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Interview: Bev Kelly (Part 2)
Few singers curl up on a song's lap like Bev Kelly. In the '50s she worked clubs and recorded several albums with pianist Pat Moran. She also recorded her first solo album in 1957. But just as she had attracted the attention of personal manager John Levy, Bev had a choice to make—her career or her ...
Interview: Bev Kelly (Part 1)
With the proliferation of travel in the 1950s, Chicago became a hotbed for jazz-pop singers and singing groups. The city was a national railroad hub, and passengers arriving from the East, West and South needed places to stay. As the number of hotels in Chicago grew, so did the number of hotel lounges and clubs and ...
Bill Cunliffe: Abstract Truth 2
Bill Cunliffe is a jazz pianist who teaches at California State Uuniversity at Fullerton. Originally from Massachusetts, Cunliffe attended Duke University and studied with Mary Lou Williams while she was there between 1977 and 1981. He toured with Buddy Rich, performed behind Frank Sinatra and worked with Woody Shaw, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson and ...
In Praise of Steve Allen
Despite living with television sets for nearly 65 years, most of us dread being in front of a camera. We love criticizing people on TV but wouldn't dream of switching places with them. Those who have been interviewed on national TV know what a jarring experience it is. Much prep work is required to keep from ...
Hymie Schertzer: All the King's Saxes
Woody Herman routinely receives plaudits for employing a killer sax section in the late 1940s. But Benny Goodman also featured a tight bunch of reeds during the same period and into the '50s I'm a reed guy and a big fan of albums that are sax-section centric. I light up when I hear the sound of ...
Leith Stevens: Jazz Scores
West Coast jazz of the early 1950s had its own sound but it also had a particular look. White T-shirts, open shirts, tan chinos, hollow features and a hungry look replaced chalk-striped suits, wide ties and the twinkling eye of an entertainer. The casual, dangerous feel of Los Angeles jazz musicians was celebrated in the photography ...
Billy Root (1934-2013)
Billy Root, a tenor and baritone saxophonist in several major big bands and small jazz groups in the 1950s and 1960s before he relocated to Las Vegas in 1968 just as the city was becoming a pop and rock entertainment capital, died July 30. He was 79. Billy was born in Philadelphia and his father was ...
10 Best Band Albums Of '58
The year 1958 was a big one for music. The 12-inch LP was firmly established as a format, stereo albums began to be released and jazz and pop musicians were hard at work in clubs, recording studios, on television shows and on movie sound stages. With improved fidelity and longer album sides came a big-band resurgence ...
Arne Domnérus: Swede and Cool
Back in late 1950 and '51, the cool jazz of the Mile Davis Nonet deeply influenced not only Americans but also Swedes. There are two likely reasons for this: The high skill level of Swedish musicians at the time and American jazz musicians who toured there. Arguably Sweden's greatest saxophonist at the time was Arne Domnérus, ...
Interview: Denny Zeitlin on Both/And
Pianist Denny Zeitlin's earliest recordings date back to the early and mid-1960s, when he recorded with Jeremy Steig (Flute Fever in 1963) and led his own trio (Cathexis, Carnival, Shining Hour and Zeitgeist). Denny's approach has always been a masterful synthesis of technique and “brain freedom"—the suspension of pragmatism so that his spirit and hands can ...
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