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Dave Brubeck: 'Southern Scene'
On September 10, 1959, about a month after Dave Brubeck completed Time Out and a month before the craze began over Take Five (the single wasn't released until September 21 while the album didn't hit stores until December 14), the Brubeck quartet began to record Southern Scene. By then, most people who watched TV news were ...
Kenny Barron: Body and Soul
Jimi Mentis in Athens has done it again. He sent along a link to this fabulous video, featuring pianist Kenny Barron at the 2010 Mariciac Jazz Festival in Marciac, France. Joining him are David Sanchez (tenor sax), Darryl Hall (bass) and Johnathan Blake (drums). Here's Body and Soul, Well You Needn't, a Duke Ellington-Billy Strayhorn medley ...
Stu Williamson: Two Januarys
It was gratifying last week to hear that New York's Verse Music was remastering and re-issuing the entire Bethlehem catalog. The 1950s label not only consistently released superb albums on both coasts but also pioneered the early use of glossy color-saturated covers that tapped into consumer moods. This trend was the innovation of Creed Taylor, who ...
Big Jay McNeely: 'Life Story'
The history of R&B and rock and roll would be incomplete without mentioning Big Jay McNeely—father of the honking tenor-sax sound. Incredulously, Big Jay still has not been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. If he were British or white, I suppose that would have happened a long time ago given who has ...
Arctic Records: Early Philly Soul
Before MFSB, the Delfonics, McFadden & Whitehead, Blue Magic and the Trammps, there was Arctic Records. Like Motown in Detroit, Stax in Memphis and Scepter in New York to some extent, Arctic in the '60s documented Philadelphia's emerging soul sound, which emphasized tight vocal harmonies and heartbeat ballad tempos. [Pictured above: Arctic artist Barbara Mason] Unlike ...
Grant Stewart: Our Man in Uruguay
Last week, Grant Stewart sent along a lengthy email from Uruguay, where he was performing at the Punta Del Este International Jazz Festival. I've known Grant for five years—my first liner notes were written for his album Young at Heart (Sharp Nine). When I saw him recently and he told me he was heading down to ...
Interview: Marlene VerPlanck
Singer Marelen VerPlanck has a new album—Ballads, Mostly. It's a delicious collection of moody songs with an upbeat feel. Seven of the 15 track were arranged by Marlene's late husband, Billy VerPlanck, who died in 2009. Though Marlene spent three decades starting in the '60s recording demos and jingles, she began her professional career in the ...
Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013)
Ada Louise Huxtable, the country's most respected and feared architecture critic whose finely crafted articles, essays and books held architects and their works to high humanistic standards, died January 7. She was 91. Ada Louise was most recently the architecture critic for the Wall Street Journal, but she was an early mentor of mine when I ...
Hank Mobley: Blue Note '50s
If the hard bop movement had a musical voice of reason, it was Hank Mobley. Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Elmo Hope, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Donald Byrd and others certainly were significant players who helped develop and define the jazz style's exciting fanning sound and expressive ambitions. But Mobley—as Blue Note's house tenor saxophonist—was hard bop's ...
Jim Hall: New Toronto Find
In 1975, Jim Hall was in Toronto, Canada, appearing at Bourbon Street—a club opened by Doug Cole in the mid-'50s at 180 Queen St. West. The downtown nightspot routinely showcased American jazz artists—usually backed by local rhythm sections. Jim appeared there in June with bassist Don Thompson and drummer Terry Clarke, and the result was Live! ...
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