rhythmic solos. In two short years, Ginger put the drums on par with the electric guitar ...

Stan Getz, Munich 1990

October 6, 2013

Who Was Doc Pomus?

October 4, 2013

Few white pop-rock songwriters of the 1950s and '60s started out as miserably as Jerome Felder. Polio-stricken at age 7, Felder was placed in body casts and then an iron lung before he wound up in leg braces and crutches. Stuck in bed for years, Felder spent a lot of time listening to the radio, which ...

Documentary: Swing

October 3, 2013

Documentary: Sam Cooke

October 2, 2013

Southern and Rivers: High Notes

October 1, 2013

Jeri Southern and Mavis Rivers [above]—two important jazz-pop singers who got their start in the 1950s—have just been treated to solid retrospective CD sets. Both collections offer an in-depth overview of each artist and provide insights into how singers were developed back then and routinely re-positioned by their labels in hopes of charting a hit. Southern ...

Interview: Allen Toussaint

September 27, 2013

Singer-songwriter Allen Toussaint has written dozens of hit songs. Many have what I call the Allen Toussaint bounce—a jumping New Orleans feel that's part blues and part zydeco. His hits include Mother in Law, Southern Nights, Whipped Cream, Get Out of My Life Woman, Working in the Colemine, What Do You Want the Girl to Do?, ...

Mike Jones: Plays Well with Others

September 26, 2013

Jazz has a long history of pianists with punch. Earl “Fatha" Hines, Art Tatum, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson, Horace Silver and Bobby Timmons are just a handful. All had a tiger-like attack on the keyboard coupled with an acrobatic technique. About a month ago a CD by pianist Mike Jones arrived that sizzled with ...

Bill Hitz: This Swingin' Age

September 25, 2013

As readers know, I love obscure big band albums from the 1950s. For example, back in February 2012 I posted about Marion Evans' Ted McNabb & Co., a hard swinger with beautifully stitched arrangements from 1959. Today, I want to tell you about Bill Hitz's Music for This Swingin' Age, from 1956. Bill who? Hitz was ...