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Bobby Hackett: Capitol Sessions
As the suburbs expanded in the early 1950s and home-ownership soared, so did sales of phonographs. The iPods of their day, factory models could accommodate the new 33 1/3 speed needed for long-playing records. Columbia was first to introduce the LP in the late '40s but soon other labels chimed in. At first, the 12-inch LP ...
Jim Rotondi: 'At the Bird's Eye'
Back in the '70s, soul-jazz albums featuring a tight trumpeter and saxophonist backed by a deep groove organist and persistent drummer. Prestige Records probably turned out more recording of that genre than most other lables—with organists like Don Patterson, Charles Earland, Richard “Groove" Holmes, Brother Jack McDuff and Leon Spencer Jr. The front line often featured ...
Eddie Layton's Springtime Touch
The smell of spring awakens the little kid in most baseball fans. Back before ballpark trons and digital audio systems, the music that pushed fans to root for the home team came from an organ. Often squirreled away in a booth high above in the upper rafters, the organist was responsible not only for motivating fans ...
Documentary: Ronnie Scott's
Maybe you've visited Ronnie Scott's on vacation in London. If you're a musician, maybe you've played there. Or you probably have albums that were recorded live there. Whatever your relationship with the fabled club, odds are you know virtually nothing about its history. That ends today. Here's a terrific BBC documentary on the jazz establishment—co-founded by ...
Tommy Flanagan + Jaki Byard
Piano duets date back to the days when the instrument developed its curves. In fact, I've long wondered whether the piano's undulating casing design was fashioned specifically so two instruments could be spooned for musical dialogue. [Pictured above, from left: Jaki Byard and Tommy Flanagan] One of the earliest recorded jazz piano duets was a series ...
Dexter Gordon: "Ernie's Tune"
In the late '50s, Jack Gelber wrote a play called The Connection, which dramatized the lure of narcotics and the stark perils of addiction. The play—which opened in New York at the Living Theatre on July 15, 1959—featured jazz musicians who were initially going to improvise music on stage. But when pianist Freddie Redd wrote a ...
Young Rascals: "Groovin' "
I grew up in Manhattan's Washington Heights and had the best of both worlds. My family lived in the city—which meant pizza shops, candy stores and movie theaters. But P.S. 187 was a short bike ride to Fort Tryon Park—home of the Cloisters [pictured above]. For those unfamiliar with Fort Tryon Park, it sits high above ...
Creed Taylor on Phil Ramone
Producer Creed Taylor deserves enormous credit for the American bossa nova movement of the early 1960s. Instead of recording jazz artists interpreting the new Rio de Janeiro sound—as many jazz producers at the time were doing—Creed [pictured above] carefully blended the two. By recognizing the jazziness and seductive qualities of Antonio Carlos Jobim's melodies, Creed was ...
Antonio Adolfo: "Finas Misturas"
Brazilian pianist, arranger and composer Antonio Adolfo became a professional musician in Rio de Janeiro at age 17 and has since recorded 25 albums as a leader. His teachers were Eumir Deodato and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Adolfo's songs have been recorded by Sérgio Mendes, Stevie Wonder (Pretty World), Herb Alpert, Earl Klugh and Dionne Warwick. ...
Breakfast at Tiffany's: Real Theme
Like many of you, I love the glitter and shimmer of 1961 New York in Breakfast at Tiffany's. But I must confess I've never cared much for Moon River, the movie's official theme. Oh, it's a great song and all, but I've always found it maudlin and misplaced for the Kennedy-era film. It's just too rural-sounding given ...
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