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Video: History of Soul
What is soul music, when did it start and how did it differ from R&B and rock and roll? Even if you think you know the answers to these questions, this BBC documentary is hands down one of the finest chronologies of the music's rise and the critical role Ray Charles played in making it popular. ...
Video: Ray Brown, Germany 2000
In the following rare video of the Ulf Wakenius Project in 2000 at the annual Jazz Baltica Festival in Salzau, Germany, the Swedish guitarist Ulf Wakenius was joined by Michael Brecker (tenor sax), Ray Brown (bass), Niels Lan Doky (piano) and Terri Lyne Carrington (drums). If the name Ulf Wakenius doesn't ring a bell, he was ...
Benny Golson: Germany, 2000
Benny Golson is one of jazz's most lyrical tenor saxophonists and among its most gifted songwriters. His astonishing catalog of jazz standards includes I Remember Clifford, Stablemates, Whisper Not, Along Came Betty, Blues March, Killer Joe and so many others. His large number of albums recorded in the 1950s show off his composing gifts and his ...
Ali Ryerson: Jazz Flute Big Band
There have been all-saxophone bands (Bob Prince), all-trombone bands (Urbie Greene) and all-trumpet bands (Pete Rugolo). Into this tradition of flooding the zone for fans who passionately love the sound of a specific instrument is flutist Ali Ryerson. By thinking big, she has assembled the Jazz Flute Big Band (JFBB), and the ensemble's new CD Game ...
Paula Castle: Lost Love
With the release of Paula Castle's Lost Love (c. 1955) by the Verse Music Group—which recently acquired the Bethlehem Records catalog—we're presented with something of a mystery. Castle's voice was leather-glove warm and elegantly sensuous—with hip phrasing and a credible range reminiscent of Sarah Vaughan's. And Love Lost by any measure is a superb recording. Songs ...
BMI Jazz Composers Workshop
Twenty-five years ago, composer-arrangers Manny Albam [pictured] and Bob Brookmeyer were growing worried. In the late 1980s, big bands seemed to be going the way of the typewriter, and unless something was done to reverse the trend, jazz orchestra arrangers would no longer be needed and scoring for bands would become a lost art. At roughly ...
Interview: Graham Nash
At 11 a.m. on Labor Day, the front door of Graham Nash's anonymous house on an unassuming street in a beach community near the Los Angeles airport was wide open. From the outside, the house looked like a cottage out of a nursery rhyme—the kind where three bears eat porridge or the grandmother of a red-caped ...
Ronnell Bright: Japan, 1990
As long-term readers of this blog know, I'm a huge Ronnell Bright fan. My love for the pianist's playing is well documented in my interviews with him (go here) and in videos in which I've been asked about him. It all started with my passion for Sarah Vaughan's After Hours at the London House (1958)—an album ...
Sam Most on Bop Clarinet
When Sam Most died in June, obituaries praised him for bringing the flute into the modern jazz age. Though Jerome Richardson predated Most on flute in a small group with Lionel Hampton in 1950, Most was first to pull the instrument out of its floral, bucolic role and give it a bop twist on Undercurrent Blues. ...
Documentary: Bill Monroe
When you think of bluegrass music, you probably imagine guys with long beards in coveralls playing twanging guitars and banjos, a fiddle and upright bass. You may also assume that much of the music sounds alike. This documenary on Bill Monroe (1911-1996)—known as the “Father of Bluegrass"—will give you a finer sense of the music's beauty ...
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