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Video: Ben Webster, 1972
In the early and mid-1940s, there were three tenor saxophonists who radically changed the instrument's role in a solo setting—Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young and Ben Webster. Each had his own distinct sound—bossy and fluid on up-tempo tunes and seductive on ballads. Webster played with a range of bands in the early 1930s, joining Duke Ellington in ...
Corky Hale + Marian McPartland
Corky Hale called yesterday to chat. Most jazz fans know Corky as Los Angeles' first-call harpest in the '50s and '60s. If a harp was needed on pop and jazz recordings, Corky was likely on the session. Her harp appears on many of Ella Fitzgerald's songbook albums as well as recordings by Anita O'Day, Frank Sinatra, ...
Lester Young: Boston 1950
In 1950, if you headed away from Boston's Symphony Hall on Massachusetts Ave. toward the South End, you'd encounter an archipelago of jazz clubs. Establishments included the Savoy Ballroom, the Chicken Lane, the Wig-Wam and many others that welcomed black and white audiences eager for music and a bite to eat. One of the best known ...
Gary Burton on Music (Pt. 2)
Gary Burton started out in 1960 with Hank Garland, combining jazz vibes with country guitar. Then he was in the thick of the bossa nova movement with Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto in 1964. In 1967 he released Duster, one of the first jazz-rock fusion albums and continued those explorations with Country Roads & Other Places ...
Gary Burton on Music (pt. 1)
Gary Burton was born into a musical family and was exposed early to the marimba, which he took to quickly. His father soon bought him a full set of vibes but had to build a platform on which the young Gary could stand to reach the metal keys. At age 12, Gary came across an album ...
Marian McPartland (1918-2013)
Marian McPartland, a spirited jazz pianist and self-effacing radio personality whose marriage to cornetist Jimmy McPartland in 1946 enabled her to move to the U.S. and work and record here steadily starting in 1948, died on Aug. 20. She was 95. When I interviewed Marian in 2009, I asked her how she first became interested in ...
Orrin Keepnews' Studio Secrets
In early 1953, Orrin Keepnews, a magazine editor and writer, and Bill Grauer, a bean-counter, started Riverside Records. Both had had some experience producing jazz reissues for RCA. As Orrin told me when I first interviewed him in 2007, “We were too damn dumb to be scared." The label was named after the office's telephone exchange ...
Cedar Walton on "Giant Steps"
Cedar Walton, a powerful hard-bop pianist who appeared on more than 400 recordings and combined a meaty, rhythmic playing style with sensitive, delicate solos, died August 19. He was 79. [Photo of Cedar Walton and Hank Mobley during Mobley's Third Season session in 1967 by Francis Wolff] During an interview in 2011, Cedar told me that ...
Howard McGhee: Before the Storm
It's hard to know why so many jazz trumpeters wound up hooked on heroin in the late 1940s and early '50s. The list included Freddie Webster, Fats Navarro, Chet Baker and Miles Davis. The first died of an overdose, the second from tuberculosis and drugs, the third seemed to impale himself on his habit only to ...
Eydie Gorme (1928-2013)
The late Eydie Gorme was the first female pop vocalist to understand television's subliminal seductive powers. Just as Judy Garland had played coy with the movie camera to win a nation's heart, Gorme understood that her path to success ran through the after-dinner sofa set. She was impossibly talented—swinging a big clear, brassy voice that in ...
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